Lakers SURVIVE Against Jazz

[@Marco_Lam]

Superstar of the night is the Jazz coach calling timeout when the game has 2s left and Sexton has a clear path to the hoop (and actually scored) LOL

[@mattwhitely1067]

To be fair I think he was trying to call it when he was pinned at the top of the 3pt arc but yeah

[@blazing6string]

He understood the assignment … jazz are tanking

[@catallguy43]

@@blazing6string Not so sure why so many dont get it. His job is to get the highest pick in the draft for Utah. It wasnt an accident.

[@jankaufmann7837]

@@catallguy43that shows how good the Lakers are right now😂

[@Daangelvid360]

AD was gonna get that anyway

[@timc9928]

Our possessions down the stretch in the fourth were horrible.

[@ShawnReed-ny1hd]

I thought everything was Darvin ham fault?

[@seanalexander5978]

Gabe made me drink a cold bottle of shut up juice tonight! Good game from him

[@Avmuhammad64]

😅

[@twonobiwonmusic9982]

Lol

[@jamesjones6315]

Gabe would look more like last night on a different team. It’s happened before with other players. Not everyone can play in this type of situation. Lebron led teams are not as easy for guys to make work consistently. The older he has gotten, the more difficult it has become. Look at AD. He can’t even be consistent playing with Lebron. If he’s had up and down games and years, why would we believe a role player would be able to? Lebron is a unique player. Most ball handling distributors don’t also lead your team in shot attempts. Lebron does both and that makes it challenging for the rest of the players. You’re constantly working off his decision making for everything. Think about the constant struggle we’ve seen since Lebron has been with the Lakers. How many times has the front office attempted to bring in ball handlers to take some of the load off of Lebron only to have to revert back to going away from it? We literally have one true distributor on the team right now and that’s Lebron.

[@jimmyconway6080]

The Lakers actually are fortunate to be 12-8 with all the injuries, turnovers and horrible defense.

[@brian6816]

Easy schedule

[@LowkeyYTReacts]

​@brian6816 that's called being fortunate

[@Dollaupt]

@@brian6816 5 toughest schedule in the league do your research

[@tyresejones3535]

@@Dollauptthat was before injuries decimated the league goofy no context casual 😂

[@Dollaupt]

@@tyresejones3535 ya always got excuses lakers not a good team Any

[@hieroglyphy6181]

An agenda to push LeBron out or minimize him through the officiating does not have to be coming from the league. It could be a cluster of officials, or an outside entity entirely. I am not advocating this, but I am simply stating the obvious. LeBron is purposely not being given calls when he is fouled, while simultaneously not being called for fouls he commits. That can be interpreted anyway people like, but it’s clearly intentional.

[@corythegreat323]

This is actually most likely. I believe he described the conspiracy wrong to Trevor. A crew of officials most likely are pushing an agenda against him. I’m sure bron has said some reckless things to them over 2 decades.

[@jamesjones6315]

Please don’t start this nonsense. The league is not all of a sudden against Lebron. Lebron is old. People keep acting like that’s not the reality. His age is showing. I think people are believing he’s going to fall off a cliff at some point with his production and instead it’s just going to continue to look like this. He’s going to have nights where people will leave away thinking he’s still in his prime but then he’ll have nights where it looks like he should retire. Over the course of the season the number of bad nights will continue to increase. If he plays next season it will be even more. Here’s the thing too, two or three seasons ago when he would have a bad stretch it could be argued that he was injured. However he’s not injured now.

[@blazing6string]

Everyone blaming Reeves and DLo for no defense but it looked just as horrible as ever without them in there 🤔

[@victoriamaguire9847]

Really on the are was the player that is consistent that we were missing and we got very lucky that everyone else played great

[@Oberonz1]

I watched the whole game, AD and Bron plus D4 did their usual but everybody else dug in

[@toxicmelody6228]

They usually give up 117+ so technically they were way better defensively without those two

[@catallguy43]

Why are some of us Lakers fans pretending Will Hardy did not tank this game on purpose. He saw Sexton about to psh the Jazz to another win and a step further from Cooper Tankathon and called the timeout. Will Hardy did an excellent job of keeping his team in Prime Cooper Flagg lottery position. Lakers did win this one, the Jazz gave them the win because they didn't want it. What is wild to me is why Utah wants to get rid of Walker Kessler...he is a solid classic big man.

