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 Film Room podcast, brought you by the

Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. Hope everybody had a nice long three-day

weekend. And we got some reports of some personnel movement with the Lakers that we will

discuss if and when that

becomes official. But today, we're going to talk about this team from Frank Vogel's perspective.

And I think Vogel's view on this team is one of the more fascinating ones this upcoming

season, Darius. We've talked a lot about the idea of the dial being turned way more toward

offense and away from defense. This was a roster that in the past, Vogel had a lot of

defensive weapons, especially on the perimeter that could really implement his style of play.

And the roster is super talented. I have a lot of belief in it, but it is very different than it was last year in the year before under Vogel.

I'm curious, your thoughts, when you think of this season from Vogel's perspective, what do you think are his biggest challenges in getting it to work?

Man, I just think that there's a lot of players. We talk about what's your inclination as a player, right?

Is sort of where my mindset always goes because I don't know about you guys, but going back to school or high school or even college.

And there was this idea of group projects, right? And who's going to do what? And what's your expertise? And all right, well, you're the sort of outgoing social one. So when we actually have to go out in front of the class, like you're the one who's going to present, right? Like you're going to talk, right? Oh, you're good at research. And so you're going to do this. and you're really good at writing so maybe you can put together, right? And so you're good at research and so you're going to do this and you're really good at

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