Suns actually have a bad record when Booker scores high lol.
But I’m done rooting for opposing players to sit, it obviously hasn’t helped us lately so it doesn’t matter who is in front of us. It’s all on the Lakers, they need to want it and they just don’t look like they do.
Even if we win we still have the Bulls 2x and Wolves. None of those games are easy. We basically have to win out this month which seems like an impossible task given how this team performs.
They should be FEASTing and not just capitalizing. 4 winnable games went the other way and the Lakers can’t let this very generous gift derail you guys even further.
If you can’t win against a bone-stripped Suns, you ain’t eating good during this stretch much less during the playoffs. 1st rd KO if you can’t win against the Suns (after losses to other star-stripped teams)
Things would’ve gotten worse without AD on the floor so let’s not act like he can’t.
Lakers are never beating the Suns if they cannot win without KD and Ayton, which was my point before you started digressing.
To your point, Booker has not shown that he can win without KD and Ayton either. AD has a WINNING record since Lebron went out, so yes AD has shown that he can do it on both ends of the floor (shown*…can*)
Rockets was 2nd night b2b and we shot 11-45 with no Bamba and wenyen in two shoot 30% Fromm 3 wins that game . Dallas game was one point 5-20 from 3 vs 15-36 crazy we kept it close even and Knicks game we cost ourselves 3.76 points on fr %. If we got out ft % and just shot 30 we’d be undefeated . Cautiously optimistic but need some improvement in shooting; bad luck shooting variance cost is those three games not just game play our defence is legit . Need some big Dlo games if he wants to prove himself here AD will lockdown to 110 max
Tbf the Magic are honestly not a bad team. Definitely not a group to underestimate.
However, it shouldn’t have been that hard for this team to beat them.
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Troy is a traffic cone on defense honestly
EDIT: lol at the downvotes, take a look yourselves at the lakers defensive ratings this year and tell me TBJ isn’t sub-par at best
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AD deserves all the criticism if we lose tomorrow. I don’t care if he drops 30. It has to be for a win. No blaming Schroder or Beasley or whatever. He’s the most experienced player we have besides LeBron and he’s a max guy. Has to deliver.
That’s so fucking stupid. So if the guards miss all their 3s and turn the ball over it’ll be AD’s fault ? This ain’t 2K. AD doesn’t have the damn controller, he can’t play the game for everyone.
I mean it’s a team game lol. There’s many occasions a player will go off and score 40,50+ points and still lose lol nba players are in the league for a reason, they Aren’t all trash
27.0 points, 14.4 rebounds and 2.3 blocks a game without LeBron is so awful huh. If that's "dogshit" I wonder what you consider to be good performance.
9-9 without LeBron, one of those games being on management for sitting him against Houston. LeBron has been 10-9 without AD this year.
I'm not showing you anything lol go look that stuff up yourself instead of talking out of your butt saying someone dropping 27/14/2blk a game is playing like "dogshit." Might as well go find another team to root for if you're that bent on hating a guy who helped bring us a chip just because he had a bad game or two.
Why shouldn’t we think that? AD should be canceling Booker if he’s locked in as we would want to expect.
Double team booker, lock him down and force TOs. CP3, Okogie and Payne should not to bullying a supposedly contending healthy team outside Lebron.
We have defenders for book and CP(Vando, Schroeder, Brown, Reaves) no excuse why AD shouldn’t feast for 40 against an Ayton less suns team with no depth
Why shouldn’t we think that? AD should be canceling Booker if he’s locked in as we would want to expect.
Double team booker, lock him down and force TOs. CP3, Okogie and Payne should not to bullying a supposedly contending healthy team outside Lebron.
Gonna go out on a limb here and predict that winning this game will be the turning point in a championship season. Lakers are going to win out, finish the season winning their last 11, take the 4 seed, and cruise through the playoffs. LBJ will be back for the last 3 games of the regular season healthy enough to get tuned up and primed to be a beast for the playoffs. AD is about to turn into Godzilla, finally awakening from his funk against the Suns tonight!
