What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do 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 part 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. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And in yesterday's episode, we had a very spirited discussion about the starting lineup, but most of it began to kind of revolve around the idea of maximizing

Russell Westbrook. This has been something that I've been really big on over the course of the

off season, is that if you acquire someone like Russell Westbrook who has very clear strengths

and very clear weaknesses, you have to really cater to those strengths and really hide those

weaknesses. And some of what we're doing now

is actually accentuating some of Russ's weaknesses, or at least in the first game and under

the current circumstances. But toward the end, and I don't want to spoil the episode, so please

listen to it if you haven't. But Darius brought up that, well, Russell Westbrook has to play

better. We could talk about the outside environment and all of that.

But a star player is a star player.

So I've been thinking about the idea of, like, what can Russell Westbrook do?

Even before you brought that up, right?

Like, what can Russell Westbrook do better?

Because like he said, we're not playing two bigs on the floor for freaking 48 minutes. Not every play is a half court set where everything's

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