Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

Thank you Murray. It was nice seeing you suck for once, instead of turnig into prime Kobe when playing us.

 

Lakers got lucky Murray didn't turn into prime Kobe like he always does against the Lakers. Can't count on Murray to play that awful again.

Gordon also seems to always play great against the Lakers.

And man, Jokic is so freakin good it's ridiculous. It seems everything he does out there just works out to his favor. By far the most talented center in the league right now. I think Wemby's an amazing player but I would still pick Jokic over Wemby for the next five years.

 

Had an insane day and didn't get to start watching this until 9:30 PST. I successfully avoided any news of the game. Fer crissakes! What. A. Game.

We were up 17 and looking great, but did what I feared would happen. And for once a lot of it was just DEN being insanely good, especially the passing of Joker. We go down 8 at one point and I'm thinking: we still played a pretty damned good game.

We take the lead! DEN re-takes the lead. Hardaway, Gordon and Cam J all hitting corner 3s.

I'm at a loss for words...this was one of the best regular season Laker wins that I can remember...and to those of you comin' in late: I saw the 1971-72 Lakers team that went 69-13 and won 33 straight games. I've seen basically every game since then. I've had my heart broken a lot in recent years and was ready to concede this season...until we beat the Knicks, Wolves and Nuggets recently, largely on the team buying in on intense defensive effort.

In the first half, Joker threw a ball behind his head to a man cutting for a hoop that was the play of the game...until 5 secs later, when AR rifled a pass off his hip from 27 feet to Ayton for a lob-slam. Then...Marcus hit a big 3, Ayton blocked a Jokic shot, the 41 year old dove for the ball to secure possession, AR somehow pulled off the magic of hitting the 1st FT, missing the 2nd on purpose, got his own rebound and hit the game-tying shot. Then Luka hits the game-winner with 0.5 left in OT. Oh my lawd.

Lakers win 127-125 in OT in a game I'll never forget. Felt like a WCF game, but we have 15 more regular season games.

8 days ago I thought we might win one round in the playoff, but maybe not. Now? I have no idea what the ceiling is.

Anyone who paid whatever to see the game at the Crypt got their money's worth, that's for damned sure.