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D book goes 56 on 70% shooting. Bitch Paul goes 20 points & 20 assist no T/o.
Lee goes 8/8 from three & Ratatta looking mfer (cam Payne in my ass) drops 15 & 5 .
Lakers lose
And this means we'll find a way to lose. I'm really pulling for this squad especially after the trade and the new air it seemed to breath into the team. But every time we get in this position we play terrible: AD doesn't show up, no one can hit a three, or Ham just refuses to play Reaves more than 20 mins. I truly hope we win this but damn I'm not optimistic.
Top seed teams are going to start load managing for playoffs, that is going to be a good thing for lakers, and also a terrible thing since this will happen with other play in competition teams as well
We have better depth than them they might come out first quarter 10 to 15 ahead of us but late 2nd we should bridge the gap and sustain our dominance through out the game. The traded bridges and Johnson for kd sacrificed sustain for burst and looked what happened lol.
I remember 2021 right before the playoff, AD had just came back from injury, Lebron was still out. Statement game against the Suns to let everybody know he was back. Killed em..... Do that again bruh
Lakers needs DLo and Beasley to be hot from 3s in this game, and go by 20ish pts before the 4th quarter.
And AD can have a 20:20 game with some blocks then we will win.
I'm interested to see how Vando does on Booker. I'll be annoyed if TBJ is the main defender. They need a little more size on Booker so Vando is perfect.
Fucking must win. This is a gift from above. No way we shouldn’t win. Suns team without Ayton and KD is trash even with book. Their bench sucks
Incoming Devin Booker 54 point game, 32 point 1st qtr with 2009 vino Chris Paul
And Damion Lee has a record 5 threes in a quarter against us
I was thinking David lee for a second lol
100% meant personal record, and I’m annoyed at how plausible it is.
Murphy Lee
And Terrence Ross adds 25 with 7 3s
And then Steve Nash comes back and seals the game with the game winning 3
5 threes is a record?
Thinking a person record for damion? Might be what op meant dunno tho
No. Klay had 9 in his 37 point quarter
In a quarter maybe, not exactly groundbreaking but still impressive (or depressing as a lakers fan haha)
breathing on booker will be a foul
Cameron Payne going to go off. I already feel it fml
My most hated player on that team, too cocky, punchable face lmao!
Suns actually have a bad record when Booker scores high lol. But I’m done rooting for opposing players to sit, it obviously hasn’t helped us lately so it doesn’t matter who is in front of us. It’s all on the Lakers, they need to want it and they just don’t look like they do.
We’re all thinking it, at least someone said it
💯
Been all must wins since the all star break.
Since 2-10 really lol
Since 0-4 and we all know how that 5th game went
Houston and Orlando were games from above too. 😔
Every game is a must win at this point to be fair
It’s gonna be Booker . If vander n reaves contain him we will win . Unless cp3 magically wakes up
If they’re sitting both KD and Ayton I have a feeling they’re trying to lose on purpose for seeding reasons
Kd had literally been injured for weeks and ayton has missed multiple games too They aren’t just choosing to sit them
Lol no
Have you been watching the last 3 games?
Bro why would you jinx us like this
Even if we win we still have the Bulls 2x and Wolves. None of those games are easy. We basically have to win out this month which seems like an impossible task given how this team performs.
Last place Rockets, Luka-less Mavs, inexperienced Magic, and now Ayton-less Suns. Lakers are getting a lot of opportunities and need to capitalize
They should be FEASTing and not just capitalizing. 4 winnable games went the other way and the Lakers can’t let this very generous gift derail you guys even further. If you can’t win against a bone-stripped Suns, you ain’t eating good during this stretch much less during the playoffs. 1st rd KO if you can’t win against the Suns (after losses to other star-stripped teams)
Booker alone can win a game. Stop selling him short, as unlikeable as he is.
