Lolakers peaking at right time and have a home stand till 25 March. Tonight, while beating Minnesota, DAVIS became the 1st player in NBA history to post 27p-25r-5a-7s...He was awesome...Flakers now 6 games over .500 at 36-30...
-Initial analysis states that it looks like a lateral inversion ankle sprain or a fibula fracture.
-Sengun's leg was in a varus position, meaning that his leg stretched outward. This would put stress on his outer knee ligament and on the inner part of his knee.
-Doctor hopes that Sengun's knee's ligaments did not suffer too much damage. He believes that Sengun suffered a bone bruise due to the bones colliding with each other when his knee hyperextended.
-Doctor also believes that Sengun injured the tendons on the side of his leg, which is the injury that Lebron has sustained throughout the season.
-It is hard for the doctor to determine the severity of the injury or how long Sengun will be out since injuries due to hyperextension can have a lot of factors. He estimates that Sengun will be out at least a couple of weeks, but Dr. Sutterer believes that Sengun could also be out for the rest of the regular season.
Rockets beat the Kings 112-104 and have swept the season series against them. I don't know if it was due to the Rockets defense, but the Kings shot the three ball poorly, especially Fox (2/9), Murray (0/5), and Monk (2/8). Sabonis had 25 points and 15 rebounds on 10/11 FGs. He would've had a quadruple double if he had 2 more assists and 1 more turnover.
Unfortunately for the Rockets, Sengun hurt his leg towards the end of the game and had to be wheeled off the court.
Gary Payton II isn’t on the injury report tomorrow in San Antonio. Cleared to return. Draymond Green (lower back soreness) and Moses Moody (left knee soreness) are probable. Steph Curry remains out.
Repeating and amplifying some points made by others:
1. It sucks that they lost -bad (sucks bad and lost bad).
2. Refs didn't help -was ref'd more like early season games -more whistles for little stuff.
3. Two bigs didn't work.
4. Lester (who I like in general) did not help.
5. Good try by Kerr to put Gui in for energy and size (but also didn't work).
6. Wiggins (always) needs 2-3 days per day missed to get back to being good -and he is good, just not after time off, which this year seemed to include the summer.
7. Kuminga may be good some day :)
8. Moody's shot is MIA. You may recall that this happened middle of last year too, when he was not getting minutes. May have been confidence but mechanics also looked bad then. Haven't seen enough shots now to have sense of the current mechanics.
9. I hope they win more games.
10. I'm not confident they will on Monday.
11. Thanks for this group for keeping me (relatively) sane!
Outside of Giannis, Lillard, and maybe Beasley, the Bucks didn't look that good. Clippers role players (Zubac, Mann, Coffey, Powell, and Hyland) looked better than the Bucks role players. If Harden shot the ball better and didn't turn the ball over a lot, Clippers would've won.
I don't think Bucks will be able to beat the Kings this Tuesday with the way Milwaukee has looked in their road trip.
I'm tired of watching Kerr lose games for us. When your leading scorer is out, why are your 2nd and 3rd leading scorers (JK and Klay) who were both playing well that game only playing half the game? They got fewer minutes in this game than they often get when they are fully healthy? And everytime Kerr decides to use a strategy that lets NBA players shoot wide open 3s, the Warriors lose almost every time. No matter who their opponent is. Kerr doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes. He makes the same ones over and over again and the Warriors seem to lose almost every time.
Seems that way sometimes but — checking basketball reference — it’s actually:
• 47.6% of the time this season
• 34.6% of the time over his GSW career
• 29.3% of the time in the playoffs (only the best playoff winning percentage of any NBA head coach ever)
I didn’t like his starting lineup last night at all, but if anything the novel (bad) idea of starting two mostly non-shooting bigs was the opposite of the the same mistake “over and over again.” More of a bad experiment that failed, imo.
Of course, I do get that the standard protocol on internet sports boards is to hang every loss on the coach, and credit the players for every win, so carry on as you were… 😊
Team payroll does not equate with team production any longer. There needs to be a restructuring of the team. Not a blow up necessarily, but practical moves that bring us more productive players than what we are paying for. They need to move on from certain players and certain styles of play. They need to get bigger and more athletic. They need more monster than Green.
The moves that could make a difference are pretty clear, and there aren't many.
A quarter of the entire active roster cost is Steph. Another 20% is Klay, and that cost will go down next year, probably by a lot — or they can let him walk and save it all.
They can let CP3 walk.
They can trade Wiggs but unless he catches fire down the stretch and in the playoffs, he won't bring us a better player or save money.
