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Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #285 on: October 31, 2017, 02:15:36 PM »

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LAL at home tonight playing Detroit and are 3.5 point dogs. Man, they've played a lot of home games thus far? Anyways, they may have a better shot then they did against the Wiz and Toronto though Pistons are a bit underrated right now. They are a really good defensive team and LAL may struggle if they can't get easy buckets. Prediction: a win...for Detroit, by 6.
Only about 6 of their next 20 games are winnable so they are about to go down the drain, hopefully.

Yup, fifth home game of the season. Have played two away.

Avery Bradley has always been my favorite player, but I'll root extra hard for him tonight.

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Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #286 on: October 31, 2017, 03:11:39 PM »

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Bottom 6 as of this morning are Lakers, Suns, Bulls, Hawks, Kings, Mavs. I expect those to be the bottom 6 come the end of the year as well. The Pacers and Nets both seem to have enough to keep them milling over and the other teams around them are all playoff chasers.

It's all going to come down to lottery balls, can the Lakers pick jump up to the top 3 or can it stay within the top 5. At least the new lottery rules give us an extra advantage of being 2 or 3 if the Lakers finish 5/6th
The new lottery rules will come into effect in 2019. Here are the odds for each team in the 2018
draft



The chances of the pick landing 2-5 are as follows

If the Lakers have the worst record : 75%
2nd worst record  : 80.1%
3rd worst record :80.4%
4th : 70.9%
5th : 46.5%
6th : 15.2%
7th : 10.7%
8th : 7.2%
9th : 4.4%
10th : 2.9%
11th : 2.1%
12th : 1.8%
13th : 1.6%
14th : 1.3%


To put it another way, chances are that bottom 6 isn't good enough. It seems like we need at least bottom 5 (ideally bottom 4).
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Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #287 on: October 31, 2017, 10:57:21 PM »

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I am watching Pistons vs Lakers. I really don't miss Bradley's passing. You can't really run the offense through Avery...

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #288 on: October 31, 2017, 11:02:09 PM »

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I do miss Avery's baseline cuts! He does that so well. Rozier would be so good if he could get that cut down like Bradley!

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #289 on: October 31, 2017, 11:08:52 PM »

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I do miss Avery's baseline cuts! He does that so well. Rozier would be so good if he could get that cut down like Bradley!
I miss AB too but JB has filled in very nicely.  His defense is great and he is bigger and stronger.  His scoring is slightly below AB but not enough to hurt the team.  And he is 20 years old. Edge JB!!!

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #290 on: October 31, 2017, 11:13:35 PM »

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I do miss Avery's baseline cuts! He does that so well. Rozier would be so good if he could get that cut down like Bradley!
I miss AB too but JB has filled in very nicely.  His defense is great and he is bigger and stronger.  His scoring is slightly below AB but not enough to hurt the team.  And he is 20 years old. Edge JB!!!

If I have to choose between Bradley and Jaylen, I take Jaylen 10 out of 10.

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #291 on: October 31, 2017, 11:13:55 PM »

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Piston's defense have been lackluster so far after impressive wins against the Clippers and Warriors.

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #292 on: October 31, 2017, 11:16:53 PM »

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Piston's defense have been lackluster so far after impressive wins against the Clippers and Warriors.

3 games in 4 nights on a West Coast trip often does that to teams.

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« Reply #293 on: October 31, 2017, 11:28:34 PM »

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I really like Nance Jr. Too bad he was picked before RJ Hunter.

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« Reply #294 on: October 31, 2017, 11:46:33 PM »

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Bradley doing masonary work in LA.

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #295 on: October 31, 2017, 11:52:50 PM »

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Bradley doing masonary work in LA.

Bradley is having an off night shooting for sure...

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« Reply #296 on: October 31, 2017, 11:54:04 PM »

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Everyone on the Lakers has scored more than bradley except like 3 players I've never heard of

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #297 on: October 31, 2017, 11:56:44 PM »

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Everyone on the Lakers has scored more than bradley except like 3 players I've never heard of

Just ugly! Better get it together, lose to the Lakers I may cut someone!


Lol tragic!


Ugh, I will just have to cry myself to sleep.
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Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #298 on: November 01, 2017, 12:40:08 AM »

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Terrible day for us. Nets lost and the Lakers win.

Re: 2017-2018 LA Lakers Season Watch Thread
« Reply #299 on: November 01, 2017, 12:43:38 AM »

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Terrible day for us. Nets lost and the Lakers win.
At least the Suns won.
Jaylen Brown for All-NBA