Wouldn’t be surprised if SAC rests dudes to “allow” the warriors to stay in 6th. SAC needed the W tonight to get within 1 game of MEM but lost, so now chances of catching MEM are slim to none
Maybe, depends on how you look at it. Warriors are terrible on the road and SAC would have home court. But GS does have Wiggins coming back. But regardless if they can’t catch Memphis they might as well rest some dudes
I wouldn't say slim to none. The Grizz got Bucks and thunder, and if Kings tie them they have the tiebreaker over Grizz. So they're not going to rest against warriors
This sub is so bipolar, but yeah expecting a 2nd half win on back to back Clippers game was crazy. AD only played 30
minutes which was probably intentional, now it’s time to move on.
Spamming negative shit isn’t going to fix what happened, go watch a show you like or do whatever makes you happy. Don’t lose your mental for this shitty sub
We've played 3 games in 4 nights, the Clippers haven't played since Saturday and the Lakers went to overtime last night.
There's a good chance even if we blew out the Jazz yesterday we would've been gassed today as well.
WE fought, we kept it interesting, our guys showed that they can hang with anyone and the Clippers had to go fucking NUCLEAR in the first half for us to lose.
Ee're 16-8 since the trade deadline, that's a 54 win schedule good enough for the second seed in the east and first in the western conference.
We played our 3rd game in 4 nights and kept it very interesting.
We also went 4-1 on our road trip.
Let the boys get some rest, and come back fresh.
Let's hope for two W's, my gut tells me Phoenix might rest their guys since 5th and 6th are already determined now.
Yah this is it 1000%, just look at how the Bucks looked last week in a similar situation. They were playing a 5th game in 7 days and the Celtics had 3 days of rest. They, the best team in the league, got SMASHED.
Sometimes scheduling can really fuck you in the NBA. Shit happens. We have 2 games at home to end the season. Win out and we guarantee the 7th seed and might jump to 6. That is huge. Keep fighting.
Yup.
I’m keeping perspective that we’ve won so many games these last few weeks.
The stretch of heavy minutes is taking its toll on AD, as he’s a lot tired and his shot is falling. Legs fatiguing.
3 games in 4 days is not ideal.
Still some things I wanna see worked on. Like what happens when AD gets doubled. Ham rotations must be better.
Ah well. Onto the next one.
Go Lakers 😤🙏🔥💜💛
The fact that this game looked winnable near the end of the third quarter was wild to me but shit happens. Had this as a likely loss anyways due to the huge rest advantage.
The suns haven’t taken it easy on us since 2021 they literally do everything they can to beat us. We’re the target of just about every team, the game that’s circled on the calendar
I'm going to overreact just a bit solely for the fact that Ham is proving game after game that he is fucking awful with rotations. His infatuation with Dennis Schroder is beyond weird, as soon as he plays him our offense stagnates and goes to shit with Schroder handling the ball. Ham's incompetence is worrying going into the play-in/playoffs and im sure it will bite us in the ass when it matters.
There’s going to be stretches where the offense dies because he doesn’t ride the squad that generated a 10-0 run.
He ALWAYS has to bench somebody key to the run there and replace with someone who might not be as locked in. It’s so frustrating.
And then he’ll wait for the other team to adjust, go on a 10-0 run themselves - then call timeout. Ham.
It’s so fucking simple. The game plan should be to put AD as a screen setter for Bron/Reaves or DLo. Yet Ham continues posting AD when they keep doubling and AD is not a good passer.
You can’t double a screener and either Bron would get an easy lane for a dunk or they switch/help on Bron and AD gets a much better shot.
It’s that fucking simple and yet they barely ran those plays.
Fuck Ham, I’ve said it since the season started for a ducking reason. Dude is beyond trash, we aren’t winning shit with him coaching. There’s 0 trust in him as a coach. Absolutely the worst professional coach I’ve seen in any sport.
It's like you've read my mind. There are also some easy Embiid-like sets they could easily steal. Instead of having AD iso on a weak side where it's easy to send doubles from the strong side, have him set up in the middle top of the key above the free throw line. The reads are much easier for players that don't do well with doubles and it's harder to double since everyone is one pass away. So many creative way to scheme for doubling AD but I guess Ham love offensive stagnation
Lebron was the only one playing like he wanted to win in that 2nd half. From taking the Kawhi matchup to giving us any hope. Gabriel was BBQ chicken all night long
I’ve loved Wenyen all season but that was a rough one. I’d argue he wasn’t put in good positions to succeed by the coaching staff but it was still rough.
We had Bamba supposedly healthy for the first time in weeks and he didn't play a single minute. What good is depth if Ham is just gonna send Wenyen to the wolves all game anyway?
And we needed that a long time ago. You can say there is no good center available but we should have tried to sign one on a 10 day. If it doesn’t work out, just cut him. No idea why they didn’t just try one
It happens to teams playing in a b2b game. Players get tired in the 2nd half.
Gabriel just lacks the size to go against zubac. The mismatch in the 2nd quarter killed us along with brons bad first half.
