The remaining 23 games

[xinxin]

There is still hope. Slim..

But there is hope…

These next 5 games will tell us whether it’s time to pack it up or not.


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[ROballer]

Thing is the other teams suck ass as well.

The Thunder have a big losing streak, the Pels as well. Utah managed to lose against the Spurs today.

Minny has snapped their 3 game L streak against the Clippers...who are now on a 3 game L streak on their own.
And Dallas can't seem to win with Irving/Doncic playing together.

We'll be in the mix even without Lebron because of this, but we do need Russell back at least.

After the Thunder game we begin our home stand. 10 of 12 games at home with the other two games against the Pelicans and Rockets on the road.

It's now or never to collect the W's.

[tamaraw08]

Thing is the other teams suck ass as well.

The Thunder have a big losing streak, the Pels as well. Utah managed to lose against the Spurs today.

Minny has snapped their 3 game L streak against the Clippers...who are now on a 3 game L streak on their own.
And Dallas can't seem to win with Irving/Doncic playing together.

We'll be in the mix even without Lebron because of this, but we do need Russell back at least.

After the Thunder game we begin our home stand. 10 of 12 games at home with the other two games against the Pelicans and Rockets on the road.

It's now or never to collect the W's.

AD seems to have regained his offensive rhythm but the real key here IMO is Darvin Ham's ability to create great offensive sets and defensive schemes, making timely adjustments etc.

[fteru6uhre54ew]

Thing is the other teams suck ass as well.

The Thunder have a big losing streak, the Pels as well. Utah managed to lose against the Spurs today.

Minny has snapped their 3 game L streak against the Clippers...who are now on a 3 game L streak on their own.
And Dallas can't seem to win with Irving/Doncic playing together.

We'll be in the mix even without Lebron because of this, but we do need Russell back at least.

After the Thunder game we begin our home stand. 10 of 12 games at home with the other two games against the Pelicans and Rockets on the road.

It's now or never to collect the W's.

AD seems to have regained his offensive rhythm but the real key here IMO is Darvin Ham's ability to create great offensive sets and defensive schemes, making timely adjustments etc.

And a lot of players like Beasley or Vando be consistents on offense and figured out. Something I can tell you it's going to be hard to watch without a guy who can create space for them and put them in the right play.

Yesterday that team was a mix of players in a court without know what they doing which is normal looking at the roster is a bunch of streaky role players and Davis who doesn't have anything of playmaking creating offense for others in his body. If the coach don't put them in a role and with a way to play and let them doing stupid things without know what they doing you are going to have this.

Like Lonney Walker yesterday or Reaves it's beautiful that you try for the team to win yes. But the guy was just trying to create something without know what he doing. All of this for don't have a leader on the court who can put the tempo and let them know what they have to do. Now this is on the coach too

[ROballer]

We need a semblance of a 2nd option offensively. Really **** bad.

Beasley and Schroder are hit and miss. Like really hard, they can give you 30 on one night and 5 on the other.

Russell needs to get his ass ready and play. We're gonna be okay with him, he's gonna solve a lot of the issues we had last night.
Game was lost because of turnovers, 26 vs 6. You can't do much about winning when there's that big of a difference.

Russell isn't an elite creator/passer but he's good enough to make it work against the teams we're going to play in the next 2 weeks.

[Pythagoras]

Short handed Lakers get the dub! D’Lo and AD should be back for this Friday’s game! I’ll never give up on the Lakers!

[LAKESHOW]

We got that Dubb!

[stan francisco]

We need a semblance of a 2nd option offensively. Really **** bad.

Beasley and Schroder are hit and miss. Like really hard, they can give you 30 on one night and 5 on the other.

Russell needs to get his ass ready and play. We're gonna be okay with him, he's gonna solve a lot of the issues we had last night.
Game was lost because of turnovers, 26 vs 6. You can't do much about winning when there's that big of a difference.

Russell isn't an elite creator/passer but he's good enough to make it work against the teams we're going to play in the next 2 weeks.

