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Listen: Talking the Post-Kobe Lakers on the Fastbreak Breakfast Podcast

September 22, 2016 by Darius Soriano


The last couple of seasons the Lakers have intrigued for many of the wrong reasons. Be it a head coach who had local and national observers alike making the chin-stroke emoji face, the constant checking of tank-a-thon dot com, the declining-yet-still-defiant Kobe Bryant, or whatever other random story popped up. People wanted to talk about the Lakers, but for mostly bad reasons.

This season feels different though, doesn’t it? A new coach, another lottery pick, former lottery picks looking primed for a leap, and a team without Kobe for the first time in two decades has everyone at least a bit interested in what comes next — even if that doesn’t translate to a huge jump in wins.

I got a chance to talk with Keith Parish of Fastbreak Breakfast (@fastbreakbreak) of the Hardwood Paroxysm Basketball Network on all this as well as what I eat for breakfast (which is important! eat more breakfast!). Give it a listen after the jump.


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  1. anthonylborn says

    September 22, 2016 at 10:35 am

    Darius, great job of disarming a Laker hater who only wanted to talk about “rhetoric” as you so eloquently phrase it.

  2. david-h says

    September 22, 2016 at 11:45 am

    Darius:thanks for another
    nice share.Makes us feel warm and fuzzy…..i
    think you’re calling can also be director of public relations if it isn’t
    already.
    You know you’re in Daly City when on a typical day you can
    wake up to blinding fog, then rain, then bright sunshine then back to fog.And that’s just the typical morning
    forecast.You can also see that happening
    across the bay from Berkeley.
    The difference between coach Walton and coach Scott is that
    if and when the young players fail before they get better is that coach Walton will
    own their failures and place blame squarely on the coaches (including
    himself).His logic and intelligence
    tells me this.Who in their right mind
    would not want to play their hardest for this coach?Improvement will be imminent with this
    mindset.And, by the way, your optimism
    is contagious.
    The over/under for me is also at 30 this upcoming nba laker
    season.Last season in late December I thought
    18 wins would be laker’s ceiling.Did not
    know at the time my sarcasm would prove to be true.
    Nice to hear your voice again.Keep up the great work.It’s inspiring to say the least.
    Go lakers

  3. John Citizen says

    September 23, 2016 at 3:13 am

    Very reasonable talk from yet Darius, yet still with lakers passion and fire.

    Thanks a lot, enjoyable. We are the fans understand logic but we are here to hope for something remarkable.

  4. FredP says

    September 23, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    This was a nice, thoughtful interview.  The biggest problem is the discord among the owners.  The coaching staff and players look like they are ready to write the next chapter.

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