[@flyingboy45]

Legit screamed from “That bastard the injury bug” LeTrev you’re too good😂😂

[@chrisrobinson8339]

He's not letrev. He lit LeBron up the last video.

[@44RisingSun44]

People mad at 200 year old Bron having a couple rough games & not 20 year olds who can't stay on the floor & when they are they play inconsistently. This is straight COMEDY 🤣

[@tyresejones3535]

Are those 20 yr olds getting paid 50 mil goofy? I don’t think so try again

[@jaredchalker7914]

" a couple rough games" he's been bad for like 8 of them...... That's 4x more games than he's been good for. That's an issue. LeBron clearly has taken a giant step back. People are within their rights to be annoyed by that.

[@ZbrawRock123]

It ain't a couple anymore, it's the last 5 games that his bad playmaking, shot making has affected the team down the stretch. If you watch the entire game, the last possession at the 4th were all his fault

[@itstentoes8408]

@@tyresejones3535they aren’t bringing in millions in revenue either goofy.🤡🤣

[@Jets234]

Not defending lebron playing bad but he did offer to take a pay cut

[@kerry7051]

AD and LeBron are both liabilities. They just do not run back at all and teams know it. People saying LeBron defies Father Time only watch lakers on offensive

[@61stwalrond]

Well on offense he defies Father Time lol see how you created a question to get the same answer

[@tyresejones3535]

@@61stwalrondeven on offense he isn’t defying Father Time any more he stagnates the offense and can’t attack at will he’s greatly diminished offensively and non existent defensively he’s effectively washed

[@kerry7051]

@@tyresejones3535 He can still light it up but he changed the way he does it without being as mobile or explosive all the time. Not sure he can find a way to do that on the other end

[@Dennis07-yl3cf]

lucky win Rui can’t do his laterals 🤣

[@georgefehr624]

Lakers 105-104 sweatbox winners vs. Jazz in Salt Lake city

[@MartyNansen]

I wish someone at Lakers nation actually watched film. The opposing center is beating AD down the floor and it’s killing the lakers defense. Just rewatch this game. There are countless examples. It’s not just LeBron.

[@TheIsaiah4352]

Facts whole team terrible in transition

[@d-free]

It's been talked about A LOT on here how when AD misses and is behind the play he's the last one up and the opposing team scores. It's obvious in the game, don't need to watch tape to see that. The whole team is bad in tradition for various reasons (since you wanted to spotlight AD I focused on him)

[@spreadlove7761]

@@d-free how do we fix this man??

[@MartyNansen]

@@d-free it’s not just on misses. Look at the Jazz first 3 of the second half if you can.

[@d-free]

Primarily on misses but I'm sure it's throughout the game

[@jamesm4047]

The man had 27 & 14 and you open the show talking 10 minutes negatively about Lebron play. EVERY SHOOTER goes through slumps from 3. Idc if you Steph curry or ray Allen. Y’all stay killing a 40 year old for his defense but who is a better defender than Lebron besides AD? This whole team stinks defensively and with transition/getting back on defensive. Why do y’all single out the 40 year old? Gabe stinks, reeves can’t guard my grandma, DLo gets hunted every game, Rui can’t reb and gets lost on defense still, dalton can’t guard (don’t care if he a rookie, y’all killing a 40 year old man so no excuses. I can go on and on about the flaws of this roster but you get the point. I wonder did y’all talk bad about Kobe in year 20 about his ability to not defend at his prime level?? Lakers fan kill me. We seen this weak ass team before Lebron came to LA and y’all sucked and couldn’t make the playoffs but Lebron out here giving everything he has not missing games and still balling and y’all choose to continue to focus on little shit. Yes he has to get the turnovers together ( no excuse ) but if you going to kill Lebron for his slump shooting talk bout reeves slump, talk about dalton shooting horrible tonight, AD literally been slumped since the bubble etc….

[@CannedHam2479]

Only 3 turnovers last night with those 14 assists.. Turnovers were under contol last night

[@jamesjones6315]

The percentages matter when evaluating performances. You can’t honestly tell me that you don’t understand that.

[@jamesm4047]

@@CannedHam2479 he did a great job last night. The past 5 games or do have been pretty bad

[@jamesm4047]

@@jamesjones6315 obviously they matter smh. But what about everyone else 3 point percentage? Only Rui and Dalton shoot a higher percentage! Plus if you’re “evaluating” a player evaluate the whole player game not just a 3 point percentage. Let’s really evaluate this weak ass roster.

