The Blueprint
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
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The Lakers were able to grind out a win vs. the Timberwolves on Sunday night, committing to playing their small-ball lineups even when they were struggling defensively and on the backboards. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss Frank Vogel's choice to stay small, the significance of giving these groups a chance to succeed and fail on their merits, and how the blueprint of playing this style is coming together to put this team on a path to becoming the best version of themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | 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 you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And the Lakers went 2 and O this weekend in a pair of games that were quite different from each other and both informative into where we are and where we're |
| 0:37.6 | going. Before we get into the specifics of those, we had a 139 point performance against Portland |
| 0:42.7 | before a pretty close and competitive game against Minnesota. And before we get into the |
| 0:48.0 | specifics of that, I just want to remark that, like, we're here. the commitment to the small ball lineups if you |
| 0:56.4 | listen to frank vogel talk after the game before the game we're committed to this d this is |
| 1:01.7 | something that it on a night where naz reed kicked our butts we stuck with it and i thought |
| 1:07.6 | vola made a really compelling point in the post game which is like look if we're going we're going to play this way, there are going to be different problems that we have to |
| 1:13.8 | address. We have to explore playing this way. We have to figure out how do we deal with a big guy |
| 1:19.8 | like him and how do we deal with not having LeBron bang with guys like that and what will |
| 1:25.7 | work in the different scenarios and different challenges that the different |
| 1:29.4 | personnel around the league presents. But the fact that he's using, we're going to play this way |
| 1:35.2 | as kind of a baseline represents just a huge shift, Darius, that this is the first commitment |
| 1:42.0 | to that, like, that this is how we are going to play that I've |
| 1:45.3 | seen. And I think that's really noteworthy. It is noteworthy. I would describe the Lakers being |
| 1:49.9 | in phase two of a three-phase rollout of what this season is. Phase one was the, what did we do |
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