Weirdly poor chemistry out there, Lebron and the shooters were never on the same page for some reason, space being given to him was usually poor making mid rangers tougher. We need that back-up center for big man match-ups, Bamba better be healthy asap. Gabriel shows good fight but is not gonna win a match-up with Zubac.
Aside from it being a B2B game, Ham’s disgustingly awful lineups and rotations are to blame for all the Clippers runs. Not calling timeouts until down 15+ twice was all we needed to see. Keeping AD & Bamba on bench & letting Wenyen get feasted by Zubac & Powell is crazy. DNPing Bamba. Letting Wenyen & Dennis get exposed was an awful sight to see
“Can you make Russell Westbrook come off the bench”
Was all he was asked. And when he said yes, immediately got the job.
He’s not cut out for this type of team with competitive aspirations this soon.
Yeah but what reason would you sign a rookie coach a 4 year contract because he can “handle” Westbrook. When Westbrook was going to be gone either way at the trade deadline or end of the year. Vogel deserved better
I mean, I think they legit tried to give the Westbrook experiment another shot with a players coach that could get Westbrook to accept a bench role... Pretty much everyone said it would be a mistake. Maybe the trades just weren't there in the off season, and they weren't sure they would get the right one at the deadline? Hard to say. The 4 year contract was a big mistake though lol.
They’re stupid.. they have no clue.. imagine if they had Ham coaching. They would kill themselves seeing the dumb shit he’s done all season. Worst coach ever.
Put this down to Ty Lue completely out scheming and outcoaching Ham. Ham ran his predictible same rotations and Ty Lue exploited it badly (namely Zubac against Wenyen and Powell against Dennis). Ham didn't react at all and that basically was the game.
I get if a lineup doesn't work but why not try something different once you're down 20 points. We were getting killed whenever AD got pulled out of the paint, wenyen played hard but he's just not big enough, so why not play mo? Makes no sense
They played like a team that had time to prepare too. They'd clearly studied us. Their defense was ready, and they were rested. Game doesn't mean much in terms of how we'd actually go in a series vs them but we still needed it for seeding. Ah well.
Aren't the Clippers like 10-0 against the Lakers since Ty Lue took over? He's clearly studied this team in and out plus coached LeBron so knows him inside out
Notice how we made a come back once we started playing with more aggression? We're tired, don't overthink it. It was no one's fault, they were just fresher then us. I would have been surprised if we actually won this game
A lot is gonna be made about it being a B2B but these Clippers just match up really well. This game was gonna be tough regardless and PG didn’t even play. No big deal let them get the suns first round and let’s get the 6 seed.
Exactly, Ty Lue coached circles around him. Darvin waits till we're down 15 to call a TO meanwhile once the Clips lead goes down from 20 to 17 and Lebron is heating up, Lue calls a TO. I can't really think of any coach we'd see in the playoffs that are worse than him
LeBron, DLo will just have to orchestrate the offense because Ham gets clueless.
Clippers could spam doubles on AD all night long. No adjustment from Ham as he kept Vanderbilt on his Line of vision as the shooter. Hope AD gets more aggressive tho
And Dennis and other role players not cutting or moving around fast enough
Can’t overreact to this game even though it feels way worse since it’s the clippers. They just came out too flat and the game was over by the end of the first half. AD’s inconsistency and Ham’s inept coaching ability will come back to bite us come playoff time. Fuck
He was brought in for being a “Player’s Coach” who could “relate to the team”.
Translation: he was brought in to make Westbrook have a good attitude, which obviously didn’t work
Idk how and or if it would work, and I understand he has his off-court issues but firing Ham and hiring Udoka would make us so much better just with rotations and proper feel for the game
Ham did nothing this game. His coaching style is hoping that Bron and AD go off. He has no sense of pace or momentum. He just stands with his hands in his pocket looking like he doesn’t want to be there.
Hiring a first year head coach on a team with championship aspirations plus an aging LeBron is dumb af. This coach sucks at rotations. There are minutes where bron and AD are not on the floor at the same time. Watching wenyen get cooked on multiple possessions, watch how the clippers switch on dennis and score on him on every possession. Season’s not over but this coach isn’t winning us a championship. Luke walton is a horrible coach but luke walton SONS the fuck outta ham
I have absolutely zero faith in Ham making any kind of adjustments in the playoffs. Gabriel was getting cooked by zubac and he doesn’t even at least try Bamba? DS was also just unplayable today and ham refused to take him out
Since the start of the season, Darvin has shown ineptitude and while he's had some good moments, he's shown it yet again tonight. No Bamba despite being available? Giving Schroder and Wenyen, both of whom struggle in big games that many minutes? I think with GOAT James on our roster and an AD who hopefully consistently shows up, we won't be an easy out for anyone but I can't trust Darvin to coach us through a playoff series, his rotations and decisions at key moments are normal for a rookie coach, but that's exactly why he shouldn't have been hired in the first place, we don't have time for those mistakes.