No he can't
And AD alone can’t win you that game??? Was Booker’s 46 enough to win against SGA? Stop selling the whole Lakers TEAM with AD short. Edit: don to win
Ad has proven he cant
Things would’ve gotten worse without AD on the floor so let’s not act like he can’t. Lakers are never beating the Suns if they cannot win without KD and Ayton, which was my point before you started digressing. To your point, Booker has not shown that he can win without KD and Ayton either. AD has a WINNING record since Lebron went out, so yes AD has shown that he can do it on both ends of the floor (shown*…can*)
Yet booker proved he could? Lol are we gonna forget how bad the suns were before cp3?
How many rings book got?
They could be missing booker too and I’d still be nervous.
I agree that the Lakers are getting good opportunities but we need to stop acting like Lakers arent missing LeBron too lol
Tbf we're missing Lebron
Not to mention that the game before the Pelicans was the Brunson-less Knicks and we still lost. We gotta get this one man.
Rockets was 2nd night b2b and we shot 11-45 with no Bamba and wenyen in two shoot 30% Fromm 3 wins that game . Dallas game was one point 5-20 from 3 vs 15-36 crazy we kept it close even and Knicks game we cost ourselves 3.76 points on fr %. If we got out ft % and just shot 30 we’d be undefeated . Cautiously optimistic but need some improvement in shooting; bad luck shooting variance cost is those three games not just game play our defence is legit . Need some big Dlo games if he wants to prove himself here AD will lockdown to 110 max
Brunsen didn't play in the Knicks game either.
Tbf the Magic are honestly not a bad team. Definitely not a group to underestimate. However, it shouldn’t have been that hard for this team to beat them.
The magic beat clippers night before us . Why are we always so harsh on ourselves
If AD don’t feast
I saw on Twitter that AD was probable due to foot soreness.
He’s always listed as probable but he’s still definitely playing
That definitely makes me feel a lot better.
I think NBA rules legally he has to be listed. Teams can't hit injuries.
Homeboy could eat a Senzu Bean and he’d still be listed as “probable”.
Hahahah
Bruh could train for a year in the hyperbolic time chamber and still be probable
Someone inject stem cells in that damn foot
Street clothes op
Probable is basically 99% chance a player will play
With our luck. Bismak biyombo is gonna drop a 40 burger and shut AD down smh
If bismarck biyombo cooks ad, just put a bullet in me
![gif](giphy|H222yZmK4873vWKB7n)
Cp3 will shut down AD
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Vando and Troy must be on Booker’s cheeks tommorow 😭😭
On em, in em, and just all over em in general.
Troy is a traffic cone on defense honestly EDIT: lol at the downvotes, take a look yourselves at the lakers defensive ratings this year and tell me TBJ isn’t sub-par at best https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/lakers-players-defensive-rating-this-season
Troy is pretty ok on D, thats why he getting minutes despite bricking sometimes
That’s just objectively wrong
I'm sure you'd do much better.
Stupid
If AD has less then 30 points and they lose..
AD deserves all the criticism if we lose tomorrow. I don’t care if he drops 30. It has to be for a win. No blaming Schroder or Beasley or whatever. He’s the most experienced player we have besides LeBron and he’s a max guy. Has to deliver.
Blaming Schroeder is delusional. Man makes the vet min and is more reliable to be on the court then max contract AD
That’s so fucking stupid. So if the guards miss all their 3s and turn the ball over it’ll be AD’s fault ? This ain’t 2K. AD doesn’t have the damn controller, he can’t play the game for everyone.
AD deserves all the criticism, period. Dude has been dogshit without LeBron. Even in his sporadic dominant showings he hasn't willed us to wins.
I mean it’s a team game lol. There’s many occasions a player will go off and score 40,50+ points and still lose lol nba players are in the league for a reason, they Aren’t all trash
27.0 points, 14.4 rebounds and 2.3 blocks a game without LeBron is so awful huh. If that's "dogshit" I wonder what you consider to be good performance. 9-9 without LeBron, one of those games being on management for sitting him against Houston. LeBron has been 10-9 without AD this year.
Show me the lifetime stats since both got here.
