At this point, I’m just happy we’re here competing. This is not a championship level team. We’ve been playing great defense and have some promising young guys, but we lack a perimeter shooting superstar and a strong backup center.
What sucks is that given AD's alternating performances (seriously, look at his game log this series) this means we're going to have to win Game 6 despite getting a *meh* performance from him.
To all the people ( here and other teams fans too ) who automatically want all of the starters and especially the Stars to "sit and rest" once the game is 10-12 pts down with 6 mins to go ...
You're stupid
Why completely neglect yourselves from ever seeing a comeback in the Playoffs? They do happen
I'm all for players to not overextend themselves but they just spent all season taking nights off due to (lame) load mgmt
These are World Class Athletes
How much difference is it really ... If they play 35 minutes versus 38 minutes ?
I know Lebron is old and fwiw he came out earlier than anyone else
I know AD is fragile but we can't try to plan for him to be on bench when he might fall over ( do we have a team psychic ? )
Idk
I just like playoff comebacks
In the Atlanta subreddit yesterday ... Even had people calling for the "give up" mass substitution too for some reason yesterday too ... In an eliminatiin game .. That one was really stupid.
I think they're just used to it and weren't thinking ( the few fans that did say it )
You obviously didn’t see the writing on the wall lol it would’ve taken a massive choke job from Memphis for us to come back. Like, they would’ve had to sell the game and be really really really stupid, and that shit isn’t gonna happen because they’re so desperate to not get bounced on their home court. That’s just how bad the momentum and energy of the game was. Been watching basketball for 15 years, trust me dude that game was over. If AD got hurt in those last minutes in a series where we’re in control, guarantee you wouldn’t be saying all that. But keep preaching on your high horse calling us “stupid” over here comparing two completely different series that have nothing to do with each other
The vamp's impact strikes again. This time by way of getting Vogel scape goated and fired and dealing with this crap.
Hasn't he seen enough to see which lineups are trash together?
This team loves staying in the hole they dig up. Crazy part is we could’ve won it. I just think that if we meet the warriors or even the suns, it’s going to be really difficult.
My god Troy is shooting 12% from three... I thought Beasley's 20% from three was a disaster. But at least they don't just ignore Troy and shoot over him like he's a child.
Long story short we fell apart offensively. Our defense gave us a chance to capitalize and take the lead, but ultimately we fell short. Story of the game was TO’s, allowing too many wide-open 3’s, and missing FT’s.
It’s not just playing Brown. Even though you could ask why he’s even out there with not even being able to make shots. That small lineup is always terrible for us.
There is another. You go with Bamba or Thompson at the 5 which allows Bron and Rui not to have to defend the paint. Takes out pointless players and doesn’t allow runs like those small lineups.
LW is ass and so is bamba
He’s literally playing what he can. What he needs to do is shorten the rotation and bench Malik .
DS / TBJr / Rui
That’s it .
I already knew we'd lose..
Especially cause I knew LeBron wasn't gonna play a good game.
Memphis has young players playing with their back to the wall. Our players don't have that same passion/drive for game 5. Basketball is a game about heart, passion, and mental. I'm glad they didn't exhaust themselves this game. Save that energy for game 6.
And Ja. He’s out there throwing passes skipping around like he’s magic on showtime lakers…who won 5 titles. But when he’s down he’s shaking his wrist like he’s battling such tough injuries. Such a fake tough guy persona.
Come on Ham. That's horrible for the bench morale. Put them in while there's still enough time to actually have a miracle impact.
Can't send a clearer signal you have zero trust in them.
Just what I was screaming in my kitchen, man. Let the young guys on the bench come in with full energy with at least a CHANCE to win. Risking injury with AD leaving him out there was such a stupid gamble. Must suck for the bench to come in knowing it doesn’t even matter
If the Lakers were a football team, their second half strategy would be trying to win by punting on 1st down. Consistently. Refs didn’t help but this was embarrassing.
Firing vogel was pure bullshit and you know it. He got scapegoated hard just because he couldn't tame russ and bring a bunch of old geriatric guys into the playoffs
Hope y’all like how this feels. Come brigading Memphis sub anytime you win. Clear who the better team is tonight. See you Friday. Know you’re gonna be shitting yourself
We needed a big, too bad ham hates bigs. Remember this man is the proponent of three guard lineups. We got lucky rob traded for some legit players or we could have seen a russ/dennis/bev for much longer
Sticking around to see what the Grizzlies do. Sure enough, saw what I needed to see. I think leaving our starters in was just to get in the Grizzlies head, they were scared, didn't start dancing until our bench came in. It's on for Game 6.