[@g.o.a.tjames8861]

Hot Take: It was a good timeout‼️ If u slow it down when the shot clock was at 2.1 sec (when the timeout was called), you have Rui leading Sexton straight to AD waiting under the rim‼️

[@Cobards24]

actually the defense for the past two games have been solid. better effort than the usual games.

[@shanehughes4902]

Our 3pt % is what almost cost us the game. We need to stop shooting so many and get reliable shots at the rim. It will lead to more open shots for DK

[@dmitryowens]

Well, on the positive side, at least we kept our turnovers low and Gabe and JHS played decently. It's not easy for a team to win games with both of their main PG's out, not to mention 3 of our backup bigs.

[@andreadossena7753]

That's a lowass bar, especially for a franchise like the Lakers

[@dmitryowens]

@andreadossena7753 As I said, it's not easy two win games with our two main PG's out. I was happy to see JHS get some playing time.

[@joseenrico4753]

The jazz throw the game so the Lakers can win, that timeout call should be investigated

[@superemesean5907]

They want cooper flag 😂

[@ShawnReed-ny1hd]

Sexton had an easy path to the basket 😂

[@VIMassive1]

Bron and AD step up big, but how far our stars can take us especially with a 40 yrs Bron. We need help and a trade for Walker Kessler would be big for us

[@mrwhiteinca]

Watching the game, the thing that stood out to me are the Dalton and Lebron are basically zero's on defense. They're just Construction cones.

[@TheIsaiah4352]

LeBron at least blocks shots every now and then

[@rogers6168]

LeBron is 40 & Dalton is a rookie. Tell me one 40 year old basketball player that plays defense & what rookie does or at the very least has figured it out 20 games into the season. Enough said.

[@keyobeats5161]

@@rogers6168no effort on d

[@brian6816]

​@@rogers6168lebron hasn't played defense since his second return in Cleveland

[@msharp138]

​@brian6816 Absolutely wrong...Not at an elite level but he has played defense since then...

[@sylvesterwinter7283]

Let's not say what where all thinking.. Lebron almost cost us this game with his terrible shots and trying to be the hero.. lucky he made that 1 shot in the dieing minute of the game.. end of the day we need to get Kessler asap

[@charlesmabrie270]

AD needs to improve his passing. Especially out of double teams.

[@jamesjones6315]

Maybe they should be practicing this during practices. 😂

[@georgefehr624]

I think Hardy misjudged the situation and called the timeout. I dont think the Jazz intentionally tried to lose the game.

[@ShawnReed-ny1hd]

They're trying to tank

[@CannedHam2479]

No AR/Dlo/Cam.. I'm just glad we got the W... If Sexton hits that game winner, that wouldve been worse than the loss vs the Magic

[@georgefehr624]

Get writers cramp sending thank you letters to Will Hardy

[@Avmuhammad64]

😅

[@spreadlove7761]

We look bad. 😔 hopefully Christian Wood and Vando are actually the pieces we needed or this season will be disappointing. Should I just take my hopes out of this season?

[@beaumcgavin09]

A win is a win

[@spreadlove7761]

@@beaumcgavin09I agree. Well we got Timberwolves tomorrow.

[@mrwhiteinca]

Watching the game, the thing that stood out to me are the Dalton and Lebron are basically zero's on defense. They're just Construction cones.

[@spreadlove7761]

@@mrwhiteinca it sucks because with Vando and Cam Reddish out, it exposes the lack of defense we have then forces our offensive weapons to use their energy for defense.

[@TheTruthSeeker462]

Reaves Cam Hayes and D'lo not playing

[@Damar_22]

I think part the reason Lebrons not getting the foul calls is because he's barely gets off the ground when drives a lot of the times like he barely jumps. He aint out jumping people like he used to, which forces them to foul. It seems like anyone can affect his shot now

[@charlesmabrie270]

27 points on 28 shots is not good at all. You’re sugarcoating a bad shooting performance. The Lakers are clearly better when the ball is moving.

[@vincebodney4694]

Yes. we will never win a chip like this regardless who we trade for. LeBron needs to trust his teammates more. He barely trust AD late in games

[@mastadabator]

@@vincebodney4694He trusts AD. Does AD trust himself late? Especially with FT’s?

[@gon3808]

I'm not that sure Sexton would have score that if Davis doesn't stop after the referee called the time out.

