Game 20: Los Angeles Lakers (9-10) @ Chicago Bulls (10-6) - 8:00 PM ET

[Sedale Threatt]

our best defensive game of the season?

Right up there. That was a playoff-style win where you have to grind out a bunch of stops down the stretch. Good experience.

[iamworthy]

Frustrating is to strong of word but Ill still us it:

This is the frustrating thing about this team. They have the ability to beat good teams but yet have stinkers against sorry teams like last night. Consistency is a process I get it, but if we can find it soon there's no reason why we cant make the 8th seed. Good win!!

[iamworthy]

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[gts1]

Good win.... ugly but it showed a ton of backbone, especially coming off last nights mess.. went down 11 early on but stayed with it and found a way to win that was completely out of character... hardly any 3s shot, out rebounded one of the best rebounding teams in the league... non stop ticky tac fouls called all around that interrupted the flow of the game, 25 turnovers? lol and yet they still won it...

This game would have been so easy for even a veteran squad t throw in the towel but they didn't.. good experience

[Crooked-I]

Personally I think we should just concede the Toronto game and try to get that W in Memphis. 2-2 on this roadtrip would be great.

[crazyeights]

Ingram looked solid guarding Jimmy Butler, man. That's a great sign for his ability to guard and play multiple positions.

The defensive scheme and trapping worked really well with that last unit, especially with both teams shooting so poorly. Man there were a ton of deflections, tips, and stealing after rebounds. A frenetic game.

Nice win. We're due for a good shooting game.

[dockingsched]

Ingram's defense was solid but holy hell did Randle and Nance put on an amazing display of help defense

[dockingsched]

Checked out the bulls board post game thread and they're upset that about this being a bad loss against a bad team. I don't think they realize that the bulls have had according to bball-reference the easiest schedule in the entire league so they have an inflated record where as the lakers have had a top 3 toughest schedule so in reality lakers imo are really the better team regardless of record

[Kilroy]

Yeah, I didn't know about the SOS stats for both teams, but I thought the Bulls looked like a paper tiger this season... They're a good team but they have some holes that I guess were being masked by the competition...
Still though... We stole this one.

We just keep digging until the last minute of the game... And we're getting lucky when we need luck. It's really an admirable quality for a team this young. Like Luke said, he wanted to get them to play the right way and he seems to have done it...

If we keep playing this way, we're going to be in a good position to capitalize on better teams stumbling and we might just hustle our way into the playoffs.

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[danfantastk32]

Nice gritty win. We played pretty ugly....and I think it's as telling a story about the Bulls, that they couldn't put us away. If I were a bulls fan, I'd be pretty upset with this game.

Nance and Randle really did the dirty work. Ingram played good D on their best guys. You gotta be stoked about the Ingram signing. Man, this kid has the goods. I can't wait to see him in 2-3 years...see what he's become.

[Spanish_Laker]

Nice win, but it looks like the 8th spot is going to be very difficult to get.

[SlimShady83]

Personally I think we should just concede the Toronto game and try to get that W in Memphis. 2-2 on this roadtrip would be great.

Loser talk

Go hard or go home

[crazyeights]

Checked out the bulls board post game thread and they're upset that about this being a bad loss against a bad team. I don't think they realize that the bulls have had according to bball-reference the easiest schedule in the entire league so they have an inflated record where as the lakers have had a top 3 toughest schedule so in reality lakers imo are really the better team regardless of record

That's Chicago for you. They probably think this is 1996.

[Shootdabull]

Checked out the bulls board post game thread and they're upset that about this being a bad loss against a bad team. I don't think they realize that the bulls have had according to bball-reference the easiest schedule in the entire league so they have an inflated record where as the lakers have had a top 3 toughest schedule so in reality lakers imo are really the better team regardless of record

That's Chicago for you. They probably think this is 1996.

We are not that delusional. We are just happy that this year has been so much better than last year. I just stopped in to say good game. I thought Randell & Nance were great on the boards. Walton is doing a nice job keeping the team hustling. Good Luck

[crazyeights]

Checked out the bulls board post game thread and they're upset that about this being a bad loss against a bad team. I don't think they realize that the bulls have had according to bball-reference the easiest schedule in the entire league so they have an inflated record where as the lakers have had a top 3 toughest schedule so in reality lakers imo are really the better team regardless of record

That's Chicago for you. They probably think this is 1996.

We are not that delusional. We are just happy that this year has been so much better than last year. I just stopped in to say good game. I thought Randell & Nance were great on the boards. Walton is doing a nice job keeping the team hustling. Good Luck

Oh I just like ribbing the city of Chicago. Don't mind me

[Shootdabull]

That's Chicago for you. They probably think this is 1996.

We are not that delusional. We are just happy that this year has been so much better than last year. I just stopped in to say good game. I thought Randell & Nance were great on the boards. Walton is doing a nice job keeping the team hustling. Good Luck

Oh I just like ribbing the city of Chicago. Don't mind me

I don't mind - I thought it was pretty funny. I just looked at the project our December record post - we can be bit over optimistic. That's what a few wins in November does for us.