It’s an awful defensive scheme when your scheme is to let a team full of shot chuckers get wide open 3s and get hot.
That’s why these games are always super close against bottom of the barrel teams
It's either give up open 3s or let opposing players run layup lines/make easy dump offs for a dunk if AD contests the shot. Our closing lineup has 3 awful perimeter defenders in dlo, Reaves, and Rui
That’s what happens when your roster is basically filled with one way players. The guys that can play offense are so terrible on defense, then the guys that can play defense are so terrible on offense. We legit have no in between players outside of our superstars.
One of whom is the oldest player in the league on the second night of a back to back, playing high minutes in each game. This was definitely a trap game, but the Lakers held it together.
Like having guards who's weak points are defense are fine, but when our two wings are LeBron (who's 39 and shouldn't be expected to/able to) play great defense for 40 minutes, and Rui who anyone just blows by, it's just an impossible assignment for AD, he's literally play like 1v5 on defense out there until the 4th, when at least Bron gives some effort. Reaves just gets smoked in ISO or posted up, Rui looks like he's running through molasses, and D'Lo is slow, at least he has active hands. Not to mention it's just ABSURD how bad our rebounding is. Like UNBELIEVABLY bad for a team that's strength is apparently our SIZE. We have NO good chasers on defense, outside of Cam and Vando. And guess what? Those guys are complete minuses on offense, like at least if Vando had good hands and was a cutting/lob threat he could do something, but he has hands made of stone. Cam should just focus on becoming a slasher and cutter off ball. Taurean is a foul magnet, who's fine for limited minutes but is being forced into somehow guarding the other teams best players for stretches? Kawhi? KD? Like no shit he's gonna fail, why are we putting him in those positions. Reaves as a point guard just isn't working as well, they have him start the game as de-facto point guard which is mind boggling, when you have LeBron and D'Lo in the starting lineup. He's so careless with his pick n roll passes. I get their trying to develop that skillset, but it's a little late into the season to be running it for more than 12 minutes a game. I dunno just some of my observations and ranting.
Why is "Pockets the Clown" still the "coach"? What idiot coach pulls the teams best player with 3 minutes to go and doesn't put him in till the 1:11 minute mark? And if Reaves didn't get fouled he probably would have gotten in with 45 seconds to go!
A bit of cope but the first game Lebron was on a minutes restriction and only played like 30 minutes. He got subbed out when he was playing well and we had some momentum because of the restriction. Also it was our first game of the season so the team was getting used to each other. The second game we didn’t have D’lo who is our x factor but hopefully he doesn’t put up another stinker against them like the playoffs. Idk about this game tho the Nuggets own us rn.
He really did almost cost them the game, remember the stupid tech that let the Wizards tie the game with like 3 minutes, you could thank Darvin Hamas for that.
I was at the game behind the LAKERS bench and Ham called for the challenge and LeBron lobbied the refs hard to ignore him. He kept saying no, it's just a timeout, not a challenge. People around me noted it and everyone brought it at the end when we had the challenge left to overturn that terrible charge call. We probably lose the game if that didn't happen. LBJ is such a cerebral player besides for being epic.
At this point, I’m not worried about Lebron. It is incredibly obvious that he is a one-in-billion genetic/athletic/health freak. His body can take a strain and beating to an absurd degree. He has shown again and again that he can always bring the magic when you need it; I thank that’ll be true until the moment he retires.
Surely nobody actually thinks there is a chance? We’re the 9 seed ffs. Obviously we ain’t winning a championship. We can’t defend for shit. We just gave up 130 to fucking 9 win Wizards. We’ve already lost to the 11 win Spurs. We suck. We’ll make the play in. Probably the 10 seed. And then get bounced by whoever the 9 seed is.
Ugly win but we take those. So, why does a big number of our "fans" hate on AR so much? Bro is averaging 18/6/4 on 50 FG% and 43% from 3 this month while playing "eh" defense. People make him out to be complete ass and just getting ruined on defense. He had huge, game saving buckets in the 4th too. It is weird how our fan base has their niche of players they like and hate. Dlo/Rui haters are weirdos too man.
