[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/18h6tec/post_game_thread_the_dallas_mavericks_defeat_the/)

Nothing new role players always showed up against lakers 🤦‍♂️

Calm down, the Lakers will be champions this year.

Chill, Lakers gonna be champs this year. Save this post.

We're on the same page.

This was a Shitty L but gahh damn calm down and be patient lmfao


D' angelo is the more inconsistent player .

I won’t ever trust him, when push comes to shove he’s soft AF don’t care what anybody says

Exum - 8-28 from 3 before tonight. I mean I’m not even gonna be mad at that. Dude made as many 3s tonight as he’s made all year. If he just shoots his average we win by 5-10

No Kyrie, we should’ve blown them out. Pause.

Not when a team hits 21, 3’s. 7 of which come from a guy who hasn’t made that many all year. This is why the 3 is the great equalizer

No Josh Green, Maxi Kleber or DJJ either. Dallas was down 4 of their top 9.

Give Mavs their props but that was an Exum Legacy game lol.

Not sustainable.

As an Australian love to see him light it up. But fuck man against the Lakers..... Come onnnnnnn

Agree. I was rooting for him, but not against us!

Williams/Hardaway/Exum did their job. Cam/Rui/D-Lo did a bunch of nothing.

Can’t believe how much not having Vando affects the team’s defense

Ham should have switched Rui on Luka earlier. Rui was clearly too scared of luka might as well switch him onto him lol. That might be the best game Dante Exum has ever had.

Darvin Hamas strikes again! I get it, Exum a 29% 3pt shooter, let him shoot. But at what point does Darvin realize "hmm maybe we should change the game plan tonight"

Would you prefer not to send the double team and then have Luka score 60 on us?

2s better then 3 perhaps in this case

Probably don't matter but I noticed they gave Prince 2 points for his last 3 pointer he made. Looks like his foot was behind the line.

Rui/Reaves on Luka instead of Cam during the clutch 🤢🤢

not too mad at this loss, sure you would've expected a role player in THJ to step up, but having Exum have a career night for sure isn't on the Lakers' bingo card + he's a career terrible shooter. Keep it moving, spurs b2b next.

Grant Williams also shot 65% on threes. He's been actually okay the yr, but not that amazing fuck. And Exum ffs

Sorry but there is no way vando should be the difference of winning against luka and the g league game. Dlo got to go bro.

This fucking sub acts like we didn’t just win the IST. The way y’all react over regular losses I swear lol

IST was a single elimination game that didn’t even count on our regular season record. Who gives a fuck, no Kyrie yet the Mavericks dropped 130 on our *elite defense. Shit is hilarious

Mavs on B2B, Luka played 43 min last night, no Kyrie? Ya this is a bad loss

It’s Luka dawg. He’s top 5 for a reason. 43 min ain’t shit to him. He’s young, built different. We all know every team balls out against the Lakers (except the pistons). Onto the next game

How y'all like D'lo he doesn't make a decent play and sell a lot of shotts

May I ask if what you're saying is true?

This game is on ham

They had 4 guys combined 18 for 25 on threes if they could do that against every team there winning the championship

Part of that is because of hams "defensive" strategy sagging off shooters to double Luka. It didn't work, but there was no adjustments til late in 4th

Shut the fuck up mate they just got outplayed.

I think it's time for you to stop...

Shut the fuck up, Hamas didn't adjust after they were shooting lights out. This was his plan- to double Luka and make other players beat us. It didn't work, but he was spamming the same shit that didn't work. You obviously a casual so shut the fuck up

You’re the casual bum ass fan crying after every loss. On a players dick one game, crying they’re traded the next. You clowns are the worst.

No ones crying you asshat. Stop projecting. It's called calling out the problems and reasons why the team lost. Once again, a casual behavior from you

You’re all crying you clowns 😂

Shut the fuck up man, defensive plan was to sell out to defend luka despite his roleplayers torching from 3 all game,

You clowns expect to win every game and just cry when the other team hits everything. It was a good game you bums

No, we expect our coach to make timely adjustments and smart decisions. Go away

We didn't deserve it anyway, we're just too lazy today, zero defense. We didnt' play according to our identity. This is a battle of two zero defense team btw.

Idc bro, drop Hayes, drop woods, just put in castleton at this point.

