Im expecting us to win easily on friday. Ain't no way you lose twice to these scrubs.
Would like Rui back on Friday TBH. DFS is small for a PF and also Rui can defend centers
It's home court we've got Hayes back. Rui or no Rui i expect us to beat them.
They suck. Thats a putrid team that cant defend anything.
No because they have a big front court. We don't have anyone to 1v1 Giannis like GSW do and they still have Brook. Not only were GSW playing Draymond but they had a 7 foot center playing beside him also
You seem to have some very unrealistic expectations
Says the dude who who thinks Reaves is a legit 2nd option when we've seen absolutely nothing that would indicate it in the post season.
Yes me thinking Lakers will win against a crappy bucks team even if they're front court is better is unrealistic.
It wasn't even Gianns that beat us. it was their role players shooting godly from three.
Against the warriors they were bricking wide open shots. Against us you had KPJ making stepback contested threes.
If Murray can be a legit second option on a Championship team, so can Reaves, it's not a hard concept.
The Bucks are crappy only if you have the players to defend big in the front court. We don't have those players back, so they're not crappy to us.
It was their role players because we had to send help against Giannis because we have nobody to defend him like GSW does.
Against the Warriors you had Draymond taking Giannis solo. Then you had 7 foot Quinten Post hanging around to put on Brook
And im gonna reitirate that if AR can have that same anomaly post season murray had averaging 26/5/7 on damn near 50/40 splits then sure he can be the 2nd option.
We might not be able to stop Giannis/Brook but we can easily outscore them.
It's homecourt crypto our role players have been on fire from three AR and Luka will create plenty of looks.
It's a W. Hayes being back is a huge difference from playing koloko and Len.
Luka Alone will create wide open looks for everyone.
It's not unrealistic at all to think we'll win.
Reaves being a legit 2nd option on the other hand..........
Im expecting us to win easily on friday. Ain't no way you lose twice to these scrubs.
Would like Rui back on Friday TBH. DFS is small for a PF and also Rui can defend centers
It's home court we've got Hayes back. Rui or no Rui i expect us to beat them.
They suck. Thats a putrid team that cant defend anything.
No because they have a big front court. We don't have anyone to 1v1 Giannis like GSW do and they still have Brook. Not only were GSW playing Draymond but they had a 7 foot center playing beside him also
You seem to have some very unrealistic expectations
Says the dude who who thinks Reaves is a legit 2nd option when we've seen absolutely nothing that would indicate it in the post season.
Yes me thinking Lakers will win against a crappy bucks team even if they're front court is better is unrealistic.
It wasn't even Gianns that beat us. it was their role players shooting godly from three.
Against the warriors they were bricking wide open shots. Against us you had KPJ making stepback contested threes.
If Murray can be a legit second option on a Championship team, so can Reaves, it's not a hard concept.
The Bucks are crappy only if you have the players to defend big in the front court. We don't have those players back, so they're not crappy to us.
It was their role players because we had to send help against Giannis because we have nobody to defend him like GSW does.
Against the Warriors you had Draymond taking Giannis solo. Then you had 7 foot Quinten Post hanging around to put on Brook
And im gonna reitirate that if AR can have that same anomaly post season murray had averaging 26/5/7 on damn near 50/40 splits then sure he can be the 2nd option.
We might not be able to stop Giannis/Brook but we can easily outscore them.
It's homecourt crypto our role players have been on fire from three AR and Luka will create plenty of looks.
We will win this game.
50/40 splits aren't that far away. As another poster said, when he plays with Luka he's 38% from 3. Why? Because Luka gets triple teamed opening up wide open shots for everyone else. Including Lebron and Luka. If you look at Murray's stats his shooting percentage took a big jump one year and it's likely Jokic's gravity increasing Murray's shooting percentage. So his percentage might bump up a few points, I'm actually expecting it to TBH. Lebron has gravity, but the amount of times people blitz Luka is absurd!
