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 by the Blue R podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And initially, we were going to do a pod on our energy bigs, Thomas Bryant, and Wendon and Gabriel in particular. And we'll get to them, for sure. But I can't

get over the Western Conference standings, guys. Everyone's lost at least six games. You got

10 teams within, I think, two games of each other. Mike, I've never seen the West this deep

into the season, right? The first 10 games or so, you always kind of have some wonky results, but Utah is still at the top, but they're only 12 and 7. Like when was the last time a team with a 12 and 7 record was good enough to be the one seed? Everything's flipping from day to day. Portland, I think is, you know, Portland is dropped significantly, but in terms of the standings, right, they're down to the seventh seed when they were the one or two seed not too long ago.

But they're still just a one and a half games back.

So, Mike, this is crazy.

Talk to me about the parody in the Western Conference.

Yeah, total chaos right now.

And only a couple of teams have either outperformed or underperformed their expectations

ahead of the season to make it so. We knew that there was going to be a large group of

those good but not great teams. But the two teams I referenced, you just mentioned one, or I was

thinking of you just mentioned one of them. Portland was in first and then they lost three three strike games, and now they're an eighth. And that is the difference, right? So there's now, there is a full, there is just one game separating first and eighth right now in the West. Then there's only two games separating first and tenth when you bring the Timberwolves into it, who are nine and eight. Then you have Golden States, who's 8 and 10, and they're in 11th.

They're three and a half games back at first, which, like, at this point of the year,

if you see three and a half, it's almost like nothing, like almost literally nothing.

That team could very well be in first place in like a month, you know?

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