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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we're doing our first mailbag podcast in a while. And this one's going to have a theme, right? We've been riding high, feeling good about this team. but as it is during seasons where we're kind of right on the precipice of contending, there's always those worries about, you know, what are the weak spots on the team? And so that's going to be the theme of today's pod. And to help us with that, joining us is wonderful producer Jeannie. Jeannie, how are you doing? I'm doing. Okay, how are you guys doing? Great. Good to have you on.

All right. Hi, Jeannie. Hello. Hello, everyone. Okay, ready to get into the first mailbag of

23. The first question is from Streamton. How worried are you about our center depth this season,

especially considering the fact that

AD will most likely miss 20 plus games? How much of a weakness will our interior defense be in those

games? I feel like I'm more concerned about this than most. Mike, what do you think? Well,

stream ton, I share your concern.

I have been expressing that, I think, throughout the summer.

And it's tricky.

You look at the Lakers defense last season.

And they were, after the All-Star break, they ended up finishing fourth,

whereas really it felt like they were first the whole time.

And then, like, Chicago and Boston crept up there by just a percentage point. And New Orleans actually snuck in as well as they started playing harder down the

stretch. It's it's one of those things though that I don't know that the Lakers really had a

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