Monday 1/16 MLK Day Game Thread

Mamba Mentality · Post #81 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:02 am

brah Sengun calm down

Bank Shot · Post #82 » by **Bank Shot** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:04 am

I think Smith will be fine. Not being able to create at all is going to stop him from being a star, but he's got the tools to be a high-end role player.

Green seems like he's headed down the path of "not good enough to be a top option on a good team and not useful when he doesn't get to be a top option". That's always a bad spot to land.

Sengun is great.

DTP · Post #83 » by **DTP** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:08 am

Feel like people are overreacting to Houston.....get them a competent coach & point guard and things will start to come together.

Mamba Mentality · Post #84 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:09 am

Lakers are literally treating this game like a scrimmage. Gonna bite them in the ass in the 4th quarter.

The High Cyde · Post #85 » by **The High Cyde** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:11 am

Get that 50 piece Bron!

Sengun too haha

Post #86 » by **dockingsched** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:17 am

They’re just forcing Según to switch onto the ball and guard Lebron every time lol

knicksNOTslick · Post #87 » by **knicksNOTslick** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:19 am

GeorgeSears wrote:This season has really exposed DeAndre Ayton. Watching him against the Nuggets over the last couple of years, I thought he was arguably a top 5 center playing in a great system.

I think I was half right. He was part of a great system, but he's not a top 5 center.

To only get 5 rebounds and stand there and watch your team get outrebounded by 20 and then blown out by 30 is just unacceptable. Without the 2-man game with an elite PG, he can't really do anything.

I dunno, I don't want to evaluate Ayton's production this season. You can kinda see he's checked out of Phoenix. He signed the offer sheet with Indiana in the offseason and he has already indicated he wanted out of there. The Suns should oblige him and trade him to another team before they lose all leverage. He doesn't want to be there. I get why they matched so that they don't lose him for nothing.

But why hold on to him now?

K_chile22 · Post #88 » by **K_chile22** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:19 am

Jalen last year was good about actually attacking off the catch and not stopping the ball. Was cautious of over dribbling. Even when the shot wasn't falling the process was solid. That's gone now. He over dribbles every time he touches the ball. He stops and jabs off the catch. This team is creating bad habits, not fixing them. Get a PG and get a real coach that will hold someone accountable

Mamba Mentality · Post #89 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:20 am

Lakers half court offense is brutal. Good thing the Rockets are a hot mess on defense and Lebron is going bonkers this quarter.

Mamba Mentality · Post #90 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:24 am

Mamba Mentality wrote:Lakers are literally treating this game like a scrimmage. Gonna bite them in the ass in the 4th quarter.

Didn't even have to wait for the 4th quarter. This team is pathetic.

rocketsfan100 · Post #91 » by **rocketsfan100** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:25 am

If the lakers lose this it will be a humiliating defeat of epic proportions

K_chile22 · Post #92 » by **K_chile22** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:26 am

Jalen coming alive finally

Dr Aki · Post #93 » by **Dr Aki** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:27 am

rocketsfan100 wrote:If the lakers lose this it will be a humiliating defeat of epic proportions

not really

lakers have had plenty of other really humiliating defeats that were way worse

B-easy · Post #94 » by **B-easy** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:28 am

Sengun has future MVP potential. He looks really good and only 20yo.

K_chile22 · Post #95 » by **K_chile22** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:29 am

Ngl I'd rather lose and Sengun get 40 than win and he not get there lmao wins mean nothing for this team but the statline would make me happy

Scoundreldays · Post #96 » by **Scoundreldays** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:29 am

Wonder which team it will be to implode in the 4th quarter. Rockets did yesterday but Lakers do as well from time to time

K_chile22 · Post #97 » by **K_chile22** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:37 am

Does Silas think leftover timeouts count as points at the end of the game? Lakers on a huge run and Sengun, their best player, has been standing at the scorers table for several minutes and he's holding onto them like they're gold

Mamba Mentality · Post #98 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:44 am

Thomas Bryant gonna have nightmares for weeks after what Sengun did to him tonight.

CptCrunch · Post #99 » by **CptCrunch** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:44 am

K_chile22 wrote:Does Silas think leftover timeouts count as points at the end of the game? Lakers on a huge run and Sengun, their best player, has been standing at the scorers table for several minutes and he's holding onto them like they're gold

He wants to go home

Roscoe Sheed · Post #100 » by **Roscoe Sheed** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:44 am

Great block by Sengun!

Who wins?