Two Murray game winners away from probably a 7 game series
Qwerty1879
Lebron and AD carried the team, just for Ham to trip them game to game 🙁
rejectx
So did we.
HughGRextion
i get so sick every time i think of this series, those 2 game winners man
jamal murray is a terrorist
StacksHoodini
KCP is very complimentary to his opponents. Obviously no love lost from being moved, that’s just business.
Ok_Board9845
We should’ve, but we lost so it is what it is. Main thing was AD wasn’t as effective in 2nd halfs once they started doubling him since Rui and Reaves weren’t hitting their 3’s like they were doing in the regular season
outsidehere
I genuinely believe that if Rui (not that I’m placing all the blame on him because fuck Darvin Ham) played to his normal offensive standard, we beat Denver in 6 games. Do we get over the Timberwolves? Not sure but I feel like we’d be really good against them
mobuckets21
1000000%
It was a combination of the coaching staff’s lack of adjustments, plus Jamal Murray and MPJ not missing jack shit
jurassic_snark-
Arrest Darvin Ham
Eric_T_Meraki
I wouldn’t even worry too much about Denver going forward. The lost a lot of good guys and have digressed a lot since their “championship”. Plus they’re get Westbrook. We know what happens to those teams.
discussionandrespect
If Rui and Dlo play a lil bit better we win
ThatOneGuyy310
Fucking Ham, ruined a good season
guyfromthepicture
Same
Primopastalover
Personally didn’t get that vibe from the Nuggets. No matter how big the deficit, they always knew they would win. Jokic and Murray would bring it home down the stretch and AD + LeBron would fumble it away.
theseustheminotaur
This is why I’m not super into needing to dramatically alter the team. If we had better coaching we could have won at least 2 more games, just losing quarters by a little less and we win games we had BIG leads in.. The longer that series goes the better for us, too.
It is really shameful how poorly coached we were. A league average coach is an improvement.
ktran2804
That series will piss me off for a long time. The Lakers kicked their ass for 3 1/2 quarters every single game just to choke the last 6 min every time. Hoping JJ is truly a good adjustment coach.
_its_a_SWEATER_
We shoulda never let this man walk.
13WillieBeaman
Thanks Darvin Ham. They felt they were out gas, so you felt like evening up the playing field by gassing your players out too 😩
Konabro
That’s because we should have!
Theoneandonlylog
It doesn’t matter if they would’ve beaten the nuggets. They would’ve lost to the wolves. This roster is very poorly constructed. It’s not competing with any of the tops teams in the west.
dcoolidge
Everybody sees now, we have the two best players in the world. Ham fucked us hard.
K0CKULEES
And tendies fans wonder why they were called frauds after getting eliminated…
supremepoker
Thanksgiving is ruined for me, I just can’t look at a ham the same anymore
fostyinthebuilding
There was only one blowout, we were a couple of missed shots from beating the defending champs
evol_won
And I feel like I should be smashing Sydney Sweeney. They won, and hopefully we’ve made improvements that will make it better next time.
TorontoRaptors34
Game 2 was so close that shoulda been an easy dub. Scam screwed it up. Game 5 too. Its crazy if the team held there shit together game 2 it would change the course of the series.
It shows the Lakers r not far off from winning imo if they can trade DLO and Rui and get a solid back up too.
For ex a good starting 2 and a wing that makes the biggest difference.
flubbergastedshocked
I still think we lost that series in our heads, not the court. I was at game 3 and it was the worst vibes I’ve ever seen at a Lakers game. It felt like nobody there including the team thought we were going to win and we could have won every single one of those games.
Flopdo
No sht. I said that in here and people just said I was delusional. NBA level head coach, and they beat the Nuggets.
TorontoRaptors34
Whats crazy about AD is how his scoring depends on others. Its why I really feel bro should bring the ball up cuz bro will be a non factor on offense if he not being fed. Its crazy bruh could have 30 then finish the game with 35.
oat38
We always come so close to beating the Nuggets but end up losing. If you watched both series against them this year and last year, you would know both series were a lot closer than the results suggested. But in the end a L is a L, we gotta just get better.
StoneColdAM
Don’t care about his jokes about the Lakers, Michael Malone usually calls it like it is and admitted the series was closer than expected. WCF 2023 was a true walloping, round 1 2024 was a deceiving 4-1
KDNeedsMoreHelp
Aoas 🙄
TotallyNotAnAlien-_-
I feel the same way KCP. I feel the same way.
lkshis
Ham snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
BlackJediSword
What an absolutely disastrous hiring Ham was. A coach with no head man experience taking over for a contender. Surely the Lakers won’t make this same mistake twice, right?
bebopblues
If Murray missed those two game winners, the Lakers could’ve been up 3-1. So yeah, the Lakers should’ve beat them.