We are a 3 point shooting, defense oriented team. With our full team we are one of the top defenses in the league, and we put teams away by shooting a ton of 3's. The problem is we're not deep at positions. If we cannot defend that's one problem, another is we're missing our best 3 point shooter (Rui) and another great recent 3 point shooter in Lebron. So we're missing quite a bit of front court defense and a fair bit of our outside shooting. If DFS can rediscover his earlier shooting form it wouldn't be a problem but he seems to have regressed back to the norm recently. We need to fill out our squad in the off season, we have holes which injuries have exposed. But if the Bucks outshoot us from 3 again I'm going to be pissed.
But our roleplayers are streaky from 3, Luka's conditioning and the tough schedule means his shot is shaky (like last game), and we play the Bucks on the 2nd night of a back to back. It will be 4th game in FIVE DAYS
Im expecting us to win easily on friday. Ain't no way you lose twice to these scrubs.
Would like Rui back on Friday TBH. DFS is small for a PF and also Rui can defend centers
It's home court we've got Hayes back. Rui or no Rui i expect us to beat them.
They suck. Thats a putrid team that cant defend anything.
No because they have a big front court. We don't have anyone to 1v1 Giannis like GSW do and they still have Brook. Not only were GSW playing Draymond but they had a 7 foot center playing beside him also
You seem to have some very unrealistic expectations
Says the dude who who thinks Reaves is a legit 2nd option when we've seen absolutely nothing that would indicate it in the post season.
Yes me thinking Lakers will win against a crappy bucks team even if they're front court is better is unrealistic.
It wasn't even Gianns that beat us. it was their role players shooting godly from three.
Against the warriors they were bricking wide open shots. Against us you had KPJ making stepback contested threes.
If Murray can be a legit second option on a Championship team, so can Reaves, it's not a hard concept.
The Bucks are crappy only if you have the players to defend big in the front court. We don't have those players back, so they're not crappy to us.
It was their role players because we had to send help against Giannis because we have nobody to defend him like GSW does.
Against the Warriors you had Draymond taking Giannis solo. Then you had 7 foot Quinten Post hanging around to put on Brook
And im gonna reitirate that if AR can have that same anomaly post season murray had averaging 26/5/7 on damn near 50/40 splits then sure he can be the 2nd option.
We might not be able to stop Giannis/Brook but we can easily outscore them.
It's homecourt crypto our role players have been on fire from three AR and Luka will create plenty of looks.
We will win this game.
50/40 splits aren't that far away. As another poster said, when he plays with Luka he's 38% from 3. Why? Because Luka gets triple teamed opening up wide open shots for everyone else. Including Lebron and Luka. If you look at Murray's stats his shooting percentage took a big jump one year and it's likely Jokic's gravity increasing Murray's shooting percentage. So his percentage might bump up a few points, I'm actually expecting it to TBH. Lebron has gravity, but the amount of times people blitz Luka is absurd!
We are a 3 point shooting, defense oriented team. With our full team we are one of the top defenses in the league, and we put teams away by shooting a ton of 3's. The problem is we're not deep at positions. If we cannot defend that's one problem, another is we're missing our best 3 point shooter (Rui) and another great recent 3 point shooter in Lebron. So we're missing quite a bit of front court defense and a fair bit of our outside shooting. If DFS can rediscover his earlier shooting form it wouldn't be a problem but he seems to have regressed back to the norm recently. We need to fill out our squad in the off season, we have holes which injuries have exposed. But if the Bucks outshoot us from 3 again I'm going to be pissed.
But our roleplayers are streaky from 3, Luka's conditioning and the tough schedule means his shot is shaky (like last game), and we play the Bucks on the 2nd night of a back to back. It will be 4th game in FIVE DAYS
Im expecting their role players to not show up like they did against GSW.
Confidence is a big thing. If we win against Denver tomorrow i think we'll easily win against Bucks.