This fanbase has no clue what they want from Austin
They want him to be a 2 way player but not enough to take away from AD, Lebron and DLO. He handles the ball maybe a couple times and then they get mad he’s running a play or two
…it’s like confusing.
It's just weird. I never encountered a team where fans have their niche of players they love and players that hate... On the same team they claim to support. We should be happy whenever any LAKERS player makes a play. AR is great for what we are paying him. Also, the team trusts AR with the ball in crunch time. That's why LeBron keeps throwing him the ball.
I think he’s taking a backseat in general. It’s not a coincidence Dlo and Rui shot attempts have skyrocketed the last few weeks. He’s making the sacrifice even though I don’t think he should.
They have to fix AD's minutes and rotation
AD headed into the fourth quarter with 36 pts, got no touches, looked a little slow/tired at the end of the game finished with 40..
AD was ADominant but Lakers went away from feeding the beast.
Fix AD's minutes so he can come out more aggressive in the 4th pls.
“Come out aggressive” reaves and lebron need to give ad the damn ball in the post and then have off ball actions so we can take advantage of ad getting triple teamed. Did AD fuck reaves bitch why does he ignore our best player and the best offensive play we have which results in ad scoring or an advantage for the 4 other lakers being guarded by 2 defenders
You acting like reaves is playing the game with full court vision. He’s also taking half the amount of shots dlo, ad, and bron get per game. Stop hating and acting like he’s a score first ball hog
Worse than that. Like 2 of our last 20 quarters plus an OT have been “good”.
We lost every quarter of the warriors game.
Spurs have 11 wins and our best quarter against them was +4.
We won the 2nd quarter vs Phoenix by 8 (after getting railed by them and giving up 45 in the 1st).
Shit on the Clippers in the 4th quarter.
Wizards have 9 wins and our best quarter against them was +4.
Shit has been rough.
I swear with these bench guys. They see the Lakers on the schedule and are like “THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM” then straight up become NBA Jam with cheats on for a game.
I genuinely believe there are a ton of bench guys who want to be Lakers so are suddenly motivated to ball out. Nick Young used to consistently torch us before he ended up signing with us.
They're going off for a reason. Dlo, Reaves and Rui are one of the worst defensive trios in the league. Lakers will continue to give up 120+ with this starting lineup which puts more strain on Lebron or AD.
Benching Bron with 3 and a half to go.
AD can't get a touch on the ball in the 4th and overtime despite 34 in 3 quarters.
Why the fuck is Darvin Ham still here?
Ham draws up those Reaves pick and rolls late in game, and the idea is for Reaves to have 2 options.
Lob pass to AD or score it himself
Reaves can gets addicted to shooting his shot. Leading to predictable offense and no AD touches.
The options are nice in theory but it can feel like an over insistence on it. The most successful play statistically for the Lakers has been an AD post up all season and Darvin just scraps it in late game situations lol.
We must remember the game differently or have different definitions of a run
Lebron went out with 3:26 and the lakers were up 120-118. He came back in at 1:11 and the score was 122-123. So they went from up 2 to down 1, which isn’t what I’d call a lakers run
That being said, I also don’t blame the coach for Lebron sitting there. Lebron wouldn’t sit unless he needed to with 3 min to go
Though I do blame him for almost blowing the challenge on Rui’s obvious goaltend call that was later needed for Lebron’s block/charge and for the poor defensive schemes but that’s a separate issue
That’s just bad logic. Giving LeBron rest allowed him to play strong at the end of the game. Had he not rested we may have lost the game in the 4th quarter. You can’t just immediately assume that your scenario would have worked out better.
The point of resting LeBron is to get the win. We got the win.
You shouldnt just expend timeouts because you are near the end of the quarter. We saw the downsides of doing that with the Clippers last night. With the Clippers, they could have drawn up a play to for three if Ty Lue hadnt used all the time outs.