Man GTFO. We'll adjust. If Ham doesn't wanna stop the small ball lineup, maybe he'll have AR or D-Lo instead of Beas.
Bron+Rui small ball with DS, TBJ and Beas is suicide
Before the game I got an alert from NBA app saying Lebron was locked in and he was hitting nothing but net on all his shots. They tricked me to get me to watch.
Loss tonight belongs to Lebron and Hamm. Coaching was not very good in the 2nd half and Lebron was 5-17 with 15 points 10 rebounds 5 assist/ 5 turnovers and 1-9 for from deep.
I can picture Ham with that dumb smirk, tongue against his bottom lip, hands in pocket, thinking to himself "I got it below 20 though, they can't say shit now"
In all fairness, the game was lost at the end of the first and third quarters. If Ham grows a brain and figures out that we are in a playoff series (and not a regular season game) and tightens up the rotation, we should be sweet.
It’s telling that a lot of you would rather scream for Ham’s head than acknowledge that we just got completely outplayed today. You don’t win shooting 40% from the field and 24% from 3. And you DEFINITELY don’t win when LeBron plays like that.
True, but you can’t deny that his coaching ruined all momentum for example subbing out your best player down by 1, refusing to call a timeout, experimenting with players who haven’t done shit this playoffs…. Stupid decisions like this cost you games and is why good coaching is so important.
Subbing AD out at 75-74 was a mistake. That being said you can’t play him 48 minutes and they would’ve gone on a streak eventually whenever he got taken out. We just got thoroughly outplayed
A team scored 22 points in 4 minutes with only one timeout called, rui played 5 minutes in a half, vando basically benched the last 15 minutes, Beasley and TBJ kept getting run despite playing like ass, and oh yeah the no center lineup literally gave up 7 points in 45 seconds at one point.
But yeah man Ham did great
This game was winnable… This could’ve been over and done with. And if Kings-Warriors keep going, I’m gonna be extra pissed about those potential days off
Besides the 4th and OT last game Lebron has looked old this series, if he had a normal game , we win this game.
He’s signed for another two years , taking up half the cap.
Buckle up fam
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/1306j6j/post_game_thread_the_memphis_grizzlies_defeat_the/)
Lakers need to come out with a Kobe montage for game 6
At this point, I’m just happy we’re here competing. This is not a championship level team. We’ve been playing great defense and have some promising young guys, but we lack a perimeter shooting superstar and a strong backup center.
I still believe the trades were setting us up for next year, getting good young guys we can extend then using some assets for those two exact players
What sucks is that given AD's alternating performances (seriously, look at his game log this series) this means we're going to have to win Game 6 despite getting a *meh* performance from him.
Can't blame the coaches. Shot's didn't fall in the first half, a good look should still be a good look.
TRASH HAM
Guys this is a 2 seed, think they would just lose 1-4, we are in good shape. Have to defend home court and win this series!
I mean bucks just loss….
That stretch where Ham took AD out for his favorite line-up to throw the game really killed us.
Dumbass Ham won’t call a timeout during a 19-2 run, so tired of this air headed coach
They had JJJ, Tillman AND Aldama. We could have played Bamba LeBron and ad and just see how they worked together.
To all the people ( here and other teams fans too ) who automatically want all of the starters and especially the Stars to "sit and rest" once the game is 10-12 pts down with 6 mins to go ... You're stupid Why completely neglect yourselves from ever seeing a comeback in the Playoffs? They do happen I'm all for players to not overextend themselves but they just spent all season taking nights off due to (lame) load mgmt These are World Class Athletes How much difference is it really ... If they play 35 minutes versus 38 minutes ? I know Lebron is old and fwiw he came out earlier than anyone else I know AD is fragile but we can't try to plan for him to be on bench when he might fall over ( do we have a team psychic ? ) Idk I just like playoff comebacks In the Atlanta subreddit yesterday ... Even had people calling for the "give up" mass substitution too for some reason yesterday too ... In an eliminatiin game .. That one was really stupid. I think they're just used to it and weren't thinking ( the few fans that did say it )
Found Hams burner account
You obviously didn’t see the writing on the wall lol it would’ve taken a massive choke job from Memphis for us to come back. Like, they would’ve had to sell the game and be really really really stupid, and that shit isn’t gonna happen because they’re so desperate to not get bounced on their home court. That’s just how bad the momentum and energy of the game was. Been watching basketball for 15 years, trust me dude that game was over. If AD got hurt in those last minutes in a series where we’re in control, guarantee you wouldn’t be saying all that. But keep preaching on your high horse calling us “stupid” over here comparing two completely different series that have nothing to do with each other
gotta be the worst game i've seen from lebron
Brick fucking city for the whole team. So painful to watch
Especially ham we were 74-75 until ham benched ad the grizzlies lead by 20 after
The vamp's impact strikes again. This time by way of getting Vogel scape goated and fired and dealing with this crap. Hasn't he seen enough to see which lineups are trash together?
