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 Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Mike. And have a big weekend coming up. Lakers have the Bucks tonight. And on Sunday against the Minnesota Timberwolves in this stretch at home against some very good teams. Now, we've been a licking our

wounds the last 24 hours after that Sacramento game. And we've got a big matchup coming up.

First time Lakers played the Bucks this season. Mike, they started out a little bit rocky,

have had a very strange year, I would say, fired their new coach very early on in the season.

They've turned it around a bit

over the last, I say turn it around, right? As a Laker fan, they've been better than us all year

in terms of record, but they've started to hit their stride a bit, but then got their butts kicked

up at Golden State in their last game. So it's that new star pairing, Mike, of Janus and Dame,

and much was made of that and kind of fantasizing about how do you guard that pick and roll combo?

There's pressure on the rim.

There's elite pressure on the perimeter.

What do you do?

But it hasn't quite been as smooth as expected.

I'm curious to your perspective on that, Mike.

The books are a super fascinating team, and I've been thinking a lot about them ahead of this

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