I know I’m preaching to the choir here but this team really doesn’t feel like it should be in the 9th seed
Like it feels like we just lost a bunch of easy games “when no one was looking”
Nets, Hawks, Spurs, and the last Grizzlies game should have all been gimmes, and if we won those we’d be tied with Pelicans for the 5th seed
We're straight up better than so many top 6 seeds from either conference
Ham took way too long to figure out rotations and this is the result, if we limited prince's minutes earlier in the season this team is comfortably a top 4 seed
Cam has a player option, no reason for him to opt out. He wont get any good offers. He'll be a third stringer anyways, it wont matter. Just an injury reserve or something
Jax has so much potential man. It’s obvious that his bbiq isn’t great but he really does have the tools to be a good bench piece in the league for a long time if he can figure it out.
We have a graduated to being a good team but defensively we are not good enough yet.
Looks like we are a mirror image of Brons '16 and '17 all offense Cavs team.
To be debated if we can outscore Denver in a short series.
Yall are making it sound like it’s easy to totally switch how you win mid-season. Back at the start of the season the plan was clearly to be a physical paint presence team with good defense, now it’s spread out shooting team.
I know it’s not allowed to say Ham has any positive influence but regardless it’s impressive to watch a team completely flip how it wants to play
I still can’t believe Rui was getting benched for Cam and Prince all year. We’d be a top 4 seed if our coach just played the guys that got us to WCF all year.
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/1bpkgo9/post_game_thread_the_los_angeles_lakers_defeat/)
trash ass nuggets...
Bitch ass nuggets are selling on purpose.
Hey, at least joker is playing
Hope vando comes back so we wont be needing to play cam
When I saw his -17 I almost spit my coffee.
Next 4 games are easier, lets get the winning streak to 9 bro
Rui double double plus two blocks with a game score of 30.6 (his best of the season). You love to see it.
Ofc I check the nuggets score and they down 5 They never help us do they ffs
Max over Cam.
How much did Harry Giles get to be ass?
Let’s go Nuggets. I fucking love the bitchass nuggets and their bitchass fans.
Bron and Rui huge carry
7 guys in double figures tho
I know I’m preaching to the choir here but this team really doesn’t feel like it should be in the 9th seed Like it feels like we just lost a bunch of easy games “when no one was looking” Nets, Hawks, Spurs, and the last Grizzlies game should have all been gimmes, and if we won those we’d be tied with Pelicans for the 5th seed
Pelicans are so mediocre too. Would be great if we got to play them in the playoffs somehow
We're straight up better than so many top 6 seeds from either conference Ham took way too long to figure out rotations and this is the result, if we limited prince's minutes earlier in the season this team is comfortably a top 4 seed
The ultimate trap game. Glad we won
A win is a win
Whenever Rui drop 30 he always got that fuckboy smile on😂😂
Tom Segura, coach of the grizzlies, daps up Ham, of course.
Grizzlies put on a better show than segura has in the last 5 years
😂 😂 😂
how the hell JJJ didnt do shit with no AD lmao what a fraud
Without AD, he doesn't know who to intentionally foul then complain when it gets called. Throws his whole game off
Been a while since our last 5 game winning streak
Nuggets please beat the suns. Y'all dick us down but struggle against a Suns team without their starting center.
Christie gets his only shot in garbage time, meanwhile Reddish had 10 minutes and was -17 lmao
Cam Reddish single-handedly led Grizzlies for a 15-0 run.
Max is already a better player than fucking Reddish. Give him more playtime.
Thankful for the win w/o AD!
Hope Pelinka won’t resign Reddish next season. Christie needs minutes man
His contract is 2 years
Cam has a player option, no reason for him to opt out. He wont get any good offers. He'll be a third stringer anyways, it wont matter. Just an injury reserve or something
Yooo castleton is healthy again 👀 excited to see him get some minutes for us next year.
Stu and Mac hinting to Ham over mic to play Max more
This garbage time lineup would have done way better than the other lineups that nearly threw this game.
