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 part 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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And Slovenia's your basket run ends in the quarterfinals with the loss to Germany.

Going to start out talking about that. I'm going to talk a little bit about Hawaii later.

But, Dee, we're going to start with Luca and Slovenia. I was ready to hand them a blindfold and

cigarette before that game in anticipation of what I thought was going to be a butt kicking

from Germany. And what ended up happening was a very entertaining game. They lost at the end,

but they played well. Luca had had 39 finishing off just an electric

tournament from him. But Germany pulled away at the end. We could talk about some more of the

details of the game in a bit. Luca didn't start out super great, and then about halfway through

the first quarter absolutely took over, and Slovenia ended up being up by 11, I think,

after the first quarter, but ended up

in some foul trouble, including a technical foul of which that gets counted turned your

foul total in international basketball. So he had four fouls in the third quarter that I thought

really kind of turned to the game D. But all in all, if you asked me what I was hoping for

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