The Lakers desperately need Lebron + 1 other guy to push guys in the rotation down.

Jake/DK/Vando/Hayes cannot be your 6-9 players.

Luka, AR, Wing Player, Lebron, Ayton

Rui, Smart, Jake, Vando

is a lot easier to swallow.

I think if the Lakers are in a decent position like 4th/5th at the deadline, they 100% flip 1 of the dead contracts like Kleber and a first for a solid guy, doesn’t have to be “good” just a 5th/6th option type of wing.

Yep statistically they are trash.

What makes it even more startling is they have Luka drawing double teams all game and still can’t hit a wide open 3

Confidence is genuinely gone. Dude is too scared to make a mistake and is thus making mistakes. He needs a new team.

I’m still pretty confident Knecht will end up being a pretty good nba player. I’m 100% sure it won’t be as a Laker though

Last time Grizzlies and Lakers played

Wells: 16 points, Vince: 7 points, KCP: 12 points

Knecht: 5 points, Hayes: 2 points, Vando: 2 points

All time bad lakers bench thanks Obama Pelinka

He just had 30…

AR had 31 PTS.

If you’re complaining about his 3pt shooting, complain about Luka too.

He just came back from a groin injury, will take him a few games to get back to it

Both Reaves and Luka have been shooting pretty awful.

Imagine he didn’t have SGA’s whistle

Kyrie is better than Austin reeves, and pj Washington is a good enough 3rd option ball handler that he can run a 4v3 no problem.

I think the problem is, outside his great start, he is just not as good as he was in 23-24. I watched him back then, felt like every shot was going in

yalls announcers are horrible. your play by play guy has the most annoying nasally voice ever

It’s hard to have fun when you’re watching a really bad product day in and day out, Pelicans have had arguably the ugliest losses for a team that isn’t tanking and these fellas have to act like they’re enjoying it every night, I’d eventually just speak my mind too.

came here to comment on them as well. as a lakers fan i used to like joel meyers as a broadcaster because of his analytical and measured commentary, knowledge of the game, and nice voice

but man i swear he did not used to complain about the officials this much back then. he and antonio daniels did it constantly throughout the game. it was one of a few topics they kept rehashing over and over and became quite grating by the end. is he like that all the time now?

meyers was more snarky and meanwhile daniels is louder and more haranguing. i still think that they are two of the more knowledgeable commentators in the league, but that did not make them more pleasant to listen to tonight lol

I found it entertaining.  I still remember Joel when he called Lakers games briefly. 

I’ve only ever seen Laker fans hate on them. If they had to watch a team that is always disrespected by media by saying to relocate the team, their star should be traded to the Knicks, and have to beg for foul calls, they’d be complaining too about bad basketball play that is fixable.

Joel Meyers is such a terrible listen. Can’t stand his monotone voice and his miserable passive aggressiveness.

They are usually really good and unbiased, some of the best for sure. Joel Meyers has really loathed the Lakers since the AD trade though. 

He almost literally said every missed Pelicans 2 pointer was a foul

Honestly never made the connection but that is pretty crazy.

What’s the alternative? Play them less, lose the games, and hope to turn it all around once the 41 year old comes back? Then have the 41 year old play more minutes than necessary just so the team doesn’t have to play in the Play-Ins?

The minutes for the 27 old and 26 year old will decrease when the 41 year old returns and takes some of the pressure off them.

Wasn’t there a playoff game where he didn’t play his bench for a whole ass quarter?

Our leads have been disintegrating wih the bench it’s really bad. I’ve never seen a worse bench

Not that much lol

Thibs had the whole starting 5 playing 35+ minutes per game over the whole season.

the pacers special

30% of your teams cap having yet to play a game def gonna take a toll

For once I genuinely have no doubt that he will. When and what that’ll look like is what I’m intrigued about. This team has something, there’s no way they just let the roster stay as his.

