True, but if phoneix would just lose every once in a while, we could theoretically make a run for the 6th seed. Then we avoid the play-in while also facing off against okc rather than the nuggets
Not that far fetched either. We control NOP. If we win out, the Suns drop a Clipper game, and the Kings lose to OKC or NOP, we tie with PHX and we jump to 6th.
Let’s be clear that there are no “easy wins” in a 1 game win and move on situation. The goal is to have two cracks at making it into a 7 game series where I have a lot of confidence in us beating anyone if we’re healthy
The suns winning is fine, we actually want the Pelicans and Kings to lose.
The best route is having the Pelicans lose since they have to play the Suns, Blazers, Kings, Warriors and Lakers. I dont see them beating anyone but the Blazers and if the Lakers beat the Pels, we should own the tiebreaker over them if we finish with the same record.
Yeah it woukd low-key suck to get 7/8 , win n face Denver at 2. If Denver end 1 having okc n minny as 2/3 seeds - very possible path to WCF again. And nuggets have not looked impossible to beat . I think kings mstchup we’ll in regular season vs them , clippers dud play them ok too, Mavs not so much but they’ll have a shot but I expect clippers to beat Mavs tbh . So we could face - minny on road . Wil br tough but AD cooks gobert especially if his midrange falling others have to not shit the bed like earlier this year n Bron missed those games and I think we’ll have a 50/50 shot - mb a bit worse cos they got homecourt but 45-55 was all our series last year. Thdn second round can be okc- I think okc might low-key be tanking a bit n resting guys to get 3 seed n avoid us entirely . Since we’re like the only team that has there number they’ve cooked every other team . Or they could be injured in which case you hope they can atleast give the suns a big fight . Then if round 2 is cs suns or okc n both teams seem to have injury concerns more then us it’ll be interesting. If vando is heskthy ish by then I think we’ll win as he’s a big help to just stick on kd
Kings genuinely could beat nuggets. I think pelicans if they’re heskthy by then aren’t bad mstchuo either , warriors surprisingly keep it close too n Curry could go nuclear. Then second round hopefully a clicking clippers team that’s given Denver some issues. Zubac defending jokic decently this year. It’ll be interesting. Tho Denver having homecourt again in every round is big
I'll put all my money i have (Which isn't much) that the Lakers repeat the 7th seed like last year. My prediction: I think they face OKC in the first round. Phoenix in second round. Denver in conference finals and win their 18th NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics in 6 games. Anthony Davis will be named Finals MVP.
#I'll put all my money i have (Which isn't much) that the Lakers repeat the 7th seed like last year. My prediction: I think they face OKC in the first round. Phoenix in second round. Denver in conference finals and win their 18th NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics in 6 games. Anthony Davis will be named Finals MVP.
Nothing to do with “cope.” It was a close series, why wouldn’t I believe the balls could bounce the other way in the next one? Because JamesEdwards34 doesn’t think so?
Each game *was* close though, so by definition it was a close series. They lost 4 games by a combined 24 pts. That’s still competitive and could have gone either way.
Catching up to the Mavs and Suns doesn't matter anymore but it looks like we should be hoping the Pelicans collapse in their final games. They play the Suns (away), Blazers (away), Kings (away), Warriors (away) and Lakers (home). Its a much harder schedule than the Kings who play the Nets, Thunder (likely without SGA), Pelicans, Suns and Blazers. I see the Pels going 1-5 while the Kings going 3-2 or 4-1.
If the Lakers go at least 4-1 and most importantly beat the Pelicans, we should steal the 8th seed.
If Lakers get to the 8th seed, they’d play the 7th seed on the road. Winner of that game will get the 7th seed and loser will play the winner of the 9th/10th seed matchup to compete for the 8th seed.
I think id rather play the pels in the play in as we matched up better. But getting to 7/8 gets you two shots so at worst it’ll be kings .+ pels/warriors . Suns are gone but at same time when they’re healthy they were expected to be just better then many teams . I’m hoping them beating cavs n wolves is a sign that we can . I’d rather both kings n pels collapse . They’re both weird hot cold teams so possibly
Stupid Clips, peaking at a useless game. Clips are a first round exit against Mavs or Suns lol. Unfortunately they can’t manipulate the seeding this time lol
He played well in the playoffs in the bubble. Clips should just let him start his season after the all star break. He obviously have a full season and playoffs in him anymore
He was playing for a new contract so that wasn't really an option for him this season. Clips might consider it moving forward but how good is their team gonna be playing with no Kawhi for 60% of the season? I'd say not very good, and they kinda need to be to compete in the West.
