Official Whine, Moan, Complain Thread 19/20-CLOSED "WE CHAMPS!"

Don't blame Luke if you can't see the real crime on the court...get an eye exam...simple as that

 

LOL. So we are down to blaming the refs now?

LOL. That's just pathetic.

Is the NBA out to get us?

 

15 FTs off of 71 2 point fgas....they got 30 off of 69.

f*** the NBA, Laker fans are out to get us...haha

#HateBetter and stop being so nonzensical about this.

 

sure vash...keep blaming the refs it has nothing to do with having the worse D in the League

 

Come on, V. You can't possibly think we are losing because of the officiating, however horrible it is.

 

D is a problem, but how can you be the aggressor on one end, not get the whistle and then play solid defense and get a reach in foul on the other end?

Yall clearly saw a different game than I did.

 

what i saw was minn getting offensive reb left n right n then our guys just standing there with their D#%@ in their hands as minn launches a wide open 3

 

Also... dude, if you want to throw stats out there, at least be honest about it. Out of those 2-point attempts, how may where jumpshots? I am betting we had way more and they had theirs much closer to the basket. That's what my eyes tell me. Bron shot like 5 turnaround fadeaway jumpers. BI shot a bunch of midrange.

I don't recall anything like that for the MIN.

 

refs haven't been kind to the lakers early on. i hoped lebron joining up would change things, but hart and ingram have a really tough time getting whistles on offense and both get super quick whistles on d.

it's not the sole reason we lose, but each night, we're getting outshot at the line, and luke's right: the lakers DO attack the basket as much as anyone. so it's kinda hard to figure out why the frequent negative disparity.

anyway...we don't deserve wins until we decide to play defense. we did it last year. we did it once the game got away from us (again). if we played that way from the opening tip, we might actually get ahead in one of these games.

that's three losses to non-playoff teams (i think both minny and the spurs miss the cut this year). gotta take at least one of these games, despite everything.

 

Bron's unforced error was lame tho and I agree with you there, but we had 18 turnovers to their 14 ...they got 3 more offensive boards than us (however both teams had 31 rebounds)...yet we had 6 more shot attempts than they did....but they still had 15 more FT attempts than we did...da f***?!?

How can you be the aggressor, push tempo, hit the paint and get the majority of your production from there, but then not get the whistle when that goes hand in hand with the type of gameplan you're running? How can you defend the perimeter, yet get reaching calls on a flailing 3ball (like Josh/BI got called on Butler)?

Cook, the irony in your post is you're giving an opposing board some grade A doom.

 

Hang in there Weez... it will get better.

 

Offensively we're elite. Defensively we're one of the worst, if not the worst. We let a mentally beat t wolves team that lacked chemistry and got destroyed the night before by the bucks to us. Where's the dog fight in this team like last year. Where's the fire, I get it, offense is fun, but come on fight harder of defense. We reach way too much. Also play f***ing wagner, we need another 7 footer out there to bang besides mcgee. Also please close the games with Lonzo, even if his offense isn't working he's our best defensive player by far.

 

Again free throws.

We were 10-15 from the line and lost the game by 4pts...that and we put the TWolves on the line twice as much.

 

My Wmc: The fans not even giving this a chance, and this is coming from the f***ing guy who refused to come around here when Jimmy/Mitch ran our s*** into the f***ing ground.

Lord knows I exercised patience with those two, but at the end of the day it became 4 years of futility and wasting a generational player's window and I couldn't take a 5th season knowing these idiots s*** away our Kob vacated capspace for Mozdeng.

What yall experiencing now is this FO's clean slate (and s***, it still has 14.3m this year and 5m for the next 3 of Deng's dead money on it)...but this is technically their year 1 of what they wanted to do from the jump... they just had to waste a whole year of cleaning up dumb & dumber's s*** to achieve it.

And then we look at our FO and we have a Buss (the good subtype), a West (a younger less Cenile type), a Magic and a Mamba (Rob by proxy)... With all do respect, what are all y'all complaining about?

That legendary Laker conglomerate had the vision to bring in 2 stars to guide our young collective. They brought the best star available, who knew nothing but Finals runs, and they wanted to be the bar that clotheslined you, rather than meet the bar the dubs set by encouraging a league of copycats to play their style.

Sorry, but it's been 7 f***ing games... And nearly all of you gave them previous lames 5 playoff-less seasons.

If you don't enjoy it and don't believe in the vision, then do like I did and step till the #TidesTurn. But a humble request: Try to give a roster/coach/FO that has been in flux trying to correct the errors of their predecessors, some goddamn time.

That being said, I'm going to give less time to this type of energy.

Spoiler: My vibe: y'all ain't killin it

#repreZent

 

wake me up when we're .500