Gamethread: Lakers vs Wolves game#24 LOSS 97-87

SlimShady83 · Post #1 » by **SlimShady83** » Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:12 pm

Lakers injury report
Anthony Davis (foot) is probable. Austin Reaves (pelvis) is questionable. LeBron James (foot), Jarred Vanderbilt (knee), Jaxson Hayes (ankle), and Christian Wood (knee) are out.

Timberwolves injury report
Joe Ingles (calf) is out.

Slims Keys To The Game

* Bench, with pretty much everyone out, It's all up the rookie and bench players :lol:

oh I guess DLO to increase his trade value this game?

* Just have some heart, hustle, energy, just have fun out there, this going to be a blowout loss, show case our bench and everyone playing.

I think AD will play as his probable, but If he doesn't there's no chance of winnig, I think AD should sit.

Players to watch; Knecht, Max, Olivari ... I want to see a tone of Olivari minutes, really want to see what he has.

Let's go Lakers!

SlimShady83 · Post #2 » by **SlimShady83** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 1:16 am

In Max I trust lol

SlimShady83 · Post #3 » by **SlimShady83** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 1:23 am

limit turnovers please

SlimShady83 · Post #4 » by **SlimShady83** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 1:25 am

Nice work Knecht for not settling for the 3

SlimShady83 · Post #5 » by **SlimShady83** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 3:12 am

Shouldn't DLO be getting 20 + this game? SMH can't wait until his gone.

SlimShady83 · Post #6 » by **SlimShady83** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 3:27 am

DLO Stats ... 2-10 FG, 1-7 3pt, 4reb, 5pts, +/- -8

Also why can't Olivari get some minutes?

Landsberger · Post #7 » by **Landsberger** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 3:58 pm

SlimShady83 wrote:Shouldn't DLO be getting 20 + this game? SMH can't wait until his gone.

says the fans of every team he's been on.

Luckiest player ever... traded to get rid of garbage by us. Traded and signed for a max to facilitate the Durant trade. Traded by GS to clear space and traded for by us to rid ourselves of Westbrook (or garbage). We re-signed him to trade him as well.

Nobody, other than us by drafting him, has sought his services... rather he's been a tool to rid teams of players they no longer wanted.

Don't feel sorry for him... he's made $100M in the process.

danfantastk32 · Post #8 » by **danfantastk32** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 6:25 pm

Landsberger wrote:
SlimShady83 wrote:Shouldn't DLO be getting 20 + this game? SMH can't wait until his gone.

says the fans of every team he's been on.

Quote of the year for me :lol:

danfantastk32 · Post #9 » by **danfantastk32** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 6:34 pm

Had to look it up....the guy's made over $150mil....prob cleared $80. I wouldn't be shocked if these guys aer all corporations, and figure out how to get that number back up near $110-ish cleared earnings.

I'm not this kinda guy at all.....but how ridiculous and unfair, that this dude has made $100-ish mil?! It's nuts. Giant middle-finger to so many 10's of thousands....if not millions of people who are actually REALLY REALLY good at their job. Like I said, I'm not this kinda guy normally.....if you can get yours, then great. I don't subscribe to the theory that in order to get yours, you gotta take from me. But with that said...I wouldn't mind seeing sports numbers come back down to earth a little....across the boards. Perhaps tickets could come back down to reality too.....Uh OH!!!! Maybe Ive been wrong about this all along! :oops:

Landsberger · Post #10 » by **Landsberger** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:15 pm

danfantastk32 wrote:Had to look it up....the guy's made over $150mil....prob cleared $80. I wouldn't be shocked if these guys aer all corporations, and figure out how to get that number back up near $110-ish cleared earnings.

I'm not this kinda guy at all.....but how ridiculous and unfair, that this dude has made $100-ish mil?! It's nuts. Giant middle-finger to so many 10's of thousands....if not millions of people who are actually REALLY REALLY good at their job. Like I said, I'm not this kinda guy normally.....if you can get yours, then great. I don't subscribe to the theory that in order to get yours, you gotta take from me. But with that said...I wouldn't mind seeing sports numbers come back down to earth a little....across the boards. Perhaps tickets could come back down to reality too.....Uh OH!!!! Maybe Ive been wrong about this all along!

He was lucky that Durant wanted to go to NJ... he was the only asset they could get back and GS had to sign him to a max to make it work. GS was smart enough to move him before more "film" was created. Russell has helped teams by being traded away from them. Kuzma was more valuable than he ever was. Interesting that sending Kuzma out to get Westbrook also brought Russell back.

GS got better as well. It's debatable if we got better by trading for him to get rid of Westbrook. As bad as he was for us I'm not sure Russell has offset that.

His wealth is a product of being bad enough in the right place at the right time to benefit financially from the rules of the NBA.