Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

The Jazz win was the best of the season.

Brooklyn sucks with KD or Kyrie.

IMO

 

True but the rotations were better in this game, especially with AD back. Its a rotation I’d be comfortable rolling with the rest of the season or until Nunn is back

 

The team has been....unWorthy

 

Also I know wins are wins and losses are losses but the team clearly looked like the better team for pretty much the entire game outside about a 1/4 a quarter. It wasn't one of those situations where it was simply Lebron going thermonuclear just to keep the ball game within reach and eke out a win.

We were doing that against bad team plenty times this season

 

Please, post more analytics. We need more.

 

BUMP. Just because. Roster has improved …. Stanley Johnson who’s a stud on defense with some offensive skills signed, AD is back, Russ playing much better over last couple of weeks (low bar and all), Monk is playing great, Reaves is playing well and getting more minutes than Bradley who is still playing well, Melo is playing well way better than hoped for, Dwight when needed is still effective in reasonable minutes, THT …. errr … uhhh … defense is looking improved over last year (?), Duke is still capable of coming into games and burying 3s and keeps himself ready, Ariza benched until can contribute off of it behind Johnson and contribute, at some point there just has to be a Nunn sighting with time to gel prior to playoffs, not trading for John Wall, Vogel apparently being given at least until end of season and rotations looking better …. and LeBron is on an incredible scoring roll plus now seriously in Russ’s ear plus Pelinka and Vogel as well along with him being reportedly called out in film sessions as required and of course he wants to stay in L.A. and not have the reputation of being a c- word with 6 letters and having ruined this season for the team so I remain hopeful there as he is still very capable of being a force for good effect when he keeps the TOs down.



#runonandverylongsentencesandhashtagsforthewin

 

Don’t care about the score. Seeing AD be AD got me more optimistic for our franchise than I’ve been in months.

 

We're soooo close to .500!

 

Assuming 2/3 of this trio can ever stay on the damn court.

 

Copy that. 1/3 of the combo, at least, has been “available” and giving it his all (Kobe like) (warts & all) …. all season.

 

Westbrook has been reliable and solid in this roadtrip. He has improved week by week.

 

AD and LBJ are really good.

 

I don’t even care how it looks or the details at this point. A win is a win.

 

Ariza and Stanley played okay.

Two of our wings with positive production helps.

If Russ gives us anything, we win this game convincingly.

 

i'm not done talking about how we went to overtime in part because the officials gave randle an and-1 on an offensive foul, and when they reviewed it, he gets to keep the bucket despite them clearly seeing that it was an offensive foul.

i mean, i guess it may have saved us from a loss due to the ft being taken away, but it was just a bad call and the remedy didn't establish a just result.