[@ChuckWeldon-c2i]

We need a center

[@leonbuiles6509]

Dlo/Cam for Sexon/ Kessler and whatever pick that’s needed added

[@georgefehr624]

I dont think Hardy tanked or threw the game

[@victoriamaguire9847]

Should have won this game easily with one of our stars the only player that hurts missing is AR that's consistent got a trade AD

[@toxicmelody6228]

I need AD to start swinging on his teammates if they dont get him the ball in the 4th quarter. They gotta rule plays to get their best player the ball in the 4th quarter.

[@wendellhanes1]

trev lebron with 27 and 14 let’s give props your man right that he still had a great game

[@JohnRDr.490]

Worst win I've ever seen from the Lakers

[@shanehughes4902]

Not worried about Bron. This happens at least once a year then he always bounces back. They NEED HELP! He should be at 30 mins or less. Go get whatever it takes and get some talent. It’s all there for the taking. DLO and JHS with a 1st and a pick swap for Marcus Smart!!!! Make it happen

[@shanehughes4902]

How has Olivari not gotten a chance yet. We have 2 rookies I feel that can really make an impact! Why won’t they give him a chance. I don’t care about Gabe’s salary! He absolutely would produce better numbers. If he can’t get in this game I don’t see a game he will ever get the chance barring injury.

[@gaberox1]

Ive been slandering Gabe for weeks and i didnt like the contract when he was signed but he was pretty good last night. If he can show up like that consistently would be nice.

[@victoriamaguire9847]

AD got tired

[@LiBingBong]

Tanking for Flagg

[@charlesray-p1i]

no way Robs wasting those picks on this team

[@nicolemayo5115]

Lebron 0/8 from 3 but still shooting them. SMH WHY almost lost that game

[@quaizar80]

To be fair in the fourth, several of those were last second when he got the ball with no time to do anything

[@quaizar80]

Still a horrendous shooting performance nonetheless

[@richardsouthward4865]

O for 9

[@saivebollwaldner]

Shooters gonna shot (Yes, at this stage he's more of a shooter than an attacking the rim dude). He can go 0-100 and it's ok to let him go for the 101th shot.

[@georgefehr624]

Lebron playing g hero ball it was selfish trying to hit a 3 pointer. It might have been a record he was chasing. I was upset I wanted the win. Get a layup or dunk.

[@diegobromfield]

Just occurred to me that this team is on a similar pace to last year's team but maybe just a game or two better. As is, we're gonna end up winning about 49 games. Not sure if thats gonna be good enough for a top 4 seed this year.

[@fattony9227]

This Lakers team will be lucky to qualify for a Play In spot. Time to start thinking about post LeBron/AD/JJ ReDick rebuild.

[@diegobromfield]

@fattony9227 Its good enough to make the playoffs. Not good enough to win a round though.

[@lucasanfilippo5370]

Not the 3 pointers, but the last brick.. somebody should talk about LeBron brick before Sexton drives to the basket

[@alwayswinning3743]

We want Kessler chants... Kessler/AD front court yes please

[@jonathantroncoso1335]

Jazz want cooper flag.. don’t see why anyone isn’t saying anything about the intentional thrown game

[@imad6478]

Personally I’m not that excited about the win. LA can’t get over struggling in 4th quarters.

[@leonbuiles6509]

Don’t b surprised if Dlo/Cam get traded to the Jazz soon, both sick?

[@DanielWhite-sd4oy]

You guys sit there and watch the game, see LeBron was blatantly fouled and are upset with him that he was arguing with the refs. There were at least 5 super blatant no calls on him.

[@pytube777]

Can Lakers beat teams that are above .500?

[@jaredchalker7914]

This team is kind of pathetic. Glad I canceled my NBA TV subscription 🤣🤣

[@fahdzaa]

This was bad looking! 🤦

[@victoriamaguire9847]

Gabe point gard instead of AR Thanks!