Or maybe we'll rest everyone because we won 3 in a row and we can afford to rest Luka and have AR do his thing.
Im expecting us to win easily on friday. Ain't no way you lose twice to these scrubs.
Would like Rui back on Friday TBH. DFS is small for a PF and also Rui can defend centers
It's home court we've got Hayes back. Rui or no Rui i expect us to beat them.
They suck. Thats a putrid team that cant defend anything.
No because they have a big front court. We don't have anyone to 1v1 Giannis like GSW do and they still have Brook. Not only were GSW playing Draymond but they had a 7 foot center playing beside him also
You seem to have some very unrealistic expectations
Says the dude who who thinks Reaves is a legit 2nd option when we've seen absolutely nothing that would indicate it in the post season.
Yes me thinking Lakers will win against a crappy bucks team even if they're front court is better is unrealistic.
It wasn't even Gianns that beat us. it was their role players shooting godly from three.
Against the warriors they were bricking wide open shots. Against us you had KPJ making stepback contested threes.
If Murray can be a legit second option on a Championship team, so can Reaves, it's not a hard concept.
The Bucks are crappy only if you have the players to defend big in the front court. We don't have those players back, so they're not crappy to us.
It was their role players because we had to send help against Giannis because we have nobody to defend him like GSW does.
Against the Warriors you had Draymond taking Giannis solo. Then you had 7 foot Quinten Post hanging around to put on Brook
And im gonna reitirate that if AR can have that same anomaly post season murray had averaging 26/5/7 on damn near 50/40 splits then sure he can be the 2nd option.
We might not be able to stop Giannis/Brook but we can easily outscore them.
It's homecourt crypto our role players have been on fire from three AR and Luka will create plenty of looks.
We will win this game.
50/40 splits aren't that far away. As another poster said, when he plays with Luka he's 38% from 3. Why? Because Luka gets triple teamed opening up wide open shots for everyone else. Including Lebron and Luka. If you look at Murray's stats his shooting percentage took a big jump one year and it's likely Jokic's gravity increasing Murray's shooting percentage. So his percentage might bump up a few points, I'm actually expecting it to TBH. Lebron has gravity, but the amount of times people blitz Luka is absurd!
We are a 3 point shooting, defense oriented team. With our full team we are one of the top defenses in the league, and we put teams away by shooting a ton of 3's. The problem is we're not deep at positions. If we cannot defend that's one problem, another is we're missing our best 3 point shooter (Rui) and another great recent 3 point shooter in Lebron. So we're missing quite a bit of front court defense and a fair bit of our outside shooting. If DFS can rediscover his earlier shooting form it wouldn't be a problem but he seems to have regressed back to the norm recently. We need to fill out our squad in the off season, we have holes which injuries have exposed. But if the Bucks outshoot us from 3 again I'm going to be pissed.
But our roleplayers are streaky from 3, Luka's conditioning and the tough schedule means his shot is shaky (like last game), and we play the Bucks on the 2nd night of a back to back. It will be 4th game in FIVE DAYS
Im expecting their role players to not show up like they did against GSW.
Confidence is a big thing. If we win against Denver tomorrow i think we'll easily win against Bucks.
Or maybe we'll rest everyone because we won 3 in a row and we can afford to rest Luka and have AR do his thing.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we rested TBH
We've been on a hellish schedule, Luka's just coming back from his worst injury of his career. AR is just coming back. Hayes has just returned. DFS kinda looks exhausted
Nuggets is a huge game. If we beat the Nuggets we overtake them, then we rest up against the Bucks, then we beat them again later on. Yeeeees, I'll be ecstatic if we can come away with this
EDIT: Oh we don't quite overtake them. I think if we win the two against them, even if we rest against the Bucks, we eventually do
Im expecting us to win easily on friday. Ain't no way you lose twice to these scrubs.
