Hello, everybody. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane, joined today by Sean Davis.

We've got a lot to talk about today. We've got the playoffs in full swing, the second round, really heating up at this point.

What does that really tell us, though? When look at these rosters that are still standing, what do they tell us about the Lakers and what they

need to do this summer in order to catch up? We're going to talk a bit about that. We're going to talk about the return of Christian Wood. We're going to get in the mailbag and a whole lot more. So make sure you do subscribe to the Lakers Nation YouTube channel. Follow us over on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts as well. Sean, how are you doing?

Doing all right.

Had a successful trip, two-day trip, and glad to be back from the trip and we're to get back to some Lakers basketball trip.

Well, we're glad to have you back.

Certainly.

I wish there was Lakers basketball that was on right now, but we're having to settle for

playoff basketball.

Let's start there. As we just saw, before we recorded this, we just saw the Oklahoma City Thunder take game one against the Dallas Mavericks. We've seen the Minnesota Timberwolves do some incredible things. They're two and out against the Denver Nuggets. I know Lakers fans aren't sad to see that. Unfortunately, the ghouls in green are also expectedly up one.

Boy, what an advantage it is to play in the Leastern conference.

Not much competition there.

And then you've got the Knicks controversially up 1-0 over the Indiana Pacers.

So, Sean, we're looking at these teams that are still standing right now.

What do you see?

What can we take away that we could transfer into the summertime,

into the roster build for the Lakers? What are some things that these teams have that we look at and we say,

the Lakers need to figure out a way to get that to make sure that they aren't watching at home for the second round next time.

I think a lot of the teams, what they have is they have multiple guys that fit around their star players and kind of are able to hide some of their star

players weaknesses.

And I think, I mean, you look at, I don't know, this is the best example in the world, but

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