Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

One game popped the balloon, eff me. I wanted to check the score, couldn't sleep all night, didn't want to get pissed before the weekend though. When my girl and cousin blew up my phone... i knew it

This season just went

 

sorry, this is a garbage take.

switch the rosters around the two players, and which team is scarier?

cason wallace, ajay mitchell, alex caruso, and jared mccain are okc's BACKUP GUARDS!! SGA has an all-nba backcourt mate and two 30+million dollar (one max) frontcourt players on his team.

yeah, luka and the lakers had terrible games, but luka's spanked SGA's team in the playoffs before. player evaluations aren't made based on one game.

 

OKC proved that there are levels that we can’t quite reach right now. And thanks to the Clippers they’re gonna stockpile even more young talent. JJ needs a deep soul search on his 9 man rotation in the offseason. Today’s NBA is too injury prone and you need to play at least 10 men every night. OKC rolls 10-11 and overwhelm you.

 

Thats my point. He’s the same caliber of Luka, so all this outrage at Luka being 3rd in MVP is a bit ridiculous. He’s as good as Luka and his team has won a bunch more games.

 

my point is that luka's better, and if you put luka on okc, they're better and if you put SGA on the lakers, we're worse.

and tbh, i wasn't one of those clamoring for luka to be mvp. mvp is a media-voted award based on loose and shifting parameters, so it's whatever. luka's a more valuable player than SGA.

 

If Luka was treated by the refs how Foul Baiter is, he would average 40.
He’s just better.

 

The Luka MVP is more about him not even being considered (at least it is for me). That’s just insane and everyone knows it.

 

i don't think there's much to say about last night, but generally speaking, i feel like we had two 15+ game samples of proof of concept stuff for next year--we have a blueprint on how to be top-level team with or without lebron. and those were two of the most enjoyable stretches of the last decade of laker fandom. the second one came to a crashing halt last night, so hopefully everyone enjoyed it while it was ongoing. i think we'll have more of those in the near future, and i don't think okc can keep their team together at the level they're at right now.

 

Can we just forfit our spot in the playoffs? This is some BS, we wouldn't beat the Jazz now.

 

I can not believe this game is somehow blacked out here in the Palm Springs area!?! WTF??? …anyone have a stream?

 

Kennard tried his best for a Luka impression. LOL

 

Decimated Lakers still play DAL tough in loss in DAL, 134-126. Flagg with 45 and 96 in his last 2 games. He's still a couple years and a few months from being a legal drinker. Looks like he's barely gotten his driver's license. Wow.

Lebron: 30/9/15. Still fiery and intense, did what he could. Heavy usage, only 4 turnovers.
Jaxson: 23 in 27 mins on 8 for 10.

Jake 1 for 5 from 3, but even worse: Kennard 1 for 5 from 3. But: Kennard out-rebounded DA, 16-4. Sometimes DA just shows up small and plays small. Hayes got 8 more mins than DA. Do we care? Hayes had fire. DA? Not so much. Is this telling? Again: Do we care?

Nick Smith, Kobe Bufkin, Maxi get mins. In a close game. Adou Thiero gotta wonder what he needs to do to get some reps; DK gotta wonder where it all went downhill for him in LA. I see DK knocking down 3s in bunches for someone else in the future, maybe some Euro team.

This looks bleak, all-around. Of course it does.

 

Losing the the Mavs after the winning streak ends SMH

Injuries are something to deal with and we got hit hard

Shot 30% from the 3 line

Jake, LK and LBJ combine for 3-16 from the 3 line

Role players

Hayes 23 pts 4 reb 2 ast

Rui 21 pts 7 reb 1 ast 1 stl

LK 15 pts 16 reb 11 ast 1 stl

 

looks like luka and austin weren't the problem on defense, lol.

 

Well damn...does this mean, that we should expect, to get blown out by 50 tomorrow night?

 

Yup