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ZeroDark30_
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| windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
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DrDent
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| ContagiousInspiration wrote: | Westbrook has so much trouble controlling his energy.. He tries to do too much and usually too fast.. Anthony had plenty of time to get a better look
Raced that last shot ... I dunno man.. I am sure he has it in him.. just stubborn or something.. frustrating to watch him play  |
He is...what he is. He had a strong of games having one poster mic dropping how great and awesome he was awhile back. Now you get some of this other stuff.
That's Russ. And this is our Los Angeles Lakers. May the basketball Gods help us.
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lakerfansd
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| With the number of vets we have on this time it's shocking the number of unnecessary turnovers we make. Not that it would have necessarily won us the game but I thought we should have brought Ariza sooner to guard DeRozen. But even when he was in, he got switched off or was not guarding him for some reason. Good energy but disappointing we could not win a game we really could have won. |
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windycitycane
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | Westbrook trade talk will be hot tonight |
He should never see the court as a starter again. Not much from the bench either.
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MJST
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| TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
It's a shame that LBJ and Westbrook never took the time to actually work on their free throw shooting. Alas.
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KingKobe20
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| Lakersfan1211 wrote: | | KingKobe20 wrote: | | Lakersfan1211 wrote: | | Next game is a guaranteed L. man. |
Who knows. But I guarantee they’ll come out motivated after these two losses |
They're gonna eat us alive in the pant with Ayton and McGee. |
An if our small ball gets hot and it neutralizes there bigs like it did for a Vucevic tonight?
It’s sucks we lost but let’s not overlook what did work for us tonight moving forward |
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| With Dwight playing DJ's minutes, then getting Reaves back, we may actually win some of these games. Until then, it's really going to be difficult. |
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MJST
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| ZeroDark30_ wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
"not playing Westbrook would have won us the game."
Ah.. so where was that extra 20/9/8/1/2 gonna come from then to ensure we don't lose this game by 25?
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PenG_
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| MJST wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
It's a shame that LBJ and Westbrook never took the time to actually work on their free throw shooting. Alas. |
lol that's not how it works |
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| MJST wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
It's a shame that LBJ and Westbrook never took the time to actually work on their free throw shooting. Alas. |
I agree. both guys have never been reliable free throw shooters
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KingKobe20
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| Chicago celebrating their championship tonight |
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mad55557777
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| MJST wrote: | | ZeroDark30_ wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
"not playing Westbrook would have won us the game."
Ah.. so where was that extra 20/9/8/1/2 gonna come from then to ensure we don't lose this game by 25? |
I don’t think he had a lot to do with the loss, it was mainly due to we couldn’t stop DDR, but he is not allowed to miss according to people on LG |
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Lakesh0wtime
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| Ellington is so useless if he isn’t making shots. |
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DrDent
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| TDRock wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Yeah I'm not on Team Overreact like that |
I mean team is banged up...BUT...thing is, there's always an excuse for this club. It's like, unless they have at least 40 games with a complete and full and healthy lineup some folks will claim we can never "truly gauge" them...
But, here we are. I've been out of ideas for about 2-3 weeks now and just sorta hope something unexpectedly good happens. Cuz right now, it's been an avalanche lately of bad news (COVID issues, AD injury, other injuries, yadda, yadda).
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windycitycane
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| MJST wrote: | | ZeroDark30_ wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
"not playing Westbrook would have won us the game."
Ah.. so where was that extra 20/9/8/1/2 gonna come from then to ensure we don't lose this game by 25? |
Don’t forget his defense. A .500 ball club with Westbrook.
Now I know why so many were not happy about him coming here.