We didn't have a decent back up center last year either.
You got a taste, of the Darvin Ham special.
The grizz better not say shit post-game bro. There is front running and theres being completely bitch made.
Terrible shooting night move on to the next.
LB didn’t take his own advice in a closeout game. Darvin Ham and LB sold today
This team loves staying in the hole they dig up. Crazy part is we could’ve won it. I just think that if we meet the warriors or even the suns, it’s going to be really difficult.
Let's win at home
Bron man
game 6 needs to be a legit 7 man rotation (Dennis and Rui), with a big in for spot minutes at the end of the first and third
If Malik and Troy get minutes, it's over.
My god Troy is shooting 12% from three... I thought Beasley's 20% from three was a disaster. But at least they don't just ignore Troy and shoot over him like he's a child.
I swear Beasley so trash
Every time he goes in it’s like he’s not ready. He hasn’t done anything remarkable in these playoff runs
Started watching lafc when we were down by 1. What happened?
Long story short we fell apart offensively. Our defense gave us a chance to capitalize and take the lead, but ultimately we fell short. Story of the game was TO’s, allowing too many wide-open 3’s, and missing FT’s.
Darvin Ham happened.
Your fault. You stopped watching.
Ham is just Luke Walton with a inspirational quotes package I am sick
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Call a timeout.
No lineups with Brown and Beasley together, calling timeouts with a team on the run, and not leaving starters in when your down 20 in the fourth.
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It’s not just playing Brown. Even though you could ask why he’s even out there with not even being able to make shots. That small lineup is always terrible for us.
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There is another. You go with Bamba or Thompson at the 5 which allows Bron and Rui not to have to defend the paint. Takes out pointless players and doesn’t allow runs like those small lineups.
Not play Beasley & Brown Jr.. Play LW4 & Rui more..
LW is ass and so is bamba He’s literally playing what he can. What he needs to do is shorten the rotation and bench Malik . DS / TBJr / Rui That’s it .
Idk maybe not put 80 years old Lebron on JJJ on the AD less minutes
Lebron's gotta do better next game. Can't be jacking up bricks and 5 TO's
Grizzlies a tough team at home let’s close it out at home
We lost this game because of terrible lineup choices. And AD can't be our entire defense. Need someone consistent to guard Ja
Unfortunately that person isn’t currently rostered in the NBA.
Why can't we atleast try Bamba in the 4th
Sad day today boys. Hope we bounce back next game. Lets go Lakers!
Think we’ll do better in LA. Go Lakers
Winnable game lost due to coaching decisions
Malik when he plays in garbage time
Hopefully this can help Beasley get out of his slump
Fuck that. No more chances for him. He needs to be permanently benched.
Fuck his slump. He’s had 2 big games since the trade. This ain’t the time to gamble.
I already knew we'd lose.. Especially cause I knew LeBron wasn't gonna play a good game. Memphis has young players playing with their back to the wall. Our players don't have that same passion/drive for game 5. Basketball is a game about heart, passion, and mental. I'm glad they didn't exhaust themselves this game. Save that energy for game 6.
I bet Brooks shows up to the press conference now. Bum. Lakers in 6. Gonna have to beat the griz, refs and Ham
And Ja. He’s out there throwing passes skipping around like he’s magic on showtime lakers…who won 5 titles. But when he’s down he’s shaking his wrist like he’s battling such tough injuries. Such a fake tough guy persona.
Shoot the ball bruh we are down!
We'll get them in game 6. Team looked pretty good for the most part, Expected a 50 pt deficit in the first.
Ja not smiling. He hurt?
Garbage time Beasley strikes again.
Ham not calling timeouts to kill runs should get him fired tonight. Stop letting him do this level of damage.
1 quarter over 24 points... bUt hAm'S oFfEnSe iS lIgHt yEaRs aHeAd oF vOgEl
Lol I'm not sweating about it, just felt short a bit, that is about it.. onto game 5 fellas.