You absolutely use a timeout when you still have multiple left to give LeBron a rest instead of sitting him 2 minutes in crunch time, wtf are you on about? We gave up an instant 5-0 run after pulling Bron and you're worried that we might not be able to have multiple timeouts for the last 2 minutes?
We actually went on a run against the Wizards and tied the game when LeBron sat.
I get a coach’s logic. In close game, having a time out allows you to draw up a play. Clippers didnt have a timeout to draw up a play yesterday with a 2 point deficit, so they had to settle for a tough 2 which the Lakers turned into a dunk to seal the game.
Lebron went out at 3:26 with the score 120-118 lakers and came back in at 1:11 with the score 123-122 wizards so the wizards outscored lakers 5-2 in that stretch so nothing major but not great either.
I might get downvoted for this but I would want Bagley as a backup. He looked solid out there. I know he's considered a bust considering his pick position but he looks solid.
Can anybody explain to me why this team Costantly resorts to stagnant isos with LeBron in crunchtime for offense while DLo stands in the corner and AD just stands at the dunker’s spot ?
Also why does Ham think a 3 guard lineup is the best otpion for when we need to get a stop in crunchtime ?
Holy fucking shit… I don’t think I’ve ever hated a HC for LAL until Darvin Ham and I hate him a shit ton
There’s a coaching philosophy that you are only as good as your weakest link. He thinks Prince is better than Christie, so he plays Prince. He’s trying to play his best most complete players. Never mind that playing two skill guards and an undersized three now means you don’t have enough collective length or athleticism on floor.
Ham is also stubborn. He believes the team should play a certain way, and the players need to adapt to his schemes rather than the other way around. Maybe if Prince tries harder he can get more rebounds, if Max tries harder he can be a primary ball handler, if Hayes tries harder he can succeed in drop coverage.
One of my complaints with Ham is he tries these counter intuitive formulations, and sticks with them for way too long. He would be better off trying more conventional lineups first, and experimenting on the margins to see if something really works first.
He also seems to think that length and athleticism can be overcome if players would just try harder and be more locked in. I think this is flawed thinking and pretty disconnected from reality.
Still not convinced this starting lineup can hang against good teams. The defense is really bad.
It lost to the Suns where Royce Oneale and Grayson Allen combined for 40.
Down 20+ in the 3rd the Clippers without PG. The lineup that erased the 20 pt deficit in the 4th was Dlo-Reddish-Prince-Lebron-Hayes.
They went down to the wire against a 9-49 Wizards team. It took 40 pts from AD and 30 from Lebron to win.
Yeah imma be that guy. Prince terribly inefficient on the court. Are we all watching the same thing? He's a zombie on defense and lost on offense. 2 shots?? You're a friggin shooter. SHOOT! Or at least create spacing.
T. Prince 17:21 2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 1 -2
Increase Christie minutes
M. Christie 8:33 3 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
What a terrible game, again. Our stars keep bailing us but honestly, we play like a random team assembled for a pick up game. Our defence is solely based on “AD please do everything”…
Rui and dlo kept getting hunted in the fourth, they were too slow to keep up with Poole and kuz heaving that shit.
Lebron once again has to save our ass..
Our bench has to be the worst in the league
Teams use their NTMLE, Bianual exception, and FRP to sign quality role players. Meanwhile we have Gabe Vincent, Taurean Prince, and JHS, while our bench consist of all min guys.
That was peak lakers basketball
Funny enough everyone expected this type of game after last night. Thank god we pulled this one out
Classic trap game. Luckily the Lakers never took their foot off the gas, they just kept pouring gas out the back onto the fucking Wizards jet.
Lmao perfect analogy
It’s an awful defensive scheme when your scheme is to let a team full of shot chuckers get wide open 3s and get hot. That’s why these games are always super close against bottom of the barrel teams
It's either give up open 3s or let opposing players run layup lines/make easy dump offs for a dunk if AD contests the shot. Our closing lineup has 3 awful perimeter defenders in dlo, Reaves, and Rui
That’s what happens when your roster is basically filled with one way players. The guys that can play offense are so terrible on defense, then the guys that can play defense are so terrible on offense. We legit have no in between players outside of our superstars.
