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 bar 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, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. We're recording right after the game, so Mike is handling post games, so it's just the two of us. And the Lakers win their third out of the last four games with a win over San Antonio in an afternoon game.

In a game where we saw Taylin Horton Tucker's return.

And it was part of a bigger, I think, paradigm shift.

We saw Mello Start.

We saw Kent Baysmore get a DNP.

This was an important game in that I think it's like the first day of a new direction of sorts.

Whichever way you want to go, I do want to get into THT, but yeah, it was beyond just his return

today.

It was.

So let's start with Bays because we ended our last pod talking about Bays a fair amount.

And we had sort of, I don't want to say, saw the writing on the wall with this, but I think we had discussed a fair amount that he had been struggling recently.

And an extended look at lineup data sort of showed that a lot of lineups that Bays was a part of were struggling.

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