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 and Mike. And the Lakers lost a hard-fought game yesterday, 121 to 109. It was competitive. Lakers defended well in the first half. Then in the third quarter,

Memphis scored 47 points, John Morant having 28 of them himself. And the better team with more

talent won the game. Memphis moved to 26 and 5 at home on the year. And it was a good game for

the Lakers with respect to we competed.

And in terms of figuring out what this kind of new group is with the new guys,

but without LeBron, it was, I think, a great game of tape for the coaches to be able to

watch and draw conclusions from really missing ball handlers, though, Mike.

Hard to survive.

I didn't see the final box score but it was

like 26 to six in turnovers at one point lakers really struggled with their ball pressure and ball

denial and yeah when the other team gets 20 more shots at the rim it's hard to make up for the math

elsewhere so what were your thoughts from memphis last? Yeah. So I think as we were discussing

on the podcast yesterday, Anthony Davis taking his game up to another level was certainly going to be

required. And he was incredible defensively, especially in that first half, and still able to get

a lot of things going on the offensive event as well. But Memphis was absolutely swarming him inside with

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