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 Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we are going to discuss one of the always fun questions when the dust starts to settle on a roster and that's who starts that's something

that last season guys we didn't really we knew right we had we knew that shrewder especially once

we started getting reports that shrewder wanted to start was going to start we knew that mark

was probably going to start at the five right we kind of knew what that that was going to look like

now it's lebron ad russell westbrook and then some probably going to start at the five, right? We kind of knew what that was going to look like.

Now it's LeBron, A.D., Russell, Westbrook, and then some question marks, starting with some rumblings about Anthony Davis playing the five, which is always something that he's been reticent to do

in the past. And so I want to start with you, Mike, on this is I've always wondered the reasons

why he's reticent to do that, if that's something that he'd be willing to do going forward.

And just your general thoughts, because I've always had kind of worries about, like,

can he withstand 82 games of banging with Jonas Valenshunus and Stephen Adams and DeAndre

Aiton and all of these really big guys. So take that in whatever direction that you'd like.

But yeah, 80 at the 5. Is that a possibility?

I still think that it's most likely they start the game with the traditional center, whether it's

Mark or Dwight in certain circumstances.

And I would say Mark would be the best solution just for the spacing and the shooting.

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