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 you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to talk about the Lakers Big Man rotation. Of the many ways that we could write a eulogy for last year's Lakers team, one of the,

I think, under-discussed points is that at many times we only had one, and sometimes no,

players over 68 aside from LeBron and AD, who were any good. And LeBron and AD, one of them missed

about 70% of the season.

And that is something that's so basic and foundational to basketball, D, that you can have, like, decent to good pieces everywhere else.

But it's like the car doesn't have any tires on it.

You need tall people to be a good basketball team and have a certain

level of competence at that. Both the players that we have in those positions now and there's

slightly different skill sets than the guys that played last year is one of my biggest reasons

for optimism this year. And that's why today I want to talk about Thomas Bryant and

Damien Jones and

kind of what they add to the team. Our deficiencies in the front court is something that you

spotted early on. You focused on the forward position in particular, but the fact that our bigs

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