Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

f*** JJ, f*** gabe, and f*** ayton. This team fought it's a** off and those 3 anchors cost it. Vando was awesome for the most part

JJ played that dumb f***ing lineup where Luka is paired with Gabe, Vando, Hayes, and Rui. WTF are you expecting to happen here JJ. Vando/hayes combo is a disaster 2 man lineup as Vando lack of shooting takes away Haye's lob threat. Then he didn't call a timeout when Lakers got within 2 till the clips were up by double digits in the game. You saw the momentum had stopped and they had Harden attack the blitz and he sat on his a** instead of calling the TO

Gabe why the f*** is he playing his defense even sucks - he got blown by every Clip

Ayton I give a pass due to the eye injury but come on man play tough

 

We got pounded on the boards. Didn't make enough 3's to offset that.

 

Lakers fall down 26 in the 3rd Q, come back to within 2 but looked spent late in the 4th, lose to Clips, 112-104.

Luka 3 for 13 from deep. High volume shooting, low percentage: 11 for 27 overall, and his FT shooting is a sore spot for me: why is he so bad as a FT shooter? 75% for his career. You'd think he'd be better. Because he goes to the line more than anyone, he's leaving a lot of points there.

I thought Ayton looked very small against Zubac. Almost everyone looks small against Zu, but Ayton just shrinks against him. Ayton in 22 mins: 4/5/0. Give Clips D some credit. Zu had 19 boards. Clips out-rebounded us 49-34.

Once again we give 60+ in the first half. We were down 17, Clips bumped that up to 26 in what looked like a "flush it down" game, but then the Lakers started playing D and cut the lead to 2. Clips managed only 48 in the 2nd half.

Vando and Marcus played their azzes off. A rough loss, because we spent so much energy coming all the way back, but ran out of fuel, apparently. So we all got that tantalized feel that never paid off.

I thought Rui's defense looked pretty good. Yea, I said it.

Now we really need a win in DAL, on national TV. I hope everyone is healthy after this one.

Day-um.

I f***ing hate losing to the these guys.

 

Rebounding was a huge problem tonight.

our bigs were outplayed which is why I get our continued interest in big men.

Gabe continues to be all vibes and cardio.

We need AR.

Nice fake comeback but it was pretty clear from the jump to me that we weren’t going to win this one.

Edit - I do think our defense was much better in the second half.

 

We lost to the Clippers

Ugh