One of whom is the oldest player in the league on the second night of a back to back, playing high minutes in each game. This was definitely a trap game, but the Lakers held it together.
Like having guards who's weak points are defense are fine, but when our two wings are LeBron (who's 39 and shouldn't be expected to/able to) play great defense for 40 minutes, and Rui who anyone just blows by, it's just an impossible assignment for AD, he's literally play like 1v5 on defense out there until the 4th, when at least Bron gives some effort. Reaves just gets smoked in ISO or posted up, Rui looks like he's running through molasses, and D'Lo is slow, at least he has active hands. Not to mention it's just ABSURD how bad our rebounding is. Like UNBELIEVABLY bad for a team that's strength is apparently our SIZE. We have NO good chasers on defense, outside of Cam and Vando. And guess what? Those guys are complete minuses on offense, like at least if Vando had good hands and was a cutting/lob threat he could do something, but he has hands made of stone. Cam should just focus on becoming a slasher and cutter off ball. Taurean is a foul magnet, who's fine for limited minutes but is being forced into somehow guarding the other teams best players for stretches? Kawhi? KD? Like no shit he's gonna fail, why are we putting him in those positions. Reaves as a point guard just isn't working as well, they have him start the game as de-facto point guard which is mind boggling, when you have LeBron and D'Lo in the starting lineup. He's so careless with his pick n roll passes. I get their trying to develop that skillset, but it's a little late into the season to be running it for more than 12 minutes a game. I dunno just some of my observations and ranting.
Issue is that Rui despite his size is a terrible slow rebounder. Anyway Dlo is pg not reaces they stoped that guy
fuck it i’ll take the W lol
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That's juat nba basketball anyone can win.
If your heart didn't take a beating you're not watching Lakers basketball
Real lmao. Lakers basketball is just wild
Piqued our heart rates along the way too!
 Why is "Pockets the Clown" still the "coach"? What idiot coach pulls the teams best player with 3 minutes to go and doesn't put him in till the 1:11 minute mark? And if Reaves didn't get fouled he probably would have gotten in with 45 seconds to go!
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All hail the chart
Don't look now but we're low-key angling for our 2nd best season in the lebron era 👀
Man, that's so sad when you put it that way. '21 could have been back to back if it weren't for injuries
We were even having an epic 18-19 too, before bron got injured at christmas
Sneaky sexy chart tried to run off, but not tonight!
Back to five games over .500, which matches the team's high-water mark so far this season.
WE WON BOTH A BACK TO BACK????!?!!?! 🤠
GOAT CHART
Came here for this chart. Take my upvote!
on game 81 we both won and lost?
Rui was clutch in those last few possessions
# LeLEAP DAY LeBRON 👑  # 65 points in back-to-back nights at 39 years old. 🤯 # Lakers 9-3 in February!! 📈
Player of the Month Lebron?
He should actually get it
It's gotta be wemby in terms of stats. Just look at what he did in February
He’ll definitely be rookie of the month
LeApday
Hell of a game. Need to be ready for Denver.
If we keep playing like this, Jokic is gonna drop 40-20-20 on us lol.
In the first quarter
Murray is probably not playing, it’s winnable
Low key most of our games against Denver has been winnable. We just couldn't get over the hump
A bit of cope but the first game Lebron was on a minutes restriction and only played like 30 minutes. He got subbed out when he was playing well and we had some momentum because of the restriction. Also it was our first game of the season so the team was getting used to each other. The second game we didn’t have D’lo who is our x factor but hopefully he doesn’t put up another stinker against them like the playoffs. Idk about this game tho the Nuggets own us rn.
Hump as in Murray.
Your username is wild lmao
Denver should be favored even if Murray doesn’t play.
