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The 2023-2024 NBA Season

DJ

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Meh

Clippers don’t have it tonight.

Congrats, Lakers fans

@DJ told you that you should have taken that bet.
Yeah....well I don't trust this team right now....it was a 3 point game anyway....not like it was a runaway win.
 

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Absolutely.

Ham has not been great.

Neither has Dlo…

Neither has Hayes….

Neither has Austin until recently….

Injuries, blah, blah, blah…

They had expectations after making the WCF.

Maybe those expectations weren’t realistic.

The other teams injuries are how they made the wcf as much as anything else
 

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Warriors are in deep shit if they don't make a move soon

Memphis who started out 6-19 without Ja are only 4 games behind them in the loss column with more than half fof the season left to play
 

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That's why I push back some on the "Fire Ham" stuff. He took a roster that was completely overhauled from a 7 seed to the WCF. Now he has a roster, a good amount of which was overhauled in the off-season.

The biggest difference is that roster last year was healthy, this one hasn't been.

While I do think he needs to calm down some on the lineup/rotation changes (at least when the team is close to healthy), I have yet to see him commit a turnover, miss a 3 or miss free throws...that shit is on the players.

Lakers biggest problem (aside from the usual injuries) is getting is team interested. When they're invested, they play as they should. Too often they aren't. That has to fall on Ham.
 

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Yall had ONE job.

Now we're stuck with Darvin. :L

IMO, this underlines the problem with Ham. The team only gets up for games when they want, not when he gets them up. He's background noise to them except for his inane substitution patterns/lineups, which he mostly kept under control vs the Clippers.
 
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I don't know what to think about this Lakers team.

They lose to the clearly-tanking Bulls but then beat OKC
Then they lose to the fucking Spurs but beat the hottest team in the league right now in the Clippers

On the bright side they have three less losses at this stage in the season than they did last year!
 

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I don't know what to think about this Lakers team.

They lose to the clearly-tanking Bulls but then beat OKC
Then they lose to the fucking Spurs but beat the hottest team in the league right now in the Clippers

On the bright side they have three less losses at this stage in the season than they did last year!
Yeah about the OKC game, Davis commented before the game that it was an important game to end a losing streak and then they shoot over 50 percent from 3 and won.
 
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