Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

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  1. karacha

    karacha Moderator Staff Member

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    AD always looks great when he's healthy, and he's a good teammate. So, yes, I think people will want to play with him, especially those who know how to set him up. Because he'll always need a good primary ball-handler to do that for him. He's an elite scorer, finisher, defender, but not a playmaker. What he needs is Luka Doncic. ;)
     
  2. D-Fish Man

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    100% we dodged a bullet. But my feelings are still hurt. I hate the f#&king Clippers.
     
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    The one season he actually was able to (somewhat) finish...we won the title any way. Couldn't happen to a more historic franchise.
     
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    word. feel like there's not enough appreciation of the fact that despite all the bluster, we're still beating them where it counts. congrats on your second team beating our second team's a** for the past several years. we got a title. you traded SGA and a bazillion picks for heroic 7th place finishes. praise be to ty lue.
     
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    The Lakers have stumbled onto a legit 7 man rotation if you take out Russ
    4 legit starter types on a playoff team: AD/Lebron/Reaves/Walker
    2 rotation players: Dennis and Bryant
    2 maybes in Brown and JTO: not quite sold on either but they seem like neutral types out there. Guys who can eat minutes and not hurt.

    Forgot about Wenyen he's somewhere between a legit rotation player to a maybe. Net neutral kind of guy as his lack of any shooting threat neutralize the benefit of hustle and athleticism



    AD/Lebron still look great when healthy and they've found a guy in Reaves who looks like a legit threat to be a Bryon Scott/Danny Ainge type of maybe not quite an All star but damn good. It times to make a move, outside of a bad 1/2 quarter against Indiana team looks solid even when they can't seem to get healthy. Just need more bodies
     
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  6. ElginTheGreat

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    Nice seeing them bounce back from a rough start.

    Reaves really was the hero last night. Great game.
     
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    We get 4 wins from our 6-game road trip
     
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    beauty is that that's all without the guys we'd most likely trade, so any trade is going to be adding without doing much subtracting. even a minor move like nunn/bev for eric gordon can make an impact.
     
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    Seriously!
     
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    Now that’s some serious optimism but I like it.
     
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    For real! I'd take 3 and 3 and be very happy about it. Splitting games on the road at this juncture would be a big win I feel especially with the competition.
     
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    .500 on this roadie would be great for anyone. 4 playoff teams, 1 play-in team. But it's the East, we can hang. Need both AD and Lebron. LBJ is probable tonight. Good time for the group to bond, these trips, overcome adversity together and hang out together. These roadies build character and it's where teams discover themselves and their identities. It's also where bad teams get destroyed and sent down into the pits of despair.
     
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    Hoping we show we can play up to the level of the competition tonight
     
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    Great win.

    that was the most engaged and ready to play team I’ve seen in awhile.

    we rose to the occasion. You could tell we wanted to make a statement and the guys delivered.
     
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    GREAT!!! Win! hope this continues
     
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    My favorite Lakers game since we won the title. We didn’t just beat a good team. We beat them when they played well and we played the right way. It wasn’t just a matter of getting lucky and hitting a ton of 3s. I could have lived with a close loss. Who knows what comes the rest of the trip, but I’ll enjoy this win.
     
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    Guarantee you the hot topic with the team now is how in the hell did we let that Indy game slip by us? Amazing how fast your standards can change with some winning.
     
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    The reason that loss was painful was they were up 17 and crushing them: Outside of that one quarter team has looked great since both AD/Lebron are healthy
     
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    Been kinda saying for a while this team is much better than the sentiment here thought it was. We had a historical outlier shooting the ball to start the season and if a few things went different we would have won 4 more games.

    we are 7-2 in the last 9 and should of been 8-1 if it wasn’t for a quarter of bad play.
     
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    midway through the 4th i was still pretty sure we were going to lose, and i still thought it was the best game we played all year. the bucks played well and clearly were locked in and wanted this game, and we took it on their court.
     

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