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Annihilator Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 3:33 am Post subject: *** Phoenix Suns vs. Los Angeles Lakers (05/27/21 @ 7:00PM PDT), Series Tied 1-1, Playoff Gm #3*** |
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Phoenix Suns (#2) @ Los Angeles Lakers (#7)
Thursday, May 27, 2021 7 p.m. PDT
Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
*Notes: Through Tuesday’s playoff games, home teams in the Western Conference are a combined 2-5: Utah 0-1, Phoenix 1-1, Denver 1-1, and LAC 0-2. All of the higher seeded teams in the WC have lost their home court advantage. In the Eastern Conference, the higher seeds are a combined 5-1: Philadelphia 1-0, Brooklyn 2-0, Milwaukee 2-0, and NYK 0-1.
*Team Rosters:
*Pregame Statistics and Team Comparisons: *Injury Updates: *Media:TNT, SPECTRUM SPORTSNET
ESPN LA 710/KWKW, AM 570 LA SPORTS *More Stats Links: LET'S GO LAKERS!!
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blackmamba08 Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 4:09 am Post subject: |
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I want Staples to be on fire. 8 years without PO game in SC. Time to blow Suns mind and silence that (bleep) chant BEAT LA |
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Kobetan Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 4:10 am Post subject: |
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The Lakers' first playoff game at Staples since April 2013!!! Also first one for Bron and AD. Play-in game doesn't count.
Let's go!! |
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LakersARETheGOAT Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Lakers Must win! |
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BlueNGold Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Curious to see whether CP3 is a go for the rest of the series or not. |
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Four Decade Bandwagon Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 5:53 am Post subject: |
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Any word on allowed attendance at Staples for the game? Restrictions getting adjusted?
Looking like many arenas are getting close to max again. Mavs stating they will be at 16k for their next game. Compared to last night the clips game had a reported 6880. Just a little over a third of capacity.
Laker fans can rejoice with a playoff game and make some noise but it will not be the loud raucous event without the extra 10k of fans. |
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BadGuy Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Crush them! |
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TooMuchMajicBuss Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 6:39 am Post subject: |
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It's good to see the Lakers at Staples for a playoff game again.
GO LAKERS!! |
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mad55557777 Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 7:35 am Post subject: |
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Four Decade Bandwagon wrote: | Any word on allowed attendance at Staples for the game? Restrictions getting adjusted?
Looking like many arenas are getting close to max again. Mavs stating they will be at 16k for their next game. Compared to last night the clips game had a reported 6880. Just a little over a third of capacity.
Laker fans can rejoice with a playoff game and make some noise but it will not be the loud raucous event without the extra 10k of fans. |
I don’t think it will be much different than the clippers attendance number. I think if the lakers keep going, they will get back more and more fans after June 15th |
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mad55557777 Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Kobetan wrote: | The Lakers' first playoff game at Staples since April 2013!!! Also first one for Bron and AD. Play-in game doesn't count.
Let's go!! |
First one for every single lakers player on the current team |
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Halflife Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 8:03 am Post subject: |
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i expect Kuz and KCP to have ridiculous games. In a good way. |
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LakerDynasty6.0 Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Halflife wrote: | i expect Kuz and KCP to have ridiculous games. In a good way. |
glad you qualified that _________________ Starting Lakers Dynasty6.0! NOW!!
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 8:30 am Post subject: |
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The game is at 7 PM PT, not 10 PM PT. _________________ Nobody in the NBA can touch the Laker brand, which, like the uniform color, is pure gold. |
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danzag Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 8:32 am Post subject: |
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LET'S GO LAKERS!
NO SLEEP 'TIL #18!
Hopefully Staples will be crazy. |
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Let’s Go Lakers!!!!! |
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BandwagonLBJhopper Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Only one day off - will be tough on LBJ but this is a must win with CP3 hobbled. |
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LakerSD Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 9:44 am Post subject: |
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BandwagonLBJhopper wrote: | Only one day off - will be tough on LBJ but this is a must win with CP3 hobbled. |
It may work out in our favor if CP3 is unable to go next few days...but I am not understanding how the Clippers/Mavs series has like three 2 day breaks while the Lakers get one 2 day break between games 3 and 4. |
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 10:06 am Post subject: |
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LakerSD wrote: | BandwagonLBJhopper wrote: | Only one day off - will be tough on LBJ but this is a must win with CP3 hobbled. |
It may work out in our favor if CP3 is unable to go next few days...but I am not understanding how the Clippers/Mavs series has like three 2 day breaks while the Lakers get one 2 day break between games 3 and 4. |
Ratings. Lakers are on the prime time Tuesday Thursday Sunday schedule and the Clippers are playing the off schedule games. |
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DrDent Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Just make sure to disinfect the place from the Clippers stench in stinking up the joint...mass sanitization. Hell, sage it too.
_________________ "One thing I admire about Kuzma is his unwavering confidence. He truly has no idea that he’s not as good as he thinks." - Killer_Z |
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Laker Hefe Starting Rotation
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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So does Ben Mac get some run tomorrow? Last night's game would not have been close if KCP had hit anything. Seems like his D is the only thing that keeps him on the floor, but if he can't hit anything I have to think that Ben or Wes could make more of a contribution. |
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LakerSD Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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DrDent wrote: | Just make sure to disinfect the place from the Clippers stench in stinking up the joint...mass sanitization. Hell, sage it too.
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Al13 Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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mad55557777 wrote: | Four Decade Bandwagon wrote: | Any word on allowed attendance at Staples for the game? Restrictions getting adjusted?
Looking like many arenas are getting close to max again. Mavs stating they will be at 16k for their next game. Compared to last night the clips game had a reported 6880. Just a little over a third of capacity.
Laker fans can rejoice with a playoff game and make some noise but it will not be the loud raucous event without the extra 10k of fans. |
I don’t think it will be much different than the clippers attendance number. I think if the lakers keep going, they will get back more and more fans after June 15th |
What does this mean in numbers ? |
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DrDent Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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LakerSD wrote: | DrDent wrote: | Just make sure to disinfect the place from the Clippers stench in stinking up the joint...mass sanitization. Hell, sage it too.
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_________________ "One thing I admire about Kuzma is his unwavering confidence. He truly has no idea that he’s not as good as he thinks." - Killer_Z |
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lakersfever714 Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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4 freaking 1
This series is in the refrigerator. _________________ Playoffs is good enough. - Jeanie Buss 2024 |
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DrDent Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Today, my thought is the Lakers will likely face a bit more of what the Suns did from around mid-3rd quarter on to get back in the game - speeding up their offense, and trying to attack the Lakers by getting up on them on defense.
Lakers can still counter that if they execute, but we may see a tad more of AD at 5 if the "playing big" isnt as successful.
Although, to simplify, I think if the Lakers just play aggressive on both ends (e.g. AD attacking), and Lakers shoot - just semi-decent (e.g. 33%, which is a tad below their season average) - 3s, they will win Thursday's game.
Would also love to see them really bottle up Booker, if possible; and keep Ayton from having so many bloated stats - he's having Dwight Powell type games against the team, where via rolling, or lobs, or just hanging around the hoop he is getting wide open shots. _________________ "One thing I admire about Kuzma is his unwavering confidence. He truly has no idea that he’s not as good as he thinks." - Killer_Z |
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