Behind LBJ and AD, Lonnie is our most naturally talented scorer, and he seems especially efficient when playing next to LBJ and AD. I see DLO as a playmaking SG, LBJ being our offensive PG.

Reaves? Yeast in bread. This team’s Luke.

In general offense is not the issue. Defense is. Good win against OKC tonight sans LBJ, AD, DLO

[Pythagoras]

We need a semblance of a 2nd option offensively. Really **** bad.

Beasley and Schroder are hit and miss. Like really hard, they can give you 30 on one night and 5 on the other.

Russell needs to get his ass ready and play. We're gonna be okay with him, he's gonna solve a lot of the issues we had last night.
Game was lost because of turnovers, 26 vs 6. You can't do much about winning when there's that big of a difference.

Russell isn't an elite creator/passer but he's good enough to make it work against the teams we're going to play in the next 2 weeks.

Looking like he should be back by Friday. This team can absolutely go 6-1 in their next 7 if D’Lo and AD have their gluteus maximuses out there for all those games.

[MAMBAEMD]

Short handed Lakers get the dub! D’Lo and AD should be back for this Friday’s game! I’ll never give up on the Lakers!

This!

[Beethoven]

Next 5 games are all home. We're here through March 12th.

We've got:

Minny
Memphis
Gsw
NYC
Toronto

If dlo comes back, I dont see how a scrappy team lead by dlo and Schroder can't beat these teams. I'd be worried about Toronto a bit, that's fine. However, we beat ourselves in the last Memphis game. Trust me, half those 24 turnovers were self-induced, just sloppy careless play and being unsure of what to do w the ball. We had no playmaker, until Schroder mentally decided to steer the ship in tonite's game. I figure dlo and Schroder will eat Memphis alive next time we play them next week.

[tamaraw08]

We need a semblance of a 2nd option offensively. Really **** bad.

Beasley and Schroder are hit and miss. Like really hard, they can give you 30 on one night and 5 on the other.

Russell needs to get his ass ready and play. We're gonna be okay with him, he's gonna solve a lot of the issues we had last night.
Game was lost because of turnovers, 26 vs 6. You can't do much about winning when there's that big of a difference.

Russell isn't an elite creator/passer but he's good enough to make it work against the teams we're going to play in the next 2 weeks.

True about their inconsistency but it's not just Beasley and Schroder though, pretty much everyone like Troy Brown Jr who will get hot once every 5 games or so. It's also about finding ways to score like get to the line, making a great pass esp when they penetrate, hit open teammates, for me Reaves has been doing that. Walker is good attacking the lanes too.
My main issue with Russell is that this guy seems so reluctant to make sacrifices. I don't know what is going on with his ankle sprain but from way back, he seems to choose not to play when feels any pain even when there's no structural damage in his body.
Schroder, Kobe and other players would tolerate pain and elect to play, I don't see that with guys like Russell, Rose, etc.

[TheHartBreakKid]

Reality of it is that things aren't looking good. Even if Lebron comes back in exactly 3 weeks from today, the Lakers would need to go probably 5-5 in the next 10 games to be in the conversation for the play-in, with 9 more games to go at that point.

Next 10 games:

vs Wolves (I doubt Towns will be back by tomorrow)
vs Warriors ( Curry should be back)
vs Grizzlies
vs Raptors
vs Knicks
@ Pelicans (Zion should be back)- 1st of B2b
@ Rockets- end of B2B
vs Mavs
vs Magic
vs Suns


It's not impossible, but without Lebron, a 5-5 record for the first 10 games seems very challenging. 7/10 are home games, in the bright side.

After these 3 weeks, the Lakers finish the season with a favorable schedule for the final 9, 2 games against the Jazz, 2 games against the Bulls, with 1 game against each of the Rockets, Thunder, Wolves, Clippers, and Suns. I think a 6-3 record for the last 9, along with 5-5 in the first 10, would get them in the play-in with 41-41 to finish the season.