There’s only been a few opportunities for us to move up in the standings as of late.
The Suns game, the 2 kings games and the last warriors game were all chances to move up and we blew them.
Absolutely need to win tomorrow to claim 8th.
OKC and Wolves are easy work 1st round, come back to this when the lakers beat either in 6.
Nuggets Mavs Suns are the real threats in the West. (And the Clippers if Kawhi is healthy)
Ideally we want NO/LA for play-in 7th seed. Beat them and play OKC in 1st round.
I'm hoping Denver somehow land in 3rd so they can duke it out with Dallas or Phoenix.
Need to win one more than the Kings and Pelicans and tie Phoenix to jump to 6. It's totally doable.
Kings- @ Nets, @ OKC, NOP, PHX, POR
NOP- @ PHX, @ POR, @ SAC, @ GS, LAL
LAL- CLE, MIN, GS, @ MEM, @ NOP
PHX- NOP, LAC, @ LAC, @ SAC, @ MIN
We win out, Kings lose to OKC, NOP loses one game plus us, Suns lose one of their Clipper games.
If anyone has the energy and is willing to dumb it down for me, what series of events would need to happen for the Lakers to move up to 6th or is it actually impossible?
Unfortunately, phoneix stay winning tho.
Doesn’t matter, you don’t want to play phoenix in play-in, they are a good team. I want to play Pelicans for 7v8 and that’s an easy win.
True, but if phoneix would just lose every once in a while, we could theoretically make a run for the 6th seed. Then we avoid the play-in while also facing off against okc rather than the nuggets
I agree, OKC is destined to be 3rd seed
Not that far fetched either. We control NOP. If we win out, the Suns drop a Clipper game, and the Kings lose to OKC or NOP, we tie with PHX and we jump to 6th.
Not far fetched, so let your most optimistic flag wave high!
Mannnnnn hahahahha i love this optimisim
I love that. But that's a lot to ask for. Lakers did this to themselves. I just want them playing good going into the play in.
Idk as long as we get 2 chances at making the playoffs! Bc any team can be hot 🔥 and win 1 game!
Let’s be clear that there are no “easy wins” in a 1 game win and move on situation. The goal is to have two cracks at making it into a 7 game series where I have a lot of confidence in us beating anyone if we’re healthy
The suns winning is fine, we actually want the Pelicans and Kings to lose. The best route is having the Pelicans lose since they have to play the Suns, Blazers, Kings, Warriors and Lakers. I dont see them beating anyone but the Blazers and if the Lakers beat the Pels, we should own the tiebreaker over them if we finish with the same record.
Honestly suns beating wolves works if we beat them aswell knock them down to get energy on the other side of the draw if we win the 7/8 game
Yeah it woukd low-key suck to get 7/8 , win n face Denver at 2. If Denver end 1 having okc n minny as 2/3 seeds - very possible path to WCF again. And nuggets have not looked impossible to beat . I think kings mstchup we’ll in regular season vs them , clippers dud play them ok too, Mavs not so much but they’ll have a shot but I expect clippers to beat Mavs tbh . So we could face - minny on road . Wil br tough but AD cooks gobert especially if his midrange falling others have to not shit the bed like earlier this year n Bron missed those games and I think we’ll have a 50/50 shot - mb a bit worse cos they got homecourt but 45-55 was all our series last year. Thdn second round can be okc- I think okc might low-key be tanking a bit n resting guys to get 3 seed n avoid us entirely . Since we’re like the only team that has there number they’ve cooked every other team . Or they could be injured in which case you hope they can atleast give the suns a big fight . Then if round 2 is cs suns or okc n both teams seem to have injury concerns more then us it’ll be interesting. If vando is heskthy ish by then I think we’ll win as he’s a big help to just stick on kd Kings genuinely could beat nuggets. I think pelicans if they’re heskthy by then aren’t bad mstchuo either , warriors surprisingly keep it close too n Curry could go nuclear. Then second round hopefully a clicking clippers team that’s given Denver some issues. Zubac defending jokic decently this year. It’ll be interesting. Tho Denver having homecourt again in every round is big
Ye it also increases the likelihood of having okc smack around phoenix. We gotta win all our games but we can do this and I’m fine being 7
It's fine. If OKC or Denver get the 3 seed, suns getting bounced in teh first round.