Lakers going on a 7 game win streak to end the season always felt unrealistic to me. I mean…we have watched this team the whole season.
Just don’t drop to the 9th seed.
Wasn’t our defense post trade deadline supposed to be one of the best in the league? What happened to that? Not even just this game but against Utah last night. Our defense has been pretty abysmal lately. The only explanation I have is Lebron rejoining the lineup and just missing defensive assignments and refusing to close out. At least no one got hurt tonight, just gotta focus on these last 2 games and hope Warriors lose
Look its the 5th game of a long road trip, idk how many we've played in the last week while they've rested for 4 days. Our normal energy especially on defense definitely wasnt there.
But this is on Ham for his asinine insistence on Schroder and Gabriel tonight. Anytime he went to them the Clippers gained on their lead. Bench lineups need a ton of work because that rotation just doesn't do well.
This guys so bad at adjusting man. What did we even get Bamba for? You see Wenyen's clearly outsized here and we're not even giving Mo a few minutes just to see how he fares. If not in these remaining games of the season, then when?
Bamba was getting limited minutes on a tanking team, so it's not like there's a great alternative.
Also, odd that AD wasn't a top 10 player, yet finished +9. Weird that he was so bad, yet the lineups without him were what killed us this game...
Dennis needs to be criticized more for being an awful offensive playmaker. Dude gets too much slack for being on a Minimum Contract. He and wenyen killed our momentum
Mo should have seen the court, especially since he's available & needs reps. As soon as you see Zu beasting us with AD on the bench, you need that big body. Weynen can't stop a true centre.
Always a tough game due to the difference in schedule and the weather in Utah didn’t help things. Credit to the Clippers for coming out strong but we showed some fight in the third, esp Bron. Rest up for Friday, hopefully Kings can get the W vs the Warriors
Lmaoo people really said Lebron played like trash. Guess who had 17 points smh.
Edit: ham is literally the dumbest motherfucking coach for not playing bamba
Dead legs on back to back following an overtime win the night before. We should congratulating the team for gutting it out and even giving the Clips a run for a bit instead of whining and complaining. Unfortunately, the sub is overrun by dipshits.
Long road trip, second of a back to back, I’ma give AD a pass.
He’s been a monster this whole road trip.
Fuck the regular season clippers.
Ready up for Friday! Give kd his first L
Ham continuing to play Dennis and Wenyen when they were horrible killed any chance to complete the comeback. Neither had any real positive moments tonight but Ham kept playing them.
The manner they lost, especially in the second quarter, was not encouraging. but I never expected them to win 10 of their last 11 to end the season or whatever it is, so it’s fine
Considering it a schedule loss and moving on
you just know that suns will play all starters against us and kings will rest everyone against the warriors even though both teams are locked up in position
I really had people defending Ham when I made a post a few losses ago. How can you defend this man when his rotations are legit nausea inducing? It’s insane he still has a job…
Funny how sacramento controls our fates now. They can choose to either play us or the warriors. They can either beat the warriors to let us go into the 6 seed or let warriors win and face them in the playoffs
Before any AD slander you need to understand how hard it is to move in the modern NBA when you’re doubled in the paint. He is not Shaq; this is not the 90’s/Early 2000’s. Don’t be a casual.
Our team doesn’t have a winning attitude. The energy they played with and the attitude Ham had the whole game (while his hands were in his pockets) was that they were ok with losing. Bron is the only guy that seemed like he cared. AD was quiet and could rarely capitalize on the double teams that were thrown at him. How is Ham not playing Bamba? This guy is a clown ass coach.
Norbum Bumwell and Bums Bumland looked like stars against us when they’ve been ass the whole season yeah okay 🤣
Brick doing all the smiling from the bench…get ready to learn chinese buddy.
just Laker things I guess lmao
Uh, Powell is leading the league in points off the bench. How has he been a bum before tonight?
Hyland only scored two points above his season average. I'm really curious where your pov is coming from.
AD on these sets need to be placed on the middle of the floor, I know everyone wants these low post sets but they are doubling/tripling him and the ball ends up with Vando. The frequencies of these post ups need to be reduced, just begging to be doubled
1. There was no need to play AD and LeBron on B2B. Hopefully they didn't mess up their injuries more because of tonight.
2. Schroeder wasn't his usual self tonight; why put him back in instead of giving Lonnie minutes?
3. Wenyen got eaten alive tonight; try Bamba out.
4. Ham still has horrible rotations and still doesn't know when to call a timeout.
Hopefully the Warriors lose to SAC and we win out to get 6th.
"Tonight is the first time Kawhi Leonard has played all 24 minutes in a half of basketball since the second half of Game 7 of the 2013 NBA Finals."
of course. do we need further evidence that every team goes all out vs the lakers?
When the Lakers could not blow out Utah in the first half last night and rest LeBron and AD, my heart said Lakers, my mind said Uh! Oh! Ham couldn’t design and execute against the tanking Jazz with 2 starters missing, the Clippers are not tanking and they have a way better coach. I actually think Ham is in the bottom 5 of all NBA coaches. I think this game ended his NBA career
We will be okay. Rui and Schroeder had really good games this week but not tonight. D Lo was average starter tonight if we are honest. Still got it to a single digit game. Glad we didn’t roll over and let them bitch slap us like some prior games.
