The Dust Settles
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
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Summary
With LeBron’s likely return tonight vs New Orleans, the Lakers will have their new roster intact for the first time. Pete & Mike continue their discussion on the busiest trade deadline in team history, and how keeping it simple and familiar can help amidst heavy roster turnover.
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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 |
| 0:15.5 | 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? |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by |
| 0:28.8 | Mike. And Mike, yesterday, I ran into somebody from B-Ball Ops, and we were just chatting. |
| 0:35.7 | And they do this new thing at work where they order lunch I thought you guys did a great job and he was like, man, my head's still spinning |
| 0:55.6 | and I was like, that is exactly where I'm at with this team. And I went back and looked because I was trying to recall through, you know, Lakers history, this is easily the most roster turnover the team has ever had at a trade deadline. Having this |
| 1:13.7 | many new players, usually you have a sense for what your team is at this point. And actually, |
| 1:18.8 | we did going into the trade deadline. Now, how good it was, right? We can debate and what its potential |
| 1:23.9 | could have been. But they knew how to play together, certainly way better |
| 1:27.6 | than they did at the beginning of the year. And so, as our heads are spinning with this new |
| 1:32.8 | roster and trying to figure all of that out, I'd love to get your perspective on that, Mike. |
| 1:38.0 | Just there's a certain level of disorientation that I have with this team that I think |
| 1:42.5 | that just as time goes on, it's a little less so. |
| 1:47.0 | And the dust is starting to settle a little bit. So what's been your experience with that? |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah, my experience, it's funny. I started thinking about it more from a reporting standpoint, I guess, |
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