Who Guards Who?
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
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The 2022-23 Lakers have a markedly different composition than last season's team. The guys discuss the defensive structure of the team, with an emphasis on which types of players their best defenders can guard, and the distinctions between Frank Vogel's defense and the principles that Darvin Ham may be bringing from Milwaukee.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And with the, I think, realization that Russ is likely to be on the team, |
| 0:35.1 | we're going to start having some conversations that are usually |
| 0:38.7 | reserved for earlier in the summer when we kind of know what the team is and, you know, |
| 0:44.0 | kind of evaluate different aspects of the team. And today, we're going to focus on the defense |
| 0:47.9 | events, specifically, who guards who? Mike, in the big intro presser that we had with all of the new guys with the exception of Pat Bev a couple of months back, your first question to, I think, everybody, was what do you envision yourself doing on the defensive end of the floor? |
| 1:04.1 | And so this is something that I think is central to the messaging of Darwin Ham in the first place. |
| 1:11.0 | So just to start us off, man, I'd love to hear your thoughts. |
| 1:13.6 | That seems to be kind of the starting spot for everything and all of the commentary that |
| 1:18.2 | the usual parties are giving. |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah, I was just curious how Beverly saw it and how Darwin saw it, because we talked about |
| 1:25.2 | a bit that Beverly is clearly a good point of attack, |
| 1:29.2 | you know, get in your face, pick up 94 feet. That's the whole thing behind his nickname. |
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