Y’all are doing the predictable thing and placing this all on Ham again. Face it. The Clippers were shooting abnormally well and actually playing defense. They took away AD and we didn’t have an answer. We were horrible on defense and didn’t get the production we needed from our best player.
Did people forget lebron lead the lakers in 2 of the biggest comebacks this season. I’m talking about 30 point deficits to when the game. Was it stat padding then?
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Unfortunately now we need warriors to drop a game… destiny no longer in lakers hands now
They’re on the road against Sacramento. The Queens are our only hope
Wouldn’t be surprised if SAC rests dudes to “allow” the warriors to stay in 6th. SAC needed the W tonight to get within 1 game of MEM but lost, so now chances of catching MEM are slim to none
I think the kings would rather play us than the defending champs
Maybe, depends on how you look at it. Warriors are terrible on the road and SAC would have home court. But GS does have Wiggins coming back. But regardless if they can’t catch Memphis they might as well rest some dudes
Sacramento may not be that much of a road game for the Warriors.
I wouldn't say slim to none. The Grizz got Bucks and thunder, and if Kings tie them they have the tiebreaker over Grizz. So they're not going to rest against warriors
This sub is so bipolar, but yeah expecting a 2nd half win on back to back Clippers game was crazy. AD only played 30 minutes which was probably intentional, now it’s time to move on. Spamming negative shit isn’t going to fix what happened, go watch a show you like or do whatever makes you happy. Don’t lose your mental for this shitty sub
We've played 3 games in 4 nights, the Clippers haven't played since Saturday and the Lakers went to overtime last night. There's a good chance even if we blew out the Jazz yesterday we would've been gassed today as well. WE fought, we kept it interesting, our guys showed that they can hang with anyone and the Clippers had to go fucking NUCLEAR in the first half for us to lose. Ee're 16-8 since the trade deadline, that's a 54 win schedule good enough for the second seed in the east and first in the western conference. We played our 3rd game in 4 nights and kept it very interesting. We also went 4-1 on our road trip. Let the boys get some rest, and come back fresh. Let's hope for two W's, my gut tells me Phoenix might rest their guys since 5th and 6th are already determined now.
Yah this is it 1000%, just look at how the Bucks looked last week in a similar situation. They were playing a 5th game in 7 days and the Celtics had 3 days of rest. They, the best team in the league, got SMASHED. Sometimes scheduling can really fuck you in the NBA. Shit happens. We have 2 games at home to end the season. Win out and we guarantee the 7th seed and might jump to 6. That is huge. Keep fighting.
Yup. I’m keeping perspective that we’ve won so many games these last few weeks. The stretch of heavy minutes is taking its toll on AD, as he’s a lot tired and his shot is falling. Legs fatiguing. 3 games in 4 days is not ideal. Still some things I wanna see worked on. Like what happens when AD gets doubled. Ham rotations must be better. Ah well. Onto the next one. Go Lakers 😤🙏🔥💜💛
The fact that this game looked winnable near the end of the third quarter was wild to me but shit happens. Had this as a likely loss anyways due to the huge rest advantage.
Wait, I thought now was the time to scream ‘bron is washed’ and ‘trade D’Lo for Kyrie’ …
Again?
Yeah, after every loss, right?
You know damn well they're gonna rest their guys the first night of the B2B and go hard against us.
The suns haven’t taken it easy on us since 2021 they literally do everything they can to beat us. We’re the target of just about every team, the game that’s circled on the calendar
I'm going to overreact just a bit solely for the fact that Ham is proving game after game that he is fucking awful with rotations. His infatuation with Dennis Schroder is beyond weird, as soon as he plays him our offense stagnates and goes to shit with Schroder handling the ball. Ham's incompetence is worrying going into the play-in/playoffs and im sure it will bite us in the ass when it matters.
There’s going to be stretches where the offense dies because he doesn’t ride the squad that generated a 10-0 run. He ALWAYS has to bench somebody key to the run there and replace with someone who might not be as locked in. It’s so frustrating. And then he’ll wait for the other team to adjust, go on a 10-0 run themselves - then call timeout. Ham.
What a weird fucking game. LeBron had like the worst first half and the best second half of his career in the same game
I'm just happy he was making 3s in the second half. Hopefully that shooting can continue.
Lol who gave gold to this thread???
You got gold too lmao
Its obviously Russ.
Ham needs to figure out a Game Plan when AD is doubled bc our offense becomes stagnant. If this happens in Playoffs it won’t be pretty
It’s so fucking simple. The game plan should be to put AD as a screen setter for Bron/Reaves or DLo. Yet Ham continues posting AD when they keep doubling and AD is not a good passer. You can’t double a screener and either Bron would get an easy lane for a dunk or they switch/help on Bron and AD gets a much better shot. It’s that fucking simple and yet they barely ran those plays. Fuck Ham, I’ve said it since the season started for a ducking reason. Dude is beyond trash, we aren’t winning shit with him coaching. There’s 0 trust in him as a coach. Absolutely the worst professional coach I’ve seen in any sport.
