Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

Y'all can take your negative **** right the hell out of this thread.

 

Well...uuummm....yeah...I like it.

 

Ok, I know it's a bit weird for me to bump the optimism thread after such a frustrating loss, but . . . That was pretty impressive last night. We were playing Houston in their house again after ruining their 13 game win streak last time and them certainly wanting revenge. They put up 44 points on us in the first quarter!! And we really showed something by playing that hard defense in the second spurred on by Bogut, Nance and Brewer to cut that lead and then we had a double digit lead on them in the third going into the fourth. With a team that can shoot as they can, no lead is really big enough and when the striped ones started gifting charity stripe sessions to Harden there wasn't a lot we could do about it. We took it to 2 OT's in their house without Lonzo Ball. It was a really good game and just so irritating that we couldn't get that W. But I'll take that. I expected a 20 point loss to be honest, and I don't think many if any of us here predicted that we might get a win. Good showing.

 

I think we're a really bad match-up for Houston and to be honest I'm not that impressed with Chris Paul anymore. Houston (or whoever) is going to hate paying him big money in a couple years.

I'd love to play Houston in the Playoffs if we could rattle off 20 wins in a row.

 

We actually have already played the Warriors and Rockets thrice. I mean it's insanity to do that to a young team.

But more importantly we've been hit by a series of injuries, arrests, and locker room dissidence that's going to hurt any team. I understand this is all very frustrating, but you take three starters from any team in the league besides maybe San Antonio and Golden State, and that team is going to struggle. My goodness it's like people around here prefer to think the team is in shambles instead of just recognizing the un-winnable spot we're in right now. We're giving decent minutes to G-League players and wondering why we're getting beat like a G-League team? We're f***ing hurt! Let us heal up. Let us get back in a rhythm. We'll be okay.

 

We surpassed any kind of expectations I had for this road trip by a lot actually. Taking the Rockets to 2OT on their court and fighting through a back to back in Minn is no joke (it was a closer game than the score would have you believe). I wasn't even going to watch these games because we struggle so much without Lonzo setting the table for everyone. But wow, Ennis and Hart really showed something in this stretch and Randle demonstrated once and for all that a 20 minutes a game cap this year was idiotic. Our guys are playing hard.

Hopefully Zo can come back soon. This road trip showed me just how useless KCP and Slowpez are. I don't care to see either of those guys going forward. Hopefully we can limit THEIR minutes now and let guys like Randle and Hart play a lot more. I'd say trade them but their expiring contracts are so important for us and of course we don't want to anger the KANG's agent.