#Phoenix Suns at Los Angeles Lakers
Crypto.com Arena- Los Angeles, CA
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585159/suns-lakers)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/194jb09/game_thread_phoenix_suns_1918_at_los_angeles/khgg1ch/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|PHX |36|30|39|22|127|
|LAL |25|27|26|31|109|
###Player Stats
**Phoenix Suns**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|K. Durant|32:15|18|7-12|2-5|2-2|0|5|5|5|3|1|1|0|15
|G. Allen|30:03|5|2-8|1-6|0-0|1|4|5|3|0|0|0|3|32
|J. Nurkic|28:29|9|3-6|0-0|3-4|4|8|12|2|1|0|2|2|29
|B. Beal|32:06|37|14-21|8-10|1-1|2|4|6|4|1|0|3|3|25
|D. Booker|33:31|31|11-22|2-6|7-7|0|5|5|5|3|0|3|2|20
|E. Gordon|22:57|5|2-11|1-9|0-0|2|1|3|0|0|0|0|0|1
|B. Bol|17:18|6|2-3|0-0|2-2|2|4|6|2|2|2|0|1|9
|U. Azubuike|5:00|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|2|-6
|J. Okogie|11:34|5|2-4|0-2|1-2|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|1|-3
|C. Metu|8:31|4|0-0|0-0|4-4|1|1|2|1|0|0|0|0|-6
|J. Goodwin|4:36|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|1|1|0|1|1|-7
|Y. Watanabe|4:36|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|1|1|-7
|K. Bates-Diop|4:36|2|1-3|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-7
|N. Little|4:27|3|1-1|0-0|1-1|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|-5
**Los Angeles Lakers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|C. Reddish|8:24|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-5
|L. James|24:16|10|3-11|0-4|4-7|0|5|5|9|1|0|4|1|-25
|A. Davis|31:40|13|6-11|0-2|1-1|0|5|5|1|1|2|3|4|-24
|T. Prince|28:13|11|4-10|3-8|0-0|1|5|6|2|0|0|0|0|-30
|A. Reaves|30:22|13|4-7|2-3|3-3|1|0|1|6|1|0|3|2|-23
|M. Christie|24:33|14|4-8|1-3|5-6|0|7|7|4|0|0|2|2|-2
|D. Russell|27:24|19|7-14|3-7|2-4|0|1|1|6|2|0|3|2|2
|J. Vanderbilt|29:27|6|2-5|1-3|1-4|3|6|9|2|2|0|1|0|-1
|J. Hayes|13:01|6|3-3|0-0|0-0|1|1|2|1|0|2|2|6|1
|S. Mays|12:00|12|5-6|2-2|0-0|1|0|1|1|1|0|0|0|9
|J. Hood-Schifino|5:19|2|1-3|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|4
|D. Windler|5:19|3|1-1|1-1|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|1|4
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|PHX|46-93|14-39|21-23|23|16|12|12|3|13|33|51|
|LAL|40-80|13-34|16-25|33|19|8|18|4|7|30|47|
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Sick of watching effortless basketball with incompetent coaching. We need change or just pull the plug on this era and start again. This is where Iām at, thatās how bad that game was to watch.
We reached 20 losses first before winning 40. Scared to say that by this fact, we’re not a contender lol
Yup yall saw Ham laughing on the bench. Dude knows his job is secured by the FO. Embarrassing.
Pardon the novel I’m going to write, but seeing the same shit repeatedly gets annoying.
We had more timeouts available all game despite being the team down 20+. Absolute joke.
Reaves can not run an offense. He’s a secondary playmaker, he can score efficiently, but he doesn’t pressure the rim and break down a defense. He does not pass to AD at all, and often dribbles in, finds nothing, and just has to reset which stagnates our offense. There were 2 plays in the 3rd quarter that were brutal to watch. Nurkic gambled and was in the back court and instead of passing to AD on a rim run with only Beal there, Reaves isod against KD the rest of the possession. Then later, on a fastbreak, he either ignored or somehow didn’t see AD behind the defense, again with only Beal back, and passed it out to DLo to chuck another 3. You can not be a primary ballhandler on this team and miss those opportunities to our best player.
