Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

Tale of two takes. One i respect and one is a whiny excuse filled bum who should've been taken behind the wood shed and put down over a decade ago.

 

I still think the OT the Bucks played the night before contributed to their 1st half malaise, they had to battle a surprisingly stubborn Hornets team to win in overtime. Winning that hard fought game made them less than ready to immediately compete again which redound to our benefit

 

yeah, i really thought we were going to look like the bucks did in the first half, so good on the team to dig down and pull out another unexpected win.

 

Exactly, plus we've been bouncing all over the country. This is the game a lot of teams would be mailing in. Going to give our guys credit for this one.

 

I’m sorry, but these are professional athletes who are in the .005% of most fit humans on the planet.
Whining about “being tired” is just pathetic loser mentality.
When I played soccer as a youth, I remember playing two games a day in a specific tournament in which the afternoon match was played in over 100 degree temperatures. The coaching staff reminded us several times that “we had to just fight through it.” We also weren’t making a range of then thousands up to hundreds of thousands per game.
The NBA has become so soft.

 

How about that “White Out” lineup of Luka, Austin, Jake, Maxi and someone else last night?
Too bad Dalton wasn’t in there with them to make the quota watchers really lose their minds!

 

That was pretty awesome. Say what you want about Giannis but he is a stand up guy.

 

Well..we gave his younger brother a shot here. That meant something to him.

 

We trade LeBron/Bronny for Giannis/Thanasis

 

all day everyday, and sometimes twice

 

That was such a ridiculously fun second half - showtime Lakers redux but with 3 playmakers

 

I went from scowling and screaming to happy with a couple of god dangit that is awesome!

 

The cool thing about this game was that AR, Ayton and Luka had their typical games, Jake and Rui switched places and Lebron just came in as gel guy, getting 12 assists and being scary enough on offense that they had to guard him.

Now if we could just learn to play defense.

 

Lakers get Lebron and Gabe back, and Utah shoots the lights out in the 1st half at the Crypt. I figured the chemistry is off, we're rusty, etc.this would be a bad loss but jit happens.

Lakers cut the Jiz...uhh Jazz lead to 4 by half after finally tying it but with seconds left Markkanen hit a sick shot for a 4-point play. At one point I thought Keyonte was gonna go for 50. Our D looked soft, and Utah was relentless offensively.

Then the Lakers electrified the crowd in the 3rd, winning it by 15 and at one point were up 22. Wow. Lakers beat Utah 140-126 to go to 11-4.

Lebron 11/3/12 and having fun. He will be 41 in about 5 weeks. (Whaaaa?) Yea: 41.
Luka: 37/5/10 with 4 steals, 8 turnovers. He hit a key 3 in the corner as the tide turned, then came down, split the D and hit a one-footed runner from 20 feet and got fouled.
AR: 26/5/1 on 7 for 11 shooting.
Ayton: 20/14/1 on 10 for 13.

Last 6 mins were garbage and everyone got mins except Vando. Why? He's not listed as hurt.

Gotta wait until SUN for our next game, in Utah.

 

Winning the 3rd was huge and set the tone for the second half

DA again with a consistent double double

Nice to see LBJ settle in and not try to do too much

Solid win

Keep stacking the wins up guys

 

This game had it all.