Injuries - Vando, Gabe, Cam, Rui. Big time contributors. Their absence isn’t nothing and it’s a big deal not having them on the court.
Is the season over? Nope, not by a long shot. We were 5 games under .500 last year at the trade deadline. We ended up making it to the WCF. There’s no reason to give up on the team as of right now.
However, this trend of falling behind quickly in games vs the good teams AND the bad ones is alarming. The fact that the team comes out looking extremely disinterested is alarming. Quite frankly, I’m sick of every post game show/podcast being titled something along the lines of “Lakers blown out” or “Lakers no show.”
The Sixers were healthy outside of Kelly Oubre. They had that going for them. I follow the Sixers semi-closely because I’m a diehard Eagles fan. The Sixers fans don’t have to wonder every game if Embiid is gonna show up. Their starters look energized. When guys are out their bench players step up. They made a great coaching hire in Nick Nurse.
Everything I just mentioned is the opposite over here. We have to cross our fingers on a nightly basis that AD shows up. Our role players look disinterested and confused. I don’t know how to properly evaluate LeBron because I realize that age is a factor, but on some nights he looks disinterested. Darvin was an OK hire, but how come we offered him a contract we weren’t willing to offer Ty Lue?
I don’t know. This loss just felt a little different. Philly is a great sports city. Their teams feed off each other. We don’t have that here. Granted, LA is a transient city that doesn’t share the same sports culture, but it was just hard watching this team mail it in after watching my Eagles bust their asses every week and seeing the Sixers follow suit tonight.
Just give us a reason to care, Lakers.
I 100% agree - how many discussions are there going to be about “scheduled losses” like a team with AD and Lebron playing should 99% of the time never be in a scheduled loss situation
This team is very complacent and believes they have a switch that they can flip whenever they want. That type of mentality is exactly what will get you burned down the line
Lastly, we are so used to being down 20 that this sub’s reaction to being down 15 at halftime was optimistic. Like wtf? What real contender does what we do? None
Truth is this team only cares when they have to.
How did we do so good in the playoffs? They decided they wanted to make it in and went on a crazy run.
The in season tournament is something they care about so they decide they actually CAN shoot lights out and sweep their group.
This type of attitude the team has is just not professional…they do enough winning that it will payoff for sure, but why should fans have to sit through this shit? It’s LAZY.
Truth is this team will never reach its full potential even when healthy because of Ham.
Yup.
I love that after we hired him Jeanie claimed he was our “big acquisition” over that summer.
Sweet woman, but she’s not cut out for this.
Nah… ham is such a shit coach the players lose heart… they know their schemes are trash… they are intelligent & understand the game…