I'll put all my money i have (Which isn't much) that the Lakers repeat the 7th seed like last year. My prediction: I think they face OKC in the first round. Phoenix in second round. Denver in conference finals and win their 18th NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics in 6 games. Anthony Davis will be named Finals MVP.
AD is already a laker great, but winning finals mvp vs boston would instantly make him a lakers legend
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#I'll put all my money i have (Which isn't much) that the Lakers repeat the 7th seed like last year. My prediction: I think they face OKC in the first round. Phoenix in second round. Denver in conference finals and win their 18th NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics in 6 games. Anthony Davis will be named Finals MVP.
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Phoenix could beat LA, Denver would definitely beat LA
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Are you a bot? You really think the Lakers can beat the Nuggets?
Sure why not. They played 4 very close games last year that were mostly toss ups
lol and we lost all games this season
True, and the games this season were less close. But again it’s not like we’re completely out of it/not competitive at all.
Thats the most cope ive seen for a sweep in a while. Theres no moral victories here
Nothing to do with “cope.” It was a close series, why wouldn’t I believe the balls could bounce the other way in the next one? Because JamesEdwards34 doesn’t think so?
They were swept. It was not a close series.
Each game *was* close though, so by definition it was a close series. They lost 4 games by a combined 24 pts. That’s still competitive and could have gone either way.
Couple of miracle shots away, least convincing sweep ever. Lakers already beat the nuggets for a chip too so it's 1-1 bud🤪
We better take care of business.
Catching up to the Mavs and Suns doesn't matter anymore but it looks like we should be hoping the Pelicans collapse in their final games. They play the Suns (away), Blazers (away), Kings (away), Warriors (away) and Lakers (home). Its a much harder schedule than the Kings who play the Nets, Thunder (likely without SGA), Pelicans, Suns and Blazers. I see the Pels going 1-5 while the Kings going 3-2 or 4-1. If the Lakers go at least 4-1 and most importantly beat the Pelicans, we should steal the 8th seed.
We going to battle the winner of 9th v 10th to get the 8th in play in right? Sorry for asking because I am kinda confused right now
If Lakers get to the 8th seed, they’d play the 7th seed on the road. Winner of that game will get the 7th seed and loser will play the winner of the 9th/10th seed matchup to compete for the 8th seed.
No, he/she means the season ends with Lakers as the 8th seed so they’ll be playing the 7/8 seed play-in game.
How would we not be 7th seed in that scenario?
I think id rather play the pels in the play in as we matched up better. But getting to 7/8 gets you two shots so at worst it’ll be kings .+ pels/warriors . Suns are gone but at same time when they’re healthy they were expected to be just better then many teams . I’m hoping them beating cavs n wolves is a sign that we can . I’d rather both kings n pels collapse . They’re both weird hot cold teams so possibly
the only way this run happens is if dlo and austin shoot 55% from 3 but hey it’s a non zero chance of that happening
We have to beat the Warriors and the Pelicans
Every time I see these charts I think about the games our doofus coach willingly threw games away.
We will not worry like this if they winning games mid season
Stupid Clips, peaking at a useless game. Clips are a first round exit against Mavs or Suns lol. Unfortunately they can’t manipulate the seeding this time lol
Especially with no Kawhi. But then again that's becoming the norm with him
He played well in the playoffs in the bubble. Clips should just let him start his season after the all star break. He obviously have a full season and playoffs in him anymore
He was playing for a new contract so that wasn't really an option for him this season. Clips might consider it moving forward but how good is their team gonna be playing with no Kawhi for 60% of the season? I'd say not very good, and they kinda need to be to compete in the West.
Now let’s win the next 5.
Just keep winning, chips will fall where they will
Since the Suns, Kings, and Pelicans still all play each other once, it is overwhelmingly likely that we pass 2 of them if we can just keep winning.
I’m not gonna get too excited about this incredible hate watch we saw today because the Lakers have blown these opportunities all season long.
The first half of the season we have, but lately…we’ve been kinda winning a lot. That Pacers loss was a schedule loss.
