THE HOOK: What lessons can the Lakers learn from this postseason?

About this episode

Anthony and Pete discuss the Lakers' postseason performance and lessons for the future, including team development and rule manipulation in the NBA.

Anthony and Pete discuss the first couple of games and what the Lakers need to do if they're going to have a chance at extending this series. Then, they take an honest look at what separates the next tier of teams from them to figure out what the Lakers need to learn heading into this summer. From there, they dive into a discussion about OKC's manipulation of the rule book and why it's more an NBA problem than a Thunder one. To wrap things up, they answer questions from the live audience. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Anthony Irwin

Topics covered

• Lakers postseason
• NBA analysis
• team development
• OKC rule manipulation
• audience Q&A

Keywords

• Lakers
• postseason
• NBA
• OKC
• team lessons
• audience questions
• rule book

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OKC, NBA, Thunder

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