What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show

because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

Correct. It's up, Laker fans. Welcome to the Laker Film & Podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And the Lakers split a pair of games this weekend to get back to 22 and 22. On Friday night, it came out of the gates hot. It was a really good first quarter, which has been kind of the opposite of what a lot of this season has been.

And then starting in the... On Friday night, they came out of the gates hot. It was a really good first quarter, which has been kind of the opposite of what a lot of this season has been.

And then starting in the second quarter, one of the most godawful performances that you could see, like just across the board.

And I also thought Brooklyn has one of the only things that they have on their team are scoring guards that can hit pull-up

jumpers, which is, I think, one of our biggest defensive weaknesses.

And so I think it was a combination of just a trash effort and then a legitimate weakness

of the Lakers roster, but an awful night.

Then on Sunday, for the first time this season, here's a wild stat, the first time this

season, neither Tori and

Prince nor Cam Reddish started the game. The Lakers started with Austin, Dilo, Rui, LeBron, and AD.

This was the lineup that I was hoping to see us try at the beginning of this year. And the starters

played very well against a bad Portland team, get a wire-to-wire victory. Then at the end of that, there were some post-game

images that we may talk about later that is setting social media on fire today. But, Mike, your view

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