Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane, and we are live talking Lakers, Wolves, the playoff preview. It's time just about Saturday. It's going to be game one. I thought we'd go live tonight, take questions and comments. Joining me is Ron Gutterman. Ron, how you doing?

Doing good. Ready for some Lakers playoff basketball.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

An exciting, exciting time a year.

The Lakers right now, the slight favorite heading into the round one matchup with the Wolves.

I think, Ron, I think this is going to be a battle of a series.

I'm confident. I think the Lakers are going to get the win here, but they're going to have to work for it.

This is not the Easter conference where your round one matchup is going to be a breeze.

I think this is going to be a tough one all the way through, but I still think the Lakers get the job done.

Yeah, we talked about it the other day when we recorded a whole series.

And yeah, this is going to be a really, really tough showing for the Lakers.

I think the Timberwolves are going to give them a run for their money.

I don't think this is going to be some easy four or five game series.

But I do think the Lakers are the better team.

They have the star power. They have everything in place to be able to win this series. But yeah do think the Lakers are the better team. They have the star power.

They have everything in place to be able to win this series.

But yeah,

they're going to have to fight for it.

Yeah,

it's certainly not going to be easy.

Let's kick things off.

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