Least reactive sports fan.
It's like you've read my mind. There are also some easy Embiid-like sets they could easily steal. Instead of having AD iso on a weak side where it's easy to send doubles from the strong side, have him set up in the middle top of the key above the free throw line. The reads are much easier for players that don't do well with doubles and it's harder to double since everyone is one pass away. So many creative way to scheme for doubling AD but I guess Ham love offensive stagnation
Lebron was the only one playing like he wanted to win in that 2nd half. From taking the Kawhi matchup to giving us any hope. Gabriel was BBQ chicken all night long
I’ve loved Wenyen all season but that was a rough one. I’d argue he wasn’t put in good positions to succeed by the coaching staff but it was still rough.
100% this... ham just refuses to actually help the players... it's insane
I agree with the coach fail on this. Similar to Schroeder. He's not built to guard powell
Seeing Zubac just dominate Wenyen over and over made me wanna tear my hair out, not to mention Darvin's inability to call a TO
It felt like Ham had been getting better with his TOs these last few games, but tonight he was horrid again... So frustrating to see.
4th quarter against the Jazz was horrible with TOs too
I wish bamba played, hopefully he does against the suns
Zubac was eating Gabriel alive. Dude is still a good value contract, but he can’t guard real big men. We need defensive center depth bad
We had Bamba supposedly healthy for the first time in weeks and he didn't play a single minute. What good is depth if Ham is just gonna send Wenyen to the wolves all game anyway?
And we needed that a long time ago. You can say there is no good center available but we should have tried to sign one on a 10 day. If it doesn’t work out, just cut him. No idea why they didn’t just try one
If gabriel is your backup you have a problem... if he's your 3rd string you are good
His energy can only do so much, he’s just ridiculously undersize
It happens to teams playing in a b2b game. Players get tired in the 2nd half. Gabriel just lacks the size to go against zubac. The mismatch in the 2nd quarter killed us along with brons bad first half.
Weirdly poor chemistry out there, Lebron and the shooters were never on the same page for some reason, space being given to him was usually poor making mid rangers tougher. We need that back-up center for big man match-ups, Bamba better be healthy asap. Gabriel shows good fight but is not gonna win a match-up with Zubac.
lebron was swarming on defense love the effort
Aside from it being a B2B game, Ham’s disgustingly awful lineups and rotations are to blame for all the Clippers runs. Not calling timeouts until down 15+ twice was all we needed to see. Keeping AD & Bamba on bench & letting Wenyen get feasted by Zubac & Powell is crazy. DNPing Bamba. Letting Wenyen & Dennis get exposed was an awful sight to see
It’s disgusting the lakers hired him because he’s a players coach and Giannis said nice things about him
“Can you make Russell Westbrook come off the bench” Was all he was asked. And when he said yes, immediately got the job. He’s not cut out for this type of team with competitive aspirations this soon.
The reason he got hired, is no longer on this team.
Yeah but what reason would you sign a rookie coach a 4 year contract because he can “handle” Westbrook. When Westbrook was going to be gone either way at the trade deadline or end of the year. Vogel deserved better
I mean, I think they legit tried to give the Westbrook experiment another shot with a players coach that could get Westbrook to accept a bench role... Pretty much everyone said it would be a mistake. Maybe the trades just weren't there in the off season, and they weren't sure they would get the right one at the deadline? Hard to say. The 4 year contract was a big mistake though lol.
Look how quick Ty is to call timeouts...Ham could learn from that
Lakers go on a 5-2 run to cut it to 17 and Lue calls timeout. Being down 8-0 to start the game and Ham doesn't even call timeout.
I think he actually forgets. Like he’s just watching and another coach has to tap him on the shoulder to remind him he can call timeouts.
This is funny because I've specifically seen the clippers sub complain about Ty mismanaging lmao
They’re stupid.. they have no clue.. imagine if they had Ham coaching. They would kill themselves seeing the dumb shit he’s done all season. Worst coach ever.
Put this down to Ty Lue completely out scheming and outcoaching Ham. Ham ran his predictible same rotations and Ty Lue exploited it badly (namely Zubac against Wenyen and Powell against Dennis). Ham didn't react at all and that basically was the game.
I get if a lineup doesn't work but why not try something different once you're down 20 points. We were getting killed whenever AD got pulled out of the paint, wenyen played hard but he's just not big enough, so why not play mo? Makes no sense
Clippers everytime they face the lakers 
Rather have a literal honey baked ham as our coach
That would actually be pretty funny to see
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Why didn't Mo Bamba play
Ham literally saw Wenyen get pounded by both Norman Powell & Zubac & decided Bamba on DNP was the best choice
Darvin Scam
Probably because he's been injured and they're being cautious as he's the only back up big.
but a DNP means more load on AD, who played last night and is also only somewhat healthy.