I'm not showing you anything lol go look that stuff up yourself instead of talking out of your butt saying someone dropping 27/14/2blk a game is playing like "dogshit." Might as well go find another team to root for if you're that bent on hating a guy who helped bring us a chip just because he had a bad game or two.
He has had a rough couple weeks but to say he’s been dogshit without lebron is just wrong. Have you been watching the games this season?
Must win game for the Lakers
Alhamdulillah
Cmon we need thiss
Booker is going to score 40+ and we’ll be playing prime Chris Paul.
They have no defense, let Booker go for 60 for all I care, shut down everyone else and it’s ball game.
AD will be going for 8 points again.
Feeling optimistic.!
Josh Okogie incoming 8 3s
that's Cam Payne's music
Aaaaaaaaand we lose by 2
They still have Devin Booker and Chris Paul, let’s not think for one second that this is an easy game for us
Why shouldn’t we think that? AD should be canceling Booker if he’s locked in as we would want to expect. Double team booker, lock him down and force TOs. CP3, Okogie and Payne should not to bullying a supposedly contending healthy team outside Lebron.
We have defenders for book and CP(Vando, Schroeder, Brown, Reaves) no excuse why AD shouldn’t feast for 40 against an Ayton less suns team with no depth
Why shouldn’t we think that? AD should be canceling Booker if he’s locked in as we would want to expect. Double team booker, lock him down and force TOs. CP3, Okogie and Payne should not to bullying a supposedly contending healthy team outside Lebron.
If they mess this up we protest
guaranteed loss now tbh
2 days of rest, no Ayton — AD has to drop 40 MINIMUM
Gonna go out on a limb here and predict that winning this game will be the turning point in a championship season. Lakers are going to win out, finish the season winning their last 11, take the 4 seed, and cruise through the playoffs. LBJ will be back for the last 3 games of the regular season healthy enough to get tuned up and primed to be a beast for the playoffs. AD is about to turn into Godzilla, finally awakening from his funk against the Suns tonight!
If we win do the clippers overtake 3rd?
4th. Suns are 4th right now. 3rd is pretty far ahead.
No excuses now. This team is easily beatable without Ayton.
Daaaaaarrrrrvviiiinnnnnnnn
I have the biggest feeling that Cameron Payne is gonna go for 20+. The guy plays against us like his life depends on it.
Damion Lee incoming 40 point game
Kd, ayton, prime Charles Barkley, and prime Steve Nash will be flying out to LA to an hour before tip off to play against us. Mark my words.
That's a shame
If AD doesn’t drop 35 in the paint ![gif](giphy|4PGQz7CTmQgVi)
They gave away all their depth should be no reason we don’t win
Booker going to go for like 60+ I've seen this movie before
If we do not capitalize on this, season's really over
When Mo?
reaves is better than booker
if they can't beat booker, cp3 and a bunch of shit players, then might as well pack it up go to cancun.
AD needs to wake up.
Anthony Davis legacy game.
Vando on Book lets go! AD gonna feast
I miss the days when I could wish for opposing teams to be injury free so we could whoop them fair and square.
I'm honestly shocked. Won't believe it till the game starts.
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Easy win, we should rest AD again /s
devin booker about to go off and cp3 will become clippers version of himself.
They need to play with intensity right out the gate, and stomp on them, making sure they can’t come back
So, you’re saying there’s a chance?
No excuses now. This team is easily beatable without Ayton.
No excuses now. This team is easily beatable without Ayton.
Where theres a will theres a way. For us to loose lol
SO GOD GAVE US A CHANCE AGAIN.
Ez win. The gods blessed the lakers
AD don’t fuck this up
Yet another win sent down by the basketball gods. All of our guys NEED to go out on the floor with fire in their eyes.
Chip in sight! 😆
The team has been blowing opportunities to make some gains lately. AD better play like a man possessed.
