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Liver_Pooty · Post #81 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:20 am

Now they start giving Lamelo free throws with the game over. Lol. I'm not kidding when I say lamelo needs to take acting classes. Start popping that head back if he gets even touched. Scream. Flail around. Act like you're dying.

KembaWalker · Post #82 » by **KembaWalker** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:20 am

LaMelo clears Franz easily but damn give the kid some help

Liver_Pooty · Post #83 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:22 am

Regardless we nearly had 30 turnovers. Again. We deserved to lose.

Post #84 » by **yosemiteben** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:22 am

This game hurt my heart. What an awful game.

JustBuzzin · Post #85 » by **JustBuzzin** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:24 am

Melo literally scored more than half our points for the entire game.

This roster lacks balance. If guys can't get healthy find someone who will. Time to start thinking trades because these dudes in street clothes are costing us games.

Liver_Pooty · Post #86 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:25 am

Lol not going to lie Lamelo just had KCP in an arm bar

Liver_Pooty · Post #87 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:32 am

What a horrifying game to watch.

KembaWalker · Post #88 » by **KembaWalker** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:33 am

Reading GB and Orl game thread is a painful degree of brain drain but I can’t fully blame them for watching that and blaming LaMelo or his playstyle while he absolutely cooked them all night long, because nobody else was even deserving of looking at on our team. You can’t blame what you can’t see

Post #89 » by **JDR720** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:33 am

I don't think we've ever had a team this unbalanced on offense,

Post #90 » by **yosemiteben** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:35 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:What a horrifying game to watch.

It was fun for a bit when we were both comically awful. It got less fun when we were more comically awful than they were.

75 FGAs to 26 TOs. That is very not good.

Sweet lord in heaven please let Melo's ankles hold up, because that is the only thing keeping this team watchable right now.

NSJ has officially jumped Micic.

You know Lee is reaching when he's running out lineups with both NSJ and Simpson.

Post #91 » by **JDR720** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:35 am

Like, we have like 4 players on the whole team who are above average at their positions on offense.

Liver_Pooty · Post #92 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:35 am

KembaWalker wrote:Reading GB and Orl game thread is a painful degree of brain drain but I can’t fully blame them for watching that and blaming LaMelo or his playstyle while he absolutely cooked them all night long, because nobody else was even deserving of looking at on our team. You can’t blame what you can’t see

It's okay when Steph plays this way though. Maybe Lamelo should start doing the shimmy and the night night.

Post #93 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:48 am

They didn’t lose by 30 this time. Not a lot of bright spots come to mind. Some LaMelo plays, Tiddy’s near dunk and 1. Cody had a nice interception. Dinner was good.

Looking forward to having a starting caliber center to watch soon.

Liver_Pooty · Post #94 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 3:33 am

We need Lamelo and Brandons minutes to go down a little. Especially Brandons. Not like we have other choices right now but 38 40 40 stuff like that. Eh. Not a fan.

EmpireFalls · Post #95 » by **EmpireFalls** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 3:41 am

JDR720 wrote:Like, we have like 4 players on the whole team who are above average at their positions on offense.

Who’s the 3rd and 4th outside of Melo/Miller?

Liver_Pooty · Post #96 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 3:43 am

EmpireFalls wrote:
JDR720 wrote:Like, we have like 4 players on the whole team who are above average at their positions on offense.

Who’s the 3rd and 4th outside of Melo/Miller?

Tre.

Green can shoot a good deep ball in rhythm. He knows his role though and I respect that he knows it. Box scores don't reflect what he does.

Edit: And Miles who we might miss more than a legit center.

MPM · Post #97 » by **MPM** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:34 pm

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am grateful to have missed this game.

KembaWalker · Post #98 » by **KembaWalker** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 1:10 pm

Gary Harris played for 7 minutes before injury and out scored 3 of our starters and over half the bench. By hitting one shot

Rich4114 · Post #99 » by **Rich4114** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 3:24 pm

The problem with this offense is it's 100% perimeter focused. There are no big men and thus, there is no rim pressure or inside game. It's actually remarkable LaMelo is doing what he's doing. He's playing at MVP levels on offense but it's only enough to keep us in games and maybe steal one here and there. Even if Miller is also cooking, it won't make a difference if we can't get some kind of offensive flow outside of LaMelo and Miller. Someone else has to at least be a threat.

JMAC3 · Post #100 » by **JMAC3** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 3:56 pm

Did not watch the game live, but looked like a big theme was we really missed the floor spacing of Grant Williams at the 5. LaMelo was living in the paint 12 fgs made inside of 5 ft but Orlando wasn't stressed on the perimeter with shooting with Taj and Moussa. Nor were they were worried about the roll man beating them. At least with Grant we also could flip it out for a 3pt shot.

On other side we saw Jonathan Issac stretching the floor as the 5 for Orlando and he hit 3 big threes for them.