[Trudell] Darvin Ham on the decision to hold Russell out for the second half with the left foot issue: “It was definitely precautionary. He could have continued if we needed him. Didn’t want to risk it.”
Darvin Ham on the decision to hold Russell out for the second half with the left foot issue: “It was definitely precautionary. He could have continued if we needed him. Didn’t want to risk it.”
— Mike Trudell (@LakersReporter) April 3, 2023
by JilJungJukk
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This for all you hating ass mf’s 🥱
Okay good. Now let’s win all 4 😈
Let’s not overreact, it was a blowout anyway.
Most of y’all immediately don’t wanna pay him or give him 4 years or S&T him wtf
As he should. Rest up DLo there’s bigger fish to fry 🫡
Same thing with Vanderbilt. He didn’t really play the second half as much. 15-17 min only. Much needed rest for Vando and DLO. Bigger test Tuesday and Wednesday obviously.
rest him against utah if you want, but we really need him against clippers
Darvin always downplays injuries. Still not good if we have to be cautionary enough to sit him out a half a game.
Smart decision
he can play limited minutes in Utah too.
we need 30 from him against clips
Doomers in shambles.
He said the exact same thing about the sore hip and the ankle and Dlo still missed games.
Hope it’s actually, for real, not serious. We’ll see
[Everybody chill.](https://www.reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/12a3dwm/injury_update_dangelo_russell_is_out_for_the_rest/jeqd36m/)
He said it flared up on him and will be re-evaluated tomorrow FWIW
Nice.. no need to play him in a blowout.
yea it seemed so, Kawhi really paving way with load management, players are now load managing in game lol
Told yah
lakers still undefeated when lebron ad and dlo play btw. dlo came in, knocked a couple threes, and called it a night in a 25 point blowout.
Good decision..let him rest
Hell yeah, I’d say pull Bron too if it would have helped, but Bron needs reps right now – not rest. We need DLo bad to beat the Clips/Suns
We are getting GREEDY just like AD said. Keep everyone healthy and we are going for the chip. I can smell it, we can definitely make a run with this squad
i don’t believe anything coaches say – in any sport
He was good to go the 2nd half so I don’t want him to sit out another game, gotta keep building chemistry with the new starting 5, u can’t be out 3 times in 1 month with nothing serious injuries
As long as he plays Tuesday I’m not worried
Everybody be talking about letting him go. Lol I’m starting to see the overractions a lot more from this sub. Whoever said his injuries are the reason he’s not worth keeping need to shut up. Dude has been doing his job every game he has played and we won today’s game with 4 minutes of garbage time without him. There is so much depth on our team, Rui literally is the reason for this blowout. He played incredible the entire game on both ends of the floor. I have soooo much more confidence in this team moving ahead. Great win today. Also Sengun is too good for that team.
He has been legit great.
This was a smart move by the team. We were comfortably ahead and Dennis could easily fill in the remainder of the game.
Understandable. We’re up against the worst team in the league with an easy win.
Please stop getting hurt ahh every time I hear someone got hurt, my heart stops for a while.