This really should be felt by everyone. Shitty game from the ball handlers in Luka and Reaves
Luka with the 9 turnovers and was chucking up shots all game. He was talking about Luka. JJ need to coach the team when that happens, it’s his job to fix those things.
Zero excuse for the number of touches Rui got with his efficiency this year.
Robert Horry said the same thing in the postgame show. No one was feeding Rui, DA or Jax. Ball handlers need to trust their teammates and keep them engaged. The ball needed to move more. Too much ball hogging tonight
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Yea that’s a problem. Rui is not someone who will create for himself so it’s up to Luka and Austin to get him involved and today they did not do that
Lmao now it’s a problem when we lose
The whole strategy since Luka has been here has been this:
Let Luka cook to shift the defense as much as possible first quarter, the minute they wanna double or blitz, Luka pretty much always passing to the guys. Last night he only had like 7-10 points in the second half.
How about if ur not getting the ball, play some basketball and work for rebounds how about that.
Man this brand of basketball is not gonna work vs teams that have physical defenders and are ok with letting Luka go 1v1. Rockets and okc are 2 teams that will let Luka go 1v1 and force him to make hard shots.
This same thing happened vs okc. Luka and reaves were completely taken out. Both kept trying going 1v1 instead of moving the basketball. At some point you have to blame JJ.
It’s a back to back with poor play. It’s gonna happen guys relax.
u know what JJ’s biggest problem is? its that he is so competitive and so desperate to win he keeps leaning on the same people (reaves, luka, rui, bron). three of those guys just dont have it today. he could have given vando a run. he needs to learn how to use players as sparks rather than seeing that bron and rui are not doing jackshit but playing them 30 mins cause he only trusts them
Everyone made some mistakes, sure. But I will be adamant, this is an L the coaching has to take. You CANNOT keep feeding Luka to goad his ego or something. Great first quarter, sure, but with the crazy turnovers, it was almost as if he had a hand injury or something (God forbid).
Heck, even AR and Bron didn’t get much shots, plus the Luka TOs killed us.
As someone noted, if Rui can’t catch the boards (had zero or one) being a 6’8″ tank, it isn’t done. But you need to pass the ball around. AR was getting tripled each time he had the ball.
up to the coaching staff to recognize it’s a 82 game season, and that when players are shitting the bed, you have to spread the ball around.
The problem was 95 turnovers
Chemistry 📉
Great response. Calls out the team but not in a toxic way. It’s “hey guys, idgaf if I score personally, but we win with ball movement every time”. Respect.
Need to not let Luka go 1 on 1 so damn much. LeBron needs to be more involved, just a bit more, rather than literally making him stand in the corner so much. He still has so much gravity. Yes he’s coasting but there’s better ways to use him when all 3 stars are out there. This game just showed a shit ton of issues. Yes we got ass wiped by okc but this game was just worse for some reason. Luka doesnt need the ball in his hands EVERY time. I want to say more about Bron but there’s only so much we can say and confirm. But we can say a lot about the offense as a whole. Things look amazing when shots are falling from Luka but I swear it this team moves the ball constantly, it’s wraps.
This is why I love the way jokic plays. He let’s everyone touch the ball even if they are bench warmers.
They’re not winning this year with this kind of lame lost game. Needs to be addressed ASAP. Start with the coach.
Luka is the biggest ball hog I’ve ever seen in NBA history. I would hate to play with a guy like that. Regardless of how good he is. You don’t do your teammates like that, unless you don’t like them.
Luka was playing like shit. Yes he got his, but he didn’t create for others and committed to much turnovers.
I think that’s why LeBron checked out in the 3rd and just got to 10 then quit.
One issue is that Luka (and AR) almost always try to make the hero pass that results in a direct score instead of the easier one that gains a smaller advantage and may require that role player to make a better decision.
You’ll see it fairly often Luka has somebody fairly open one pass away but he’ll fake to them and then throw cross court. He loves galaxy-braining the defense. It’s fucking badass when it is working well but against good defenses that are willing to line with Luka’s scoring 1-on-1, it’s going to be tough
This was the most selfish I’ve ever seen Doncic play as a Laker. Rui was open several times, but Luka and Austin wanted to prove they could score through traffic. And then turned the ball over. We are the top scoring team with our starters, because when all five of our starters get involved and are able to be in rhythm, we win. Rui knows this. Ayton (who scored 75% of his FG), knows this.
Don’t worry Rui! Luka got his stats and that’s what matters!
The one time he got a shot attempt was when Bron gave him a bailed out pass on a dying shotclock lol. They have 3 elite playmakers on Luka, Bron, and AR, and somehow they didn’t manage to find him once and fans will still find a way to make him the scapegoat for last night’s loss.
Luka and AR had the ball too much and Suns made Lakers pay. Rui, Bron, Ayton had zero rhythm all night
While I can agree with him, not shooting did not preclude him from doing other things on the floor. Literally any other thing. Like grab a rebound (he had one total), get a steal, block or even commit a personal foul. Literally invisible out there.
Rui speaks 100% truth here.
All class, no ego.
The team has to play for each other and the hero ball needs to stop.
JJ needs to do something about it during the game and not wait for a loss and film afterwards.
