Thinking Big
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
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Summary
What type of center should the Lakers target in free agency? Is shooting or defense more important? Does he need to be a lob threat? Should the team try to sign more than one big man? How much does LeBron's minutes at center and Anthony Davis' minutes at PF impact these decisions? Mike and Darius answer these questions and many more as they continue to preview team needs and roster building as the Lakers get ready for free agency.
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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 part 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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.3 | All right, guys, welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | No Pete today. |
| 0:27.5 | So this is Mike. |
| 0:29.1 | And Darius joining us, which means a massive usage rate for one, Darius Soriano. |
| 0:34.4 | And one thing that you and I ended up talking a lot about this season, not that |
| 0:38.8 | Pete didn't, was how you want to optimize a roster with big men. And of course, Free Agency is coming |
| 0:45.0 | up. This is the week leading up to Free Agency. And Darius, my first thought, of course, goes to |
| 0:50.5 | Anthony Davis and how much time has been spent talking about, yeah, AD is going to play |
| 0:56.0 | the majority of his minutes at the five this year or, eh, I think AD is better next to a traditional |
| 1:00.5 | big. |
| 1:00.8 | So let's try to iron that out in figuring out how to shape this roster with Darvinham. |
| 1:05.8 | And the lead in I want to give you first is the way that we know Darwin wants to play, right, |
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