Heat @ Lakers 1/3/24

[MAMBAEMD]

Let’s go Lakers!

10 turn overs for us already with 3 minutes left the first quarter.

And we’re not going inside to AD enough

[MAMBAEMD]

Awful ball by the Lakers so far.
They’re just running up and down. There is very little semblance of an organized offense right now

[MAMBAEMD]

This is our 35th game of the year and we’re playing some of the worst basketball I’ve seen this season.

We do have a lot of injuries but that can’t continue to be an excuse.

We’ve completely regressed since winning the IST.

Something has to change for this team to wake up.

[MAMBAEMD]

Only down 8 after the worst half of ball this year is a miracle.

I’m hoping for some life in this team in the second half.

[MAMBAEMD]

We have 19 turnovers and 18 assists and look completely clueless against the zone defense with 6 minutes left in the 3rd.

[stan francisco]

Should we replace Ham with Phil Handy? He got out coached again by another high quality coach.

Can’t be worse with Handy. We’re now 17-18. I’m patient but hearing the coach saying ‘we have to be “more decisive” to break the Miami zone’ is just too lame. You have to make cuts to the middle, play inside out ball to make the zone collapse, and make the open three or get easy looks in the post if they don’t. More decisive? Try moving off the ball and stop turning it over.

[SlimShady83]

Wouldn't be surprised If thisteam Is In full rebuild next year LMAO

[kds92]

Easily the worst game the Lakers have played since the Westbrook trade. Seems like players quit on Ham. This jives with reports of Rui, Reaves, and Vando (all of which got new deals) complaining about inconsistent minutes and a lack of clarity on their roles.

[danfantastk32]

This team isn't very good. And it's heavily reliant on a declining star, and a star made of glass. It was a huge mistake to keep this team together. There were (are) massive flaws with both teams we beat in the playoffs, and that should have been recognized. When we played a good/complete team, we got swept. But most fans swept that aside, and talked about how close the games were.

Fans will be fans...but the FO should know better. Also should have recognized where Davis' value was at. This team should have sold essentially everything it could have. Nobody on this team has "it". Not even close. Lebron is the only player I'd consider top-notch, and even that is fading fast. Davis is great one night, off the next, and injury waits around every corner.

But even if you wrapped him in kevlar....this team is far from good enough to play for a title. The Lakers should have done everything they could last offseason to move everyone, and totally overhaul. Coach included. This guy is miles behind our last coach.

It's worse than a waste of a season. All the glitter surrounding our "plucky little squad" has fallen off. Good luck getting what we coulda got last offseason for this crew. Huge and obvious mistake, imo.

[stan francisco]

It’s the coaching, little else. A trade or two to improve our redundancies and shortcomings, sure. But it won’t help with Ham at the wheel. He’s clueless.

[joesha1698]

It's not the coaching. It's the personnel. They need a leadin scorer to take pressure off of a nearly 40 year old LeBron. It's that simple. Couple of other small holes but that's the biggest one. Did people forget that the coach overachieved last year?

[MAMBAEMD]

Last night's game convinced me that we need a change.
It was a horrendous display of turnovers and lack of offensive flow.

It is well known that Miami plays the zone frequently.
It is inexcusable not to be ready for it and not being able to attack it in different ways. Specially when you have someone like AD that can be a high post anchor to attack the zone.
And when the turnovers were mounting, there was no adjustment other than making a tired LBJ be the lone ball handler.

I'm not one to advocate for firing a coach too much, specially someone like Ham whom I like as a person and as a basketball coach, but this team needs a shakeup, and to bring someone in who can actually make in-game strategic adjustments.
This needs to happen in order to somehow salvage this season.

[Landsberger]

This team isn't very good. And it's heavily reliant on a declining star, and a star made of glass. It was a huge mistake to keep this team together. There were (are) massive flaws with both teams we beat in the playoffs, and that should have been recognized. When we played a good/complete team, we got swept. But most fans swept that aside, and talked about how close the games were.

Fans will be fans...but the FO should know better. Also should have recognized where Davis' value was at. This team should have sold essentially everything it could have. Nobody on this team has "it". Not even close. Lebron is the only player I'd consider top-notch, and even that is fading fast. Davis is great one night, off the next, and injury waits around every corner.

But even if you wrapped him in kevlar....this team is far from good enough to play for a title. The Lakers should have done everything they could last offseason to move everyone, and totally overhaul. Coach included. This guy is miles behind our last coach.

It's worse than a waste of a season. All the glitter surrounding our "plucky little squad" has fallen off. Good luck getting what we coulda got last offseason for this crew. Huge and obvious mistake, imo.

Oh I agree... but Jeannie and the others need dependable income and blowing up their cash cow and starting over isn't conducive to that paramount issue.

Any team that has to depend on Davis and Russell is in trouble. Tossing in a rapidly aging LeBron having to play 36 a night and you've got a recipe for barely crawling into the playoffs again.