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. What's up, Laker fans?

Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by

Darius and Mike. Welcome back into L.A., Mike, after six days in Memphis. Been a minute since we

heard from you, man. So yeah, the floor is yours, man. Take it wherever you'd like. Yeah, the, I guess you started right there for you just the, that's the longest trip I've ever been on in any one city since I started in the NBA in 2006. I mean, it's a, it felt like a baseball trip, but even longer than that, like where I talked to some of the guys that travel for the Dodgers and, you know, they get to a place and the whole discussion is do you unpack your suitcase or not? And like some people do and some don't. Michael, Michael Thompson and I used to argue about this. I if I'm going to be there for more than two days, I may as well just unpack my suitcase because it takes about three minutes to unpack the whole thing and put it all out everywhere.

So this was definitely an unpacking. I'm going to be there for more than two days. I may as well just unpack my suitcase because it takes about three minutes to unpack the whole thing and put it all out everywhere.

So this was definitely an unpack type situation. And I think that it hasn't impact mentally

when you're in one place for that long. And we were starting to hint at this, but to keep the

level of desperation and focus that's needed to be

a good team twice on the road in that kind of situation, it's just very difficult to do.

And I'm sure as you poured through some of the tape, Pete, in fact, right when I turned on

the pod here, I heard you discussing it a little bit, there are moments of lack of focus and just, you know,

the Lakers kind of which they showed throughout the year where they didn't necessarily

keep the foot on the pedal the whole time.

And I just think that that's part of what happens in,

especially in these types of settings, even in the playoffs,

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