Only $3M of Kevon's $8M for next season is guaranteed so they could buy him out. I doubt he has much trade value.
Beyond that it's probably minor moves.
We're not trading JK unless some team offered an absolutely stunning deal.
Payton has a player option next season, and IF he can stay healthy, I doubt the Dubs will trade him. If we want athletic, he's that guy, and he plays bigger than his physical size.
Other than JK, the young 'uns and Saric are immaterial financially.
moving Wiggins is essential. We need to move on from him and his problems. He is one of the reasons the team is not growing. Looney seems cooked. We need to acquire the next #2 guy. JK may become the #2 scorer but he is not a guard who is a sharpshooter. Podz is a ball handler/energy bringer, not a scorer. He shouldn't be a starter next to Steph unless we put an SF with aggressive major skills in his toolbox. Wiggins ain't that guy on his best day. We need another scoring monster we can rely on and we need some major size in the paint. I like TJD but he's not enough. He's finesse around the basket who can't shoot or hit FT. Saric is a basket case. The talent we need is not on the team, yet.
That starting line up was bad… but they did play a 9-9 game for 5 minutes, so they didn’t lose the game there… it was more just second quarter malaise that did them in last night…
Lolakers peaking at right time and have a home stand till 25 March. Tonight, while beating Minnesota, DAVIS became the 1st player in NBA history to post 27p-25r-5a-7s...He was awesome...Flakers now 6 games over .500 at 36-30...
Lakers are the best “clutch” team in the NBA this season - we all know who the worst “clutch” team is!
Spurs have an 8-game homestand coming up. Their opponents:
3/11- Warriors
3/12- Rockets
3/15- Nuggets
3/17- Nets
3/19- Mavericks
3/22- Grizzlies
3/23, 3/25- Suns
The only home teams that have won tonight are the Lakers and the Thunder.
Who would've thought OKC would be sitting on top of the West at this time of the season...
Their players have been pretty healthy this season.
Wolves haven't made a single FG in the 4th quarter. I think they're out of gas, probably due to them playing on a short rotation.
21-4 run for the Lakers in the 4th quarter. Yeah, Wolves ain't winning this one.
Warriors are in deep doo doo.
There’s no way Jaden McDaniels is only 185lb at 6”9?
Wolves up 92-91. Wolves shooting went from 53% to 49%, while the Lakers shooting went from 67% to 56%.
Naz Reid I believe
Lakers up 69-68. Wolves are shooting 53% and are 10/24 on threes, but the Lakers are shooting a scorching high 66.7% and are 7/12 on threes.
Sengun's injury analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnCnOEGsOBA
-Initial analysis states that it looks like a lateral inversion ankle sprain or a fibula fracture.
-Sengun's leg was in a varus position, meaning that his leg stretched outward. This would put stress on his outer knee ligament and on the inner part of his knee.
-Doctor hopes that Sengun's knee's ligaments did not suffer too much damage. He believes that Sengun suffered a bone bruise due to the bones colliding with each other when his knee hyperextended.
-Doctor also believes that Sengun injured the tendons on the side of his leg, which is the injury that Lebron has sustained throughout the season.
-It is hard for the doctor to determine the severity of the injury or how long Sengun will be out since injuries due to hyperextension can have a lot of factors. He estimates that Sengun will be out at least a couple of weeks, but Dr. Sutterer believes that Sengun could also be out for the rest of the regular season.
Really doesn’t look good :(
Hope it’s not as bad as it looks.
No KAT, Gobert, Anderson, and Morris for the Wolves. No Vanderbilt, Vincent, Wood, and Reddish for the Lakers.
Naz Reid, please go off like you're playing us
He’s doing it so far! 21 in the first half, lol
76ers beat the Knicks 79-73. Uh, what year are we in right now?
Charles Oakley must have been really locking down Jerry Stackhouse
Wizards are officially on a 2-game win streak thanks to them beating the Heat on the road.
Rockets beat the Kings 112-104 and have swept the season series against them. I don't know if it was due to the Rockets defense, but the Kings shot the three ball poorly, especially Fox (2/9), Murray (0/5), and Monk (2/8). Sabonis had 25 points and 15 rebounds on 10/11 FGs. He would've had a quadruple double if he had 2 more assists and 1 more turnover.
Unfortunately for the Rockets, Sengun hurt his leg towards the end of the game and had to be wheeled off the court.
Murray hasn’t really taken the leap I expected him to take.
His ceiling came crashing down on him.
14.7 points/game, 46.4% FG, 36% threes
His other stats (rebounding, assists, turnovers, etc.) has gone up slightly from last season. His three point shooting is down since his rookie year.
