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 of our 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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Ward Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. Mike is in transit to Philadelphia. And as such, we're going to hold off on our net rating pod. Mike's a big net rating guy. and so I'd love for him to be here on that. Lakers fell yesterday, lost by 13 to the Toronto Raptors. It's funny, we lost by 14 to Cleveland in a game that was competitive throughout most of it. And the final score looked a little worse than I think it actually was. And then yesterday, we were never in that game, right? It was 11-0. It came back and, you know, competed a bit. And then Toronto just whooped him in the second quarter. Well, no lead. Like the Lakers never led. It was a wire-to-wire win for the Raptors. They look like the more physical and just better team with LeBron and AD out. Because they were. Yes. Because they were. Players taller than 6 foot 5 are important to have. And it's funny, there's been no point throughout this season D where we've had every one of our guys. And that like rarely happens for any team. That's not exceptional for the Lakers. Although we do have the, again, the most different starting lineups in the NBA so far this year.

And we're talking, you know, the most played lineup only has 47 minutes.

And that, again, is the lowest in the NBA.

That said, though, we've had a lot of games where we've been without guards.

But it's remarkable how quickly the anybody over 6 foot 6 goes out of the lineup and you really see the impact of that.

And that was really what I saw in last night's game is that was a game that, you know, Lakers never really stood a chance in in large part because even if we did force them into a miss, which we rarely did.

Although when we did, it was often in his own look, which I think we're going to get into a little bit later.

Toronto's still cleaning up the second chance points. They led the league in second chance points. They're getting out in transition, just a bigger, stronger, faster type of performance from Toronto. So tell me what you see from them. That's exactly what I saw, right? And so when you play against the Toronto Raptors, Pete, if I told you, the Lakers are going to play the Toronto Raptors.

And based off what you know of the roster, the Lakers roster, as it was constructed going into the season, who would be the three most important players that I would say, like, hey, Pete, who are the three most important players you'd want to guarantee be available against the Toronto Raptors?

Anthony Davis, LeBron James, and, gosh, there'd be a couple of players for the third one,

but Wenin would be up there for sure.

I was going to say Wenian may not be

number three, but he's going to be at least within the next three names that are mentioned.

Yeah. And that's because they got so many six eight, six nine dudes with long arms and all of that.

Like they very much have a type. Yeah. So just looking at the roster, you probably would have been like, oh, well,

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