LeBron has to be willing to run our offense most of the time. Bron had 5 assists to AD just in the first quarter last game, showing the potential that we all know is there. Instead, most of the time, we see him just fire up some jumpers every once in a while and only go hard on fast breaks.
And defensively it was way too easy for the Suns to hunt the same mismatches repeatedly to knock down jumpers. Most other games our opponents are exploiting those same perimeter defense weaknesses to force help where we are pathetic at rotating to recover from, once again leading to us getting burned by jumpers.
I could say more about our overall lack of shooting ability and idiotic offensive system, but I can probably just focus on that for next game’s postgame comment because I’m sure we’ll have the exact same issues.
The boos should have been earlier and LOUDER. What an embarrassment.
FIRE HAM. TONIGHT
Is Ham fired yet?
Relax guys. Relax. Just wait for Ariza
When is the trade deadline and can we trade the coach as well
Oh well, on to the next season
Skylar Mays, I’m here to overreact
Skylar Mays
i am not having fun right now
**Post game drinking game**
Take a sip if Ham says:
– “Fill our cups up”
– “taking lumps”
– “dog days of the NBA season”
– “Next man up”
– “Try harder”
– “its a marathon”
– “we’re not worried”
– “we’ll get back in the lab”
– “We just got to get health”
Chug your drink if:
– Ham blames a player(s)
– If a player says something that contradicts Ham during their interview
Drink everything you have if:
– Ham takes accountability
Skylar Mays looked impressive tonight.
I think we should experiment with giving him some non-garbage time minutes.
Hello below .500 my old friend
This team is mediocre as absolute fuck. Stop trying to tell me that we have depth. We do not have championship depth. Bron and AD have played nearly every game and we are 19-20. Not to mention that the coaching fucking sucks too. We are shit from the owner to the ball boys.
See yāall in a couple of days.
Vogel showed why heās the better coach.
Skylar Mays just cooked our entire bench im glad Rob got to watch that first hand
When I saw Hayes, Reddish, and Vanderbilt on the floor together, I knew we would lose the game.
Why did we ever make that westbrook trade
Switching defense with Reaves and Dlo will never work. Imagine switching those guys onto Jokic. Go back to drop coverage.
I know this isnāt gonna happen since he has Jeanieās backing.. but I sure do hope that Ham gets fired soon
Skylar mays with more points than Lebron tonightš
If DLo played more minutes at PG, we would have had a better shot tonight. Itās clear that Austin is not a starting level point guard. People want DLo to be the scapegoat based off his play in WCF last season. Itās just not accurate. Even on defense, Dloās better because heās better at positioning, longer arms to grab steals, and better defensive communication.
We need a coaching change before a player change itās so obvious itās laughable
We were so low on size this game (without Rui and Wood) and Suns really took charge on those isolations. We just don’t have enough off-set when teams pack the paint against AD.
I know Ham will get a lot of hate and deservedly so, but if Lebron and AD are playing like this, we are not winning shit no matter who our roleplayers or our coach is
Max Christie outscored LBJ and AD. And no, he didn’t have more minutes than them.
Insert Rob Schneider gif “Oh No, We Suck Again”
Offense trash defense trash coaching trash
jeanie buss
Why does reddish play awful and keep his starting job while dlo and AR get bounced in and out of the starting line up when they dare to not score more than 10 pts?
Unless Bron or AD or both have monster games this team just canāt consistently compete night to night.
Maybe weād look different with Wood, Rui and Gabe but idk.
At the start of the season I was of the belief this roster could compete, maybe even contend; but to do that weād need a much more developed game plan and identity game to game.
Iām exhausted from always beating this dead horse but I really really feel like weād have 4-8 more wins if we had a top tier coach.
Iām not sure what Darvin is; on rare nights he seems to have a great pulse on the game and pushes the right buttons. On many nights he just looks like heās watching like the rest of us and lets us fall apart without calling timeouts.
Either way it just makes me miss the 2020 team. Gonna go watch some highlights to cleanse my pallet.
How do you force remove a coach?
āIāve been through way worse in my lifeā
The team is recoiling. They don’t like Ham or Jeanie’s backing of him. Cursed.
Trade Bron and AD start over