Solving Goliath
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Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
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Whether it's the path through the play-in to qualify for the playoffs or in Wednesday night's game vs. the 76ers, the Lakers are going to have to deal with the goliaths of the NBA in important games the rest of this season. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how the Lakers need to play against the game's best big men, why Anthony Davis is the best -- but not only -- solution, and why the speed and motor of Stanley Johnson and Wenyen Gabriel are so important in navigating these matchups.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And guys, looking at our place in the standings, I was thinking in that first game, very likely that we play the New Orleans Pelicans who have Jonas Valenzhenus. |
| 0:40.5 | And if we win that game, we're likely to face either Nikola Yokic or Evita Zubats in the second play-in game. |
| 0:47.9 | If we get through that gauntlet, it's very likely that we face DeAndre, not very likely, we will face DeAndre Eaton in the first |
| 0:55.5 | round of the playoffs. And looming just outside of the play-in is Yaacob Pertl. The reason I bring |
| 1:01.5 | all of these names up is these are all the big physical centers that the Lakers have struggled |
| 1:06.2 | with this season. And so as the team starts taking shape and kind of finding the best version of |
| 1:14.3 | itself, obviously Anthony Davis will address the biggest part of what needs to be addressed against |
| 1:19.8 | those really big guys. There's only so much we can do. But we've got a game tonight against |
| 1:25.1 | one of the best in the league, if not the best of those types of players in the league in Joel M. Bid. |
| 1:30.1 | And so today's pod is going to be about solving Goliath because if we want to get as far as we can possibly go, that is going to be a central issue and one that's plagued the Lakers throughout this season. |
| 1:41.4 | So I'd love your perspective on the challenges and the difficulties and |
| 1:47.5 | possible solutions going forward with going up against the really big guys of the NBA. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah, this is where I wish that the Lakers didn't sign Dwight Howard in his falloff season because a guy like Dwight would be super helpful even with Anthony Davis in the fold. |
| 2:07.9 | I think we've forgotten, like the pivot to Russell Westbrook triggered this idea of like playing smaller and spacing the floor for a long time and for |
| 2:20.4 | much longer stretches. But people may not have realized that Russ and A.D. and Dwight as a trio, |
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