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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

The Cavalry

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

Sports News, Basketball, Sports, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The Lakers have an 8-9 record since Anthony Davis went down, finding ways to tread water and stay in the hunt for a low-end playoff spot in the process. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how they've done it, the importance of the LeBron and Russell Westbrook duo during this stretch, what it means as the team gets healthier in the coming weeks, and how it should inform what the team does at the trade deadline. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.5

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.

0:22.9

Correct.

0:23.5

What's up, Laker fans?

0:24.7

Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network.

0:27.9

I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike.

0:30.2

And guys, we're wrapping up this week, which hopefully there's nothing guaranteed,

0:35.6

but hopefully we'll be getting some guys back in the next

0:38.6

week or two. We saw some practice photos and got some reports of Anthony Davis doing non-contact

0:45.1

drills at practice, got some pictures of him getting jumpers up, got some video of it as well.

0:51.9

Austin Reeves and Lonnie Walker are approaching their two-week re-evaluation timeline, of which hopefully we'll get some good news there. And Mike, I didn't realize what our record was. I've been so zeroed in on the day-to-day of it. But you said before the pod, you know, when Anthony Davis went down, that he'd be out 17 games and we'd be eight and nine during those games.

1:11.6

And I don't think that counts to that first game where we beat Denver too.

1:15.0

We would have taken it.

1:16.2

And so we got the cavalry returning soon.

1:18.6

And I'm just curious, kind of where your heads at as we approach that point.

1:22.2

Yeah, I just thought about it in the context of I was doing a different radio show yesterday and they basically asked about the

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