Lakers Preseason Gamethread

[SlimShady83]

Finally! Basketball is back, I mean it's just preseason but still I can't wait.

This thread for all your preseason Laker games, you know what to do, get your leaguepass ready people

See you all Friday with a few drinks and basketball

[Apz]

Ofc its the first time in the 10 years working here i have accepted working an extra shift. Not that it really matters, still havent decided if i should get leaguepass this year. Might hold out til we see what punishment clippers get. Kinda refuse to give money to corrupt organizations

[SlimShady83]

Ofc its the first time in the 10 years working here i have accepted working an extra shift. Not that it really matters, still havent decided if i should get leaguepass this year. Might hold out til we see what punishment clippers get. Kinda refuse to give money to corrupt organizations

lol, Don't worry bud, it's long wknd here in Aus and even my work asked for me to come in on Saturday (today), I said no can do big daddy, basketball is back on and most likely will be hung over as I like to drink on Friday's lols, I thought it was yesterday my time as it said Friday, I forgot and it's Sat my time lols, none the less we're back. Can't wait for tip off.

[SlimShady83]

First half = Suns 57 Lakers 44

- Rui, Reaves doing their thing on offense
- Vando, doing Vando things on defense, but we need him to hit those 3's SMH 0-2
- Team defense is well, a little Shady LOL
- Not much seen of Angry Ayton, hopefully come regular season it is only preseason

Play of the half = Reaves to Hayes allyoop.

[SlimShady83]

2nd half = Suns 103 Lakers 81

3rd quarter blow out

What I'd like to see more of

-team defense and more communication
- run more plays for Ayton, hopefully Luka/Bron will it's only preseason

[Ball so hard]

Bronny is not even 3rd-string quality. Still don’t know what the coaching staff see in him. Unfortnately, Knecht is also only marginally better.

[SlimShady83]

Game 2: Lakers vs Warriors

First Half - Lakers 55- GSW 62

Highlight
- Vando hit a 3 omg
- Gabe with a buzzer 1st quarter nice
- Ayton will do better at pick n roll, wait until his with Luka
- Vando defense and hustle man, hope he can stay healthy

[Ball so hard]

Hayes is not a rotation big on any playoffs team. We desperately need a better backup. It’s mind blowing to even think this was a starting big last year.

[SlimShady83]

Hayes is not a rotation big on any playoffs team. We desperately need a better backup. It’s mind blowing to even think this was a starting big last year.

Wouldn't mind Vucevic from Bulls? not sure who for - Gabe/Maxi?

[SlimShady83]

Final Score =

Lakers = 103 GSW = 111

3rd quarter blow out

[Beethoven]

Nice.


I think.

[Apz]

Damn. NBA league pass silently went from 100 euro to 150ish euro this season(might be 140, not checked conversion rates today). Im getting more and more doubtful ill get it this year. But hey, we need to pay them supermaxes in the league

[tamaraw08]

Hayes is not a rotation big on any playoffs team. We desperately need a better backup. It’s mind blowing to even think this was a starting big last year.

Lakers traded 3 SRP's and D'Lo for DFS last January.
Lakers then just let him walk away for nothing in the Summer.
I can't help but wonder if the Lakers should have went after Nick Richards(traded by Charlotte for Okogie and 3 SRP'S. instead of DFS.
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[SlimShady83]

Miss weekday games live so now watching when home if nothing to do.

Ayton with 14-8-5 vs Warriors, my predictions have been 20-12-5 and he did the 14-8-5 in just 26minutes, he'll be fine

[Bob8]

Damn. NBA league pass silently went from 100 euro to 150ish euro this season(might be 140, not checked conversion rates today). Im getting more and more doubtful ill get it this year. But hey, we need to pay them supermaxes in the league

I'm paying 89 €. (1 device)

[LAKESHOW]

Hayes is not a rotation big on any playoffs team. We desperately need a better backup. It’s mind blowing to even think this was a starting big last year.

Lakers traded 3 SRP's and D'Lo for DFS last January.
Lakers then just let him walk away for nothing in the Summer.
I can't help but wonder if the Lakers should have went after Nick Richards(traded by Charlotte for Okogie and 3 SRP'S. instead of DFS.
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This what I was saying about going all in on the Miami Deal. Okay, maybe some didnt want wiggins, but my point being, we look the same defensively. We have zero movement laterally with these dudes. AR. Luka. Rui. Bron. The list goes on about our defensive speed. Slow. Yes we can score points. But Front runners like Houston or OKC can get after it and lock in.
GSW the other night just kept running right back at us, even on makes. And we had no response.
A wiggins or lengthy speed replacement for DFS like your suggesting is a move we BEEN shoulda made

[danfantastk32]

Lakers traded 3 SRP's and D'Lo for DFS last January. Lakers then just let him walk away for nothing in the Summer.

The way the Lakers treat their future assets is criminal.

