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 of our 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.

I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And today we're going to talk some Jared Vanderbilt. D, there's something that's been nagging at me since the end of the playoffs in the series against Denver specifically, which was that it felt like we were in a different weight class

than Denver was. since the end of the playoffs in the series against Denver specifically, which was that it felt like

we were in a different weight class than Denver was. It was like watching a good middleweight

fight a good heavyweight. You can be a good middle weight, but you're going to lose to the

good heavyweight every time. And it's easy to kind of center that conversation around the

center position, the five spot, right? But for me,

it's more of a perimeter type of thing. And this is where Jared Vanderbilt's ability to stay on the

floor, I think, really comes into the center of the discussion. If you look at each playoff series,

Vanderbilt's minutes went down from the first game to the final game. So against Memphis,

in the first game, he played 23 minutes and 21 seconds. And in the final game, that was down to 15 minutes and 17 seconds. So about one shift, eight minutes off of his time to start the series. To start the Golden State series, game one, 25 minutes and 47 seconds of playing time. Game 6, 3 minutes and 57 seconds.

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