Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

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  1. ElginTheGreat

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    Not just back to back wins but dominance in both. Great to see.
     
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    Having a good backup PG seems like a big deal
     
    Pioneer10, Feb 14, 2024
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    Considering we have LeBron James on the roster, this is a wild one...
     
    JSM, Feb 14, 2024
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    Yeah I was just about to post this. This is definitely a bit surprising
     
    ElginTheGreat, Feb 14, 2024
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    ElginTheGreat, Feb 14, 2024
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    We’ve been playing well and managing to string together some impressive wins despite the injuries. It’s been even more impressive because it felt to me like a lot of our guys have been playing on tired legs.

    Felt that even just having 3 days off this week, our guys looked more energetic in this last back-to-back.

    So I’m VERY excited to see what this team can do with the momentum after a week of rest. Hopefully we at least get Christie and Reddish back to give us more defensive options and depth.
     
    Helljumper, Feb 14, 2024
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    Nobody wants to see us in the first round

    :Byronfistfight:
     
    sirronstuff, Feb 14, 2024
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    We're slowly turning into the team we need to be in today's NBA : a much better offensive team who can get some stops when it matters
     
    wcsoldier81, Feb 15, 2024
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    A dominant win against a contender in standings, away from home, on a B2B, without LeBron and no bench, missing Cam, Vando, Max and Gabe.
    Just amazing!!!
     
    pika1708, Feb 15, 2024
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    This is a great time to be optimistic. Unfortunately, most teams in the West are winning too, so we have to keep trucking after the break and win at a ridiculously high %.
     
    karacha, Feb 15, 2024
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    I was going to say, we've won 7 of 8...and haven't made up any ground.
     
    Savory Griddles, Feb 15, 2024
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    Thanks Ham for all the decisions that made our first 2/3 of the season waay harder and less effective as a team than it should have been. Which equaled multiple unnecessary losses. Can’t convince me otherwise. The stubborn obstinance with Prince in the starting lineup and too many minutes, to the detriment of other core players who needed them is right at the top but by no means everything.
     
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    Yeah, I was surprised on this fact.
     
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    Honestly, even if we finish off playing at the current level for the rest of the season, I would be happy to see the Lakers move on from him. I do not think he is a good head coach. Great assistant coach but he took WAY too long to figure out his rotations and just watch, when Cam and Rando are back, he is gonna misuse them and mess the rotations up. I doubt I will ever trust him anymore. I liked Luke better than him.
     
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    Not a perfect measurement method...

    But we shoulda and woulda won more
     
    JSM, Feb 15, 2024
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    As I said, I think we conservatively would have won at least 5 more games this season with the right rotations - meaning Rui starting or Vando if/when healthy, and Dlo starting not coming off the bench. And certainly never the five forwards lineup!!!

    Ham sank our ship right off the bat with the Prince insertion. The fact that it took nearly 50 games to correct it was asinine. All the data was there to look at. And more importantly than any numbers you could see the chemistry of the team was just totally disrupted by his experimentation. Big Game James actually pointed it out last night on the play by play. He said the biggest reason you are seeing the resurrection of the team is because of the familiarity of this lineup with Rui in it, pointing out the chemistry of last year. He said all the nonsense with the weird lineups screwed us up much of the season and that is just straight up true.

    With even five more wins we would be in fifth place in the West and not facing this insane uphill battle yet again. It would have avoided a lot of unnecessary stress if Ham had simply started Rui from the beginning of the season since Vando was unavailable. That would have provided obvious stability and we could have continued where we left off instead of the confusion that's been sewn throughout. Sure, Rui missed some time due to injury, but not that much (14 games total in two separate stretches). If we had started the right way we could have offset that better.
     
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    If only we could right now, because more stupid stuff will cost us more games which are tough enough to win as is without Numbnuts's contribution to it .....

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    Our top guys have really stepped up.
     
    ElginTheGreat, Feb 15, 2024
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    Scoring wise Rui isn't far behind them at 15 ppg. And he did have his career high in assists according to Austin:Adlaughing:
     
    JSM, Feb 15, 2024
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