Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

lol had same fear when i saw the box score. watch the other tapes!!

and i truly do wonder who's doing our scouting right now. like, we have a first round pick this year that, unfortunately, is looking like it might be near the lotto. let's not screw it up again.

 

might be your fault

 

revenge tour game next

but the guy pointing the other way when the foul was called followed by declaring CLE to be someone else's town now.....

Interesting times we are in. All that changes if he decides to call it a career back in Cleveland though. Have to think those fans have a love / hate relationship with him after leaving twice for greener pastures

 

I don't think they really cared about him leaving the second time. They were clearly done winning titles after Kyrie left and with KD in GS. They'd been to 4 straight Finals and won one for Cleveland for the first time in like 60 years. And all that erased him leaving the first time.

I think it's more likely than not that he plays for the Cavs next year.

 

Well, Luka stressed his ankle in the first quarter and went to the back to have it looked it, he was hobbled the rest of the game. Legone played the worst game of his Lakers career.

 

This is a really fair point, I think it’s why we’re so good in the clutch. When we focus in, play high level defense and execute offensively, we’re hard to beat in crunch time. The only worry is can we stay with a team until the 4Q. Our third quarter malaise isn’t great.

 

i had honestly forgotten what it looked like to simply take care of business against a bad team.

 

Luka had a triple double at halftime in DC; Lakers won the 1st Q by 14, so they of course came out in the 2nd Q and blew the lead...oh...no they didn't: they won the 2nd Q by 15, so they were up 29 at halftime. In the 2nd half they stretched the lead to 38 and did not let the Wiz back in, winning 142-111 and really, the 2nd half was pretty much all garbage. Hell, even some of the 2nd Q felt like it.

Luka had 26/11/10...in the first half!

Ayton did not have a bigger dude bodying him in the paint, and that's when he kills: 12 for 14 from the field, 28/13 for the game.

Lebron James had a couple of dunks...then his son dunked. When was the last time...? (Never)

I hope we don't have too much of a letdown against an actual NBA team in the Knicks.

The Washington Wizards can't be as bad as they looked, can they? May as well have been the Washington Generals.

 

Always nice to get a win

77 points in the 1st half

DA with a solid night

Hopefully it gets his head straight and his effort level goes back up

Hayes in 14 minutes 10 pts 3 reb 1 ast

 

Would have been an easy win with AR IMO. Lakers roleplayers all struggle.to score. They got two really big good wong defenders AR.would have blown their D.up

 

-3rd quarter woes done us in again.
-LaRavia needs to lock himself in the gym and shoot 1000 threes a day in the offseason.
-I wish we had a veteran guard like Landry Shamet off the bench.

 

all their roleplayers hit 3's, our bricked wide open ones all night. Can't really win when they hit tough 3's and you're team bricks the shots you're offensive is meant to generate.

Still this was an AR game - he would have torched these guys where guys liek Smart, Rui, and Laravia couldn't

 

didn't expect a national tv road game win at ny without reaves. get the next one.

 

They're better than what we rolled in with. They've rattled off 6 straight wins. KAT has been gobbling up rebounds like Pac Man (22 vs TOR, 20 vs POR).

Rui, Jake, Marcus, and Vando were 3/18 from 3. Not winning those nights unless you get super Luka and Bron performances. 70+ instead of 52

 

We couldn’t stop anyone when it mattered

 

LeBron is at his best when merely reaching in on defense and then complaining to his teammates that they didn’t stop the player from scoring. I’m so tired of this hypocrite!!!!

 

I don’t understand why JJ refuses to play Jaxon Hayes more. Last year I understand because the guy was a liability at times, but Hayes has improved his game a lot on both ends.

 

Rui passing up shots left and right. Trade his dumb a**. Jake does too, but he isn't shooting 45% and has time to learn. Rui is a bum.

 

Rui too tentative with his shot; Jake looked maybe like he had MSG stage fright. Knicks D pretty good. Once again our 3rd Q tilts the game away from us.

Lakers lose 112-100. I thought we played some of our best defense in the 1st half. In the 3rd Q there were a few plays were we couldn't take care of the ball on offense and it led to easy NYK pts. Knicks hit 18 3s; we made 12, but shot 29%. Knicks out-rebounded us 46-36.

Luka 30/15/8 in 37 mins.

Frustrating loss, as we had a 4 point lead at haltime. Knicks won the 2nd half, 60-44. KAT and Brunson not spectacular, but Shamet hit 6 3s, Josh Hart was 8 for 11 from the field, and OG went 25/8 with 4 from deep.

NYK are 3rd best team in the East but I think we win a 7 game series against them if we have AR.

 

LaRavia, 1 of 6 from 3.
Smart, 1 of 4 from 3.
Rui, 1 of 5 from 3.
Vando, 0 of 3 from 3.

We made 12 three-pointers in the entire game, 5 of which were from Luka.
The supporting cast (including LeBron) made 7 three-pointers, practically 1 more than only Landry Shamet.