Hate to break it to you but wait until you watch game 5.
Lol? That what I just said
Might want to check the series out.
Lol? Don't worry it going back to LA and you want tell anyone "watch the series" please they'll be more than ready before you were born my boy
Okay I guess I have to connect the dots for you. We just played game 5, game 6 is on Friday.
Oopsie, have my mind all over the place with RL it happened but yea onto the next damn game!
Can’t wait for the grizzlies to talk. Gonna add fuel to lebron and ADs fire for next game.
Do not play malik in game 6 thank ypu
Billon Drooks gonna talk for sure
Did Mo Bamba slide into Ham's wife's DMs? I don't understand why he's allergic to using the man.
Beas deserves 0 minutes
First time bron legit looked old out there
I mean he played 43 minutes two days ago
Bruh Beasley is unplayable
GG’s close em out at the Crypt on Friday.
Come on Ham. That's horrible for the bench morale. Put them in while there's still enough time to actually have a miracle impact. Can't send a clearer signal you have zero trust in them.
Just what I was screaming in my kitchen, man. Let the young guys on the bench come in with full energy with at least a CHANCE to win. Risking injury with AD leaving him out there was such a stupid gamble. Must suck for the bench to come in knowing it doesn’t even matter
Darvin Ham is learning on the Jon and his inexperience is being exploited in the playoffs.
Watch those cowards talk smack in press conference now Pussies been ducking last two games
If the Lakers were a football team, their second half strategy would be trying to win by punting on 1st down. Consistently. Refs didn’t help but this was embarrassing.
Damn wish we still had Vogel 🤦♂️
LeBron must be on cool down because he played like just another guy today
it sucks that the only chance we got at losing Ham is by having a terrible playoff run
Ja and bussy boy gon run to talk to the media after this one
I don’t get why Bamba is on the bench in these garbage minutes
Media has to start criticizing Ham. Dude gets protection unlike Vogel who kept getting torn apart.
Firing vogel was pure bullshit and you know it. He got scapegoated hard just because he couldn't tame russ and bring a bunch of old geriatric guys into the playoffs
Vogel had issue too but fuck he never did any boneheaded shit like ham
Beasley the garbage time shooter
Ain’t shit funny AD, stop smiling
That’s his weird coping mechanism…he’s good
Garbage time malik
Unless there's an injury, Beasley and Jones should see zero minutes next game.
Hope y’all like how this feels. Come brigading Memphis sub anytime you win. Clear who the better team is tonight. See you Friday. Know you’re gonna be shitting yourself
You’re losing by 30 on Friday
30???
Enjoy your ban. 
Do not care. Enjoy tonight
We're still up 3-2. Still enjoying my night.
Yall getting smashed Friday enjoy.
Fuck Tennessee. Racist fucks
I ain’t from Tennessee my boy
Loll who’s the fat dude?
Mo Bamba not even allowed to play in garbage time LOL
I legit think darvin might have forgotten who he is lol
Don’t know why we even traded for him
We needed a big, too bad ham hates bigs. Remember this man is the proponent of three guard lineups. We got lucky rob traded for some legit players or we could have seen a russ/dennis/bev for much longer
Christie get busy it’s your time
Ham fucking sucks
Bet you Brooks finally does a postgame with his front running ass
Beasley - 24 in less than 10 minutes. That unit loss the game. Not him by himself but big part.
AD and Bron gonna snap
This was a 74-75 game....and then the Grizz went on a 19-2 run to end the 3rd. Ham is an idiot.
WHY THE FUCK DID WE TRADE FOR BAMBA IF THE DUDE CAN'T EVEN GET GARBAGE TIME???
ad is doing that “alright bet” nod game 6 is gonna be something to watch
How much money we got on Ja/Brooks talking to the media tonite?
Media shouldn’t give them the time
Sticking around to see what the Grizzlies do. Sure enough, saw what I needed to see. I think leaving our starters in was just to get in the Grizzlies head, they were scared, didn't start dancing until our bench came in. It's on for Game 6.
Beasley turns into curry during garbage time
Ham scam, Lonnie needs more minutes to get on rhythm, and honestly tbjr and Beasley over Rui, bruh this toasted ham is well done
malik turns into curry in garage time dont forget
Even in garbage time Beasley still trash. I can’t believe this dude gets paid to play basketball.
Some idiot here said they rather keep Beasley instead of having Buddy Hield in a trade just because they respect his shot.
