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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 6:22 am    Post subject: *** Los Angeles Lakers vs Washington Wizards (01/30/25) Gm#48 ***

Los Angeles Lakers vs Washington Wizards
Capital One Arena • Washington, DC • Thurs, Jan. 30, 2025 • 7:00pm PT



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 6:24 am    Post subject:

"No rest for the weary"

After that letdown in Philly, this becomes a MUST WIN!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:11 am    Post subject:

Dont put that clown in unless we're up by 40 with 2 minutes left in the game.


Actually come into a game locked in.

JJ needs to light a fire under these players man im tired of us losing against C-squad teams.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:11 am    Post subject:

Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:19 am    Post subject:

Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:24 am    Post subject:

TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:26 am    Post subject:

Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions


Without AD we are mid at best. Maybe if our coach could motvate the team to come out the game locked in we'd be better.
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TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions


Without AD we are mid at best. Maybe if our coach could motvate the team to come out the game locked in we'd be better.

That’s brons job too. On court leader.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:38 am    Post subject:

Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions


Without AD we are mid at best. Maybe if our coach could motvate the team to come out the game locked in we'd be better.

That’s brons job too. On court leader.


So fire JJ then and make Lebron a playing coach

like wtf is a coach there for
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:39 am    Post subject:

TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions


Without AD we are mid at best. Maybe if our coach could motvate the team to come out the game locked in we'd be better.

That’s brons job too. On court leader.


So fire JJ then and make Lebron a playing coach

like wtf is a coach there for

So we can’t expect our leaders to lead?
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Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions


Without AD we are mid at best. Maybe if our coach could motvate the team to come out the game locked in we'd be better.

That’s brons job too. On court leader.


So fire JJ then and make Lebron a playing coach

like wtf is a coach there for

So we can’t expect our leaders to lead?


Sure we can. Dont know if you can blame it on Lebron this team coming flat all the time.
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TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
TMG wrote:
Halflife wrote:
Love these pallet cleansers. The schedulers did us a solid before all star break. Wiz, jazz, hornets and pelicans are terrible teams and should be demoted to gleague. They are trying to lose and it’s embarrassing.


After this wiz game we've got

Knicks
Clippers
warriors
pacers

We'd be lucky if we go 1-3. Especially without AD.

Lebron needed to rest against Philly and Washington. This team is good enough to win without him against teams like that.


Of course under JJ this team has looked woeful way too many times so i dont trust him as a coach neither.
gsw, and pacers are mid at best. We owe clippers and nyk don’t show up every night. IMHO our nightmare begins after all star. Until then other teams are going through motions


Without AD we are mid at best. Maybe if our coach could motvate the team to come out the game locked in we'd be better.

That’s brons job too. On court leader.


So fire JJ then and make Lebron a playing coach

like wtf is a coach there for

So we can’t expect our leaders to lead?


Sure we can. Dont know if you can blame it on Lebron this team coming flat all the time.

It’s not all on him. AD too but bron hired JJ. He needs to have his back or it turns into another Russ experiment. Jj had zero experience. I have to believe bron told him he will help.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:41 am    Post subject:

Hayes as a starter
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:21 am    Post subject:

Without Davis, we will struggle to win games no matter the opponent
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:47 am    Post subject:

I always root for the Lakers to win, but this combination of losses with the wins are great for where the team is now. There have been too many fans…seems like the FO had somewhat agreed with them…that wanted to either do nothing, or worse blow it up. They had mistakenly convinced themselves that accepting losing was better than trying to win because they had the opinion that there was no chance. I saw that as a loser’s mentality…”let’s not try to win because we can’t”…but who knows right? Maybe their opinion was the true one and the rest of us…that wanted an upgrade because we thought they could win…were too optimistically delusional.

Well,
- The Lakers climbed out of below the play-in in the standings (13th) after trading away Westbrook and went to the WCF
- The next season, despite early struggles with getting the rotations right, the Lakers produced during the final 30 games as one of the best teams in the league.
- Finally, had the Lakers beaten Philly last night they’d be 4th in the West right now.

All this done with not 1 but 2 rookie head coaches and no roster moves for two interations (trade deadline last season, free agency this off season), plus instead of upgrading the roster it could be argued that the GM has actually downgraded it.

The circumstances above appear to confirm that those that thought the Lakers were good enough to compete for a ship if upgrades were made were right, and that it was wrong of those who concede losing to prefer no action or blowing it up because they didn’t think the Lakers had a chance.

I did say “appear” because we’re all speculating, no one knows for sure and either could turn out right or wrong. But logically, and reasonably, it now seems assuredly that the Lakers could legitimately compete for a ship with the right acquisition. The losses show that they’re not quite there yet. So the winning and losing are good right now because the winning eliminates the excuse used for not trying, but the losing shows an upgrade is necessary. Those against trying no longer have enough ammunition to justify no action…if they persist with that stance it appears more certainly than ever that it’s just a loser’s mentality where winning isn’t that important and losing is an acceptable option…that includes both Rob and fans.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:26 pm    Post subject:

Feels like we just played them.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:37 pm    Post subject:

No AD for a week at least. That's means every game that was going to be relatively easy will now be a nail biter or a potential blowout for the other team.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:20 pm    Post subject:

LeBron, DFS and Gabe all questionable for tomorrow’s game in Washington:

https://x.com/dstarkand/status/1884712249454969025?s=46&t=6-sxM4NpvzeWdNMn3aVCqg


Rui - Probable

DFS LBJ GV - Questionable

AD & Out folks - OUT
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:28 pm    Post subject:

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No AD for a week at least. That's means every game that was going to be relatively easy will now be a nail biter or a potential blowout for the other team.
a week is much better than what orlando went through- 6weeks iirc.
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TDRock wrote:
LeBron, DFS and Gabe all questionable for tomorrow’s game in Washington:

https://x.com/dstarkand/status/1884712249454969025?s=46&t=6-sxM4NpvzeWdNMn3aVCqg


Rui - Probable

DFS LBJ GV - Questionable

AD & Out folks - OUT


If LBJ played the back to back vs Philly (when he should have rested) and decides to rest vs Washington now that we have no AD....
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:33 pm    Post subject:

Trap game, might even lose. not gonna lie.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:53 pm    Post subject:

Last loss was on me. I hadn't watched the previous three games and we won.

I wont be able to watch this game so im 100% guaranteeing a win here.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:11 pm    Post subject:

The Wizards are the worst team in the league 6-39. If we don't beat them all is lost
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:15 pm    Post subject:

F* it, rest LBJ save him for the tougher games.
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Halflife wrote:
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No AD for a week at least. That's means every game that was going to be relatively easy will now be a nail biter or a potential blowout for the other team.
a week is much better than what orlando went through- 6weeks iirc.


Let’s be realistic…based on past indications from the Lakers med staff…it will be at least a month, maybe longer. Don’t expect AD back until after the All Star break at the earliest.
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