Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

I don't like the sound of Clippers sweeping us - we need to beat them at least once, and beat them convincingly, and then maybe that last game vs them, we rest our guys because we'll hopefully have the 1 seed locked up and we don't let the clippers get confidence by beating us.

We gotta beat the Bucks too - they trounced us that first game and that was without bledsoe I think. We gotta show that we can hang with the top 2 teams - hopefully LeBron comes to play cuz we usually lose when he doesn't.

 

Yes - a lot to ask for a "minimum" but we have basically beaten every other team in the L besides those two (and I think Raptors we also haven't beaten, so we gotta take care of them on the road this month).

 

i mean, the bucks game was close for most of it, and giannis had like, his best long-range shooting game, ever. despite what people have claimed, we've actually done fine against top competition. we lost three close games to the other two best teams and haven't beaten them. we've beaten everyone else and have a similar record amongst contenders as everyone else.

 

Beat the Bucks , Floppers and Rockets with great games from Bron and AD .

I don't care about the others games

 

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201912190MIL.html

This was the Bucks vs LAL game on Dec. 19. We played much better in the 2nd half and got close but every time we tried to get closer to tying the game, Giannis just kept making all his threes. It wasn't one of LeBron's best games, either.

I really don't think the regular season is indicative of the playoffs, anyway. I'm very confident that if you lock LeBron+J.Kidd+Rondo+Vogel in a room and say, "This is the team you're playing for seven games", they'll be locked in with a strong gameplan.

 

Optimism from last night: that was championship level defense and our stars delivered. That's what it will take in a couple months to for us to make it to June.

 

Excellent game from both stars... great defense.
LBJ dominated...
AD started slow but turned it up when it counted.
The Bucks don't look too good when their threes aren't falling... I'm not sure Khris is a good enough sidekick for Giannis.

 

If AD can play that poorly and still have a massive 4th quarter and end up 30/9 with 2 blocks and 10/11 from the free throw line... that's insane. He went right at them the entire 4th quarter and punished the Bucks.

 

Great start to a tough weekend. This was about as gritty and grind it out a win as you can get. Great win! Oh btw, we clinched a playoff spot!

 

Outside of the 3 ball, I thought every* Laker was a positive particularly on defense

*I don't consider Rondo a Laker player, it helps me sleep better at night

 

Welcome back to the playoffs Lakers brethren and sistren! Thank you Vogel, Lebron and AD!

 

Giannis can't close. The Bucks don't scare me if we meet them in the Finals.

 

Great game, great win. One more in a row and I will be super happy.

 

I love how everyone knew this game was going to be about Giannis vs LeBron and LeBron basically son'd Giannis. Now time to do this vs Kawhi!

 

And AD to Paula wouldn’t suck either.

 

Great win after such a poor shooting start

Lebron was playing great and AD was still impacting the game on an off shooting night

I felt like AC changed the game even though he somehow had a -8

Avery had some nice defensive plays, but was killing us with shooting

Kuzma's shooting has fallen off a cliff, I don't see how he should really play much in playoffs

Avery, DG, Lebron, AD, Mcgee
Caruso, KCP, Dion, Kieff, Dwight

Those should be the main 10 guys playing

Rondo and Kuzma can and likely will get some time, but those should be the guys

Mcgee or Dwight min should be limited, depends on matchup

 

We are starting to optimize our strengths with Bron spending more time on the low block .

 

Wish we had BI tho tbh