[@victoriamaguire9847]

Finally Gabe ❤❤❤❤

[@TyrellClay]

Ingram and Lonzo if healthy could be an amazing buy lows and at worst $57M in salary off the books. Dlo, Rui, Lewis, Prot 1st for Ingram Trade Gabe, Vando, Wood, 4 2nds for Zo & Craig Trade JHS, 1st, Remove Prot for Kessler Sign: Traore PG: Zo/Reaves/Olivari SG: Knecht/Max/Bronny SF: Ingram/Cam PF: Bron/Craig/Traore C: AD/Kessler/Hayes Start: Zo, Knecht, Ingram, Bron, AD Reaves 6th man w Kessler lockdown defense

[@alwayswinning3743]

Bron should come off the bench, save his energy etc. Make It happen JJ

[@victoriamaguire9847]

Thanks!trade AD for new upcoming ⭐

[@MrExBearPoker]

Not hating on LeBron, but hes a lot of the problem with the team becoming stagnant. He comes down the court and hold the ball at the top of the key wasting time. The end of the game is the perfect example. Come up to the top of the key and stand there bouncing the ball. This isn't some end of the game thing, it's all the time 😂😂😂

[@rennieveras004]

lol they almost lost this team man we really need a trade

[@AR-xs9uk]

Lebron is not worth the max.

[@Bobsea25]

I have seen Labron argue with the refs and not get back a few times each of the last few games. 1 game it looked like he ran over to guard the guy and let him go by to argue with the ref pathetic that is why some people call him LA crybaby

[@LowkeyYTReacts]

And yall still think this isn’t rigged The jazz literally followed the script Yall bums needed it to win

[@thijstruyens3238]

What are you even doing here 😂😂 nothing better to do?? 😂😂🤡

[@LowkeyYTReacts]

@thijstruyens3238 yow delusion is funny

[@robvillaluna7967]

50% of Lakers defense if not more relies on Vando. He is the key for them to unlock their next gear. Hope he will be ready this December as the Lakers are atrocious in defense.

[@catallguy43]

Punxatawney Vando isn't slated to pop back up until January just to say "I'm just a few eeks away from a re-evaluation".

[@dariusewing6962]

vendo TALK IS SILLY cut him and Woods trade Vincent and AR

[@robvillaluna7967]

@@dariusewing6962 sad to say there is no equal talent or value to be traded for those guys except AR.

[@RomanDavidovich]

This lakers team is not going to get far with games like this. They're awful on transition defense and thats going to kill this team in the long run. Rui getting 40 min and only got 13? on 5-11 shooting and go 2-8 from 3, which is not good for a starter. He needs to come off the damn bench with those mediocre stats as of late. Stop chucking 3s if youre bricking.... Smarter shot selection needs to be a damn thing, Bron going 0-9 from 3, theres no excuse for him to force low percentage shots when its not falling. why is gabe out on the floor? 32 min only to get 10 pts? Coach might as well get Bronny out there, at least he plays defense and not just get cardio. Max christie doing his THT thing by barley producing anything, i dont see the hype around this player, Lakers need shooting and hes not that guy, lets be honest here. Shooting 2-6 in 30 min of playing time, im questioning JJ at this point, even though Max had a +8 coming off the bench. As currently constructed this lakers roster isnt going far if they dont make moves before the trade deadline. Lakers need a big and better shooters, the experiment of Gabe/Max/ Rui has been atrocious, even with a new coach. The offense needs to run better plays for DK, hes a lethal shooter in the making. There has to be better off ball plays so he can be more effective. He had a crap game?yes....But theres no excuse for this team as a whole to be shooting that bad from 3 (21% vs Utah).

[@TonyG-b2s]

JJ bad coaching!

[@antoniotucker4708]

I don't think it's anything wrong with LeBron James the team is supposed to be deferring to Anthony Davis it seems that Anthony Davis is not playing well at this time so maybe LeBron James will have to take over and go back to himself and the way that he normally plays JJ redick has a different system in place and LeBron James is trying to follow protocol 🤔💡 other than that I don't see anything wrong with this game he has to take it to the next level in the next few weeks you'll see in the world will see LeBron James is still LeBron James 💪💯👍

[@mattwhitely1067]

JHS isnt an nba player.. It is what it is

[@richardsouthward4865]

This dude puts up 28 shots and he's the pg/pf?? 0-9 for 3? O plus minus? But he says it's AD's team....retire already

[@JEROMEGREEN79]

Ungrateful

[@DeezLeHeez]

Bron gonna f around and have true Laker Nation running him and all his stans outta town.

[@Truecolors326]

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[@ReynaldoPatalud-i7f]

Bad games lakers trade na

[@shanehughes4902]

Not worried about Bron. This happens at least once a year then he always bounces back. They NEED HELP! He should be at 30 mins or less. Go get whatever it takes and get some talent. It’s all there for the taking. DLO and JHS with a 1st and a pick swap for Marcus Smart!!!! Make it happen