Would like Rui back on Friday TBH. DFS is small for a PF and also Rui can defend centers
It's home court we've got Hayes back. Rui or no Rui i expect us to beat them.
They suck. Thats a putrid team that cant defend anything.
No because they have a big front court. We don't have anyone to 1v1 Giannis like GSW do and they still have Brook. Not only were GSW playing Draymond but they had a 7 foot center playing beside him also
You seem to have some very unrealistic expectations
Says the dude who who thinks Reaves is a legit 2nd option when we've seen absolutely nothing that would indicate it in the post season.
Yes me thinking Lakers will win against a crappy bucks team even if they're front court is better is unrealistic.
It wasn't even Gianns that beat us. it was their role players shooting godly from three.
Against the warriors they were bricking wide open shots. Against us you had KPJ making stepback contested threes.
If Murray can be a legit second option on a Championship team, so can Reaves, it's not a hard concept.
The Bucks are crappy only if you have the players to defend big in the front court. We don't have those players back, so they're not crappy to us.
It was their role players because we had to send help against Giannis because we have nobody to defend him like GSW does.
Against the Warriors you had Draymond taking Giannis solo. Then you had 7 foot Quinten Post hanging around to put on Brook
And im gonna reitirate that if AR can have that same anomaly post season murray had averaging 26/5/7 on damn near 50/40 splits then sure he can be the 2nd option.
We might not be able to stop Giannis/Brook but we can easily outscore them.
It's homecourt crypto our role players have been on fire from three AR and Luka will create plenty of looks.
We will win this game.
50/40 splits aren't that far away. As another poster said, when he plays with Luka he's 38% from 3. Why? Because Luka gets triple teamed opening up wide open shots for everyone else. Including Lebron and Luka. If you look at Murray's stats his shooting percentage took a big jump one year and it's likely Jokic's gravity increasing Murray's shooting percentage. So his percentage might bump up a few points, I'm actually expecting it to TBH. Lebron has gravity, but the amount of times people blitz Luka is absurd!
We are a 3 point shooting, defense oriented team. With our full team we are one of the top defenses in the league, and we put teams away by shooting a ton of 3's. The problem is we're not deep at positions. If we cannot defend that's one problem, another is we're missing our best 3 point shooter (Rui) and another great recent 3 point shooter in Lebron. So we're missing quite a bit of front court defense and a fair bit of our outside shooting. If DFS can rediscover his earlier shooting form it wouldn't be a problem but he seems to have regressed back to the norm recently. We need to fill out our squad in the off season, we have holes which injuries have exposed. But if the Bucks outshoot us from 3 again I'm going to be pissed.
But our roleplayers are streaky from 3, Luka's conditioning and the tough schedule means his shot is shaky (like last game), and we play the Bucks on the 2nd night of a back to back. It will be 4th game in FIVE DAYS
Im expecting their role players to not show up like they did against GSW.
Confidence is a big thing. If we win against Denver tomorrow i think we'll easily win against Bucks.
Or maybe we'll rest everyone because we won 3 in a row and we can afford to rest Luka and have AR do his thing.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we rested TBH
We've been on a hellish schedule, Luka's just coming back from his worst injury of his career. AR is just coming back. Hayes has just returned. DFS kinda looks exhausted
Nuggets is a huge game. If we beat the Nuggets we overtake them, then we rest up against the Bucks, then we beat them again later on. Yeeeees, I'll be ecstatic if we can come away with this
EDIT: Oh we don't quite overtake them. I think if we win the two against them, even if we rest against the Bucks, we eventually do
Yeah i agree with that. If we win against the Denver we'll probably rest. Hell if we lose we'll probably rest. At least Luka will.
Also Luka is due a huge scoring game on efficiency. What better tean than the nuggets.
Edit: AR is such a polarizing player. A podcast popped up on youtube allegedly they are laker fans but all they've done is crap on reaves comparing him to Podziemski and saying the hype is because he's white.