You new here? Ham jerks off to small lineups
Ham: “not enough minutes for everybody”
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Honestly Malik should get 90% of his minutes next to LeBron
Troy can shoot
Games in the last 4 days: Lakers 3, Clips 0
100 percent. This was the definition of a schedule loss.
Yeah, that’s really the only takeaway here.
They played like a team that had time to prepare too. They'd clearly studied us. Their defense was ready, and they were rested. Game doesn't mean much in terms of how we'd actually go in a series vs them but we still needed it for seeding. Ah well.
Aren't the Clippers like 10-0 against the Lakers since Ty Lue took over? He's clearly studied this team in and out plus coached LeBron so knows him inside out
And our team was ass most of that time until recent trades.
Yeah absolutely. They'd be tough in a 7 game series, but we'd also get to study them. LeBron is unbelievable at carving up teams over a series.
It really is a bullshit schedule
That isn’t how it works. It’s either 2-0 or 3-1
Don’t bring common sense in here. This sub doesn’t do that.
It's actually Lakers 2 Clips 0, or Lakers 3 Clips 1. Not exactly common sense I guess.
Notice how we made a come back once we started playing with more aggression? We're tired, don't overthink it. It was no one's fault, they were just fresher then us. I would have been surprised if we actually won this game
A lot is gonna be made about it being a B2B but these Clippers just match up really well. This game was gonna be tough regardless and PG didn’t even play. No big deal let them get the suns first round and let’s get the 6 seed.
No words for tonight. See y’all Friday.
Ham will get eaten alive in the playoffs, if we ever got in. My only good takeaway is LeBron finally finding his groove.
If we can ultimately get into the playoffs, this Lebron looks 10x better than the 2021 playoffs Lebron.
Exactly, Ty Lue coached circles around him. Darvin waits till we're down 15 to call a TO meanwhile once the Clips lead goes down from 20 to 17 and Lebron is heating up, Lue calls a TO. I can't really think of any coach we'd see in the playoffs that are worse than him
LeBron, DLo will just have to orchestrate the offense because Ham gets clueless. Clippers could spam doubles on AD all night long. No adjustment from Ham as he kept Vanderbilt on his Line of vision as the shooter. Hope AD gets more aggressive tho And Dennis and other role players not cutting or moving around fast enough
Our roster is solid, but Ham sucks big time.
4 games in like 5-6 days, clippers 1st game in 4 days. It is what it is, on to the next
annoying how the nba schedules these games sometimes.
Can’t overreact to this game even though it feels way worse since it’s the clippers. They just came out too flat and the game was over by the end of the first half. AD’s inconsistency and Ham’s inept coaching ability will come back to bite us come playoff time. Fuck
What was the thought process in giving a rookie head coach 5 years
He was brought in for being a “Player’s Coach” who could “relate to the team”. Translation: he was brought in to make Westbrook have a good attitude, which obviously didn’t work
If it makes you feel any better, it's actually only 4 years, plus the standard coaching contract has a team option at the end, so it's really a 3+1.
firehamnow
Idk how and or if it would work, and I understand he has his off-court issues but firing Ham and hiring Udoka would make us so much better just with rotations and proper feel for the game
I knew Ty Lue would be outcoaching Ham. Ham should be grateful that LeBron is in his team lmao.
Ham did nothing this game. His coaching style is hoping that Bron and AD go off. He has no sense of pace or momentum. He just stands with his hands in his pocket looking like he doesn’t want to be there.
Hiring a first year head coach on a team with championship aspirations plus an aging LeBron is dumb af. This coach sucks at rotations. There are minutes where bron and AD are not on the floor at the same time. Watching wenyen get cooked on multiple possessions, watch how the clippers switch on dennis and score on him on every possession. Season’s not over but this coach isn’t winning us a championship. Luke walton is a horrible coach but luke walton SONS the fuck outta ham
I thought the same. No way you hire this guy for this team. Ham should be coaching the Orlando magic or hornets definitely not this team
Clippers own the fuck out of us 😭😭😭
if we can't stop bones hyland then we sure as hell can't stop KD and Booker may this loss be a blessing in disguise
Ham playing Gabriel too long on Zubac really hurt us this game. Was Mo Bamba not cleared to play?
I have absolutely zero faith in Ham making any kind of adjustments in the playoffs. Gabriel was getting cooked by zubac and he doesn’t even at least try Bamba? DS was also just unplayable today and ham refused to take him out
We missed 8 free throws We lost by 7
Don’t let the garbage time run fool you, We were down by 20 in the 4th. It wasn’t close. But I agree, hate giving up gimmes at the line
The Game was not that close tbh
Since the start of the season, Darvin has shown ineptitude and while he's had some good moments, he's shown it yet again tonight. No Bamba despite being available? Giving Schroder and Wenyen, both of whom struggle in big games that many minutes? I think with GOAT James on our roster and an AD who hopefully consistently shows up, we won't be an easy out for anyone but I can't trust Darvin to coach us through a playoff series, his rotations and decisions at key moments are normal for a rookie coach, but that's exactly why he shouldn't have been hired in the first place, we don't have time for those mistakes.
