@The God Poster told me it was because of the coach. I guess they must've replaced JJ before the game.Least amount of points given up all season, wonder what was different
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Bronny has been to make the bench. He's the moral compass of the team.Least amount of points given up and best defensive performance all season, wonder what was different
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This thread doesn’t get bumped as often after these type of gamesLeast amount of points given up and best defensive performance all season, wonder what was different
The God Poster
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Interesting@The God Poster told me it was because of the coach. I guess they must've replaced JJ before the game.
You don’t believe an offensive minded coach can result in a teams lack of effort defensively. Coaches don’t matter to you.
You also believe 1 game sample >>>
Taking a game against the Blazers who recently lost to Utah by 40 at home. The same Blazers who are bottom 3 offensively? This is what you use to make your point. Living up to being a low level tier poster who disappears & only shows up when they can distort facts?
We back to @ now? lol
Context is important.
For reasons I've made abundantly clear to you (injuries, age of players, discontent players etc), a coach isn't going to matter here, because you can't get a roster like this to regularly play with defensive effort. During the course of an 82-game season, a roster in this state is going to have its lulls, particularly if they need to travel or have an extensive span where they're playing a lot of games within a small window.
Your opinion was based on a three-game sample size, all games of which were on the road, so it further emphasizes my point of a coach not being a factor because there's going to be spots in the schedule where this team simply won't have it. It could be every other game over two weeks, or it could be over a 3-4 game span (just like we witnessed).
Very few teams in the league can give consistent defensive effort on a nightly basis, and the Lakers certainly aren't one of them.
Only cats who I clown hold that opinion of me to deflect from their own foolishness. Are you that type of person are you? We doing baseless ad hominem shyt now are we instead of talking hoops?
We had a discussion about this previously. I'm not tagging you in something completely irrelevant that doesn't concern you.
The God Poster
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Yeah you’re wrong. Every team travels & plays lots of games. Effort is about the players & can be effected by a Coach reinforcing said effort. The team has been poor defensively outside of this “3 game” sample you pulled out your ass
You know, repeating this over and over and over again, isn't going to make it come true.
And the vast majority of teams don't play with consistent defensive effort, for reasons I've stated. Do you think this team is alone in that respect? Especially in today's NBA with all the ground players have to cover now. Players can't rest on defense like they used to. It's a different ball game now. If you're not on your assignment, someone is going to get an open 3. Players have to anticipate someone will shoot the moment the ball crosses halfcourt. Players have to anticipate any player can handle the ball and playmake for someone else (not just the PG).
It's not the days where all actions would occur within the arc, where it would typically involve some type of 1v1 action, all after the PG had dribbled the ball up the floor and waited for everyone to get into position.
Producing consistent defensive effort is reserved for teams who're already acclimatized to the marathon of the regular season, but yet are still young enough to have the energy and hunger to get up on that end.
It can be, but if that team has aging players, non-defensive players, players who've checked out and dealing with injuries on top of that, a coach can only do so much to get them up consistently over 82 games. This is particularly relevant to this Lakers squad whose compass of effort is largely dictated by a 40-year-old, who's played more minutes than anyone in the history of the game.
You can't expect Bron to get up on defense every night whilst averaging 35 minutes, which has an effect on the rest of the team.
A coach reinforcing effort isn't going to turn back the clock on Bron's body.
Or are you going to tell me there's a coach in the league that could get Bron at this stage of his career to do just that?
Your problem was with the three-game sample size, because they had sporadically shown defensive effort prior to that sample size. I'm not saying they haven't been poor outside of that sample size. Their defensive effort has been inconsistent, which you can say for a whole lot of teams.
It seems you have an agenda at play here, which hazard a guess, you're trying to get a refund on cats saying Ham was responsible for their poor play when he was coach, and are now resorting to twisting and manipulating what's happening this season into blaming the current coach as means to point out Ham was made a scapegoat.
You can still make that case for Ham without being dishonest with what's happening this season.
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Was watching the Warriors game and GP2 defense on ANT made me miss Vando defense
We got BJ2, JJ just holding him back
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Bill Plaschke calling for both Lebron and AD to be traded 
He's lowkey saying the quiet part outloud that most real laker fans are feeling.
www.latimes.com
He's lowkey saying the quiet part outloud that most real laker fans are feeling.
Plaschke: Sinking Lakers franchise must throw LeBron James and Anthony Davis overboard
It's clear the Lakers won't accomplish anything significant this season, so LeBron James and Anthony Davis should leave the team for a title contender.
www.latimes.com
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take that ass back to Cleveland hoe 
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Oh now nikkas fukk with Plaschke. What have we come toBill Plaschke calling for both Lebron and AD to be traded
He's lowkey saying the quiet part outloud that most real laker fans are feeling.
Plaschke: Sinking Lakers franchise must throw LeBron James and Anthony Davis overboard
It's clear the Lakers won't accomplish anything significant this season, so LeBron James and Anthony Davis should leave the team for a title contender.
Bill Plaschke calling for both Lebron and AD to be traded
He's lowkey saying the quiet part outloud that most real laker fans are feeling.
Plaschke: Sinking Lakers franchise must throw LeBron James and Anthony Davis overboard
It's clear the Lakers won't accomplish anything significant this season, so LeBron James and Anthony Davis should leave the team for a title contender.
Plaschke is the only one usually willing to call shyt out. Only thing is......he still hasn't called out Jeanie. Until a front page LA Times article shytting on Jeanie drops nothing will change
Bill Plaschke calling for both Lebron and AD to be traded
He's lowkey saying the quiet part outloud that most real laker fans are feeling.
Plaschke: Sinking Lakers franchise must throw LeBron James and Anthony Davis overboard
It's clear the Lakers won't accomplish anything significant this season, so LeBron James and Anthony Davis should leave the team for a title contender.
top 3 article ever and i havent even read it yet