Gamethread: Lakers vs OKC back to back games coming up

[Beethoven]

Lol
denver gsw Memphis minn clippers are all at
32 losses each.

Unbelievable.

Any one of these teams can end their season with homecourt or felled into the play-in.

Crazy

[TylersLakers]

Floored the Lakers won today. Let’s goooo!!

[danfantastk32]

Great win. Huge win. Not entirely sure what to make of it....I mean, we couldn't miss. We've "died by the sword" with the three's a bit lately, but tonight we lived. Defense was good. SGA did a little carving....but any great player's gonna do that.

So I dunno....we keep passing tests. We've beaten better teams lately. Good to see. Our defense is stepping up. Still have us as one hell of a long shot to actually win the thing. But we're not out. That said......we're not gonna shoot 55% from the 3 very often. But it's not like we won by 6 points either. This was a game we prob win, even if we weren't shooting lights out. I suppose Tues will tell. I'm looking forward to how we deal with their "punch back" on Tues....and we're prob not shooting lights out either. Win or lose...let's not get rolled please. If we lose a hard-fought game by 5-6 points, I'm ok with that. I just don't wanna come away from Tues game thinking this was a fluke.

[stan francisco]

Good game! Nasty offensive performance from the three. Dagger after dagger.

Our coaches did a good job coming up with a plan to stop SGA. The players executed. Let’s repeat tomorrow!

[Beethoven]

Yeah in reply to both of you

The offense was nasty but I'm figuring okc was only driving in second gear the whole game. I wouldn't doubt they do the same in the next game. I don't think they care about home court with cavs because I don't think anyone believes they'll make it out of the east.

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On top of that, the high volume of made 3pters definitely makes me think we live and die by that shot. I don't like that feeling. I'd like to see us win games more interior like previous years when made 3pts were a rare thing for us (although of course there were worse things in previous years)

[Hans1984]

For whatever reason OKC decided to not show up for this game. Still a nice win.

[Beethoven]

For whatever reason OKC decided to not show up for this game. Still a nice win.

From the reports looks like they will have a full roster again. But whether they show up mentally or not, yeah dunno hopefully we can win again, but there is speculation that Lakers will sit out key players.

[SlimShady83]

They're just resting their players for the Dallas game, relax people.

Although Luka right groin, Bron left groin makes me

[Beethoven]

Dont want them to rest up for any game, they should just let them play okc again at full force since okc is too. If we win this game tonite, we can relax on the dallas game.

[Beethoven]

When we play tonite, Lakers have to continually think they are much better than this okc team. That this okc team is mediocre at best.

[Hank7]

Let's GO!

[SlimShady83]

Bout to finish work, seeing the results lol

[Beethoven]

Punk ass ref

[stan francisco]

It was fairly even until the fourth quarter.

[Hans1984]

I can't stand Luka complaining all game long on every possession. Eventually it's going to backfire on him and today it did.
He's too good of a player to do that. Your credibility with the refs is important. He's still young so there's still hope that he learns it at some point.

[danfantastk32]

I can't stand Luka complaining all game long on every possession. Eventually it's going to backfire on him and today it did.
He's too good of a player to do that. Your credibility with the refs is important. He's still young so there's still hope that he learns it at some point.

Plays a huge roll in why I was hesitant to get him. He's an amazing player....but he's such a little b**** out there sometimes. It's really annoying. I really hope he "grows out of it" or the refs just start suspending him (not now...maybe next season!) and it stops. It's shameful.

[danfantastk32]

Well, I didn't think we'd win a single game against them, and we split them....so I'll take it. OKC shot damn near 50% from the 3....(we didn't fair much worse, shooting 45%) so it is what it is. SGA showed why he's one of the best players right now. Threw the team on his shoulders, and carried them to a win. While our new star got himself ejected......let's hope that corrects.

Is what it is. The bad part here, is we turn right around, and play Dallas tonight. Kinda need the win. We're 1-point ahead of about 4 teams. We could go from 3rd to 9th in a couple games. Let's hope Lebron can muster up some of that youth for the next 12 hours, and get this thing.

[Beethoven]

Luka will need a life coach to get out of that habit.