Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

Lol. Yes I was happy with the win.

 

…. that’s better!

 

We have an opportunity to peg Memphis down one game. So we would be 4 games back from them with 41 games to play. It’s possible to catch them

 

They just whupped the Clippers good today with both Morant and Paula out respectively. So will be 2nd night of back to back and suddenly we’re all healthy except for the dude still with the bruise. And we are playing well both sides of the ball. I like our chances.

 

Adams is out too. They’re obviously still a good team to win without both him and Ja, but he likely would have abused us on the glass tomorrow so that helps us our cause in tomorrows game.

 

the atlanta game was encouraging to me. first half d was kinda soft and we relied on monk's offense to stay ahead, but we played better in the second on both ends. moreover, it's a game where i thought our secondary players (monk, tht, melo, johnson, bradley, reaves) really won it for us instead of relying on lebron (who i thought actually had a pretty poor game by his lofty standards).

very interested to see what they bring against memphis, who's much better than atlanta.

 

A lot of ball left to be played..we have 42 games left in the season. I expect us to finish in the top 3 in the West.

 

Agreed

 

We outscored Memphis by 22 in the span of 5~ minutes.

 

We brought nothing.

Oh, Reaves had a nice game, THT hit some 3's, and LBJ was very good.

 

this is the wrong thread for a sad trombone followed by a dennis green quote, i guess.

so, yeah, our 15mpg undrafted rookie is really quite good. like, he's probably our third best player, all told!

 

This should mean that we'll at least get a couple rare practices in this week.

 

I'd like to see us at full health against the better teams before being ready to burn it to the ground.

 

fans like to burn first and talk about it later

but I agree, this needs more time to simmer before we can say how all this has panned out

 

I know everyone is down after the Grizzlies loss. But they aren't a joke, they're the most inform team in the west. They just beat the Warriors tonight and are on a 10 game win streak. If they were in the East they'd be the 1st or 2nd seed as things stand, above Nets, Bucks, Heat and 76ers.

We lost a game where we had Russ, Monk, Melo and Bradley all play bad, while missing AD and Lebron played no defence. We're better than what we showed.

 

Not only is it 10 straight. It's 20/24. That would've been damn impressive even if Ja didn't miss any games. Factoring that in too, they're a problem.

 

Wow, 20/24 is mighty impressive. Ja is looking like an MVP calibre player and their other young guys have taken a step forward. It kind of reminds me of the year the thunder took a step forward and Kobe made the comment that he didn't want to see them again in the playoffs because they were going to be a problem.

I still think we got their number as a full team if we are firing in the playoffs. They don't have the experience. But if they continue to develop - watch out.