Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

All the missed wide open shots and blown layups heading down the stretch in the 4th were hard to watch. Ouch!

 

Unplayable Gobert 27 points and 24 rebounds
Are you f***ing kidding me

 

Good? Get to try to think about retooling quicker. Get to see who gets eliminated, the free agents, the players who don’t want to be with their existing teams. Maybe some legitimate veterans take pay cuts to join Luka this summer.

 

What went wrong? JJ effin Dantoni

 

We just need pieces that fit better - that’s really it IMO.

I think JJ got too cute the last two games and made some bad decisions. Never subbing Hayes was a mistake tonight (obviously).

Even if we gutted it out tonight, it was pretty clear our depth and Luka’s defense would sink us eventually.

 

Team just looked deeply flawed as we thought they would after the Luka trade. Crazy to play Kleber instead of Hayes when Gobert looked like the French Shaq. I'm sure Mark Williams is laughing somewhere. To lose to a team who shot worse at 3's than the 2018 Rockets...

Austin really looking like the white D'Lo out there. The bench was also useless scoring 4 points.

Anyways, its a fun season and we'll come back stronger!

 

Williams is but hes stuck in cha and they still looking to trade him...

 

Got to get a better roster to fit Luka's style. It starts with a rim running 5. The bench was atrocious for the most part. The trade for Luka was for next year and beyond. Just getting started.

 

Won't be to us.

 

Painful first round series, all-in-all. MIN's style perfectly exposed all our weaknesses, which I expect to be addressed in the off-season.

JJ's choice to play Maxi instead of Hayes just seems...dubious at best. But that's not why we lost. I thought MIN's D was really great. I thought our Big 3 (Lebron/Luka/AR) were subpar for this series, but a lot was MIN's D. There were times tonight when a T-Wolf missed a shot, 3 Lakers crashed the boards, but the Big Kid got the rebound, easily. The Big Kid (Rudy) vs. 3 smaller kids (pick any 3 Lakers). It was effing embarrassing and glaring.

Excruciating 1st round bow-out, 4-1.

I really do expect us to be much better next year. Which feels like, right now, forever.

Thanks for the camaraderie this year, fellow Lakersball friends!

I'll stick around and comment here and there on the rest of the playoffs and the Finals. (Please! Someone knock off the damned C-Bags!)

Let's hope Luka doesn't show up for camp at 295 lbs.

 

Luka later this week