Gamea rigged man rui sold alot of people took rui for 8+ points
If you get a guy like Herb Jones, the world doesn’t come to an end if he has only one shot
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This really should be felt by everyone. Shitty game from the ball handlers in Luka and Reaves
Luka with the 9 turnovers and was chucking up shots all game. He was talking about Luka. JJ need to coach the team when that happens, it’s his job to fix those things.
Zero excuse for the number of touches Rui got with his efficiency this year.
Robert Horry said the same thing in the postgame show. No one was feeding Rui, DA or Jax. Ball handlers need to trust their teammates and keep them engaged. The ball needed to move more. Too much ball hogging tonight
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Yea that’s a problem. Rui is not someone who will create for himself so it’s up to Luka and Austin to get him involved and today they did not do that
Lmao now it’s a problem when we lose
The whole strategy since Luka has been here has been this:
Let Luka cook to shift the defense as much as possible first quarter, the minute they wanna double or blitz, Luka pretty much always passing to the guys. Last night he only had like 7-10 points in the second half.
How about if ur not getting the ball, play some basketball and work for rebounds how about that.
Man this brand of basketball is not gonna work vs teams that have physical defenders and are ok with letting Luka go 1v1. Rockets and okc are 2 teams that will let Luka go 1v1 and force him to make hard shots.
This same thing happened vs okc. Luka and reaves were completely taken out. Both kept trying going 1v1 instead of moving the basketball. At some point you have to blame JJ.
It’s a back to back with poor play. It’s gonna happen guys relax.
u know what JJ’s biggest problem is? its that he is so competitive and so desperate to win he keeps leaning on the same people (reaves, luka, rui, bron). three of those guys just dont have it today. he could have given vando a run. he needs to learn how to use players as sparks rather than seeing that bron and rui are not doing jackshit but playing them 30 mins cause he only trusts them
Everyone made some mistakes, sure. But I will be adamant, this is an L the coaching has to take. You CANNOT keep feeding Luka to goad his ego or something. Great first quarter, sure, but with the crazy turnovers, it was almost as if he had a hand injury or something (God forbid).
Heck, even AR and Bron didn’t get much shots, plus the Luka TOs killed us.
As someone noted, if Rui can’t catch the boards (had zero or one) being a 6’8″ tank, it isn’t done. But you need to pass the ball around. AR was getting tripled each time he had the ball.
up to the coaching staff to recognize it’s a 82 game season, and that when players are shitting the bed, you have to spread the ball around.
The problem was 95 turnovers
Chemistry 📉
Great response. Calls out the team but not in a toxic way. It’s “hey guys, idgaf if I score personally, but we win with ball movement every time”. Respect.
Need to not let Luka go 1 on 1 so damn much. LeBron needs to be more involved, just a bit more, rather than literally making him stand in the corner so much. He still has so much gravity. Yes he’s coasting but there’s better ways to use him when all 3 stars are out there. This game just showed a shit ton of issues. Yes we got ass wiped by okc but this game was just worse for some reason. Luka doesnt need the ball in his hands EVERY time. I want to say more about Bron but there’s only so much we can say and confirm. But we can say a lot about the offense as a whole. Things look amazing when shots are falling from Luka but I swear it this team moves the ball constantly, it’s wraps.
This is why I love the way jokic plays. He let’s everyone touch the ball even if they are bench warmers.
They’re not winning this year with this kind of lame lost game. Needs to be addressed ASAP. Start with the coach.
Luka is the biggest ball hog I’ve ever seen in NBA history. I would hate to play with a guy like that. Regardless of how good he is. You don’t do your teammates like that, unless you don’t like them.
Luka was playing like shit. Yes he got his, but he didn’t create for others and committed to much turnovers.
I think that’s why LeBron checked out in the 3rd and just got to 10 then quit.
One issue is that Luka (and AR) almost always try to make the hero pass that results in a direct score instead of the easier one that gains a smaller advantage and may require that role player to make a better decision.
You’ll see it fairly often Luka has somebody fairly open one pass away but he’ll fake to them and then throw cross court. He loves galaxy-braining the defense. It’s fucking badass when it is working well but against good defenses that are willing to line with Luka’s scoring 1-on-1, it’s going to be tough
This was the most selfish I’ve ever seen Doncic play as a Laker. Rui was open several times, but Luka and Austin wanted to prove they could score through traffic. And then turned the ball over. We are the top scoring team with our starters, because when all five of our starters get involved and are able to be in rhythm, we win. Rui knows this. Ayton (who scored 75% of his FG), knows this.
Don’t worry Rui! Luka got his stats and that’s what matters!
The one time he got a shot attempt was when Bron gave him a bailed out pass on a dying shotclock lol. They have 3 elite playmakers on Luka, Bron, and AR, and somehow they didn’t manage to find him once and fans will still find a way to make him the scapegoat for last night’s loss.
Luka and AR had the ball too much and Suns made Lakers pay. Rui, Bron, Ayton had zero rhythm all night
While I can agree with him, not shooting did not preclude him from doing other things on the floor. Literally any other thing. Like grab a rebound (he had one total), get a steal, block or even commit a personal foul. Literally invisible out there.
Rui speaks 100% truth here.
All class, no ego.
The team has to play for each other and the hero ball needs to stop.
JJ needs to do something about it during the game and not wait for a loss and film afterwards.
Gamea rigged man rui sold alot of people took rui for 8+ points
If you get a guy like Herb Jones, the world doesn’t come to an end if he has only one shot