Honestly, they should have just done nothing....kept Dlo and the picks and then just let the season end, and watched DLo walk. They obviously had no 'grand plan' for DFS...so what a complete waste (didn't see that coming ).

I dunno man....you look back over the last 15 years, and it's a miracle we're still a franchise. It's been one dip-s**t decision after the next. But magically...mixed in with all the horrid decisions, are these crazy strokes of luck. Lebron decides to walk from Cle, and just sign here....no package of players going back (good thing, cause we had none). I mean....AD demanding to come here, and only here. We still managed to screw that up, and gave a kings ransom away...when the Pelicans had ZERO leverage.

And then we get this crazy gift of Luka in his prime dropped in our lap because the two GM's used to hit each other up in bar bathrooms???......I'm still not entirely clear on their bromance that led to them handing us Luka for the rapidly aging, oft injured AD.

Other than those 3 things....Lebron, AD, and Luka, have we done ANYTHING that we don't look back on and go "yeah, that was pretty dumb"? And let's be honest....None of those 3 things had even a molecule to do with our FO doing something brilliant, or anything like that. They were just bars of gold that fell from the sky. We didn't have some great young team that enticed Lebron...no we were horrible. Like 18 to 26 wins each season for about 4 years...it was embarrassing fielding that team year after year.

I mean.......do we wanna get really, really honest here (goes into whisper) and admit our title was kind of a stroke of luck too??? That 6-8 week break and shortened remainder certainly benefited Lebron and AD more than any other team....can we all just say it? Look...we had a good team that year, no doubt. And we played the same games, under the same rules as everyone else...so I'm not suggesting the title isn't legit. But I mean...yeah. That was pretty favorable to our unique group of superstars.

I guess the point I'm making is that, we've had some serious BS lucky gifts drop in our lap. and but for those.....would we have even sniffed the postseason in the last decade and a half, given the actual "moves" our FO makes?

Can anyone name one seriously "good move"? Ok....just thought of one....giving Dwight his 2nd chance. That worked out great. Anything else? And I mean....was that really a "stroke of genius" there, or a super desperate ex-allstar willing to take the min, and a 1 year deal with all sorts of language that we could waive him the second he started up, right? Geez...we might wanna file that move in the "stroke of luck" folder as well.

When was the last time we signed some young guy, or traded for some young guy, and then he became an allstar? Like where is any evidence of a top-notch scouting team? Of a decent scouting team? We got semi-close with Kyle Kuzma.

Have any of our coaching hires been anything to write home about? The closest thing we had to a good coach was Vogel, and we dumped him to try and divert the blame for the award-winning Brick deal we made!

I think this is a discussion worth having here. But for these 3-4 bars of gold that fell into our lap....I'd say we've been essentially sabotaged by our FO year after year for the last decade and a half. I don't know when we're gonna get these new owners, but it can't come soon enough in my opinion. Deals like the one you mentioned are just drops of ineptitude in the bucket of suck, that is this FO. There was no plan. We let him walk! We got fleeced in the deal to boot!! Like we almost always do. We never have a plan.

I watch a few quarters of our preseason, and I can already tell it's gonna be another banal season. Enjoy Luka being Luka...and wait for Lebron to hang them up. And why would it be any different?? Our FO hasn't done anything creative, or brilliant since Jerry passed. They've just made things worse. It saddens me to see that Jeanie still wants to have a large role in Laker decisions moving forward. The ENTIRE .... ENTIRE....FO needs to be scrubbed. I mean....get new furniture. Re-carpet. New clocks.

[garrick]

Hayes is not a rotation big on any playoffs team. We desperately need a better backup. It’s mind blowing to even think this was a starting big last year.

Lakers traded 3 SRP's and D'Lo for DFS last January.
Lakers then just let him walk away for nothing in the Summer.
I can't help but wonder if the Lakers should have went after Nick Richards(traded by Charlotte for Okogie and 3 SRP'S. instead of DFS.
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This what I was saying about going all in on the Miami Deal. Okay, maybe some didnt want wiggins, but my point being, we look the same defensively. We have zero movement laterally with these dudes. AR. Luka. Rui. Bron. The list goes on about our defensive speed. Slow. Yes we can score points. But Front runners like Houston or OKC can get after it and lock in.
GSW the other night just kept running right back at us, even on makes. And we had no response.
A wiggins or lengthy speed replacement for DFS like your suggesting is a move we BEEN shoulda made

Richards will probably be available for a trade mid season as I can't see us resigning both Richards and M.Williams when we have Maluach waiting in the wings.
The thing about Richards is he looks really good against fellow scrub teams but he gets totally outplayed against playoff caliber teams so he is fools gold if you are expecting him to be your starting center. As a backup or part time starter he isn't bad though as long as you get him on a cheap contract.

[SlimShady83]

I'm a little late to the ball game ... Today Lakers/Dallas, I'm watching now

But how you all feel about Gabe, he seems to be balling during preseason, can we use him regular season?