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, no mic tonight. And we're recording just about an hour after the Lakers lost another gut punch of a game. It's remarkable how many of them there have been

this season. The context of this one is particularly brutal. They've been playing pretty well

over the course of the last week, kind of finding an identity and go up by 20 at halftime. And

there haven't been a lot of games like that in this season. However, what there have been a lot of games

of are games where the Lakers

completely take their foot off of the gas just to a really startling degree. And the third

quarter, it was, you know, red flags all over. Harrison tweeted at halftime, something along

the lines are like, are you all ready for

the collapse, you know, for them to stop playing? Like, and that's inevitably what we saw. And in the

postgame remarks, LeBron James said, we are who we are. And we certainly are. And I think more than anything, Darius, and we'll get more into the details of this.

And this is part of the reason why I've been so gung-ho about the kids on this squad.

But I think this team is more flawed in its personality than anything else.

And every team develops its own personality and even the same

group of players over the course of different seasons, different teams have different personalities

over the course of that time. So even different teams with the same personnel develop different

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