Whole New Team
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
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In what seems like a yearly tradition for the Lakers under Rob Pelinka's stewardship, the team's roster was almost completely turned over, headlined by a trade for Russell Westbrook and signing an entire new group of high profile role players. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss all the changes, focusing on the team's clear shift towards offensive minded players, what they expect from Russell Westbrook, and what role players intrigue them the most.
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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 |
| 0:22.4 | anymore. Correct. What's up? Laker fans, welcome to Laker Film Room podcast, brought to by the Blueire |
| 0:26.8 | Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we could finally talk about the offseason |
| 0:32.0 | and what has transpired, what a roller coaster of a couple of weeks and when the dust is settled. And we have |
| 0:39.5 | a whole new team, aside from LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Markisaw, Taylor, Talen Horton-Tucker, |
| 0:45.4 | re-sign. After that, there's a whole bunch of roster turnover. And zooming out, and rather than |
| 0:51.8 | breaking down each player's individual games, which is not possible |
| 0:56.6 | at the moment, which I'll get into in a bit, but in zooming out and what do these guys kind of |
| 1:01.0 | have in common and what is the conception, what is the conceptualization of this roster? |
| 1:07.6 | Darius, I see a team that we've turned the dial significantly more toward offense. |
| 1:13.9 | Now, and away from defense, right? We've gotten better on the offensive end. We've gotten worse |
| 1:17.6 | on the defensive end. How that shakes down, if we've gotten a greater degree better on |
| 1:22.7 | offense than we have gotten worse on defense, all of that remains to be seen and is an evaluation of all of these |
| 1:29.0 | very new parts that anybody who tells you how this is going to look exactly is lying to you, |
| 1:34.4 | right? There's too much new about this. And that's part of what's so remarkable about it. But when |
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