Lakers bench scored 9 points on ⁴⁄₁₉ FG.

Gabe Vin-Laden led the way going 0/7 FG.

So you don’t rate Gabe Vincent and Dalton Knecht?

starters with worse defense too

Yeah, we looked decent before because Reaves was playing at another level earlier this season.

One of the worst I’ve seen in about a year personally

I think they need to bite the bullet and sell high on Reaves now, but they won’t do it.

Most would disagree, but I think that he’s just going to be targeted in a playoff series again.

They’ll have a lot of options next summer.

Fortunately, all they need are some athletic wings who can reliably shoot and defend at a high level.

Those guys are notoriously cheap and easy to acquire /s.

They’ve already had 1 offseason, they should only need 1 more based on the talk when LA first traded for Luka.

(Ignore the fact LA was willing to move on from AD because the team had stagnated while they struggled to find 3&D wings to support him for almost half a decade).

They could trade soft tissue Luka for picks and some high end talent. 

Celtics imo

I mean that’s the same as every season. Preseason hype overrates over half the teams in the league. And to be completely honest I could only see OKC and Denver winning a title this year.

I think the Knicks are still good, just slumping atm.

I hate to say it but I think Boston is good too. They just need to make a move at the deadline.

Celtics are very real if Tatum comes back at better than 80% of last year.

knicks are built for the playoffs. pistons can’t shoot and cade is inefficient they are going to get exposed. 

Kings

Pistons?? Bro they’re like 9-13 lmao

The Celtics and Cavs are definitely legit too, can’t just ignore the East like that

And if the starting lineup was amazing, then you’d be like fine I guess they are like Denver last year, just no depth, but its genuinely unbelievable how bad thiss team is, I am watching these games shocked at how bad some of these players are.

I see the Lakers bench and I raise you… the Bucks bench

The offense absolutely has been the problem lately. Since Austin got injured we have had ³⁄₁₁ games scoring above 120 pts, and 4 particularly bad games scoring 96, 91, 106, and 101. Our defense is bad, as usual, but we are also simply not scoring enough without Austin. Objectively, missing the production of a player averaging 27/5/6 has contributed heavily to several of these losses. We’ve also been missing Rui, who is the best perimeter shooter on the team, which is part of why the Lakers have been shooting so atrociously lately.

Also, LaRavia has been one of our better defenders and rebounders, and you are way overselling the slow foot speed thing.

You got a few things right, but most of this is off base.

Warriors beat Knicks without Brunson, and Blazers without Avdija. We gon be shampionship.

I’ve noticed that a lot with Warriors fans actually. Like…I saw many of them going into this season thinking they would win a championship.

No offence but I think it’s symptomatic of having a lot of bandwagoners who latched on during the Warriors peak. They are used to Steph having a lot of help and being on a perennial contender, they are still adjusting to this era where the Warriors FO are not being aggressive and are arguably punting Stephs twilight years.

True but even with AR they were either winning by 1-2 or getting their backs blown out. There’s a reason they were like 21-9 with a 0 net rating.

When Luka, Reaves, Ayton and Rui were all shooting 60% from midrange in the first 10 games?

Yeah, they were playing marginally better. They still were only like a +1.0 net rating team at that point lmao

They were like 8-2 in brons first ten games back, then reaves went down. 

Yeah, something is up here. LeBron outs up good numbers but it’s not like the roster changed when he got back. Everyone besides the stars seems to play way worse.  

“Sciatica”

His army of stans don’t want to hear that though.