Lakers Fully Healthy For Thunder?, Post-Tournament Slide, D’Angelo Russell Tanking
Injury report updating leading into Lakers vs Thunder, the root of LA’s post-tournament slide, D’Angelo Russell’s slump and tons more covered on today’s show with Trevor Lane…
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39 Comments
Cope with being bottom 5
We legit have so much trouble again okc plus shai got a chip on his shoulder because what happened at the All-Star game last year…. We really need to consider a diff coach. I think ham is better suited for assistant coach or player coach but not head coach. His players don’t give him their all and y’all can use any excuse you want but a coach should be able to capture their locker room…
We need Linsanity
You will not win a championship, we do know.
Zach LaVine is exactly what/who We need – A SG/SF that can Create His own Shot/Be a Spot up Shooter/Shoot @ all 3 Levels and Handle the Ball if Needed. The only question, "Is He a Good Sidekic(k) for AD in the Post LBJ Era"? After Tatum/Ingram and possibly Spida who will be FA after the 24/25 Season, LaVine is the Best Fit.
Lastly, DHam needs a Tex Winter type Coach like Phil Jackson had. Phil was a Great Motivator that was able to get the best out of His Players and He hired Great Assistant Coaches!!!
Need coach rondo
Darvin Ham is a basketball coach. Not a medical doctor. He's been short-handed EVERY game this season. Its a miracle that we are above .500
Honestly why not go for Dejaunte Murray or Trae Young? They have 2 PGs. Murray is 18 mill and goes up after that. But that would be a Dlo/Max Christy type deal with 1 or 2 picks. I can see them doing this to shake up that lineup. Or Trae young for Hachimura, Dlo, Max, Vincent and 2 picks. One of those guys should go from Hawks. 2 point gaurds is not working for them. Idk. Just curious on what yall think? I feel Trae and Murray don't wanna play with eachother or don't work.
In my opinion, Dlow or better yet D slow could be tanking until the trade deadline then when he's safe of not getting traded he'll start playing better and earn a better contract for next year option
Ham needs to give Woods more minutes and give him some offensive plays. Not defer to AD and Bron all the time. Woods can dribble drive. Set him free a bit to get him in rhythm. We saw this lack of coaching when Ham had only Woods one game with AD out and Woods did crap. But there were no set plays for him. Seems Ham needs to shake up his offensive schemes.
I miss the old shows. Everything now is you just trying to get people to pay for stuff. And we know what the master lock is. Why must you explain it every time like everyone is new???
Keep losing fire Ham
Give DLo more PG time. He gets like the 1st 5 minutes and then its AR and then it’s Lebron and then it AR again and then he looks disengaged when when he gets his next 5 minutes
LOL
Fkin tired of these mfs complaining about injuries…. my hell these are grown men crying about a bruis..
Dlo is the heart and soul of the team
FIRE THE COACH FIRST BEFORE MAKING ANY TRADES
Unfortunately it might be time to get an updrade at the 1,2,3 starter positions. I don’t know what the answer is, but we certainly need consistant production (double figures id hope) from them. Not sure if cam can provide that but nice off the bench when vando is healthy and starting. Upgrade this so we have cam, prince and another big off the bench, maybe a Chris Paul off buyout to chew some minutes there. Who to get?
Caruso/derozan?
Gafford/jones?
Markannen- might be dreaming
Jerami grant – might be dreaming
Wait for something better or more achievable? Love dlo and rui, but recent play and also salary matching points towards them and Vincent being the chips
May not be tanking but clearly the rumors getting to him😅
The curse of hanging the mid season banner
It’s funny. It’s like we are at Deja Vu again like last season. Bad PG play and DLO going to the bench now apparently. Gotta start criticizing the coach.
I think this has been said a million times but this is the main things we need the Lakers to do:
1. Fire Darvin Ham and replace him with a competent coach (Maybe Budenholzer?)
2. Trade DLo and another piece for more size and a more reliable (but older) scorer (Something like Drummond and DeRozan)
3. (If possible) get a decent guard to replace Dlo that doesn't turn the ball over as much and isn't a complete liability on defense
4. Teach Austin Reaves to play at least average defense
5. Either teach a lot of these players to improve their shooting or trade for a shooter because my god our shooting is terrible
All that matters is that we can stay in games and win games without having to rely on LeBron and AD to play 40 minutes a night and risk injuries
Due to all these losses we fell from pretty much having 3rd seed to now potentially falling out of the play in games
I think after the in season tourney we put a target on our back and teams want to do everything to beat us (also it looks like the players are starting to soften up after the IST win especially against the Spurs which was an inexcusable loss)
We'll see where the Lakers go from here but it definitely doesn't looks easy, that's all I could say
Trade Lebron for Luka. Luka and AD would be our future.
GET RID OF DSLO!!!
Gabe Vincent out today. The man did 14 minutes of cardio and called it for the week 😂😂😂 TRASH
Great points about players coming in and out of the rotation Trevor.
Trap game??? Wtf they have lost 4 in a row. I dont agree with this take at all. Its like trevor knows in the back of his mind this is a bad basketball team, at best average, just doesnt wanna admit it.
Lakers benching Dlo
Thae problem with Lebron is when he’s uninterested which is getting more often, he pulled the whole team down. The Lakers badly needs a TRUE leader like a Rondo in 2020 to galvanize the team when in trouble. Lebron gives up easily and ready to trade everyone when sh*t hits the fan like he’s been doing hos whole career so no surprise.
What piles on the pain is that the Clippers are doing better than us.
We were the 4th!!!!! seed post IST.
Now we are at 10th 😱😱😱.
Ham is completely LOST during games. Has no clue what offense he is running and keeps making excuses as well as putting players in positions where they are at their WEAKEST.
Ie: TP as a passer. Cam as a shooter. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Trevor looking tired already and the season is only about a month old. Lakers wearing us out with their numerous injuries and inconsistency since winning the In-Season Tourney.
Dlo broken cause he know he not going last they taking to long ham was never the answer but he still there we screwed season over
Why not aligning 15player
Gabe Vincent bout to have surgery out 6-8 weeks. Note to self stop adding FAs who were solid undrafted players for Heat Culture as they aren’t as good outside of that system and Riley/Spo😅. Also fwiw outside of great ECF Vs Celtics, Vincent normally a 33-35% range 3P shooter for career as great as he looked vs Celtics in ECF it was small sample.
PS thanks Trevor for putting that clown Bron 🤡hater in his place with facts about how Lakers and many parts of life make changes when “going for tough.” Love history myself. Dope shout to the declaration of independence.
Every single team is dealing with road trips and injuries and all of this and still performing when their stars are on the floor. These guys are professional athletes and have to perform.
Dlo is def tanking knowing he can ball after trade deadline
23:45
LOL That dude obviously smoked some tainted crack 😄 What a 🤡
I’m off my lakers until they get rid of Lebron. It’s time to move on from Lebron. And im an extreme Lebron fan but he needs to go. He just old man highlight reel. Trade to the warriors be a win win for the warriors and lakers to start from scratch.
The whole team is questionable I’ll do a complete overhaul from coaching on down. Lakers need new blood and new beginnings