Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

we just won a game against a decent team with these team stats


This indicates decent defense was happening to me.

 

we're what, the 2nd best defense since we dumped russ? not unrelated!

 

wonder where we find this info, I'd be curious about that too.

We still give up a lot of points, but the whole league does too

 

That's damn good defense

 

This was on old school game. Memphis was a b**** on defense too. Getting Brooks make them a very good defensive team just like last year with morant out.

 

I’m confused on the Schroeder defense part…

4 made shots for 5 points?

 

I credit Ham for the revival of the stingy defense as much as I blame him for his catastrophic 3 to 4 guards line up.

 

W despite AD scoring 8 points.

That Depth!

 

With the pre-deadline team, If you told me that OG and Barnes combined for over 60 and AD only had 8, I'd bet money we lost by 30+


Look at this depth

 

Holy s*** what a fun game to watch.

A bunch of small guys going against the team of mini-Lebrons in TO - look outmatched physically but sliced and diced them anyway.
If you're looking for a missing piece it would be a bullying PF and guess what they have a guy name Lebron waiting. If he gets anywhere close to full health ....

 

Yes it was the most fun game I've seen in a while. We finally have a team that's fun to watch and root for. Laker basketball is back!

 

First home win over the Raptors since 2014. 61 points from the bench mob!

 

No.1 defense in the league with a deep and potent bench. Is this a dream?

 

It’s funny how a team changes when you swap the small guys who either don’t care or aren’t good at defense with taller guys who do.

 

we should keep doing that

---Kurt and Rob (Probably)

 

If I missed the game (thank gawd I didn't) and someone only told me both AD and Van Vleet had 8 points each, I'd guess we lost by 20 and...maybe, somehow FVV and AD got into a shoving match and both got tossed late in the 1st Q, but that's not even close to what happened.

We got down 15 early, came back, went up by 10 - all this in the 1st half - in the 3rd went down by 12, caught 'em and were up by 12 before winning by 10.

And I thought our suddenly GREAT D was a tad lax this game. I've never seen a series of moves around the trade deadline make such a dramatic difference in a team, and I've been a fan since the last Ice Age.

Removing Russ alone was a huge plus for us. But all those guys we added (I'm hoping you'll contribute later, Mo)? Astonishing how well it fits.

We. Play. DEFENSE again! As D-Lo said after the game: "the sky's the limit." After watching this game, I believe it. We beat Julius and the Knicks on Sun and we've reached what now qualifies as the Promised Land for the Lakers: .500, which we haven't seen since last year when we were 24-24 at one point, before the onset of true dark dismality hit us. Feels like it's been 8 years, not 14 months or whatever.

 

Have early rises and long days started the day of this game and this coming week, so after catching up with a late dinner and a beer I settled in to watch this game on late time shift and got part way through the first quarter. Next thing I know it’s the post game show. Will definitely have to watch when I can but did see a lot of the highlights. Holy crap what FUN!! I did see one thing though ….. there’s a bromance on fire brewing on the court with the chemistry and fun Russell and Reaves have playing with each other. And Schroder continues his outstanding play!