Bron is my fav player and ironically Luka is my 2nd. As much as I’d want it for Bron, I want it for Luka more. Getting pieces that directly help relieve pressure on Luka quite literally keeps him healthier. Naturally by extent I’d expect that to trickle down the roster.

we have 25 million in expiring contracts that is basically unplayable in Gabe Vincent and Kleber. If we’re able to turn that into a decent 3&D wing our lineup all of a sudden looks even better. These two contracts should be somewhat easy to trade for a contributor considering its expirings, we can either take a longer contract from a team blowing it up or attach some seconds.

If a team is willing to take Vando’s 11 mil contract as well, we can either go for a 30M ish contract that would be a really good player but I think the right approach is to try to find two useful players in exchange for Vincent, Kleber, and Vando.

I honestly think it’s worth using our picks for if the players fit Luka and AR’s timeline but we REALLY need some useful spacing. If a team still values DK I’d be open to moving him too.

This is true as well. I’m well on the side that believes this is on the refs. Some of them are inconsistent and are allergic to accountability. It makes watching a well called game a breath of fresh air.

STFU with these trades, dude. Nobody wants these underwhelming proposals.

It’s a roster issue. In times when I get frustrated with him, I remind myself that that’s the only release valve we have. That is scary to think about.

When Luka was on that Mavs roster their Strength was that athleticism. They were an above the rim team, and Luka feasted even when his shot was off because of that.

The athleticism is so bad that we can’t even properly implement elements of that play style. I have no doubt that they see these holes and know they need to be addressed though. We’ll see how it shakes out

Luka was not bad this game. Scoring was difficult because he was doubled from the logo for 40 minutes. The lakers scored literally only 1 field goal when luka was off lmao.

Pels said we dont care if we lose but luka is not dropping 30. Which the lakers take every time. Lebron coming back will ensure this strategy is even less viable.

Boxscore watcher

I’m not all doom, but I really wonder how people can’t see that this team is not complete. I get being delusional is fun, but you really gotta take a step back and realize we are a soft ass team rn.

I’m genuinely curious to see how the physicality ramps up when Bron comes back and we start slotting everyone more seamlessly in their natural roles on the defensive end.

Sounds like a trap game to me

it is a trap, giannis gets bonus rest from brats

I’d argue 40 with OT is easier than a normal 40 because you get more breaks

thats a wild stat

They do it to Reaves, too. They need the triple threat. They need Lebron. With all 3 of them on the court, they can balloon the lead with those 3 on the court and then rotate them around to only have 1-2 on the floor to just maintain the lead.

To add to that, I swear JJ is bullying Austin with those Smart, Vando, Laravia, Hayes lineups. Absolutely 0 offensive threat and the whole defense just watches Austin. You just can not have Vando and Smart together, and if you do you better have Luka or atleast Rui out there to relieve pressure

Herb jones and trey Murphy look pretty fat if you ask me. Dumars do what you gotta do.

I like our depth a lot more this season than the last (low bar, I know). Hayes has actually been somewhat serviceable, LaRavia, Nick Smith Jr. and Knecht have had good games, Bronny’s at least been good for some defense. The bench is capable, we just need to see some consistency out of them.

We’re not gonna compare to OKC, but you know, baby steps.

Alternatively they called two fouls so atrocious on us we had to challenge on back to back possessions, wasting both challenges and a timeout and we won both.

He was disinterested, which is exactly his former teams harped on him for. He didn’t go for the open shot and when everyone was telling him to take it on the trip down the court, he waved it off and threw a “W” sign. Then gives up a wide open layup immediately

And then he waved off the coaches who were trying to explain it to him lmao

why would you even care about strength of schedule with all the injuries we have had? like i said you need to put it into context and we have been beating teams on the road regardless.

I wasn’t able to watch the 1st Q and some due to work. I am not box score watcher and I don’t comment until after the final whistle. Your stream must be behind. Luka this season alone has played over 40 mins in ⁴⁄₉ games without a single game going to OT.

I just assumed he also played full 1Q coz I wasn’t keeping track of the mins while I was watching and when I checked the box score after the game was over, it was over 40mins… With Luka’s usage rate & him getting full court pressed constantly, playing such high mins is definitely not sustainable and you can already see his efficiency fall off last few games. This is a coaching problem.

Lakers have the whole season to figure this out so its not that big of deal
(also the 2 games he played lower than 35mins was when the Lakers got blown out)