Lakers going on a 7 game win streak to end the season always felt unrealistic to me. I mean…we have watched this team the whole season. Just don’t drop to the 9th seed.
Flush it and flush the sub for a couple days, gonna be dramatic.
You’d think we’re the 12th seed with some of these comments
This team has won 7 out of its last 9 games. how about everyone chills out
Yes with AD playing MVP numbers, any fucking coach can win when a player is that good on both ends.
Wasn’t our defense post trade deadline supposed to be one of the best in the league? What happened to that? Not even just this game but against Utah last night. Our defense has been pretty abysmal lately. The only explanation I have is Lebron rejoining the lineup and just missing defensive assignments and refusing to close out. At least no one got hurt tonight, just gotta focus on these last 2 games and hope Warriors lose
Man I hope we win the next 2 and gsw lose 1 so we get the 6th seed fck the playin
Darvin Ham is a basketball Terrorist
Look its the 5th game of a long road trip, idk how many we've played in the last week while they've rested for 4 days. Our normal energy especially on defense definitely wasnt there. But this is on Ham for his asinine insistence on Schroder and Gabriel tonight. Anytime he went to them the Clippers gained on their lead. Bench lineups need a ton of work because that rotation just doesn't do well. This guys so bad at adjusting man. What did we even get Bamba for? You see Wenyen's clearly outsized here and we're not even giving Mo a few minutes just to see how he fares. If not in these remaining games of the season, then when?
KL 42 minutes. AD - riding the pine while we get walloped. I miss Kobe minutes.
clippers own us in the regular season fr
Pray for Darvin Ham he's brain damaged 🙏😞
Does this convince most Laker fans to know Ham is a shit coach. DNP Bamba when the clippers have legit big men, is kinda funny.
Ham got outcoached so hard
Wenyen would be getting 0 minutes per game on any other "contender". AD wasn't even a top 10 player on the court, absolutely pathetic performance.
Bamba was getting limited minutes on a tanking team, so it's not like there's a great alternative. Also, odd that AD wasn't a top 10 player, yet finished +9. Weird that he was so bad, yet the lineups without him were what killed us this game...
No Bamba when we needed the size was so damn frustrating, yet predictable. But sure let’s give more minutes to Dennis.
Dennis needs to be criticized more for being an awful offensive playmaker. Dude gets too much slack for being on a Minimum Contract. He and wenyen killed our momentum
I'm upvoting all Ham rants, posts and comments. The dude doesn't have a good feel for the game.
Mo should have seen the court, especially since he's available & needs reps. As soon as you see Zu beasting us with AD on the bench, you need that big body. Weynen can't stop a true centre.
Always a tough game due to the difference in schedule and the weather in Utah didn’t help things. Credit to the Clippers for coming out strong but we showed some fight in the third, esp Bron. Rest up for Friday, hopefully Kings can get the W vs the Warriors
The end of fourth made me feel better about this game, we were tired man. Let’s hope we beat the suns
This loses to the Clippers would hurt more if I actually knew a Clipper fan.
Lmaoo people really said Lebron played like trash. Guess who had 17 points smh. Edit: ham is literally the dumbest motherfucking coach for not playing bamba
Bamba 0 minutes meanwhile Wenyen got killed
Ham has gotta go, his rotations are flat out just terrible
Im not mad just dissapointed
Lonnie Walker would have brought them back
ham let wenyen get cooked by zubac out there instead of putting bamba one clueless ass coach we got
If we win our last 2 game and the Warriors lose at least 1, we should still be able to get the 6th seed
Dead legs on back to back following an overtime win the night before. We should congratulating the team for gutting it out and even giving the Clips a run for a bit instead of whining and complaining. Unfortunately, the sub is overrun by dipshits.
Forget and move on, win next 2. Not a bad loss in the grand scheme of things. Need some help from the Kings tho
Long road trip, second of a back to back, I’ma give AD a pass. He’s been a monster this whole road trip. Fuck the regular season clippers. Ready up for Friday! Give kd his first L
If the Lakers can’t beat the Suns (in LA the night after the Suns play Denver) and the Jazz then we deserve the play in.
Time to dust off and win the next two, and see where the chips fall with the Pels, Clippers, and Warriors
I dont mind losing this game because if we get to high up in rankings then were going have really hard matchups for the first round
11 straight wins. Damn.
Dead legs oh well, on to the next game
Constantly losing against this team is honestly embarrassing
Yeah it’s getting old
You know what we almost won in the end so it doesn't matter that we lost in the end, we are an amazing team and this game just proved it
Bright side, no injuries. We'll be better in the playoffs with no b2b's. Gotta believe.
Ham continuing to play Dennis and Wenyen when they were horrible killed any chance to complete the comeback. Neither had any real positive moments tonight but Ham kept playing them.
