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Speaker 1: The Volume. All right, welcome to hoops tonight here at

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Speaker 1: the Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. I hope all of you

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Speaker 1: guys have had a great week so far. Today we

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Speaker 1: are going to zoom in on the Los Angeles Lakers

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Speaker 1: and their offseason, which I think has come to a close.

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Speaker 1: I think they all sign maybe one more player, probably

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Speaker 1: someone like Tristan Thompson, but for the most part, the

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Speaker 1: co rotation players are what they are going to be

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Speaker 1: headed into next season. And as you guys know, the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers are really the one team that I

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Speaker 1: root for on a personal level. Obviously, Lebron James is

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Speaker 1: the person that got me to fall in love with

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Speaker 1: the game of basketball in a family that I grew

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Speaker 1: my last few years having a real rooting interest for

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Speaker 1: a team. I'll always have teams that I like more

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Speaker 1: nothing like the sort of actual sentimental fanhood that I

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Speaker 1: have for the Lakers. As long as Lebron James is

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Speaker 1: for me. We're gonna do We're gonna look at this

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Speaker 1: offseason from a bunch of different angles. We're gonna zoom

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Speaker 1: in on the offseason moves that they made. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do scouts on the two players that I didn't hit

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Speaker 1: in our free agency reaction, that is Jackson Hayes and

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Speaker 1: Cam Reddish. Then we're gonna do a little look at

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Speaker 1: their depth charges to kind of see what boxes the

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Speaker 1: do a kind of a breakdown of why I think

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Speaker 1: Rob Blinka deserves a lot of credit for what he's

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Speaker 1: done since the Russell Westbrook fiasco to start last season.

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Speaker 1: podcasts Under Hoops Tonight, so quick offseason recap in the draft,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers get Jalen Huoch Chafino in the first round.

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Speaker 1: He's big guard that shot forty percent on pull of

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Speaker 1: jumpers last year in college. Maxwell lewis a three and

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Speaker 1: D wing, an outstanding catch and shoot player with a

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Speaker 1: kind of like a Trey Murphy type of prospect. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he's got a long way to go to get there,

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Speaker 1: but a couple of picks that I really like. And

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Speaker 1: free agency there re signed DeAngelo Russell, Austin Reeves, and

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Speaker 1: outright they signed Torrian Prince on the bi annual exception,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent on the mid level exception, Cam Reddish on

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Speaker 1: Lakers fans who missed it in our free agency breakdown,

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Speaker 1: I already did evaluations of Torrian Prince and Gabe Vincent,

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Speaker 1: British is your textbook high potential wing that hasn't really

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Speaker 1: There's a lot there's a big gap between what Cam

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Speaker 1: He shot thirty four percent on jump shots in Portland,

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Speaker 1: take really tough shots. He's bad in pick and roll.

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Speaker 1: They scored just sixty five points on seventy six Cam

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Speaker 1: Portland unleashed him on a lot of star players last year.

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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of footage of him guarding guys

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Speaker 1: Every single one of those guys was well over a

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have had a great offseason, even if it

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it on the surface, because they were

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Speaker 1: already awesome. Don't let the sweep fool you. They were

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Speaker 1: the team that was closest to Denver and point differential.

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Speaker 1: Every one of those games came down to the buzzer,

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Speaker 1: well not the buzzer, but to the final minutes. The

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Speaker 1: Lakers are this close, but they clearly need to make

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Speaker 1: up that gap. They weren't gonna do that this summer,

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Speaker 1: so bring everybody back. Maybe you can flip that gap

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Speaker 1: at the deadline. So kudos to Rob Polinka. This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a really fun Lakers team. I'm very, very

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Speaker 1: excited to cover them coming into the season. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be much more enter taining regular season product, and I

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Speaker 1: think they have a real chance to win an NBA championship.

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Speaker 1: Like I said in our video with the nerd sech

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Speaker 1: guys a while back, I think the Lakers are absolutely

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Speaker 1: the team that is most capable of unseating Denver as

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Speaker 1: the defending champions. We are going to be covering the

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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors in their offseason tomorrow to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on the feeds for that. As always, I sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate your support and I'll see you guys. Then the

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