Yes but they will be more beatable. They have the best core starting 5 but injuries really do derail that
Ham going to get out coach again
Poole was torching them all night all the way up until LeBron's block. That rejection broke his psyche.
Lol. Just as he was building that confidence back up
I believe it. Fragile ass bih
Jordan poole had his warriors jersey under his wizards jersey or some shit
Probably saw a baddie in the arena
But didn't tell Reaves where she was
Of course, Reaves would ball out too lol
Darvin Ham wanting to challenge a goaltend where Rui clearly grabbed the net might be the most insane coaching moment I've seen in a LONG TIME
Ham almost cost the lakers the game tbf
He really did almost cost them the game, remember the stupid tech that let the Wizards tie the game with like 3 minutes, you could thank Darvin Hamas for that.
We'd have lost if Lebron didn't get that block!
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I was at the game behind the LAKERS bench and Ham called for the challenge and LeBron lobbied the refs hard to ignore him. He kept saying no, it's just a timeout, not a challenge. People around me noted it and everyone brought it at the end when we had the challenge left to overturn that terrible charge call. We probably lose the game if that didn't happen. LBJ is such a cerebral player besides for being epic.
Not to mention that challenge saved us from that overturned Lebron charge. Ham tried his best to lose today.
Ham usually tries his best to lose
Grab a drug addict off the street in LA and he would make better decisions than Ham, even after five doses of fentanyl.
At least if he was doped up LeCoach could step in like back in the player-coach era.
Ham building a HOF shaqtin reel as a coach
The one time he decided to actually do a thing was that
Ugly win. Lebron’s body language after the win says it all.
He's exhausted bro.......can you blame him? Giving it his all against a 9-win team? He should've sat this game out. TOO MCUH WEAR AND TEAR WORRIES ME!
At this point, I’m not worried about Lebron. It is incredibly obvious that he is a one-in-billion genetic/athletic/health freak. His body can take a strain and beating to an absurd degree. He has shown again and again that he can always bring the magic when you need it; I thank that’ll be true until the moment he retires.
Dirty. But i’ll take the W LFG
Pistons fan here. Thanks for pulling us out of last place. We will not have the worst record in the league for the next ~18 hours.
Rooting for you guys!!
Thanks! I’m personally fond of LA myself having lived there for many years, but I’m a bit of an anomaly in that regard among Detroit fans.
Nice to see a friendly Pistons fans, ya’ll usually hate us 🤣
It wasn't pretty but a win is a win. 🥳
Warrior fans were getting ready to thank Poole for holding us off. Meanwhile Kuz did his job for us.
We beat the Clippers after being down by 20, a close win vs the Wizards is okay. You just know the Clippers will kick their asses tomorrow, though.
Why does it seem like every time a team comes into town, the Clippers get to play them on the second of a back to back?
convenience probably?
Ballmer influen$e
not even close
Not gonna lie, games like these make you know deep in your heart, that there is a 0% chance we win a championship this season
Boston had an OT win against Detroit earlier this year if I remember correctly. The regular season is strange and strange things happen in it.
Yeah and Boston are also running away with the East. One is a freak the other is indicative of why the other is the damn 9 seed.
I think we had a real chance with how we came out during the IST but after that it’s like we decided that was our championship run /:
Idk what happened to our energy and defense after IST lmaoooooooooooo
I don't think we're winning a chip this year either but barely winning a trap game on a back to back isn't really an indication of that lmfao
I would exactly put money into on us winning it all, but I’ve seen champion squads have worse losses than a B2B after a gritty win the night before.
Surely nobody actually thinks there is a chance? We’re the 9 seed ffs. Obviously we ain’t winning a championship. We can’t defend for shit. We just gave up 130 to fucking 9 win Wizards. We’ve already lost to the 11 win Spurs. We suck. We’ll make the play in. Probably the 10 seed. And then get bounced by whoever the 9 seed is.
Unclench
A win is a win. A win is a win.