Gary Payton II isn’t on the injury report tomorrow in San Antonio. Cleared to return. Draymond Green (lower back soreness) and Moses Moody (left knee soreness) are probable. Steph Curry remains out.
https://twitter.com/anthonyvslater/status/1766955644878192859
Repeating and amplifying some points made by others:
1. It sucks that they lost -bad (sucks bad and lost bad).
2. Refs didn't help -was ref'd more like early season games -more whistles for little stuff.
3. Two bigs didn't work.
4. Lester (who I like in general) did not help.
5. Good try by Kerr to put Gui in for energy and size (but also didn't work).
6. Wiggins (always) needs 2-3 days per day missed to get back to being good -and he is good, just not after time off, which this year seemed to include the summer.
7. Kuminga may be good some day :)
8. Moody's shot is MIA. You may recall that this happened middle of last year too, when he was not getting minutes. May have been confidence but mechanics also looked bad then. Haven't seen enough shots now to have sense of the current mechanics.
9. I hope they win more games.
10. I'm not confident they will on Monday.
11. Thanks for this group for keeping me (relatively) sane!
Bucks without Middleton beat the Clippers without Kawhi and PG.
If only they could've beaten the Lakers instead...
Outside of Giannis, Lillard, and maybe Beasley, the Bucks didn't look that good. Clippers role players (Zubac, Mann, Coffey, Powell, and Hyland) looked better than the Bucks role players. If Harden shot the ball better and didn't turn the ball over a lot, Clippers would've won.
I don't think Bucks will be able to beat the Kings this Tuesday with the way Milwaukee has looked in their road trip.
At this point I've kinda lost hope of passing the Kings... just hoping we can win the H2H matchups against Lakers and Mavs and climb above them
I'm tired of watching Kerr lose games for us. When your leading scorer is out, why are your 2nd and 3rd leading scorers (JK and Klay) who were both playing well that game only playing half the game? They got fewer minutes in this game than they often get when they are fully healthy? And everytime Kerr decides to use a strategy that lets NBA players shoot wide open 3s, the Warriors lose almost every time. No matter who their opponent is. Kerr doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes. He makes the same ones over and over again and the Warriors seem to lose almost every time.
> the Warriors seem to lose almost every time.
Seems that way sometimes but — checking basketball reference — it’s actually:
• 47.6% of the time this season
• 34.6% of the time over his GSW career
• 29.3% of the time in the playoffs (only the best playoff winning percentage of any NBA head coach ever)
I didn’t like his starting lineup last night at all, but if anything the novel (bad) idea of starting two mostly non-shooting bigs was the opposite of the the same mistake “over and over again.” More of a bad experiment that failed, imo.
Of course, I do get that the standard protocol on internet sports boards is to hang every loss on the coach, and credit the players for every win, so carry on as you were… 😊
Team payroll does not equate with team production any longer. There needs to be a restructuring of the team. Not a blow up necessarily, but practical moves that bring us more productive players than what we are paying for. They need to move on from certain players and certain styles of play. They need to get bigger and more athletic. They need more monster than Green.
The moves that could make a difference are pretty clear, and there aren't many.
A quarter of the entire active roster cost is Steph. Another 20% is Klay, and that cost will go down next year, probably by a lot — or they can let him walk and save it all.
They can let CP3 walk.
They can trade Wiggs but unless he catches fire down the stretch and in the playoffs, he won't bring us a better player or save money.
Only $3M of Kevon's $8M for next season is guaranteed so they could buy him out. I doubt he has much trade value.
Beyond that it's probably minor moves.
We're not trading JK unless some team offered an absolutely stunning deal.
Payton has a player option next season, and IF he can stay healthy, I doubt the Dubs will trade him. If we want athletic, he's that guy, and he plays bigger than his physical size.
Other than JK, the young 'uns and Saric are immaterial financially.
moving Wiggins is essential. We need to move on from him and his problems. He is one of the reasons the team is not growing. Looney seems cooked. We need to acquire the next #2 guy. JK may become the #2 scorer but he is not a guard who is a sharpshooter. Podz is a ball handler/energy bringer, not a scorer. He shouldn't be a starter next to Steph unless we put an SF with aggressive major skills in his toolbox. Wiggins ain't that guy on his best day. We need another scoring monster we can rely on and we need some major size in the paint. I like TJD but he's not enough. He's finesse around the basket who can't shoot or hit FT. Saric is a basket case. The talent we need is not on the team, yet.
That starting line up was bad… but they did play a 9-9 game for 5 minutes, so they didn’t lose the game there… it was more just second quarter malaise that did them in last night…