The obvious concerns are:

- Lebron actually coming back in 3 weeks. All signs point to it being way longer than that
- Actually managing to stay afloat in the next 3 weeks. DLO is ruled out for tomorrow. Schedule is home-heavy, but far from easy.
- AD staying healthy until Lebron comes back . AD might play tomorrow, but it seems like he might miss a game or two during that whole stretch, even in the best case scenario.

Like I said, it's not impossible, especially because the small sample size since the deadline tells us that the Lakers seem to be less dependant on Lebron offensively.

The bright side? If they somehow manage to make the play-in, I think this team is a force to deal with. It's unlikely, but I'm not calling it yet.

[xinxin]

being a lakers fan for more than 4 decades now, you get the good with the bad.

the injuries suck, but they are part of the game.

Hoping that they'll catch a break or 2 before the season ends & this team actually makes the playoffs..

I dont want the lakers ending up in the lottery & seeing the pick go to NOP...

[chefy]

Warriors gonna try to lose tonight watch

[tamaraw08]

Reality of it is that things aren't looking good. Even if Lebron comes back in exactly 3 weeks from today, the Lakers would need to go probably 5-5 in the next 10 games to be in the conversation for the play-in, with 9 more games to go at that point.

Next 10 games:

vs Wolves (I doubt Towns will be back by tomorrow)
vs Warriors ( Curry should be back)
vs Grizzlies
vs Raptors
vs Knicks
@ Pelicans (Zion should be back)- 1st of B2b
@ Rockets- end of B2B
vs Mavs
vs Magic
vs Suns


It's not impossible, but without Lebron, a 5-5 record for the first 10 games seems very challenging. 7/10 are home games, in the bright side.

After these 3 weeks, the Lakers finish the season with a favorable schedule for the final 9, 2 games against the Jazz, 2 games against the Bulls, with 1 game against each of the Rockets, Thunder, Wolves, Clippers, and Suns. I think a 6-3 record for the last 9, along with 5-5 in the first 10, would get them in the play-in with 41-41 to finish the season.

The obvious concerns are:

- Lebron actually coming back in 3 weeks. All signs point to it being way longer than that
- Actually managing to stay afloat in the next 3 weeks. DLO is ruled out for tomorrow. Schedule is home-heavy, but far from easy.
- AD staying healthy until Lebron comes back . AD might play tomorrow, but it seems like he might miss a game or two during that whole stretch, even in the best case scenario.

Like I said, it's not impossible, especially because the small sample size since the deadline tells us that the Lakers seem to be less dependant on Lebron offensively.

The bright side? If they somehow manage to make the play-in, I think this team is a force to deal with. It's unlikely, but I'm not calling it yet.

For Me, D'Lo, AD and esp Ham are the keys here.
Beating the T'Wolves is huge bec, Minnie also goes to Sac,
then face tough teams like Phillie,
Boston,
Hawks (with a legit coach)twice,
then go on the road 6 of 7 games (vs NY,Suns,Warriors,Kings), then face Lakers again. They lose 70% of those games, they might just fully unravel.
Utah face Rockets twice then will go against teams like Boston2x,
Kings 2x,
Bucks,
Heat,
Suns etc.
Pelicans goes to GS (2x),Kings, then face
Dallas, then several bad teams then face Clips 2x, Nuggets etc.

[bb22]

This comes more out of frustration…I’m not sure what injury Lebron has, but there’s been no actual diagnosis other than some vague “tendon injury” in the foot. No real diagnosis released. There’s talk it’s a chronic injury, or acute on chronic after he heard that pop, but man I know he looked pretty athletic out there despite what happened. Kobe would have been playing through this if there was a chance to make the playoffs. There must be little belief that this squad will make it.

[crazy8ights]

Season done just fooling ourselves wish we had DLO and squad sooner but I feel it's too late.

[LAKESHOW]

It is too late. Its all about chemistry. And we needed to build that during the off season. We have a squad now. But we wasted so much time with Westbrook.
Play in

[TheHartBreakKid]

Utah loses vs OKC and so does Portland vs ATL.
Pels have a tough game against the warriors.
A win tonight would be massive.

KAT is still out. AD is playing. It’s a winnable home game