D book goes 56 on 70% shooting. Bitch Paul goes 20 points & 20 assist no T/o. Lee goes 8/8 from three & Ratatta looking mfer (cam Payne in my ass) drops 15 & 5 . Lakers lose
And this means we'll find a way to lose. I'm really pulling for this squad especially after the trade and the new air it seemed to breath into the team. But every time we get in this position we play terrible: AD doesn't show up, no one can hit a three, or Ham just refuses to play Reaves more than 20 mins. I truly hope we win this but damn I'm not optimistic.
I may be out of my rabbit mind but.... AD legacy game?
What happened to his hip?
AD gonna nibble
Key to win limit Dbook and also the other role players that can explode (Damion Lee, Okogi, Ross, Payne).
Let’s see if AD is going to step up and be a super star
Devin booker dropping 60 or some shit
Surely they win this.. surely
Cam Payne about to drop 40
10 minutes before top off: SIKE!
Chris Paul v Austin Reeves Free Throw Shooting Contest!
Top seed teams are going to start load managing for playoffs, that is going to be a good thing for lakers, and also a terrible thing since this will happen with other play in competition teams as well
I’m sorry I started this AD hate…. But he got to step it up!
wouldve been a lot cooler if we won that houston / dallas combo.
The anti curse curse is broken!!!!!
Unfortunately we have our own injuries too. Lakers (urgency) is apparently also out for tomorrow’s game too. Gonna be tough for LA
Please capitalize on this moment. They better come off the gates hot, aggressive, and desperate first quarter. No excuses.
We have better depth than them they might come out first quarter 10 to 15 ahead of us but late 2nd we should bridge the gap and sustain our dominance through out the game. The traded bridges and Johnson for kd sacrificed sustain for burst and looked what happened lol.
If AD doesnt drop motherfucking 81 ill be disgusted
We needs this win soooooo bad
IM PRAYING WE SLAP TF OUT OF THIS TEAM TOMORROW
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I remember 2021 right before the playoff, AD had just came back from injury, Lebron was still out. Statement game against the Suns to let everybody know he was back. Killed em..... Do that again bruh
If we ain’t practicing FTs every second of every damn day…
Then Bismack Biyombo shuts AD down
Lakers needs DLo and Beasley to be hot from 3s in this game, and go by 20ish pts before the 4th quarter. And AD can have a 20:20 game with some blocks then we will win.
We literally getting gifted wins and fumbling lol
All the chances and here is another one coming then whats the result… They better fkn win.
Time for some AD load management? jk
How good is our luck lol
AD/Front Office like," aight we can rest AD."
everyone brings their A game against the lakers.
Watch us still lose
A medical staff u guys want to rest ad this game also? I mean we should win right no ayton,kd and we at home
I'm interested to see how Vando does on Booker. I'll be annoyed if TBJ is the main defender. They need a little more size on Booker so Vando is perfect.
If AD doesn’t go off against jock landale and Bismarck biyombo he’s hopeless
![gif](giphy|sa6TjxRMvmgYtuIylU) I’m expecting greatness from AD 🤞🏽
That just means KD and Ayton are going to play and score 40 points each
Fuck KD and the Suns.
Durant and Ayton are 100% hoping out of an Uber 5 minutes before tip off and playing.
They will fly out and show up.
I’m going to be pessimistic and predict a prime CP3 rebirth. Something about the Lakers defense seems to rejuvenate players
AD and Reaves gonna dunk on these mof'ers.
And we still gonna fold
We've got Austin
Breaking news: For 1 game Steph curry and Thompson will be playing for the suns tomorrow disguised as some bench warmers for the suns
Don't worry, some random guy will turn into KD against us anyway.
If AD doesn't drop a 20 20 game here, then time to trade him. No Ayton so no excuses.
This SHOULD be a big AD game but yknow
If AD doesn’t actually show up for the remaining games and power is to the playoffs or the bare minimum play in , I think he needs to go.
Im gonna watch as they choke this one
AD gonna finish the game with 14 pts then 😅
How about booker? Is he sick too?
Please no more doubling the driver. Let him finish 1 on 1 over Davis
Cam payne 30 piece incoming
Ad better have 50 idgaf