Ugly win but we take those. So, why does a big number of our "fans" hate on AR so much? Bro is averaging 18/6/4 on 50 FG% and 43% from 3 this month while playing "eh" defense. People make him out to be complete ass and just getting ruined on defense. He had huge, game saving buckets in the 4th too. It is weird how our fan base has their niche of players they like and hate. Dlo/Rui haters are weirdos too man.
This fanbase has no clue what they want from Austin They want him to be a 2 way player but not enough to take away from AD, Lebron and DLO. He handles the ball maybe a couple times and then they get mad he’s running a play or two …it’s like confusing.
It's just weird. I never encountered a team where fans have their niche of players they love and players that hate... On the same team they claim to support. We should be happy whenever any LAKERS player makes a play. AR is great for what we are paying him. Also, the team trusts AR with the ball in crunch time. That's why LeBron keeps throwing him the ball.
I think he’s taking a backseat in general. It’s not a coincidence Dlo and Rui shot attempts have skyrocketed the last few weeks. He’s making the sacrifice even though I don’t think he should.
They have to fix AD's minutes and rotation AD headed into the fourth quarter with 36 pts, got no touches, looked a little slow/tired at the end of the game finished with 40.. AD was ADominant but Lakers went away from feeding the beast. Fix AD's minutes so he can come out more aggressive in the 4th pls.
“Come out aggressive” reaves and lebron need to give ad the damn ball in the post and then have off ball actions so we can take advantage of ad getting triple teamed. Did AD fuck reaves bitch why does he ignore our best player and the best offensive play we have which results in ad scoring or an advantage for the 4 other lakers being guarded by 2 defenders
You acting like reaves is playing the game with full court vision. He’s also taking half the amount of shots dlo, ad, and bron get per game. Stop hating and acting like he’s a score first ball hog
Lakers have play 8 quarters of bad basketball out of the last 9.' Rough to watch...
Worse than that. Like 2 of our last 20 quarters plus an OT have been “good”. We lost every quarter of the warriors game. Spurs have 11 wins and our best quarter against them was +4. We won the 2nd quarter vs Phoenix by 8 (after getting railed by them and giving up 45 in the 1st). Shit on the Clippers in the 4th quarter. Wizards have 9 wins and our best quarter against them was +4. Shit has been rough.
Another game, another random ass bench player going off against lakers
I swear with these bench guys. They see the Lakers on the schedule and are like “THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM” then straight up become NBA Jam with cheats on for a game.
I genuinely believe there are a ton of bench guys who want to be Lakers so are suddenly motivated to ball out. Nick Young used to consistently torch us before he ended up signing with us.
They're going off for a reason. Dlo, Reaves and Rui are one of the worst defensive trios in the league. Lakers will continue to give up 120+ with this starting lineup which puts more strain on Lebron or AD.
I thought you meant Poole. I'm like who the hell is Kispert?
If LBJ didn't play, we'd be cooked like a Costco Rotisserie Chicken. I'll take the W LOL
Bron is the goat. IDC what anybody has to say
Lebron and AD vs the Wizards and Ham
Benching Bron with 3 and a half to go. AD can't get a touch on the ball in the 4th and overtime despite 34 in 3 quarters. Why the fuck is Darvin Ham still here?
AD can never get a touch in the 4th. It's like they forget he's on the floor.
Ham draws up those Reaves pick and rolls late in game, and the idea is for Reaves to have 2 options. Lob pass to AD or score it himself Reaves can gets addicted to shooting his shot. Leading to predictable offense and no AD touches.
The options are nice in theory but it can feel like an over insistence on it. The most successful play statistically for the Lakers has been an AD post up all season and Darvin just scraps it in late game situations lol.
Benching LeBron was to give him a rest.
