Game 35: Los Angeles Lakers (11-23) @ Houston Rockets (25-9) - LOSS - 11-24

[TyCobb]

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[SlimShady83]

1 star 1 finisher and keep the Youth

[BEazy]

Man Brandon is 20 years old and people wanna give up on him already... I still think Ingram is going to turn into a stud and a force once his body stops growing and adds even more bulk.

I may be complaining about some of our young players, like Lonzo's shooting, or Brandon's weight, or Kuzma's defense, or even Luke Walton's coaching, but in no way I want these guys gone. I still want to see what these guys can do with a couple of years under their belt and more familiarity with each other.

If the season ended today, I would keep Ball, Ingram, Kuzma, Hart, and Randle. I would still want Luke Walton as the coach as well. Everybody else is up for sale. We need to be shopping Lopez, KCP, and JC hard for some 1st round picks.

[ROballer]

Randle should never see the bench again. Starting Lopez or Bogut would be a huge mistake. For the people who said he can't produce in the big minutes, your view of basketball is skewed.

He's one of the best players on the team. Maybe the best.

I never stated he CAN'T, I said he MIGHT NOT. Wasn't even about he can't produce, but produce at the same level as his per minute play in limited minutes, and that DOESN'T MEAN STATISTICS ONLY, BUT LEVEL ON INTENSITY AND WILLINGNESS TO PLAY DEFENSE ON A PLAY BY PLAY BASIS.
A little big difference, and one game doesn't change anything. But whatever fits your agenda I guess, even if it means skewing up somebody else's words. Talk to me when he consistently plays 35-43 mins like Kuzma does for a while now, and keeps the same level of play and motor on close to all the stretch.
Barking over ONE GAME is the most knee-jerked reaction in existence.

You need to keep your mouth far away from his balls for a change, re-read what I was talking about in his thread, me and one of the most knowledgeable posters on this site in dock, and then get a **** grip of the reality of what was said.

Lakers coach Luke Walton recently called him out for sometimes not "playing up to the standard that he set for himself".

Not the only ones seeing stuff like that. It's not all red roses in paradise.

And I'm done with this ****, don't bother engaging me again, I won't ever waste my time replying to you again.

[aaron_gray]

Lmao Ro raging

[ROballer]

Lmao Ro raging

I miss you man.

Your team is solid this year, playoff bound and might go all the way.

[Ugly0598]

Ingram looks like a 21-25 PPG scorer in his prime, which is good, but I don't know if that's enough to win a ring.

[Danny Darko]

Man Brandon is 20 years old and people wanna give up on him already... I still think Ingram is going to turn into a stud and a force once his body stops growing and adds even more bulk.

I may be complaining about some of our young players, like Lonzo's shooting, or Brandon's weight, or Kuzma's defense, or even Luke Walton's coaching, but in no way I want these guys gone. I still want to see what these guys can do with a couple of years under their belt and more familiarity with each other.

If the season ended today, I would keep Ball, Ingram, Kuzma, Hart, and Randle. I would still want Luke Walton as the coach as well. Everybody else is up for sale. We need to be shopping Lopez, KCP, and JC hard for some 1st round picks.

When he started slow he was garbage and didn't belong in the league. Now if he doesn't lead the team he's garbage and hasn't lived up to his potential or belong on the team.

People need to have patience and shut up. A very young and physically immature player is showing signs of an amazing future and still they want microwave popcorn.

[DEEP3CL]

Ingram looks like a 21-25 PPG scorer in his prime, which is good, but I don't know if that's enough to win a ring.

It doesn't have to be because he won't be the guy dependent on like that. Weather people want to accept it or not the Lakers will sign some free agent in the near future or either this talent blends in together and forges a core with one or two more draft picks down the line that gets them in contention.

The thing that's most asinine to me is guys talk as if the teams that are dominate now will be around 10 years from now, hell most won't be in tact in the next 5 years while this Laker core should just be tapping into it's prime as ball players.

5 to 6 years from now we'll be seeing teams like the Lakers,Suns,Sixers,Bucks,Celtics,Nets,Kings and Jazz being the better teams of the league. The teams now will be dead or on last legs only needing those teams listed to deliver the fatal blow in the playoffs which is where teams die.

It's too far fetched to say what will be good enough to win a ring when we'll never know what the make up of the Lakers will finally be in 2 or 3 years.

[snaquille oatmeal]

That last play was the same crap we always see except it was Kuz instead of KCP.

so what you are saying is that we should start the s*** on Kuzma posts too

[Kupchak9]

Man Brandon is 20 years old and people wanna give up on him already... I still think Ingram is going to turn into a stud and a force once his body stops growing and adds even more bulk.

I may be complaining about some of our young players, like Lonzo's shooting, or Brandon's weight, or Kuzma's defense, or even Luke Walton's coaching, but in no way I want these guys gone. I still want to see what these guys can do with a couple of years under their belt and more familiarity with each other.

If the season ended today, I would keep Ball, Ingram, Kuzma, Hart, and Randle. I would still want Luke Walton as the coach as well. Everybody else is up for sale. We need to be shopping Lopez, KCP, and JC hard for some 1st round picks.

Those last 3 collectively could not even net us 1 1st round pick lol.

[Spanish_Laker]

Props to the guys for FINALLY fighting and playing hard while being undermanned. Randle must play +35 min every game, he is easily by far our best big man, both defensively (switch master and rebounding machine) and offensively (unstoppable in the pick and roll). What happened to Clarkson?

[tugs]

Am I wrong to assign Clarkson as the closer for this young team? He should be by default since he's the most poised and seasoned as BI and Kuz are not ready yet. Ball is still helter skelter at times, so is Randle.

[iamworthy]

We're 2.0 games from having the worst record in the league

[Slava]

We're 2.0 games from having the worst record in the league

We're 25th in point differential and I think we can get better with better health and the schedule easening.

http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/team/_/stat/differential

[stan francisco]

Am I wrong to assign Clarkson as the closer for this young team? He should be by default since he's the most poised and seasoned as BI and Kuz are not ready yet. Ball is still helter skelter at times, so is Randle.

Yes, I think you are. Clarkson being the closer means one on five dribbling and he's pretty good at it but not that good. I doubt he's top 50 in efficiency in the last two minutes but I could be wrong.

When we close games we should do it as a team and with a defensive intensity shift, not look at whose got the best handles. Get stops, then let Ball, Ingram, Kuzma, Randle, Hart run the break and get to the line. Yes, that should be our closing lineup.

Defense wins games. Not JC. IMHO.

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How can you not like Caruso? Great pickup for us, hope he sticks

[Laker1]

Man Brandon is 20 years old and people wanna give up on him already... I still think Ingram is going to turn into a stud and a force once his body stops growing and adds even more bulk.

I may be complaining about some of our young players, like Lonzo's shooting, or Brandon's weight, or Kuzma's defense, or even Luke Walton's coaching, but in no way I want these guys gone. I still want to see what these guys can do with a couple of years under their belt and more familiarity with each other.

If the season ended today, I would keep Ball, Ingram, Kuzma, Hart, and Randle. I would still want Luke Walton as the coach as well. Everybody else is up for sale. We need to be shopping Lopez, KCP, and JC hard for some 1st round picks.

100% Agree.



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[kblo247]

That was absolutely ridiculous.... how you gonna call a turnaround three off a screen with 5 seconds left...

Because Phil would call that for Kobe all the time in Luke's career here. HEll Phil would call that for Fish and even Horry in the 3 peat there. I'm not shocked Luke and Shaw have used that multiple times this year including with KCP.