This guy flexes and mean mugs at the guys holding the foam bats to help him practice in the off season when he scores a layup.
Pels go into PHO and knock them off in a close one: Zion's finger is all better: 29/10/7 and 5 blocks. CJ was 7 of 12 from 3. Suns got 91 from Booker/KD/Beal. Not enough. More impressive: DAL got 85 from just 2 guys: Luka and Kyrie. Kyrie just misses joining this year's 50 point club with 48.
Why be like that? Heck we beat boston with both of them out and with AD playing the way he is and everyone else in a good groove now we should be able to handle them. KAT is out too someone said?
Back in 9th. Not good. This is what happens with no room for error and then guys get hurt or sick. Tuesday is a must win.
As I said in the other thread, I didn’t expect us to win 8 games in a row. That’s hard in the NBA unless you have an absolutely stacked team. But I do expect this to be the last loss of the season. We should be able to run the table on the remaining games.
Man, sometimes I really get one right. I said that Brooklyn looked so bad lately and they played and lost yesterday, at home, and that the game today vs. SAC would really suck if you're a Nets fan. If you have tix, sell 'em. SAC beat 'em 107-77, in what must have been a Top 10 worst game of the season. The game barely qualified as "competitive." Dennis Schroder was 1 for 12 but hit 2 FTs for Brooklyn to go 4/7/6 in 30 mins. Oy! Sabonis once again just missed a triple-double: 18/20/9. He's unspectacularly spectacular. SAC was up 65-40 at half, but Nets outscored SAC 24-13 in the 3rd. Like, ok, wow man. So SAC won the 4th Q 29-13...as they resumed what's called "making an effort." Congrats to Brooklyn for reaching the 70 point mark, which they wouldn't have if SAC hadn't slept the entire 3rd Q. Brooklyn needed a lot of help flushing this one down, and reportedly the water pressure in the city wasn't back to normal until 3 hours after the game. Wouldda been nice to beat MIN w/o AD and Lebron and keep pace with Cow-Town, but nothin' doin' on that front, and no surprises.
Who thought losses at SAS and against Grizz at home in Dec and January would matter at the end ? Everybody besides our two leaders. Now the team is one loss away to not make it to the postseason .
To me this is on Ham putting us in this position with his crappy coaching this season. But true the overconfidence of Lebron and AD doesn’t help.
They'll blame it on the injuries when they fail to win both away games at San Francisco and Sacramento in the play-in
In the Lakers' Everything Fell Apart 2023-24 scenario, it's not too hard to look at how we performed when Rui started and got major mins vs. Ham's guy Taurean starting as perhaps the major factor in us fighting for a play-in. It's one thing to have a feeling about a guy; it's another to hang onto it when evidence started to support giving Rui more of T-Prince's minutes. And Ham hung with Prince as starter too long in the face of that evidence. I'm not ragging on T-Prince; I just think Rui deserved more mins based on merit. Then: injuries. Every team has 'em. Vando's was a huge reason our D went downhill. But as I write this, it's far from "over" for us. Winning makes Ham look good despite his Taurean/Rui mistake. Edited to ADD: I was just surfing around and saw LakersDaily.com, where this idea is "an exclusive." Like any of us didn't see this while it unfolded? (I'm not into bagging on other websites, so will refrain.)
we're now in a position where we're going to have to win two games against gs (this one and the 9/10 game) when they're highly motivated or else we go fishing very early.
Unbelievable with the health we got out of AD and LeBron this year and as deep as our roster was, injuries notwithstanding, that we are in this position.
