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I'm a Reaves fan and one many reason I still love Lakers haha, but If you can get Young for him In a package deal I'm all for it

Ad/Young not bad going forward

11th straight lost to Denver… it’s not Ham fault. Denver are too good at the moment

petszata wrote:11th straight lost to Denver… it’s not Ham fault. Denver are too good at the moment

They're only too good for us, cause our team isn't good. Heck even KD and booker got two games from them last year. These aren't Jordan's bulls. They are a good team, we just suck.

Fire Pelinka. No way he gambled this whole season on Dlo. It always comes back to this reasoning. Why keep DLo? They have these idiots on YouTube, yo, you gotta keep Dlo, because he's gotta good price? Hey, Dlo looks special this season. Dlo, what a truly special player. And then this major slap in the face happens.

Let's get kd and steph and destroy those mofo mcnugggetz next year.

It's just a pitty that we had to play Denver again. I would have loved to see this team against another opponent.

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Hans1984 wrote:It's just a pitty that we had to play Denver again. I would have loved to see this team against another opponent.

Lakers have to beat 5 men with only 2 Players lol
Impossible

If we’re getting bounced, might as well be in the first round.

Ham seems to be a good dude and a really good personal relations manager type, but he’s not a sophisticated strategizing chess player a la Malone, Kerr, PJ…

Replace Ham. No more D Lo. AD stays. All else negotiable.

Russell has to eventually be gone but.. you can't just let him walk. You have to get something for him or keep him. And cap wise, it would be really, really difficult to sign and trade him away.

We are not at the point where we can let players walk for nothing. Especially because there's 82 games to play and Russell is an innings eater. But man, he cannot be apart of a playoff rotation unfortunately.

DLO shouldn't get any minutes next game

Give all the minutes too Max show case him.

Last year was Free Lonnie ... This Year

FREE MAX FREE MAX

The fronting for Russell all year that he was a plus overall has crashed I see. The only game I've watched since before Christmas and I'm still left wondering how this guy got so freaking lucky to get a max contract only because Durant wanted out of GS. We are the only team that's been stupid enough to re-sign him... and that's after we drafted him. We got lucky the first time trading him to get Kuzma in return. I don't see anyone making that mistake again.

Landsberger wrote:The fronting for Russell all year that he was a plus overall has crashed I see. The only game I've watched since before Christmas and I'm still left wondering how this guy got so freaking lucky to get a max contract only because Durant wanted out of GS. We are the only team that's been stupid enough to re-sign him... and that's after we drafted him. We got lucky the first time trading him to get Kuzma in return. I don't see anyone making that mistake again.

Dlo can help a team to go over the "get into playoff" hump or a team desparately need a 3 pt shooter like the magic. Alleviate his pressure by letting him be your 6th man, he can still be good. His problem is always not being able to play high intensity ball. He can thrive in non contending teams. If he can put up a show for the next game and, if luckily we win the next, the 5th game, his value will tremendously go up.

GAME 4, 8:30 EDT on ABC

Teams down by three games have won zero times of 150. Time to make history!

It would be fun if we could take at least one game this time around, but I expect the broom tonight as much as anyone else.

yay

Annoucers talk too much about the offsense

Great team effort and win in g 4

Look at Gordon numbers.

Shutting down Gordon and Porter Jr. is the key.

Gordon under 12 points and Porter under 20 and you got a shot if you don;t let the big 2 go off.


Lakers role players need to shoot well in game 5 and maybe put Hayes on Gordon more. Shadow him.

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A stronger bench and a more aggressive AD and we're up 3-1 right now.

We'd be up 8-0 these last two playoff series with Phil Jackson.

Beethoven wrote:We'd be up 8-0 these last two playoff series with Phil Jackson.

Hardly. You do remember our last series with Phil was getting swept against Dallas, right? And his last series the first time was us getting beat in 5 against an improbable Detroit. So the guy is not infallible. But even if true....so what? If we had Kobe, we'd be up 8-0. What difference does that make?

For what it's worth....glad to see the Lakers put up a fight, and not get swept. But in all honesty, I hope they lose the next one, and we can go into the offseason with complete certainty that this team is not a team to be "built around" or "tweaked". The last thing I want is some sorta glimmer of light that Jeanie can hold onto to excuse being lazy, and bringing it on back.

It's not just Denver. It's the 37 other games we lost (whatever it was). We're a middle of the road team. No coach, no tweak, no couple of signings is gonna change that. If they can truly go get someone like Donovan Mitchell, or Dame (how exactly we're supposed to pull this off is beyond me, but "if").....then I'm interested in at least hearing it. Otherwise....enough already.