Saturday Gamethread: Lakers vs Denver

[SlimShady83]

Nuggets vs. Lakers Injury Report

Nuggets: DaRon Holmes: Out For Season (Achilles), Peyton Watson: Out (Knee), Vlatko Cancar: Out (Knee)

Lakers: Maximilian Kleber: Out (Foot), Luka Doncic Day-To-Day (Injury Management), Jarred Vanderbilt: Day-To-Day (Foot)

Slims Keys To The Game

* Rebounds
* Limit Turnovers
* Containing others not named Jokic, Jokic going to do Jokic things no matter what, It's about defending the others and making their shots tough.
* Speaking of Jokic, I want Lakers to force him to pass, not get easy drives to the basket when his on the 3point line and when his posting up force him to pass.

[stan francisco]

I think we’ll beat them tomorrow.

Choke Murray’s output and we win.

Defense: DFS, please be a total pest for Murray. Double team him with size.

Offense: Defense is our best offense because we’ll get a chance to run the break until Joker needs to sit. In Denver, yeah.

In the half court I’d post up Murray every possession all night using Bron, Rui, DFS and size Jemison, Hayes. Back him down and wear him out. Inside out.

Len, time to show what you can do on defense. Good luck. Hayes, let’s see if you can out-play him intensity wise. Jemison’s strength might wear him out. Use all 6.

[tamaraw08]

OMG, After missing almost a year, Vando now is again on a day to day status dealing with a foot injury and he has 3-4 more seasons guaranteed?

[stan francisco]

OMG, After missing almost a year, Vando now is again on a day to day status dealing with a foot injury and he has 3-4 more seasons guaranteed?

Unless there’s strong medical reason to believe this will change, it might be worth buying him out. I love his tenacious D but he sadly seems to be a constantly injured.

Good thing we’ve got DFS and Rui. Rui does a good job on Joker switches.

Looking forward to beating the Nuggets on their home court tonight.

[Danny Darko]

but then Vando goes out and insert Luka... so

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[MAMBAEMD]

Love our defense over this last stretch.
That's been the key.

Even AR is playing very solid D. He had some key defensive plays in the last 3 minutes against POR.
DFS, Gabe, Hayes, Vando, and Rui are playing terrific tough nosed individual and team D.

That'll be the key against Denver too. Murray and Jokic are tough and will get theirs but we can't let Gordon and Porter go off on us like they always do.

Luka better play and give us something special today. This would be a great statement game for him.

[SlimShady83]

Wonder how Lakers going to use Jemison against Jokic?

[SlimShady83]

Love our defense over this last stretch.
That's been the key.

This game going to come down to who ever plays better defense IMO

[SlimShady83]

OMG, After missing almost a year, Vando now is again on a day to day status dealing with a foot injury and he has 3-4 more seasons guaranteed?

Got to give him rest If his not feeling It, don't want to make It worse and have him sit out even longer.

[tamaraw08]

Wonder how Lakers going to use Jemison against Jokic?

I say throw 3-4 different defenders and see if he can drop 40 efficient points while Vando, DFS, Lebron, Vincent do everything they can to limit the rest from wreaking havoc.

[tamaraw08]

OMG, After missing almost a year, Vando now is again on a day to day status dealing with a foot injury and he has 3-4 more seasons guaranteed?

Got to give him rest If his not feeling It, don't want to make It worse and have him sit out even longer.

more rest? he had like what, 350 days of rest and therapy before he played 3 weeks ago?

[Danny Darko]

challenge issued by coach:

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[Danny Darko]

OMG, After missing almost a year, Vando now is again on a day to day status dealing with a foot injury and he has 3-4 more seasons guaranteed?

Got to give him rest If his not feeling It, don't want to make It worse and have him sit out even longer.

more rest? he had like what, 350 days of rest and therapy before he played 3 weeks ago?

feet are bad injuries... I'm quite sure Vando isn't just lazy. It is what it is... nagging physiological issues.

[tamaraw08]

but then Vando goes out and insert Luka... so

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although Vando has been great with his ability to cover more space so quickly etc, he has been on strict minutes restriction so I think they would miss Chrisie more.
But the biggest difference imo has been Lebron’s focus and energy compared to his first 20 games.

[SlimShady83]

Got to give him rest If his not feeling It, don't want to make It worse and have him sit out even longer.

more rest? he had like what, 350 days of rest and therapy before he played 3 weeks ago?

feet are bad injuries... I'm quite sure Vando isn't just lazy. It is what it is... nagging physiological issues.

maybe needs more then 350days

[SlimShady83]

Tipoff about to start ... This game separates the men from the boys

Let's Go Lakers!

[Danny Darko]

Luka Defense!

[SlimShady83]

Defense needs to step In now...

Luka making Hayes an allstar, really need to get a center to can catch Luka's lobs etc.

[SlimShady83]

They're making Jokic pass the ball, need to keep It up force him to pass.

[SlimShady83]

ohhhh Rock the baby Russ haha