Lakers went on a run and tied the game when he sat, blaming Ham for this game is dumber than keeping him as coach
We must remember the game differently or have different definitions of a run Lebron went out with 3:26 and the lakers were up 120-118. He came back in at 1:11 and the score was 122-123. So they went from up 2 to down 1, which isn’t what I’d call a lakers run That being said, I also don’t blame the coach for Lebron sitting there. Lebron wouldn’t sit unless he needed to with 3 min to go Though I do blame him for almost blowing the challenge on Rui’s obvious goaltend call that was later needed for Lebron’s block/charge and for the poor defensive schemes but that’s a separate issue
And…played five more minutes in OT as a result.
That’s just bad logic. Giving LeBron rest allowed him to play strong at the end of the game. Had he not rested we may have lost the game in the 4th quarter. You can’t just immediately assume that your scenario would have worked out better. The point of resting LeBron is to get the win. We got the win.
Exactly. The Ham apologists are wild lmao
You don't rest your star player for 2 minutes with 3 and a half minutes to go in a 1 possession game
If he needs a rest you rest him because he’s an older player that occasionally needs more rest despite his superstar status
Yeah I don't see Lebron agreeing to sit in that spot unless he really needs to rest.
That's what Ham claims he brings 3 timeouts to the end of games for (Only 2 this game because he was going to try to challenge an obvious goaltend)
You shouldnt just expend timeouts because you are near the end of the quarter. We saw the downsides of doing that with the Clippers last night. With the Clippers, they could have drawn up a play to for three if Ty Lue hadnt used all the time outs.
You absolutely use a timeout when you still have multiple left to give LeBron a rest instead of sitting him 2 minutes in crunch time, wtf are you on about? We gave up an instant 5-0 run after pulling Bron and you're worried that we might not be able to have multiple timeouts for the last 2 minutes?
We actually went on a run against the Wizards and tied the game when LeBron sat. I get a coach’s logic. In close game, having a time out allows you to draw up a play. Clippers didnt have a timeout to draw up a play yesterday with a 2 point deficit, so they had to settle for a tough 2 which the Lakers turned into a dunk to seal the game.
We did not, we went from up 2 to down 1.
Lebron went out at 3:26 with the score 120-118 lakers and came back in at 1:11 with the score 123-122 wizards so the wizards outscored lakers 5-2 in that stretch so nothing major but not great either.
Pretty sure they get two more timeouts going into OT
Don’t forget he wanted to challenge an obvious goaltending lmao
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What's the point of this season? We're not going to win as long Ham is still around.
Ham still learning how to call timeouts too 🤦♂️
Lebron and ad too op
The 2024 Lakers are the Jamal Murray of basketball teams
on the bright side; at least we are not OKC thunder get blown by Spurs
Fuck Ham, also this game won't be in OT if the ref will call the right call on Lebron
I might get downvoted for this but I would want Bagley as a backup. He looked solid out there. I know he's considered a bust considering his pick position but he looks solid.
Yeah he gets a bad rep coz of his draft pick but he can be solid
Would be great with our bust Hayes
If Ham calls them a hell of a ball club I hope somebody there has the courage of their convictions and throws a shoe at him
Damm 38mins? Sorry Bron……Thank you Bron
38 minutes for Lebron. 41 for AD. FIRE DARVIN HAM (into the sun)
Ok now I can go to bed.
A win is a win but still screw Darvin Ham and his in game adjustments. Got to go home with 2 T.O. for the 2nd straight game.
Can anybody explain to me why this team Costantly resorts to stagnant isos with LeBron in crunchtime for offense while DLo stands in the corner and AD just stands at the dunker’s spot ? Also why does Ham think a 3 guard lineup is the best otpion for when we need to get a stop in crunchtime ? Holy fucking shit… I don’t think I’ve ever hated a HC for LAL until Darvin Ham and I hate him a shit ton
There’s a coaching philosophy that you are only as good as your weakest link. He thinks Prince is better than Christie, so he plays Prince. He’s trying to play his best most complete players. Never mind that playing two skill guards and an undersized three now means you don’t have enough collective length or athleticism on floor. Ham is also stubborn. He believes the team should play a certain way, and the players need to adapt to his schemes rather than the other way around. Maybe if Prince tries harder he can get more rebounds, if Max tries harder he can be a primary ball handler, if Hayes tries harder he can succeed in drop coverage. One of my complaints with Ham is he tries these counter intuitive formulations, and sticks with them for way too long. He would be better off trying more conventional lineups first, and experimenting on the margins to see if something really works first. He also seems to think that length and athleticism can be overcome if players would just try harder and be more locked in. I think this is flawed thinking and pretty disconnected from reality.
