Who is number 12?

Get comfortable

personally waiting for Curry Kessler to rain 3s myself.

Rooting for a Walker 40 20.

Next up: Lawson Lovering

you making a prediction?

It literally made no sense like just dribble out the clock if you’re not serious about making a comeback

They had a timeout down 5 with 2.2 left and didn’t even use it. Weird coaching decision, at least use it as an opportunity to try stuff that might come in handy come playoff time.

r/nba out-r/nba-ing itself

That is a stretch. He just had a bad game. He doesn’t have much of a team around him really. I would said he overachieved with that team. He is Lukaesque in many ways. I like Cade, but he needs to be more sicko, more bastard to make a difference. He is too much of a good boy

Yeah that’s great and all when the other team actually takes 3s. The Pistons didn’t shoot a single 3 in that time frame.

LeBron used to do this a lot

Ausar’s archetype is so dangerous when giving a 2nd contract to. Skill advancement is not linear and not guaranteed. Sometimes you get Jaden McDaniels, sometimes you get Matisse Thybulle.

And Lakers getting 50% of Ausar from Thybulle/Zaire after getting them off the scrapheap speaks to the danger.

Happens literally like 80% of the time

Bro was carrying Detroit. He also had a career game last year against them.

He just pops off against them lol

His two highest scoring games are against them

The usual. Some role player drops “career high” on the Lakers.

AR doesn’t need a green light, I think his superpower is reading the game state and finding the best ways to assert himself

This goes back to his rookie season too

Why the need for a grand narrative? He just had a mini slump figuring out how to run an offence as the first option in the non Luka minutes with a brand new team. He was still great off-ball with Luka.

I really thought AR was going to get destroyed by Thompson

Same. And I thought Cade was going to have a big game too

Pretty much an entire brand new roster to play with, it wasn’t surprising that AR was struggling the first few games while they figure things out. Lucky there’s a (ex)fat Slovenian who never needs time to figure things out

AR looks like he’s struggling 100% of the time, even if he drops 40

maybe he needs ball in his hands more. scoring isn’t an issue with reaves, it is his turnovers. but tonight, he showed why he is signed 45m per year.

As far as I know, he struggles more against swarming ball pressure than athletic forwards. Teams like Spurs, Thunder and Blazers.

I mean he usually does struggle against physical defense and ball pressure. He showed the opposite tonight

Luka dominating the ball for 90% of the possession doesn’t allow team mates to shine except centers.

This was my theory for why Brunson why shine on the Knicks and I was right, this just reinforces what is now a scientific fact so don’t bother disagreeing hoard of chunky white gamer followers

yeah, remember that Chicago game? i like his ability to take a backseat when he’s not required to dominate. some of Lakers stars in history have had problems with that (Kobe and Shaq)

Austin “Longest Tenured Laker” Reaves

Best defensive scoring team getting 120 put on them without the lakers top scorer playing?

r/nba tying itself in knots trying to come up with excuses

Duren was out too so it was even /s

Only Sexton is a big miss.

I think they could have found a more balanced and reliable ball handler. Sexton plays low IQ basketball and he’s abysmal on defense.

LuGM unironically recruited better in one offseason then Lebron did post AD

People who thought this team wouldn’t get 50+ wins if decently healthy were delusional. Only valid criticisms were that going all in on this squad wouldn’t win a championship. But anything’s possible if you’re a top seed in the playoffs

I mean tbf ²⁄₃ of our big summer signings have been mostly horrible. Sexton really doesn’t fit at all, I don’t see the vision. He’s a horrible decision maker and just kinda plays losing bball on both ends. He’s a bad defender, there’s no fixing that. Grimes will be better when his shots falls, but he also makes really bad decisions on offense. His defense has been solid, but I really question the offensive fit next to Luka/AR. I like Mamu’s game, and he’s been better than those 2, but he can’t make anything. He definitely fits this offense at least. The minimum signings have been excellent, Ziaire might be the best player we acquired after Kessler.

I like how we are playing today but come on bro!!! Paying 50 ml for vanderbilt, sexton, mamu and grimes and no backup center is absolutely a dogshit offseason. We wont do anything with Pelinka.

2 games against the Warriors, 2 against the Blazers, 1 Raptors 1 Pistons

Feels like most nba fans only think spurs and okc are good

The Warriors, Blazers, Raptors, and even the Heat aren’t shit teams. Raptors and Heat are underperforming right now for various reasons but I wouldn’t call them shit. To me, shit teams are the Hornets, Nets, for examples.

