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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And the Lakers, after playing one game in the last nine days, finished preseason with a three-game and four-night stretch for some reason that starts tonight against Golden State. So

Dee wanted to talk a little bit about that game tonight, but also before we get to that,

there was recent report that Lakers were poking around on Nick Richards, for example,

seeing if there was a possibility of bringing him from Charlotte backup Big Man. And I think

there's some value in a first impression, right? Sort of that blink reaction to seeing something for the first man. And I think there's some value in a first impression, right?

Sort of that blink reaction to seeing something for the first time.

And we talked for months about Reddit coming in and sort of a new system with the same

group of guys.

And I'm wondering if anything has struck you in actually seeing the team play in limited

minutes so far. That's like's like hey this looks a little

different than I thought it would but also it makes me think of what this Lakers team needs

on the roster a little bit differently than I did before I saw them play yeah this is an

interesting conversation and we've been trading some texts about this stuff as well if you

would have asked me this question I I don't know, six months ago,

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