Next time, Kangz. Next time.

Last year was extremely similar. Crazy how it’s playing out again

Still a lot of regular season ball to be played, but it will be really interesting to see how those 3-6 seeds shake out. As it stands now, I’d unironically want to be the 6th seed as a Nuggets fan. Playing the Rockets in the first round for the right to face the Spurs is a lot more manageable than playing the TWolves to face OKC.

I know we’ve all been saying the lakers aren’t contenders (they aren’t) but if they get the 3rd I’m pretty confident in taking them over the rockets in that 3-6 matchup if the rockets fall down there

West is always just so strong.

Nuggets without Aaron Gordon just don’t hit the same. Feels like the Lakers could actually outduel them if Luka stays healthy. 

well the records are close but the actual strength of the teams is weaker than preseason expectations. nuggets and thunder have been in the hospital all year, lakers visibly and statistically fucking suck, rockets have injuries to key players, weird vibes and real concerns, minnesota are super inconsistent and have roster flaws, clippers, warriors and grizzlies exited the playoff race, and the trailblazers have been horrifically injured.

only phoenix and san antonio have been surprisingly strong, i’d say the rest of the teams have actually been worse than expected.

all that, plus the east vs west record is damn near even.

We are a playoff team. That’s all.

Lakers are getting blown out a lot. But when it is close, they somehow lock in and win far more than they have a right to expect. You don’t get 48 minutes of consistant dominant ball from them

They’re 0.5 games behind the Nuggets now, and the Nuggets are recognized as a much better team. It goes to show the record isn’t everything, honestly.

I thought they have a crazy amount of close wins

Isn’t that just a by-the-numbers okay team? People have gotten so used to teams having weird traits(like the 50-50 Hawks), that a completely normal team looks odd now.

Only recently. Ironically earlier when they were like 15-4 or whatever they were beating everyone, bad and good teams, by like 2 and all their losses were by like 20+. In the last month or two they finally started blowing out terrible teams

exactly, a couple of blow out wins against teams that have become absolute disasters doesn’t change anything

lol

He’s very much like an old car, coughs and sputters starting up

In a Lakers fan ideal world, Lebron takes a huge pay cut, Pelinka fills the roster with more defense, and then finds a real big to give Luka a shot at a title these next couple of years. 

I’ve never felt good about this narrative of just kicking LeBron out because at times he still looks awesome. Gotta see if he’ll at least play for cheap to stay in LA. 

He looked pretty decent out there tonight. His high score was probably a direct result of an ungodly amount of minutes, but in terms of the Kings lineup, he smoked the rest of his team. He’s a good player to keep around.

If you watched the game, for most of it, he showed his age, his last 6-8 points came at a very garbage period.

Don’t get me wrong, what he’s doing at 41 is incredible, but he’s not a monster…

And 48 losses. They did beat the Lakers last month though. They had a bit of a winning streak, then straight losses.

We had 2 wins in the past week, and Kings fans would have died if they had won this game too.

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Nah we’re still a second round exit at best, but our sub will be chill for a bit longer lol.

Dude, you’re a Clippers fan lol 

If the Lakers can get a playoff run of kings -> pels -> jazz -> wizards watch out

Who cares? Whatever gets a win

Agreed, Luka should be going full force in a blowout win against the tanking Kings because scoring titles matter more than conserving energy, avoiding injury, or getting role players involved in a game that could help them tune up.

Tbf he didn’t need to shoot a lor since we were dominating them and he played reduced minutes as he rested throughout garbage time.