That’s 4 out of 9 wins that aren’t against shit teams.

Many people here are blinded by the Laker hate goggles

Some dumbass on Twitter literally said this. “Lakers clearly felt they had a better chance matchup-wise without Luka so they rested him.” Straightup dumb or just ragebait

Is this a lakers joke or a pistons excuse

Detroit was coming off a 3-day rest while the Lakers have never had a 2-day rest so far since starting the season.

And it turns out some of the teams that were supposedly not good have turned out to be excellent. 5 of the Lakers’ 11 games have been against teams that have won at least two thirds of their games.

That sub is full of clowns

Exactly lol

For a supposed to be one of the contenders in the east, Pistons is not a serious team. The game was still winnable. The 3 points shots were there, I mean take a chance goddammit.

Idc Lakers W

It’s actually smart if the other team gives you layups.

Agree. The ending to nba games is unwatchable something needs to change.

This penalizes the offensive team though. You give the other team a chance to steal the inbound and the offense gets no chance at points. Time off the clock just means we gotta start fouling earlier.

Instead they should just give the 2 points without free throws when the game has 2 min or less left in the 4th and the defense intentionally fouls.

Just take a page from FIBA. Last 2 minutes, if they foul you get FT and keep possession.

Kind of annoying when it does work too

I feel like there are much more natural ways of solving this.

There’s no reason to call a foul if it doesnt even benefit the fouled team. Import the advantage rule from soccer. If the attacking team keeps the ball and is in an advantageous position just keep the game going. Removes all the touch fouls.

And if the defender is clearly not going for the ball, but just wants to stop the player that’s not a basketball play and should always be called a flagrant.

All of a sudden it’s much harder to intentionally foul, the team down has to actually attemp to steal the ball

Yeah true. No one trashes the Lakers more than Lakers fans lol

I mean that’s to be expected

Not in the playoffs

The last couple years he was playing through injuries.

You ain’t no Laker fan. Fuck off. How about we celebrate our dude scoring 40 on a top defensive team instead of bitching about moaning about the playoffs?

Resting the easy half of a back to back npnp

Rockets also missed their only playable pg and first option. Rockets were too low iq and inexperienced and bron took advantage of that. Roleplayers were stepping up like crazy too.

I’d rather look at it that this roster is good enough that with him it’s going to be a top 3 seed at the end which is probably needed to get the MVP.

Teams with great defense almost always gets away with those types of foul. OKC and Rockets gets away with those too.

And their players and coaches bitch about calls in the postgame more than anyone in the league

he’d drop 84 in disrespect of bam

Already running PR for Luka because the carryjob wasn’t the carryjob we thought it was, and Luka is playing with an actual team lmao

they have a playoff series win without him after all

TBF how else you gonna hold him to 40?

Having a good defensive reputation either as a team or as a player completely changes how you get reffed.

That defensive reputation is better than actual defense in the league nowadays

Now you guys know how cavs and knicks fans felt last regular season lol

Guys literally wrap their arms around guys on out of bounds plays.

Wemby would average 50 without the holding so I understand why they let it go

What he say fuck me for?

Attacking/gassing the refs early

Ironic 😭

So what Castle did to Shai all playoffs…..got it

Lakers fans complaining about the refs lm-fucking-ao

I hope you’re joking

Even Farmar did a better job than him man

Jordan Farmar was legit a couple nights ago.

I was on the edge of my seat, I don’t know about you

please never

That sounds crazy off for Chinese haha, would be closer to Lu ke dong qiqi

Luk Ka Dongguan

Any good team we beat will just become part of our “cupcake” schedule

Doncic would’ve been crucified if those were his numbers at halftime.

yea he would but tbh Cade just isn’t on that level where hate watch even feels necessary

This is like worst your superstar can play. This dude played like role player instead of number one guy almost all game. Thats worse than shooting ⁴⁄₁₇ with idk 5-6 turnovers. If you are star/superstar you cant play like this.

He looked like he’d rather play 2k than be on the court. Fck was wrong with him?

He gets tunnel vision. I like his intensity but he really needs to slow down sometimes

I will like him better once he’s traded.  Charlotte could use him

Yeah our fanbase is insufferable.