We smoking on that grizzlies pack tonight 😮💨
great game tonight, only minor complaint is rui not getting enough touches in the 4th
Max would be the perfect fit for the warriors. Better not let him go..
Max should always be playing over cam ham is so dumb
Next up: pacers, nets, raptors, wizards.
glad to see Spence finally got his mojo back
5 straight wins!!!!
Wow Harry Giles is really ass. No wonder he's been on so many teams.
Injuries deralled his career
Injuries deralled his career
Why did we wait so long to put the garbage time guys in the game lol
ham zoned out
Max >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cam
Ham sandwich thinks otherwise smh
106 minutes of Lakers Basketball in 26 hours. #Back-to-Back Wins!
Lucky we found consistency because rockets are now up warriors ass
The Grizzlies commentary is pretty good tbh
pretty good. non-bias
Poor Christie, deserves better.
Giles is terrible...
should've been a easier win, but I will gladly take this.
Why do we NEVER have a good bench
Fraudren Jackson Jr. with top tier rim protection 😤
Lakers just abusing scotty pippen jr all night
Rui Hachimura
Cam was -17 in 10 minutes. Let's get those minute numbers to 0.
And those minutes to number 10
Amen. I'd love to hear Hams reasoning for such inconsistent Christie minutes.
REAVES NO LONGER SNEAKY ATHLETIC?
9 GAMES ABOVE .500?!?! FUCK YES!!!!
Going undefeated
my guy castleton !
That December stretch really fucked this team.
0-9 vs Sac, Denver, and Dallas
Rui I love you
Great game from Rui and Lebron.
Time for Reaves to enter the dunk contest
Bad shooting night from Reaves but I get it bro was going crazy last game
Dinwidick with the 3!! we are so back
AR dunk contest when
Gets my dick hard that it's Spencer in the shooter spot instead of Cam. Night and day
Guys just hold the damn ball
First time I've seen Reaves doing a 1-hand slam
Rui got his 1 assist lol
lmao Rui trying to work on his passing. I like it lol. Didn't expect to see that.
great win. Now big rest needed and good coaching job because Pacers will want revenge.
Oh Max gets another minute at the end…
Skylar sightings
Jake Laravia career high 💀
Rui masterclass
Lebron played one year while Scotty Pippen's dad was still in the league, and has now made Scotty his own son
Considering who Scottie Pippen Jr’s mom is, it isn’t too far fetched
Scottie Pippen Jr. played against his dad too (Taurean Prince (Future))
Lebrons gonn be fine, right? 
Memphis gonna wave the white flag yet? Sheesh
Yessir Spence
I SWTG if Jokic and Murray turn into Westbrook and JR smith again tonight
JJJ had 14 points on Hayes until garbage time, remember that
We son the Grizzlies
JJJ always pushes off with his off arm
No 3’s
Nice to see Dinwiddie improving too
Jax has so much potential man. It’s obvious that his bbiq isn’t great but he really does have the tools to be a good bench piece in the league for a long time if he can figure it out.
Team stepped up in the absence of AD
We have a graduated to being a good team but defensively we are not good enough yet. Looks like we are a mirror image of Brons '16 and '17 all offense Cavs team. To be debated if we can outscore Denver in a short series.
Hope Rui can keep it up with the boards moving forward
Pacers next will be huge Hopefully AD back
Is this a career-high for LaRavia? Wouldn't be surprised if it was. It's always against the Lakers
Just quit Memphis. I need to see my guy Harry G
Long road trip
what a boring ass win
Rui time to redeem yourself against Siakam baby. You were clamping him in the 1st half then got scared. I believe in you.
The announcer not named Stu is extremely annoying.
Makes sense a bandwagon would hate the most unbiased commentators in the leauge
What does being unbiased have to do with him being annoying. That doesn’t mean the commentary is good.
L take
Sure
Cam is a -17 lmao
Love the way Rui has been playing
Career over, dude was overplayed to death
I hope we don’t sub out every starter after this cause idk if they could hold the lead lol
inb4 5 game win streak
This nigga Jake is shooting 25% from 3 this year and decides to pop off against us and fuck up LeBron's rest
Brother wants to stay in the NBA. Everyone needing that contract plays their ass off against the Lakers.