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DrDent
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I'm gonna go get some boba tea. Maybe the world will be brighter 
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Inspector Gadget
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| mad55557777 wrote: | | Inspector Gadget wrote: | | Westbrook trade talk will be hot tonight |
And pointless. No team is going to give us anything significant for him no matter how Lg people dreams |
Westbrook for Buddy Hield and Marvin Bagley haha |
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MikeTrout
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Russ IT Ellington Melo Lebron +9
Rondo IT Ellington Lebron DJ +3
Russ Rondo Lebron Melo Ariza +0
Russ Rondo Lebron Melo DJ +0
IT Ellington Chaundee Melo Lebron +0
IT Ellington Chaundee Lebron DJ +0
Russ IT Ellington Melo DJ -1
Russ Rondo Chaundee Melo Ariza -1
Russ Rondo Lebron Ariza DJ -1
Russ Rondo Ellington Ariza DJ -2
Russ IT Ellington Lebron DJ -6
Rondo IT Ellington Melo Lebron -6
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KingKobe20
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| ZeroDark30_ wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
Yeah Dude trippin man.
Blaming Russ for these team losses nowadays is just lazy and sad |
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| MikeTrout wrote: | --------------------------------------------------------------
Russ IT Ellington Melo Lebron +9
Rondo IT Ellington Lebron DJ +3
Russ Rondo Lebron Melo Ariza +0
Russ Rondo Lebron Melo DJ +0
IT Ellington Chaundee Melo Lebron +0
IT Ellington Chaundee Lebron DJ +0
Russ IT Ellington Melo DJ -1
Russ Rondo Chaundee Melo Ariza -1
Russ Rondo Lebron Ariza DJ -1
Russ Rondo Ellington Ariza DJ -2
Russ IT Ellington Lebron DJ -6
Rondo IT Ellington Melo Lebron -6
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Literally two lineups that were positive on the night. Wow |
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TDRock
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| DrDent wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Yeah I'm not on Team Overreact like that |
I mean team is banged up...BUT...thing is, there's always an excuse for this club. It's like, unless they have at least 40 games with a complete and full and healthy lineup some folks will claim we can never "truly gauge" them...
But, here we are. I've been out of ideas for about 2-3 weeks now and just sorta hope something unexpectedly good happens. Cuz right now, it's been an avalanche lately of bad news (COVID issues, AD injury, other injuries, yadda, yadda). |
Westbrook isn't solely why we missed 5000 free throws. I mean if we had hit our free throws we would've won, if we could've rebounded (looking at you DAJ) that would've helped us to win. There's just so many things beyond Westbrook missing one play in the game is what I'm saying. |
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Rhazz
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| Suns had 9 players score in double figures tonight. This next game is gonna be tough. |
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ZeroDark30_
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| windycitycane wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | ZeroDark30_ wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
"not playing Westbrook would have won us the game."
Ah.. so where was that extra 20/9/8/1/2 gonna come from then to ensure we don't lose this game by 25? |
Don’t forget his defense. A .500 ball club with Westbrook.
Now I know why so many were not happy about him coming here. |
There have been games to call out Westbrook but he gave consistent defensive effort all game. His issue was shooting random bricks at times when we could have pushed the lead to two possessions. It happened at least two important times. That ugly jumper that’s in between a bank shot and pullup |
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Inspector Gadget
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| KingKobe20 wrote: | | ZeroDark30_ wrote: | | windycitycane wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | | MJST wrote: | | Made free throws would have won this game for us. |
That and rebounding were my two, true, disappointments. |
Not playing Westbrook would have won is this game.
His shooting, defense and everything else sucks.
Ship him out!!!! |
Westbrook was fine. Some bonehead plays, it’s the Rondo minutes that killed us. Him and Jordan were our biggest negatives. |
Yeah Dude trippin man.
Blaming Russ for these team losses nowadays is just lazy and sad |
No one is blaming Westbrook for the lose but the missed FTs and the bad possession at crunch time was a back breaker. |
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| Rhazz wrote: | | Suns had 9 players score in double figures tonight. This next game is gonna be tough. |
We FA SHO need some folks to come up out of the protocol by the time we play the Suns. |
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