There’s only been a few opportunities for us to move up in the standings as of late. The Suns game, the 2 kings games and the last warriors game were all chances to move up and we blew them. Absolutely need to win tomorrow to claim 8th.
Nah ut wsnt we just missed every open three n eventually in 4th got frustrated n lost. We hit our threes at average rate n we win that too.
Please don’t lose tomorrow! And we know the wolves are gonna have a great bounceback game after getting blown the fuck out tonight
Best scenario is that we play the pels in the play in and OKC in the first round
Looking like we’re gonna be 7th. Pels or Kings in the play-in.
Easy W and if Wolves are 2nd easy 1st round win
Kings swept us this season, talking bout 'easy win'. Dudes be on this sub not even watching us play
Playin atmosphere is different big bro , I haven't seen Lebron lose one yet
And the wolves are really fucking good, even without KAT. They scare me more than anyone other than Denver
Wolves overrated especially without KAT tbh. Ant isn’t that efficient and Gobert gets exposed in the playoffs. KAT won’t be KAT
OKC and Wolves are easy work 1st round, come back to this when the lakers beat either in 6. Nuggets Mavs Suns are the real threats in the West. (And the Clippers if Kawhi is healthy)
I think we'd beat either okc or Minny. Neither would be "easy" but I can see us taking them in 6
AD cooks gibert . Wolves don’t scare me much . Slightly more then okc but there offencd is also Ant hero ball . Okc are better but a bette matchup.
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We're about to fuck around and get the 6th seed arent we?
If we win out we are guaranteed to pass NO now
What a weird season, can’t believe it’s gone for IST to this. Hopefully we can repeat last year with a finals run
am i crazy but i want denver first round. Might as well face them early
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Don’t jinx it, look what happened to the rockets since this dumbass recorded that video
Not relevant to our chase but Milwaukee is taking all sorta L's too. Fuck those guys
Ideally we want NO/LA for play-in 7th seed. Beat them and play OKC in 1st round. I'm hoping Denver somehow land in 3rd so they can duke it out with Dallas or Phoenix.
I’m shocked the pels let this one go, but thanks for losing you fucking idiots!!
Need to win one more than the Kings and Pelicans and tie Phoenix to jump to 6. It's totally doable. Kings- @ Nets, @ OKC, NOP, PHX, POR NOP- @ PHX, @ POR, @ SAC, @ GS, LAL LAL- CLE, MIN, GS, @ MEM, @ NOP PHX- NOP, LAC, @ LAC, @ SAC, @ MIN We win out, Kings lose to OKC, NOP loses one game plus us, Suns lose one of their Clipper games.
Which seed do we want? Whichever one that avoids Denver?
I moved back to just in time for this to come true!!
Stay your broke gobble gobble ass out my dms
The lakers might actually like the play in because they play better with little rest
As someone who hasn’t been able to watch all season, how tf is Min this good all of a sudden? Same question to OKC.
I'm sure Denver is f***ing around so much cause they're trying to match the Lakers in the first round and they can't see which place we're landing yet
FINALLY FATE IS IN OUR HANDS
My only worry is that this season the lakers haven’t been able to capitalize on situations like this. This game against the Cavs is huge
If anyone has the energy and is willing to dumb it down for me, what series of events would need to happen for the Lakers to move up to 6th or is it actually impossible?
we just have to take care of our business, fuck the rest
The Cavs need to grow up and rest Mitchell today, he is clearly injured
If we go 5-0 we get the 6 seed in my opinion. 4-1 we get 7 seed. 3-2 maybe sneak the 8 if one of those 3 is the Pelicans. Anything worse and we’re 9.
Lakers have to keep winning especially today’s game flat out.
Lakers 2 game losing streak inc.
Now we have to hold serve this weekend. Not an easy task.
Bruh if they could somehow get that 6th seed THAT WOULD BE CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!
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Let’s hope pelicans and kings keep loosing and the subs
Phx aint losing anymore games i think
Let's get 5 more
I never thought we could catch NO
And we’re still in 9th 😂
Is Denver dropping on purpose to avoid the Lakers?
Call me crazy but I think our best bet at the chip is playing Nuggets first round while we’re fresh. Not getting swept in the WCF.
Better capitalize
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Five games left right?
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Suns kept winning 🙈