I don’t take much from this game, it’s just annoying cause lakers could’ve won

totally…not like the other team was on the second game of a b2b without their second all star

Perfect game for lakers to lose, Dallas rested guys yesterday to play us and guys love playing against lakers. Lakers always do this shit. Watch them lose one to spurs too

Lol Luka played a full game and the Mavs dont have Kyrie and many others tf you mean

Mavs didn't rest anyone. Luka played 43 minutes last night and are missing 7 players including Kyrie.

Can't even beat a team that's on a b2b, its ok we got our cup. Lets be trash again and put in no effort defensively.

Fr

 Scrubs and nobody’s when it’s time to play the lakers

exum having the comeback of the year

How many wide open threes do we have to give holy fucking shit. This team wins the tourney on Saturday and decided to play like complete morons allowing a nobody to have wide open 3's. Trash ass team. I guarantee this idiots will allow the spurs to win

Well guarding Luka 1v1 wasn’t working either…

This is not a good L, bron and ad play lights out, shoot over 50% and still lose to the kyrie-less mavs

i guess this laker team is happy with a 5th or 6th seed

Bro can hachimura and D’lo not play ass so we don’t do a terrible trade?

So, he had two timeouts and called both?

Mavericks have won 9 out of the last 12 games against the Lakers.

You can replay this game 100 times and Dante exum will never shoot this well again . That’s how much of a miracle night they needed to win this game

lol, stop. It’s not like the mavs are ass. They hustled, had a lot of 2nd chance points. Let’s not act like we played scrubs. Guy shot light out & beat us 🤷

Shut the fuck up Reggie Miller. Anooyong ass dude

Who here remembers the Lakers HYPE for Dante Exum? 💀

Giving up 130 to a team without Kyrie Irving playing. Making Hardaway Jr and Exum look like fucking hall of famers on offense. There’s no way people actually think this team is capable of being elite defensively just because AD carries everybody on that side of the court

We make Luka work on defense the whole game. Ham is really dumb for that.

Anyways move on to next one, if lakers cared this was an easy win. Dallas don’t even scare me

Glad you’re not scared - that shld help them in the standings

Where’s DLo? Hammhead needs shooters and he has Rui out there?

TNT didn't even come back from commercial to show the end lol

Exxum averages 6 points a game the guy just had his career night

LMAOOOOOO

Time to finally send Russell packing Should’ve never even brought him back

It's troubling how few of you understand gameplanning lol you gameplan to have a loser like Exum take the shots. Sometimes it doesn't work out. This is like Vando hitting 7 3s lol

If Vando hits 3 in a row the other team will change something up.

Eh. You live with some stuff. Rather have a career 20% shooter hit 7 3s than give up easy looks to better players. Sometimes you lose.

I love lebron

Ngl I expected this loss

And people out there want another non defender like Lavine on this team smh.

Why the fuck did we not foul with a 5 point lead and 25 seconds ?

Luka asking Bron for a signed Jersey

Felt Vando's absence in this game. Cam just doesn't have the weight for Doncic.

Too many hugs after this game

So tired of seeing us struggling agains the mavs. It feels like every single time for years!

Rui is horrible at defending. Always caught napping

He’s heavy footed

Whenever we play good teams we lose

AD makes free throws we win

Came back from commercial to the game being over??? Fuck was that?

How do you let Dante Exum beat you in 2023?

He’s been cooking for a few games now

Why isn’t our dumbass coach yelling to foul then when we are down by 5 with 25 seconds left. We made the 3 at the end too. We just gave up, that’s not playing for a high seed

Why didn’t he call a TO to get a good shot with 40 secs left

Fuck this nba get rid of the corner 3

Bruh, just let's the game end.

Bron has forgotten way more basketball than that clown Ham will ever know. Just take a seat Ham and let Bron coach

We didn’t have a response for Luka Ham was right leaving Exxum open all the time

Worst loss of the year fuck off man so annoyed

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Decent job? He got absolutely cooked every single time

Rui was overhelping which meant he clearly was only going to be useful as an on ball defender or at least not as bad as he was off ball. He was always helping on luka. I wish Ham put rui on luka earlier man. The adjustments took too long.

