D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

More than DLo and Reaves, I NEED AD to take it to Joker and get him in foul trouble.
For me, the outcome of this season heavily falls on AD playing extremely well against him.

 

Murray is the guy that kills us. We don't have the bodies to throw at Jokic, and then we depend on AD, to cover for the guys getting beat constantly off the dribble. Dinwiddie, Vincent, and Reddish provide a different look on Jamal. He's a good player, we have to make him work on both ends. We can't just allow this guy, to keep getting into the paint at will.

 

Murray torched Reddish down the stretch in our last game. I don't expect him to get much if any time.

 

That was just one game. He torched everybody who guarded him in the Conference Finals too. We have to throw different looks at him, one dude isn't going to shut him down.

 

Got to go with Spencer here - he's a very good matchup size and athleticism wise against Murray. Regardless, whoever Murray is guarding they should put him and and Jokic into a PnR over and over again. Lakers have a legit 5 guys who can serve as PnR ballhandlers if Murray is guarding any of them keep at him.

Need to wear Jokic and Murray out so they don't have as much gas to go bananas on offense in the 4th

 

Bron is packing your bags for you

 

Wow that's worse than in G-league

 

Didn't think it could get any worse...lol.

Wowza.

 

getting humbled big time

 

Congrats to everyone who thought this would be the series where DLO finally turned the page on his past playoff chokes.

 

And he wonders why nobody will give him a large, long term deal.
If he doesn’t show out big next game, we will lose again.

 

He tried, he just isn't athletic enough for Denver.

 

don't need athleticism to hit wide open 3s

 

Those 3s we're mostly heavily contested and he doesn't jump. He can't create space off the dribble like most guards, he physically can't do it. He can't drive to the basket, he's not athletic enough to do that. He couldn't even drive around Jokic.

That limitation really becomes a problem in the playoffs, when teams can game plan.

 

I would consider starting Dinwiddie and DLO off the bench for the matchup

 

Playoff DLO was, is and always will be a thing. Regular season stats and records don't mean s*** when you're in P&G.
I just hope we can sign and trade him instead of losing him for nothing.

 

He had open looks and was aggressive. Killer to miss layups and for what for him are really easy jumpers.

 

Outside of LeBron & AD, the Lakers as a Team just aren't athletic enough for Denver..
We're at a mismatch at almost every position, especially on defense.
Gordon, Porter & KCP make DLO, Reaves & Rui look frail & putting Vincent or Dinwiddie out there only makes it worse.

 

I think the Nuggets really exploited KCP off ball in the third against DLo as welll.

I said before Spence would be key to the series and he needs his minutes upped next game