Consistent_Owl4593
Ham being the worst coach in the league, DLo playing bad outside of games 2 and 4, Subpar Rui series, Reaves spending all his effort on Murray on Defense, no bench production outside of Prince in every game. These are the things that cost us in a series that was very winnable and that we literally did win if we played 3 quarters
Sfpuberdriver
Maybe I’m laker pilled but even two years ago the sweep felt like it was crazy close to a 7 game series
ToraLoco
murray got lucky twice. he was having bad games
vandiger
Ham and Fake Rob for hiring the fool, have fucked up alot in the last two years. Always dumbfounded that they get apologists when shit never goes well. Just know we got dumbshit owner who doesn’t really hire the best anyways, players/stars yeah the rest is mediocore usually.
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Then ham’s lack of adjustments happened
Two Murray game winners away from probably a 7 game series
Lebron and AD carried the team, just for Ham to trip them game to game 🙁
So did we.
i get so sick every time i think of this series, those 2 game winners man
jamal murray is a terrorist
KCP is very complimentary to his opponents. Obviously no love lost from being moved, that’s just business.
We should’ve, but we lost so it is what it is. Main thing was AD wasn’t as effective in 2nd halfs once they started doubling him since Rui and Reaves weren’t hitting their 3’s like they were doing in the regular season
I genuinely believe that if Rui (not that I’m placing all the blame on him because fuck Darvin Ham) played to his normal offensive standard, we beat Denver in 6 games. Do we get over the Timberwolves? Not sure but I feel like we’d be really good against them
1000000%
It was a combination of the coaching staff’s lack of adjustments, plus Jamal Murray and MPJ not missing jack shit
Arrest Darvin Ham
I wouldn’t even worry too much about Denver going forward. The lost a lot of good guys and have digressed a lot since their “championship”. Plus they’re get Westbrook. We know what happens to those teams.
If Rui and Dlo play a lil bit better we win
Fucking Ham, ruined a good season
Same
Personally didn’t get that vibe from the Nuggets. No matter how big the deficit, they always knew they would win. Jokic and Murray would bring it home down the stretch and AD + LeBron would fumble it away.
This is why I’m not super into needing to dramatically alter the team. If we had better coaching we could have won at least 2 more games, just losing quarters by a little less and we win games we had BIG leads in.. The longer that series goes the better for us, too.
It is really shameful how poorly coached we were. A league average coach is an improvement.
That series will piss me off for a long time. The Lakers kicked their ass for 3 1/2 quarters every single game just to choke the last 6 min every time. Hoping JJ is truly a good adjustment coach.
We shoulda never let this man walk.
Thanks Darvin Ham. They felt they were out gas, so you felt like evening up the playing field by gassing your players out too 😩
That’s because we should have!
It doesn’t matter if they would’ve beaten the nuggets. They would’ve lost to the wolves. This roster is very poorly constructed. It’s not competing with any of the tops teams in the west.
Everybody sees now, we have the two best players in the world. Ham fucked us hard.
And tendies fans wonder why they were called frauds after getting eliminated…
Thanksgiving is ruined for me, I just can’t look at a ham the same anymore
There was only one blowout, we were a couple of missed shots from beating the defending champs
And I feel like I should be smashing Sydney Sweeney.
They won, and hopefully we’ve made improvements that will make it better next time.
Game 2 was so close that shoulda been an easy dub. Scam screwed it up. Game 5 too. Its crazy if the team held there shit together game 2 it would change the course of the series.
It shows the Lakers r not far off from winning imo if they can trade DLO and Rui and get a solid back up too.
For ex a good starting 2 and a wing that makes the biggest difference.
I still think we lost that series in our heads, not the court. I was at game 3 and it was the worst vibes I’ve ever seen at a Lakers game. It felt like nobody there including the team thought we were going to win and we could have won every single one of those games.
No sht. I said that in here and people just said I was delusional. NBA level head coach, and they beat the Nuggets.
Whats crazy about AD is how his scoring depends on others. Its why I really feel bro should bring the ball up cuz bro will be a non factor on offense if he not being fed. Its crazy bruh could have 30 then finish the game with 35.
We always come so close to beating the Nuggets but end up losing. If you watched both series against them this year and last year, you would know both series were a lot closer than the results suggested. But in the end a L is a L, we gotta just get better.
Don’t care about his jokes about the Lakers, Michael Malone usually calls it like it is and admitted the series was closer than expected. WCF 2023 was a true walloping, round 1 2024 was a deceiving 4-1
Aoas 🙄
I feel the same way KCP. I feel the same way.
Ham snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
What an absolutely disastrous hiring Ham was. A coach with no head man experience taking over for a contender. Surely the Lakers won’t make this same mistake twice, right?
If Murray missed those two game winners, the Lakers could’ve been up 3-1. So yeah, the Lakers should’ve beat them.
Ham being the worst coach in the league, DLo playing bad outside of games 2 and 4, Subpar Rui series, Reaves spending all his effort on Murray on Defense, no bench production outside of Prince in every game. These are the things that cost us in a series that was very winnable and that we literally did win if we played 3 quarters
Maybe I’m laker pilled but even two years ago the sweep felt like it was crazy close to a 7 game series
murray got lucky twice. he was having bad games
Ham and Fake Rob for hiring the fool, have fucked up alot in the last two years. Always dumbfounded that they get apologists when shit never goes well. Just know we got dumbshit owner who doesn’t really hire the best anyways, players/stars yeah the rest is mediocore usually.