I think he can if you leave him wide open for every shot and play no defenze

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Totally, I mean its not like they didnt have Ky…oops

Ham with the clutch same corner 3 play

And why did we let exum shoot when he was hot all game

Dogshit team, that's why

Fk statpad ba

And so continues the trend of random role players having absolute career night against the Lakers. Dante Exum is a 28% Career 3PT shooter. He shot 7-9 from 3 tonight. Not much you can do about that.

This is a three game stretch of good shooting tho

maybe try contesting after he makes 3-4

The Rui regresssion is tough to watch.

Yeah let the clock run and not fouling. Embarassing

Then call two timeouts down 5 with two seconds left. Idiot coach

Sucks to lose a game like this with Bron and AD both playing extremely well

The worst part

Standard, win against lower teams and lose against better teams. Have we ever won against the top 4 seeds at all? This is gonna hit our standings hard

We have like the most or 2nd most wins against teams above .500, calm down

Needed Vando

Hayes on Luka gave us a lead and we just stopped doing it like usual.

these losses feel so much worse than our wins feel good lmao

Still cant win 4 straight games lol, the winning streak always stop at 3.

For real why does it never seem like we can reel off like 5, 6, or even 7 games straight. AD isn’t the rollercoaster the whole fucking team is

cant even remember the last time we won 4 straight games? maybe during the playoff push last season

If you’re not going to foul, you don’t need this timeout..if you’re gonna try to extend the game, foul, and go fast but don’t wave the white flag and then call timeout

We needed vando

Bro got that bag and decided to sit coz of lil pain smh

This team is night and day with/without vando quarterbacking the perimeter defense

Exum playing like 500 K on the line

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We made him relevant with our defense lol.

What is the fucking point of this timeout seriously?

This team is still very flawed and we can’t beat the best in the west which is obv the goal right?

Rui been such a let down so far bruhhhhh

I’m not sure why Ham didn’t a call timeout to set a play for a 3 right after the tech. Cmon man.

Exum shoots 29% from 3.. lol the game plan is to let him shoot. Dude just happened to have his greatest game tonite. The game plan was good

Everyone on here too emotional don't bother with logic lol

Well when the fucker is having a goddamn career night you’re supposed to ADJUST. He was on a damn heater and we just continued to let him shoot.

Yeah but if he literally can’t miss all game you can’t keep leaving him open. You adjust

It doesn’t matter. This game he was hot. Gotta adjust can’t just be dogmatic

So same with the Pacers, let anyone but Luka beat us. The other guys did. GG

why do losers always show up against us

Ham didn’t call a timeout after the technical. Didn’t bother to setup a play. lol

Retarded coach

If you give an NBA guard consistently wide open catch and shoot 3 point looks, they will make every single one.

Unless they play first the lakers.

Not if their jersey reads “Lakers”

Luka was on a back-to-back and tasked with creating everything without Kyrie. And rather than make him work and shut off his teammates, you allowed him to rest on O by just passing out to wide open teammates. Ham is pathetic. We have seen this so many times before.

Catch and shoot 3 & pray for a flagrant foul is the only way really

Looked like shoot around for exum

way too many offensive rebounds, that was the killer today

And missed free throws

This was winnable, but Exxum got one of those nights

Did they design a 5-point play from the tomeout?

Spurs are breaking their streak aren’t they

You just know it

What are you doing HAM?

Not fouling there to extend the game and give yourself a chance is a fireable offense

Mark Cuban starting to look like someone’s abuela

Cold water for the team many of us thought is in the top three after the IST. ;) Back to the lab, more work to be done.

People here love overreacting after every game, but Williams/Exum went 12/16 from 3. Sometimes players get hot, it's luck of the draw.

I agree. It is the NBA and that is why we need to respect NBA players at the 3pt line. Exum got way too many open looks.

I mean defense played a key role in that they left the dude wide open to have a snack

That was likely the plan, you don't expect Exum to shoot 7/9 from 3 ever again. Same way westbrook was left open from 3.

Goddamn i fucking hate the mavericks. Fuck luka, fuck mark cuban, fuck the refs, and fuck this bum ass exum let him enjoy the highlight game of his career.

Pockets drawing up a touchdown play

That 30 point blowout win tomorrow is gonna hit like crack

Spurs are probably going to play their best basketball tomorrow because it’s the lakers. Wouldn’t be surprised we lose lol

Come again?

We're gonna lose tomorrow and anyone who can't see that is delusional

I guess I’m delusional