Official Whine, Moan, Complain Thread 19/20-CLOSED "WE CHAMPS!"

I actually think it's more a product of having Lebron on the team than the young guys being that arrogant. They still need to get out of that mindset, but I think came across as more entitled than it is.

These games are frustrating, but we had PLENTY of nights like this during the championship years. It's been so long since we've been good and expected to win games that I think we're forgetting how often these sort of nights happened in past seasons.

 

We're the freakin Lakers, who are we?

 

Ostensibly our #1 and 2 players with 10 TOs between them. Mustard passes from LeBron contributing to 4 and BI with freaking 6. 3 of them stooopidly over and over each game dribbling into the middle of the key and getting stripped.

 

"I am not coming off the bench" mind set, entitlement, being "the chosen" one -- all the while not backing it up.

I am not liking the direction. It points to BKN and such...

 

in regards to Ingram, I'm not surprised he would have that mindset, his game seems to suggest he's thinking that way just about every opponent thus far

 

I kind of wonder if the coaching staff and with Bron's approval is asking him to attempt to develop his one on one game..... for down the road and more options in that regard. Almost seems that way. Probably not. And if not, his a** should have been sat after the 3rd strip.

 

Thanks for posting the splits abeer!

@TIME, Apart from the lowsy splits, he is developing the Lonzo Air-Ball nickname which Is also an indicator that he is a bad shooter...

 

it's the circumstance: nobody guards him, which hurts other people's opportunities to score as well.

bad shooters, when left completely open, can knock down 36% from three. if he were a good shooter, you'd see more attempts to keep him from shooting. people are even starting to sag off on his drives, which is preposterous in most scenarios but makes sense when you're as timid at the rim as he is.

 

Too much to complain about...and this has happened a few times already with crappy teams. Fine, we blew out the Kings on Saturday, a team that we SHOULD beat...so I was happy about that. But to absolutely s*** the bed against the Hawks and get SUPER lucky after Ingram got beat by Trae and Chandler blocked the floater...I couldn't be more irate.

We build up leads only to see it evaporate in a matter of seconds. Our guys need to OVERPLAY everybodyf rom here on out when we have McGee and Chandler as our last line of defense...there shouldn't be any reason that we're allowing so many wide open 3s (granted some of the threes that Trae hit were insane).

Luke needs to start benching Ingram when he has games like this...I thought Zo should have finished the game with Hart LeBron Kuz and Chandler. Defensively, Ingram nearly cost us the game, and he was also having another terrible game. Don't keep rewarding him with PT if he's playing badly...we have guys that were playing better and deserved to close the game.

Lastly, the fricking half court offense...still non-existent! When will Luke learn?

 

the FT complaints has been going on all of Luke tenure, s*** aint never getting fixed

 

They are who they are , between average and bad in games FT shooters , don't expect significant improvements in this area

 

Yeah unless he's going to hit 40% from 3 on 5 attempts a game , the fact he's not guarded out there hurts our offense a great deal whether his shot is going in or not. Same thing at the rim or in the midrange .
He's just not good and constant enough of a scorer to keep the defense honest and to prevent it playing him for the pass

Last 5 games by the way : 32/26/75

 

and Byron's tenure. I'm not sure what the answer is.

 

hypnosis?