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? Happy game one of the second round to everyone in these wide open NBA playoffs. If you've been watching and you don't get the impression that the Lakers at least have a shot, I don't think you've been paying close enough attention. But every day is going to matter and it's fragile, right? It's something that could

all an injury, knock on wood or anything like that, right? We know with the journey of these last

couple of years how precious this opportunity is. And as we said yesterday, the basketball gods

have blessed us with a Lakers versus Warriors,

LeBron versus Steph, all that great stuff. If you want to hear part one, this is kind of a two-part

preview pod, listen to yesterday's pod. We get into the Lakers defense against Golden State a

little bit more, the rotations, the matchups a little bit in that respect. We're going to flip the court in this pod today and talk a little bit about the Lakers

on the offensive end of the 4D.

And as I've said about game six against Memphis being kind of this truth-revealing game,

one of the main things to me was the amount that LeBron was used off of the ball, the degree

that the Lakers relied on their skill guards to kind of run the offense and go through

them.

DeAngelo Russell was phenomenal.

But really how the Lakers attacked was different than any other LeBron team that I've

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