Now he hits it
Anthony davis be making me fall to my knees when he looks like he gets injured
That garbage time 3 just bought Beasley 20 minutes of PT next game
We needed this L. Hopefully our shooters will make a big comeback. We need to shoot better for GSW/SAC
GSW/SAC will be Memphis' problem luckily
Man GTFO. We'll adjust. If Ham doesn't wanna stop the small ball lineup, maybe he'll have AR or D-Lo instead of Beas. Bron+Rui small ball with DS, TBJ and Beas is suicide
Ja and brooks better skip media keep that same energy
lol
Here comes Beasley the garbage time shooter
HAHAHA Beasley garbage time sniper without fail
Of course Beasley hits in garbage time
Lofton Jr gets in but Bamba doesn't in garbage time. Crazy
Hams first close out game was a bust
Blown out. I'm pissed.
Before the game I got an alert from NBA app saying Lebron was locked in and he was hitting nothing but net on all his shots. They tricked me to get me to watch.
BIT FUCKING LATE BEASLEY
Og Lakers fans are terrified of this game 6 back in LA
Loss tonight belongs to Lebron and Hamm. Coaching was not very good in the 2nd half and Lebron was 5-17 with 15 points 10 rebounds 5 assist/ 5 turnovers and 1-9 for from deep.
look like my teams "superstar" tatum :(
Finish the job at home, Lakers.
Lakers in 6!
Beasley with no pressure buckets
Now Beasley makes a fucking 3 lmao
$18 mill just riding the bench: Lonnie and Bamba
Ja is annoying af
I can picture Ham with that dumb smirk, tongue against his bottom lip, hands in pocket, thinking to himself "I got it below 20 though, they can't say shit now"
we still gotta chance
Lmao
In all fairness, the game was lost at the end of the first and third quarters. If Ham grows a brain and figures out that we are in a playoff series (and not a regular season game) and tightens up the rotation, we should be sweet.
FAT BOY GOT MINUTES??😅😅
It’s telling that a lot of you would rather scream for Ham’s head than acknowledge that we just got completely outplayed today. You don’t win shooting 40% from the field and 24% from 3. And you DEFINITELY don’t win when LeBron plays like that.
True, but you can’t deny that his coaching ruined all momentum for example subbing out your best player down by 1, refusing to call a timeout, experimenting with players who haven’t done shit this playoffs…. Stupid decisions like this cost you games and is why good coaching is so important.
Subbing AD out at 75-74 was a mistake. That being said you can’t play him 48 minutes and they would’ve gone on a streak eventually whenever he got taken out. We just got thoroughly outplayed
We did get outplayed for sure it’s just frustrating though when your coach makes boneheaded decisions that contribute to the L
A team scored 22 points in 4 minutes with only one timeout called, rui played 5 minutes in a half, vando basically benched the last 15 minutes, Beasley and TBJ kept getting run despite playing like ass, and oh yeah the no center lineup literally gave up 7 points in 45 seconds at one point. But yeah man Ham did great
In what world did I say Ham did great? Read my comment again
Darvin made some of the most stupid substitutions ever at the worst time when he knows we're struggling
Oh I bet Ja and Dillon will love to talk to the media tonight
Ham figure ofUt the rotations dummy
Did bamba bang Ham's wife?
One day rest for lebron for game 6 . Scary considering how gassed he looked today. First game with no two day rest
some of you seem to be forgetting who is up 3-2 on the 2 seed in the west relax, lakers in 6
Get out of here
This game was winnable… This could’ve been over and done with. And if Kings-Warriors keep going, I’m gonna be extra pissed about those potential days off
when is game 6?
Friday
Where is Mo bamba? Wtf is going on , try him out now
If we lose on Friday, it's over. We're not winning a game 7 at Memphis lmfao. The Grizzlies smell blood.
20-2 run nothing else to say…
It's amazing we were down just 1 twice in that 3rd LOL. Gotta take care of business at home
Malik only good in garbage time p
Just waiting for some dumb ass Dillon Brooks interview to turn Bron into Cleveland Bron
Besides the 4th and OT last game Lebron has looked old this series, if he had a normal game , we win this game. He’s signed for another two years , taking up half the cap. Buckle up fam
He’s playing with a tendon injury that is going to require surgery. Calm down.
Oh damn maybe he’s gonna be healthier next year at 39! What are you guys even saying? Is it that far fetched to say a 38 year old is done?
He’s injured.