Hello, everybody. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

I'm Trevor Lane.

We've got the big series starting up on Saturday.

Lakers, wolves, it's playoff time.

Let's go.

Today on the show, we're going to get into what the keys are for the Lakers to get the win in the series.

How can they exploit the Minnesota Temple Wolves and walk away with the win and move on to a second round.

Plus, we'll take a look at the X Factor.

Joining me today on the show is Ron Gutterman.

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Ron, how you doing?

An exciting time of year here.

Lakers Wolves.

Let's go.

Yeah, it feels really good that we're sitting this week off, actually, and we actually have to wait a few days to get Lakers playoff basketball.

It's been a lot of playing games over the last few years.

This is a nice change

of pace. Yeah. I mean, I guess the downside would be rust maybe settling in, but I'm not too

worried about that. Like, this is nice to not have to battle in the play in and stress and all of that.

For some reason, I don't worry about LeBron James gathering rest.

When we look at this draw so there was a lot it was all the way down until well overtime of the final game of the season the clippers

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