Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers Wolves tonight, 530 p.m. Pacific time. It's game one. The playoffs are here. Let's go. Come hang out with me tonight live on the Lakers Nation. YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation or over on playback.com slash Lakers Nation.

During the game, we'll have the play-by-play, our live reaction, and then afterwards the live

postgame show on YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation.

Joining me on the show today to help get us ready to go. It's my guy, Donnie Freeman.

Donnie, happy to have you on the show today. How are you doing? Doing pretty good.

Happy to be here. You know, I typically am on with you after the fact or, you know, and other

things. So it was the first time I heard the game day. You know, I see what they be talking about.

They get all excited about it. I felt a little bit of jolt down my spine when you said that. You know, it's pretty good. Just wait, just wait for this. Wait for this.

You come hang out with us tonight.

It's like a party.

That's the other one that people love.

It's like a party.

And it's a lot of fun.

And I hope we get a fun game tonight.

You know, Donnie,

you and I have talked a lot just off air about this series, about this game and what we expect to see from the Lakers and all that.

And I thought I got to get Donnie on the show to talk about some of this stuff.

So let's just dive right into it.

Obviously, we've had some time to kind of digest that it's going to be Lakers Wolves, that this is going to be the matchup and getting into some of the nitty gritty.

But what's the first thing you're going to be watching for once tonight's game goes live? Yeah, I'm going to be watching which coach has is the first

one to make an adjustment midgame. Like who's like, all right, I can't leave this guy out here. I got to

maybe switch things up. Are we going to see an extended run from Jacks? He's been kind of getting

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