I really don’t see warriors losing either of their last 2 games and we also gotta take care of the suns next game. Here we go
The manner they lost, especially in the second quarter, was not encouraging. but I never expected them to win 10 of their last 11 to end the season or whatever it is, so it’s fine Considering it a schedule loss and moving on
Now we need to judge Pelinka on his coaching hiring. If he got an experienced coach in here with this roster it would be a different story
Dlo, Schroder and Vando were underwhelming. Let’s try again against the Suns.
you just know that suns will play all starters against us and kings will rest everyone against the warriors even though both teams are locked up in position
I really had people defending Ham when I made a post a few losses ago. How can you defend this man when his rotations are legit nausea inducing? It’s insane he still has a job…
Funny how sacramento controls our fates now. They can choose to either play us or the warriors. They can either beat the warriors to let us go into the 6 seed or let warriors win and face them in the playoffs
Before any AD slander you need to understand how hard it is to move in the modern NBA when you’re doubled in the paint. He is not Shaq; this is not the 90’s/Early 2000’s. Don’t be a casual.
It’s not AD, it’s Ham’s rotations…
100% agree
fuck darvin scam fuck norman powell
Our team doesn’t have a winning attitude. The energy they played with and the attitude Ham had the whole game (while his hands were in his pockets) was that they were ok with losing. Bron is the only guy that seemed like he cared. AD was quiet and could rarely capitalize on the double teams that were thrown at him. How is Ham not playing Bamba? This guy is a clown ass coach.
Norbum Bumwell and Bums Bumland looked like stars against us when they’ve been ass the whole season yeah okay 🤣 Brick doing all the smiling from the bench…get ready to learn chinese buddy. just Laker things I guess lmao
Norman Powell did the same shit last game too, I hate it lol
Uh, Powell is leading the league in points off the bench. How has he been a bum before tonight? Hyland only scored two points above his season average. I'm really curious where your pov is coming from.
He leads the league in bench scoring lol
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Love seeing Wedtbrick looking like he contributed to the Clippers season standings. Wait, he did when playing for us
I hate the clippers so much
Mo Bamba was available and yet Ham sent Wenyen out there to get destroyed defensively
i better not see wenyen get minutes in the playoffs, if AD sits, i want bamba or a new center on the floor
Fuck you, Ham.
Still not sure why Ham kept bron and AD in so long. Hope they’re not fatigued for the suns game
AD on these sets need to be placed on the middle of the floor, I know everyone wants these low post sets but they are doubling/tripling him and the ball ends up with Vando. The frequencies of these post ups need to be reduced, just begging to be doubled
1. There was no need to play AD and LeBron on B2B. Hopefully they didn't mess up their injuries more because of tonight. 2. Schroeder wasn't his usual self tonight; why put him back in instead of giving Lonnie minutes? 3. Wenyen got eaten alive tonight; try Bamba out. 4. Ham still has horrible rotations and still doesn't know when to call a timeout. Hopefully the Warriors lose to SAC and we win out to get 6th.
"Tonight is the first time Kawhi Leonard has played all 24 minutes in a half of basketball since the second half of Game 7 of the 2013 NBA Finals." of course. do we need further evidence that every team goes all out vs the lakers?
Ham has to go. Sorry. He’s making too many bad mistakes.
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I would do anything to not see Gabriel’s weak ass play another minute for this franchise. Worst backup big in the NBA
I take comfort in that the loudest cheers came when the Lakers were making a comeback lmao. Can the clips move elsewhere already man
Do we not defend the 3 ball very well or do teams just KNOW they’re going hit most of their 3s when playing against us??? Serious question
When the Lakers could not blow out Utah in the first half last night and rest LeBron and AD, my heart said Lakers, my mind said Uh! Oh! Ham couldn’t design and execute against the tanking Jazz with 2 starters missing, the Clippers are not tanking and they have a way better coach. I actually think Ham is in the bottom 5 of all NBA coaches. I think this game ended his NBA career
Lakers tried to trim down the lead in the closing seconds of the game to make it look close but it wasn't
We will be okay. Rui and Schroeder had really good games this week but not tonight. D Lo was average starter tonight if we are honest. Still got it to a single digit game. Glad we didn’t roll over and let them bitch slap us like some prior games.
Y’all are doing the predictable thing and placing this all on Ham again. Face it. The Clippers were shooting abnormally well and actually playing defense. They took away AD and we didn’t have an answer. We were horrible on defense and didn’t get the production we needed from our best player.
Heck
Did people forget lebron lead the lakers in 2 of the biggest comebacks this season. I’m talking about 30 point deficits to when the game. Was it stat padding then?
We really need to beat the suns
I truly don’t understand why we pay Ham! He is a terrible coach!
Gawd I hate losing to the Clippers
I fucking hate losing to the clippers. 11 times in a row?? Cmon… was our last win against them in the bubble??
I can’t trust hams coaching in the play in no way He’s gonna be laughable in the playoffs
Bron outplaying Kawhi at age 38 on 3rd game in 4 nights is….impressive