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Austin Reaves is closer to Anthony Edwards than Anthony Edwards is to Luka Doncic

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@WesGolfer23 Him and Edwards tbh

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You can commit to defending the Kessler lobs but those 3s gonna kill you if you do

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@CSmoove_Sports @ctv_mack Looks like he spent all those injured years working on his shot too he wasn’t just sitting at home

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@BrunoAlvessi You can always tell you never actually played sports when they hit you with the “we should be at full intensity perfect basketball everyday”

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If you’re only watching the Lakers you might be concerned about how close these games have been, but if you’re paying attention there haven’t been a lot of easy wins for ANYBODY so far this season.

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People forget the Knicks were a pretty average team last season until they went nuclear in the playoffs. Not really sure why people had them picked to dominate the regular season this year in any fashion

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@martysmavs Hoping that’s the Thiero role when he’s healthy

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It’s painful how badly the Lakers need Vanderbilt to not be awful at basketball yet again. His size and rebounding would be huge for this team

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@CiudadBBall But I did see that they committed hard to defending the lobs which led to a ton of open 3s

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Today’s thoughts:

-UTA is just a bad matchup at the moment, a win is a win.
-FINALLY a decisive Luka
-Austin is the exactly the player the Lakers need so far
-somehow Looney is worse than we all thought
-Thiero will have minutes immediately

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@CiudadBBall I was watching while driving so I didn’t get to really see that, was wondering the same

I think foul trouble got him

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20 3s for the Lakers baby it’s happening

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Utahs a tough matchup for LA with all that positional size. Not a big surprise at all the rebounding went so poorly

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I know the first quarter wasn’t all Looneys fault but I’m choosing to place all of the blame on him

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JJ Reddick you fucking wizard how in the world did going small work

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I don’t think current Wemby is any better than prime Anthony Davis, whatever that means to you.

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Only reason Austin reaves isn’t on my agenda is because he plays for them but this easily 1 of my favorite players. Nice af

Has not been an all star but he is 1 of the best players in the league full stop. Can look any guard in the eye. Superstar guard

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@ACorrerLAL Yeah but LA would have had to find a floor spacing five and two 3&D guys with zero money or assets

Give them 2/3 years and they’d have a juggernaut but idk if Giannis has 2/3 years of good basketball left

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Giannis is probably the hardest superstar to build around which made trading for him at his age and building a contender such an impossible task.

Big reason why the smarter Lakers accounts were all against it

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@ACorrerLAL Yeah you need a floor spacing big, a point guard to run the half court offense and a scorer to bail you out late in the shot clock

Miami has zero of those things lmao