Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

I expect a huge game from AD against their gimmick front court. He and even Wood have own Nurk. Much less defensive efforts will be needed since they're down to 1/3 of their roster that actually matters.

Should be another opportunity to keep Bron's minutes relatively low.

 

Yeah no excuse for this one, AT ALL.
We gotta win.

Attack the basket and rebound. Put Prince on KD and we should be good.

 

Also, I don't want to hear s*** else about how scary Phoenix is. They can't get or stay on the court. This is game two, this is as healthy as it gets, and they're down to KD.

Beal's back is bothering him. That tends to linger. It's Book's foot. He was OK enough to play in game one and play golf following that, but something flared up.

Until they string together 15 games together, I don't want to hear one word about the threat of them. They're a Clippers level fraud until proven otherwise.

 

they did go out and beat gs on the road in game 1 minus beal, though.

 

No Dray and Warriors shot 10/43 from 3. We can count on one hand how many times that will happen this year and it had nothing to do with the defense they were facing.

 

well, i know it won't happen against us.

 

In the first 2 games, the Lakers have been missing everything from 3, which was supposed to be much improved this season. Austin, DAR and Rui all have looked pretty bad too. I expect major improvement in both departments, and once that happens, this team should be very good.

 

KD was en fuego until late, when they needed him to continue on and get fitty. We entered the 4th down 12 and within 3 minutes it was a one-possession game.

Lebron played 35 mins, way over his limit...and who really believed he'd average 25 minutes per game this year, anyway?

I know we held PHO to 95, but man, I can't wait for Vando to come back, and with bursitis now the diagnosis, it may be awhile. This could be one of the great defensive teams, but we'll see.

 

79-2

sorry I missed this one

 

I’ll take it.

 

League is tough man: all these teams the Lakers played are no joke.
Optimist says that they got a bunch of shooting and if they can just get 3's to fall and fix the lineups (slowly seeing a lot more Wood for example) and Reaves just gets back to normal AR they could easily be 4-0 against a tough schedule

 

Agreed. There’s definitely things to be encouraged about.

 

Also in the past the second game of a back to back was pretty much a guaranteed loss. We gutted out a win after a tough loss in overtime last night.

Again, I’ll take it

 

Yes. Very much needed.

 

Nice to have such good depth for when guys are out so we don’t have any excuses ever.

I feel like we could beat them by 20 if we can find our rhythm

 

THE TENANTS 11 GAME STREAK IS OVER!!!