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Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in Trevor Lane here for the Lakers Nation.com.

This is the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

Kind of a bonus episode.

Wouldn't normally be doing a show for the weekend here, but got a lot to break down coming out of preseason. And we've got a lot planned for next week. When we take a look at the Lakers rotation, we take a look at the schedule ahead. By the way, that video, we're going to look at the upcoming week. We're going to do that for the all-star tier of our YouTube channel membership. So those that, I'm probably going to record it Sunday and then that'll come out. So be on the lookout for that. If you're in that all-star tier for the membership, if you haven't joined our YouTube channel membership, check it out. Check that join button down below or use the link in the description. But given that we've got a lot coming up here,

a lot to prepare for with the Lakers taking on the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday,

I wanted to do a full breakdown of the preseason.

What have we seen that's good?

What have we seen that's bad?

How should we feel about this team going into the regular season? I also have a few fan questions and comments coming in, some superchance to get to from our live show last night after Lakers versus Sun. So I'll put those in at the end of this episode as well. So a lot of stuff to dive into before I do. Quick reminder, if you haven't done so yet, make sure you are subscribing to the Lakers Nation YouTube channel and then over on the podcast side.

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All right, let's get into it.

Our Lakers preseason takeaways.

And I'll just preface all of this with this.

You know, it was,

I was not super thrilled after the game against the Phoenix Sunskit. It felt like a bit of a

letdown and maybe I had built up that game too much. I was expecting this to be the full

strength Lakers with the exception of Jared Vanderbilt, which by the way, we are, as I'm recording

this, we're still waiting word on Jared Vanderbilt and as well as Jalen Hood-Shafino to find out whether or not they're going to be available. On Tuesday, we're going to be waiting for an update from the Lakers. They're supposed to get re-evaluated today. So as of right now, don't know. But we thought it was going to be full strength Lakers against full strength Phoenix Suns, more or less. That was the expectation. And then we found out from the Lakers side, no Jared Vanderbilt, no Gabe Vincent, no Jalen Hood-Chafino, which actually wound up being a really big deal. And then from the Sun side, no Devin Booker no bradley be able so that whole plan of getting to

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