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, Dee, we are now two weeks away from Media Day. I'm so excited. I've been climbing

the walls ready for this season to start. And one of the things that I think is important is to sort of

set an agenda of goals for camp. We did the same thing for the off season. And it's part of

one of the reasons why I was so excited, why things went the way that they did, is I was hoping

that we would be able to fill the starting center spot, the starting shooting guard spot,

be able to sort of balance the roster a little bit once we were a little bit imbalanced post-Luca trade and maybe use

our glut of power forwards as a way to get there, ideally not expending a lot of capital

in getting there.

And then I was hoping that Luca would have a great summer physically and get in

great shape and then go hoop at Eurobasket and not get hurt anywhere along the way. So all those

boxes are checked. There are a couple things, you know, I would want a better backup five than

Jackson. There are a few things that are sort of not yet, right? They've got work to do for sure,

but I was really happy with the summer in part because we laid out some objective goals and

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