Too Small
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
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Summary
The Lakers competed well, but missing LeBron James -- and the subsequent lack of frontcourt size with him out -- did them in vs. the Spurs on Monday night. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how much the team's lack of size mattered, how this game showed the limitations of the team's talent and some of the players skill sets, and why it's important to compete the way the team did -- even in defeat. Then later, the guys reflect on Russell Westbrook's post-game comments regarding criticism crossing over into something beyond on-court critique.
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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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.4 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:29.9 | And the Lakers fell in San Antonio yesterday. |
| 0:32.6 | LeBron was a scratch from that due to some swelling in his knee. |
| 0:40.5 | And I suppose I don't have terribly high expectations for what a team of Russell Westbrook and almost entirely vet minimum players |
| 0:46.3 | aside from THT is capable of. And so I thought that they competed relatively well, relative to |
| 0:53.2 | their available talent level. |
| 0:54.9 | It just don't quite have the guys at that point. Mike, you were there. Talk to us about what |
| 0:59.7 | you saw in that game and just what the status is on LeBron's knee. Well, LeBron's knee when it first |
| 1:06.6 | happened, and this was after the Brooklyn game at the end of January and we found out about it when |
| 1:11.4 | he was out on the court in Philly. I assumed this was going to happen more than it has. I |
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