Saturday Gamethread: Lakers vs Boston

[SlimShady83]

Celtics vs. Lakers Injury Report

Celtics: Jrue Holiday: Day-To-Day (Hand), Jaylen Brown: Day-To-Day (Knee), Kristaps Porzingis: Day-To-Day (Illness), Sam Hauser: Day-To-Day (Ankle), Al Horford: Day-To-Day (Toe)

Lakers: Maximilian Kleber: Out (Foot), Jordan Goodwin: Day-To-Day (Ankle), Markieff Morris: Day-To-Day (Illness), Rui Hachimura: Day-To-Day (Knee)


Slims Keys To The Game

* always defense
* Rebounds out rebound Boston and win the game
* Limit turnover keep them under 15 - They had 16 vs Knicks.

Lakers already beat Boston this year b4 the Luka trade, can Lakers beat them again with Luka.

Getting this thread up early as I might be too busy to do It later, may or may not be home to watch, hoping to be home In time

** I won't be doing next few gamethreads so feel free to make them or use Stans gamethread

Peace.

*** Lakers vs Knicks highlights of last game

Watch on YouTube

*** Lakers vs Boston Highlights b4 the Luka trade

Watch on YouTube

[Beethoven]

This is the real test.

The other games prior do not compare to this one.


This is it fellas

[Beethoven]

There's a good chance both Luka and Lebron sit this one out? AR show

[Bob8]

There's a good chance both Luka and Lebron sit this one out? AR show

No way.

[Beethoven]

[SlimShady83]

[stan francisco]

There's a good chance both Luka and Lebron sit this one out? AR show

We can still beat them. PoTatum and Jaylen won’t like seeing Vando and DFS hound them with full court pressure and swarming defense for 36 minutes. It’ll hurt to play us without Luka and Bron.

[LAKESHOW]

Good start. And our forwards need to be active!

[DorianRo]

No D no stops

[Beethoven]

What happened to lebron?

[Tracymcgoaty]

Sucks that Lebron got injured. We are seriously spread thin without Hayes-Rui--Bron

Hopefully it's not that serious but probably 1-2 weeks at least. Add on top of that Rui isn't playing this road trip. Luka magic time. We should win the next two games i think. Brooklyn easily and Bucks aren't all that good.

[stan francisco]

Let’s hope he gets well soon. Let it take the time it takes.

[danfantastk32]

Let’s hope he gets well soon. Let it take the time it takes.

Agreed. This might be a little blessing in disguise.....give Lebron a couple weeks rest. As long as we don't go and lose every game.

[Beethoven]

[danfantastk32]

Hearing he's out for 1-2 weeks. Assuming it doesn't turn into a month, I don't have huge issue with this. I think it will be good - long run. Obviously not good....but there is a silver lining here, I hope.

[Apz]

Hearing he's out for 1-2 weeks. Assuming it doesn't turn into a month, I don't have huge issue with this. I think it will be good - long run. Obviously not good....but there is a silver lining here, I hope.

Dont see anything good with it. Luka seemed to deal with pain all game, and now he will be asked to do everything so would not surprise me if he go down instead. My guess is luka sits out monday and either denver or bucls game later in the week. Typical to get injuries when going into a tough part of the schedule

[NBAWestFan]

Lakers got exposed.

Boston is a well rounded team where as the lakers have a great coach but Tatum Brown and crew are in their primes and in great shape.

Lakers gonna need young athelitic players to keep up for years to come.

Rui, Vando, DFS looks good for the future and AR and Dalton are great shooters but something is missing to beat Boston.

Gonna need one more younger Superstar.

[danfantastk32]

Lakers got exposed.

Boston is a well rounded team where as the lakers have a great coach but Tatum Brown and crew are in their primes and in great shape.

Lakers gonna need young athelitic players to keep up for years to come.

Rui, Vando, DFS looks good for the future and AR and Dalton are great shooters but something is missing to beat Boston.

Gonna need one more younger Superstar.

I agree. I don't expect a title this season. Not at all. I don't think we're "out" of any series....but the math ain't good. But that's ok. This is a "rebuild" so to speak. Gonna take a minute.

[tamaraw08]

Lakers got exposed.

Boston is a well rounded team where as the lakers have a great coach but Tatum Brown and crew are in their primes and in great shape.

Lakers gonna need young athelitic players to keep up for years to come.

Rui, Vando, DFS looks good for the future and AR and Dalton are great shooters but something is missing to beat Boston.

Gonna need one more younger Superstar.

I agree. I don't expect a title this season. Not at all. I don't think we're "out" of any series....but the math ain't good. But that's ok. This is a "rebuild" so to speak. Gonna take a minute.

Math wouldn’t look good if the basis is this one solitary game on the road missing 2 starters and a very bad shooting 2nd half while 2 of their best players playing great.
One game.
Are the Lakers legit contenders? Probably not without a decent center IMO, but I think of that GSW team that won a couple of rings, I still don’t know how they did though.

[danfantastk32]

Are the Lakers legit contenders? Probably not without a decent center IMO, but I think of that GSW team that won a couple of rings, I still don’t know how they did though.

I think we are more or less on same page. There are a few teams that I "wouldn't bet my house on" in a series. OKC, Cavs, Denver come to mind. As you said....we've got a huge hole in center...and I'm not much of a fan of our starting PF either.

But if Lebron and Luka are healthy...I won't count us out.

We will have plenty of work to do this offseason. But we'll get to that in July.