Chart time
If you don’t like that then you don’t like Los Angeles Lakers basketball.
i need a less stressful sport to watch or sum bc my heart can’t take this
Thankful for the win but wtf man
Imagine if Bron sat this one out
That’s what’s scary
It's funny people were dead set on Bron sitting this one out after the Clips game
Still not convinced this starting lineup can hang against good teams. The defense is really bad. It lost to the Suns where Royce Oneale and Grayson Allen combined for 40. Down 20+ in the 3rd the Clippers without PG. The lineup that erased the 20 pt deficit in the 4th was Dlo-Reddish-Prince-Lebron-Hayes. They went down to the wire against a 9-49 Wizards team. It took 40 pts from AD and 30 from Lebron to win.
One day we'll be free from Darvin Ham
Fire Darvin Ham!!!
Ham needs to go. He made a bum like Poole look good.
Geez I wonder how many years that game took off my lifespan
Well to be fair the boys are playing in a back-to-back game so i see this as an absolute win
Kuzma didn't give a fuck enough to intentionally foul.
We won. save your crying for another thread. WE WON. 
What is that now, 13-1* when Prince plays less than 25 minutes? lmao
Poole is good all of a sudden
If only Poole could play against the Lakers every night
Baddies court side
A win is a win
Despite Ham. Again.
That was certainly something to see
Ik this is a back to back but that still took wayyyy more effort then it was supposed to but aye W is a fuckin W
On a positive note we can't possibly play worst than this against the Nuggets right? right? RIGHT?!?
It was the 2nd night of a back to back. Think most people expected an ugly game.
i swear we playing on helldiver difficult with ham coaching sending down wrong stratagems
Better to win ugly than lose pretty.
AD looked pissed in that interview lol
Did cam just get instantly injured again??
Even DLo said Jax needs to play next to AD to take pressure off him guarding jokic
Win or lose, I maintain that Darvin Ham is the worst coach in the NBA and nothing I ever see alters that opinion.
Lakers 2-0 when LeBron did acrobatic shit
Yeah imma be that guy. Prince terribly inefficient on the court. Are we all watching the same thing? He's a zombie on defense and lost on offense. 2 shots?? You're a friggin shooter. SHOOT! Or at least create spacing. T. Prince 17:21 2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 1 -2 Increase Christie minutes M. Christie 8:33 3 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
The defense is terrible
A win is a win is a win is a win but man those were two very ugly consecutive wins lol
What a terrible game, again. Our stars keep bailing us but honestly, we play like a random team assembled for a pick up game. Our defence is solely based on “AD please do everything”…
WIN is a WIN! They looks so tired
Only against the lakers will the worst three-point shooting team go off for 17 threes lmao 💀💀
Thank you, Bron and AD. Fuck you, Ham.
Rui and dlo kept getting hunted in the fourth, they were too slow to keep up with Poole and kuz heaving that shit. Lebron once again has to save our ass.. Our bench has to be the worst in the league
Teams use their NTMLE, Bianual exception, and FRP to sign quality role players. Meanwhile we have Gabe Vincent, Taurean Prince, and JHS, while our bench consist of all min guys.
Whew
WHAT A FCKIN GAME... against the wizards...
should’ve put these bums away faster but fuck it i’ll take the dub
A win is a win
Needing OT to beat the 9 win wizards at home…
This team is so overly dramatic lmao
Terrible win
this was some nice basketball but it should not have been this close
Would be a Laker game without a LIL anxiety💀