Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

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  1. LTLakerFan

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    Two nights ago in their win over Phoenix KP put up this line. What the H?


    6 Kristaps Porzingis
    F     33:52 0-8 0-6 2-2 1 12 13 1 1 2 3 0 +4 2
     
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    Kp has shot pretty poorly all year, I think. He’s been great on d and is rebounding better than he has before. If he gets his offensive game back, he’ll be a much improved player. Weird that he’s struggling so much there, though.
     
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    Kristaps will be out of the league before you know it. His body can not handle 82 game season.
     
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    Unicorns can do anything they want
     
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    While I wish it wasn't the case because I like Porzingis, I do think he will have trouble remaining healthy. If you didn't know his injury history, you would say his body just LOOKS fragile. Add in the fact that he's hurt a lot, he doesn't have much chance at a long career.
     
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    Outstanding win on the road tonight! Never an easy feat in their house. We showed them who is boss. Joker got worked by AD. Dwight was awesome. Got it done.
     
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    AD was sick too. Think about that.
     
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    Absolutely. Amazing win against a powerhouse team.
     
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    Awesome awesome bounce-back win. On the road against a solid team, and we did it the old-fashioned way, with smothering defense.

    And while I maintain my disgust that Coward is back on this team, and nothing short of a championship will suffice for his redemption, he continues to make me eat my words by proving to be the best deal in the league. Amazing.
     
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    We beat big bad Denver on the road, one of the toughest places to play with the elevation factor. I will happily take it, way too soon to say we’re phony because we were 3-3 against .500 teams, now we’re 4-3, and hopefully we can start to up that, can only play who’s in front of you aside from that too. Maybe we will start getting up for this better competition more than playing down to bad teams like we’re bored. The Clippers and Raptors games went down to the end, Dallas was our only really bad loss.
     
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    I'll tell you what, if the Lakers win tonight and then win in Portland Friday, this Laker team will be legit. Lakers never win in Denver like they did last night. They controlled that game from start to finish, pretty much and even upped the lead when Lebron was sitting at the end of the 3rd.

    If they beat Utah tonight, I'm feeling really good for the month.
     
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    AD rocking that halftime IV feed. Still bringing 25 and 10 on 50% shooting AND sealing the W with his stellar D down the stretch. Mensch!
     
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    Gonna be a rough game tonight.

    2nd of a back to back with half the team having the flu. Utah missing Conley but they just had two awful showings, they'll probably show up to play us.

    Let's get another win streak going.
     
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    @utah on b2b is a near guaranteed loss, but i think we have a shot, simply because we have the better roster. but yeah, they need a statement win, and that crowd will be frothing.
     
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    they are 12-9, so maybe we're giving them too much credit right now.

    I think we should be disappointed if we lose to them. Besides, they lost Rubio who loved to play us.

    Cake.Walk.
     
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    any game against an over .500 team on the road is tough.

    any b2b is tough.

    any road game at 7000ft is tough.

    a win would be more impressive than expected, imo.
     
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    Lakers go into Denver, we took that W all the way home. Go into Utah we sending them Jazz fans home with that L. Oh yeah
     
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    Hmm, I think we are pretty good.
     
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    Nice win.
     
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