I dont know how someone who averages 20/5/6 can be compared to a damn Podzemski.
Edit: NVM dude just said he's a Lebron stan so he's just a crazed fanatic. Crazy thing is lebron LOVES Reaves
I wonder what our impact numbers are with Reaves on the floor compared to playing without Reaves. Our offense probably suffers greatly.
Nets peaked with a 40-42 record and a first round playoff loss with DLO. After trading him, they won 48 games and a playoff series.
The Warriors were 8-25 with DLO and traded him for a player that ended up contributing to a championship.
The Timberwolves were 85-88 with DLO and have since been 111-69 since trading him
The Lakers were 16-13 with DLO this season and are 26-12 without him.
Seems like every team got better in the long run after trading him. I'm also not sure why championships seem to be your barometer for success when DLO has never won a championship (nor will he ever).
You only forgot one part about the Next..very important part..THEY MADE IT THEREZZZ WIT HIM...awwww. You really are very FORGETFUL...
The Warriors also got Steph back from injury. And what did he return back to? THREE ALLSTARS..pfft LOL!!! Really? What was you expecting? Them not to get a chip? pfft
Whooops you did it again...The Timberwolfs MADE IT TO THE PLAYOFFS WITH HIM... Also you do know we Lakers fans over here right? YOU DONT WIN A CHIP?..REG SEASON WINS MEANS NOTHIINGGGGG... Also ONCE AGAN...Mini so tired of going nowhere they let kat go to change things up...and its not doing any better..pffft
Umm have the Lakers won a chip yet from this? Have you went to the WCF yet?....if I said..ummm "Nooooo?" would I be correct? lol
Well what i see is you go to wins when it suites you and chips when it suits you..
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All i see though is ya havent got overrrrzz ya X
Okay cool the Nets made the playoffs with him. They went further without DLO, like every other team that discarded him.
The Timberwolves made it to the playoffs with him and summarily lost in the first round. They reached the WCF without him. Like I said, 85-88 record with him and 111-69 record without him lmao. You literally can't refute that.
We got swept in the Conference finals in large part because of DLO. Whatever happens in the playoffs this year, I know one thing for certain: we would have done MUCH worse if we didn't trade DLO
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LakerSD wrote:
Worthless ass bucks.
Probably shoot lights out against us this week. Freak won't struggle against our skinny centers. Will need Luka Magic to win. _________________ "The game is MORE than just one player. Without Luka, DFS would have been more than enough to replace him based on what we've seen," LakersFever714, the greatest casual of all time.
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I look at the Eastern standings to gauge what type of effort we might get, and I'm feeling pretty good that Orlando is at the 8th spot. They must be motivated, they're at home. Rockets don't have Amen... but of course they fail. Even Indiana, who is 4th seed, about to lose to Dallas. LOL! The East is a joke. _________________ "The game is MORE than just one player. Without Luka, DFS would have been more than enough to replace him based on what we've seen," LakersFever714, the greatest casual of all time.
Yikes, Max turnover lead to Pacers game winner. Can't really trust him during inbounds, similar to when he inbounded to an OKC game sealing win earlier in season.
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Cade Cunningham with a bank in three game winner over Adebayo. He’s like Luka-lite. I can’t believe the Mavs couldn’t at least get him. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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I look at the Eastern standings to gauge what type of effort we might get, and I'm feeling pretty good that Orlando is at the 8th spot. They must be motivated, they're at home. Rockets don't have Amen... but of course they fail. Even Indiana, who is 4th seed, about to lose to Dallas. LOL! The East is a joke.
I agree they are a joke. That being said I expect the Heat to win on Friday
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LoPro4u2c wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
Cade Cunningham with a bank in three game winner over Adebayo. He’s like Luka-lite. U can’t believe the Mavs couldn’t at least get him.
Wow, the Pistons are good. When did this happen?
When Cade made the transition from relatively low performing #1 overall pick to mid-tier all star. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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