Tom & Tim are joined by Austin Reaves in a conversation ranging from what he'll do in his hotel room on the road to how the Lakers have approached implementing a new offensive scheme. You won't want to miss this episode!

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Tom Zayas & Cranjis McBasketball are joined by Alex Regla to discuss a slew of opening night overreactions: Is Baze *too* important? Is DAJ *too* bad? Should Reaves be playing over Rondo? Will Russ be a disaster?

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Tom Zayas & Cranjis McBasketball discuss their level of worry about the THT & Ariza injuries, Russ' preseason, LAL signing Doumbouya, and other notable things from the first 5 preseason games.

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Tim is joined by Jovan Buha of The Athletic to discuss if the Lakers offensive revolution is legit, how the team may pivot internally or externally to the THT & Ariza injuries, Jovan's takeaways from being around the team so far and storylines he's keen to follow as the year plays out, the Lakers' path to top tier title contention, what would have to go wrong for another R1 playoff exit, his time on Spectrum, then the guys have some fun with questions around Lakers culture and Jovan's hair.

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Tim digs into the game of Michigan product Chaundee Brown, and makes a case for him to receive the Lakers 2nd 2-way contract for this season. Strengths, weaknesses, offense, defense, film, data, chicanery. It's all there. Enjoy!

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Tim digs into the Lakers defense through the first two preseason games. What concerns are real and which will be fine with better personnel availability and position slotting? Doing a rundown of each individual defender, Tim highlights their defensive performance so far and at the team level discusses where this group can get to and how they can do so.

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On this episode, Tim recaps what we've learned from the Lakers 2nd preseason game agains the Suns. Vogel has some insightful comments hinting at the future of the offensive scheme, we see some "automatics" take form, smart sets continue, and a whole lot of sloppy execution.

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Tim answers Discord and Twitter questions on the Lakers first preseason game.

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Tim goes solo on this pod to break down what he saw from the Lakers in their preseason game 1 loss to the Brooklyn Nets. Creative new offensive sets, perfect utilization of both shooters and non-shooters, the exact defensive screen coverages he'd been hoping for, and crosses his fingers that it isn't all a mirage.

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Tom Zayas & Cranjis McBasketball briefly discuss comments/ideas from the Lakers' Media Day and make 3 bold predictions each about the upcoming season.

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