[Highlights] Royce O’Neale hits the game-winning 3-pointer against the Lakers and Austin Reaves misses the potential game-tying 3 at the buzzer (with replays). Suns and Lakers commentaries
Unreal pass from Allen out to the corner to get the hockey assist. He had to hang in the air and contort his body to rifle it around LeBron.
Have to tip your cap to the Suns for making every three and every pass when they needed to. Crazy shot making.
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Who is responsible for said culture if so?
Luka just got there a year ago, the culture has nothing to do with him it’s been there before him
When Luka was on the Mavs the roleplayers played hard, these guys don’t
Great play design for that ATO
That was a great inbounds play by the Lakers.
lakers fans :)
For the Lakers, this week is what mathematicians refer to as “regression to the mean”. You ain’t gonna win all the close ones all year.
Royce is clutch on and off the court, Damn I still wish he was on the nets
Royce, my beloved
👆 What’s going on in Utah? 👆
The offensive board put back also was huge for them.
What a beautiful play drawn up by Ott with multiple options for allen. The timing by everyone was perfectly executed.
Coffey sets initial screen then soft clears out laravia and runs to the corner asap for a 2 v 1 on smart (coffey, green) if lebron stayed on gillespie and jake was forced to cut off allen instead.
Since lebron fully committed and laravia semi committed allen had both options available(gillespie, coffey) for a hockey pass for a 3.
Royce rotated out from dunker to near the top to stretch the d to the max.
Gillespie had a spectacular catch in air jump pass that hit royce right in his shooting pocket.
As a last resort for allen green sprints out to spread out smart had smart sprinted to coffey getting the ball instead or if someone sprinted to royce.
They obvious choice was probably to let Coffee take that shot if you could plan it out. LaRavia should have stayed down to contest, take a charge, or force the pass out to Coffey.
But as you said, the movement and choices made the Lakers just make instinctive decisions. Crazy good pass from Allen as I thought it was going to get deflected or even Reaves might pick it off. But nope, was pretty much perfect.
Ice Cold
damn that play was well drawn up
We really fumbled Collin Gillespie 😥 so glad he’s absolutely thriving in PHX. He’ll always be our NBA Champ, and I know we’re kicking ourselves for letting him go.
if you don’t like that, you don’t like nba basketball
What the hell is LeBron doing on that possession? He completely overhelps for no reason, and that’s exactly what starts the chain reaction. Once he commits like that, the ball swings, the defense is scrambling, and it ends in a clean look. Just look at how stupid the rotation becomes. LaRavia has to close out from the bottom block because LeBron goes for a reckless block attempt that takes both him and Luka completely out of the play. Now you’ve got guys covering way too much ground because one player tried to do too much. Dumb shit like this happens all the time on defense for the Lakers. That’s why we can’t beat anyone. Can’t wait to get out of the Bron business this summer.
Edit: Great execution by the Suns. Textbook play where you make the defense collapse and dish it out.
Its been a consistent thing a couple of times now but nobody seems to mention it. Its like we have seen this play countless of times at this point.
Given how little time was left, the play to get Reaves an open look to tie was so perfect.
Makes me even more disappointed in the Clips for how they ended their game tonight.
My favorite part is LeBron crashing into Luka mid air
Fair play to him, let them keep hitting these highlight wins until the Lakers front office realizes this roster shit and they have to build a better one around Luka
So, in two years.