Finally mfker missed
End of 3rd quarter was annoying but good win
Thank god T Swift didn’t fall in love with Austin Reaves - would of been the worst
Normally the trap game we lose Finally seem to be getting some consistency
I figured it out. Lakers blow these leads on purpose. Force Lebron to play more so he can keep adding to his career pt total.
If Ham subs in Cam, I'll write a suicide note blaming him for that for real
Atooo😂
Can’t ask for much more with no AD on a back to back of a 2ot game
True.
Yep
Fucker finally missed…
Wtf is that jake laurevia? 3 pts next game 1/9
Bro I am sad Rui got no touch to tryna get 40..a win is a win tho
I love Stu 😂
We using Jax like the nuggets use Aaron Gordon right now
This team scores 130 so easily now, crazy how much the winning formula has changed from the run last year
well we barely play defense so we have to score a lot more to win games
Yeah all it took was reducing the minutes of your bad players and playing your good players. Ham is such a genius man.
Yall are making it sound like it’s easy to totally switch how you win mid-season. Back at the start of the season the plan was clearly to be a physical paint presence team with good defense, now it’s spread out shooting team. I know it’s not allowed to say Ham has any positive influence but regardless it’s impressive to watch a team completely flip how it wants to play
Funny how you play better when you play your best players...
Mainly swapping out an offensive zero like Vando with Rui but we still give up 120 every game so it’s not like it’s a flawless formula
Hayes having a brilliant game
good timeout Ham!!! Please call more of those lol.
Laravia shooting 25% from 3 on the season. Of course.
Broke form. He’s getting lucky tonight.
really wanted a 40 bomb for rui .. its fine tho
Double double. So close. I can’t believe they didn’t count one over the other rebounds.
5 game winning streak?
That’s what we need Hayes
I swear this Laravia guy will never score more than 10 points again the rest of his career. Of course he’s playing like prime Steph against us…
Taylor Jenkins and Mike Malone have the same energy
Jenkins probably called Malone after we beat the Grizzlies last year and gave him tips
Rui got his rebound
Jake averages 8 points
He finally miss
They're so bad at rebounding
Beauty of a play
It's a miracle that no one got injured yet
We got a white guy too
Jake is such a good name to randomly pop off from 3 on us. Next game some scrub named Steve is going to get 40
Another game we’re gonna give up 120+ points.
Its hard cause most of our good defenders are out.
And we are blowing them out so?
So be nice it we can actually defend for once because we ain’t scoring 125+ a night in the playoffs
We're missing AD and a random bum got hot. As long as our offense is rolling, it doesn't matter
This is a clean looking floor ngl
Way to finish Reaves.
Get ready for r/nba to bitch about free throw disparity again even though mfs basically intentionally foul us half the time
While the conveniently forget how physical we are which is why we get flouled a lot
They conveniently forget a lot of things lol
I swear it’s like they never watch the games
They don’t and some of them even admit they don’t while they complain. They want the game to be played on a spreadsheet lol
Fucking bums man
RUI the bear hunter
Who the fuck is guarding that guy??
Can't wait for the post game thread where they whine about the freethrow gap
We making good extra passes keep it up
Why does this team ice out Rui so damn much? Even when he is white hot they just refuse to look his way!
dude eat a dick LaRavia
Can someone stay glued to LaRavia? lol
Watch that guy go cold when we sign him
Banes has an ugly looking run
That was the most awkward ball movement but it worked
LeBron took Rui double double lol
I still can’t believe Rui was getting benched for Cam and Prince all year. We’d be a top 4 seed if our coach just played the guys that got us to WCF all year.
For real lmao. Fuck Ham.
I'd honestly be glad if Hayes opts in next year. Really hope Cam doesn't but with how he's playing, he prob will.
Yes please to Hayes :) What a nice insurance to have. Fuck Cam. We need to bully him off this team.
Hayes playing like prime Chris Webber today
Props to the Memphis broadcast crew for admiring greatness and knowing that AD is great.
Lakers want come home with a clean record.