Yess!!!!
Yess!!!!
You can't tell me this isn't a playoff team with Zion and Favors in the lineup.
Is BI the best in the world?
Good hustle Hustle
Nice finish by Hayes
We are being a little stupid here. Wasting possessions
I've grown totally weary of Lonzo.
And like that it’s a double digit deficit again. Just need to avoid the silly mistakes and rebound the damn ball. Giving them 2nd chance points is not the way to go.
We have seen this story before. Give up a big lead, fight back, and then run themselves into chaos and turnovers. Which, leads to easy buckets for the opponent enabling them to take control again.
I think it's really really really stupid to not go to Ingram while Kawhi, PG, and Beverly are on the bench.
Alvin, please give Ball's minutes to NAW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lonzo needs time in the Gleague
I'm going to admit I'm not the most knowledgeable basketball fan. I enjoy the game, and I root for my home team, but don't understand all the nuances. So, can someone tell me just what they see in Lonzo Ball? He's constantly shooting threes, which he's terrible at, he seems to turn the ball over a lot for a PG, and at least tonight he doesn't seem to be a stopper defensively at all. So, what exactly does he do really well?
Ball will be fine! At worse he is a 6’6 and more athletic version of Rondo who can shoot the 3. Let’s not forget he is just 22 years old
I never liked Lonzo Ball. He was the piece in the trade that we should have moved.
Guess who has the worse +/- on our team right now with a -26.
Why in the hell isn't Reddick or Ingram out there when we are down by 15+ points?
Gentry takes out the key players that led the comeback only to put in players to help the clippers extend their lead smh
I completely agree and would like to see him attack more. He has improved from 3 and I expect him to continue improving there along with other areas. IMO we don’t currently have the best players around him to get everything out of his skill set. Zion will be a huge help to what Lonzo is best at
…..and Gentry thinks Ball is ideally suited to run his offense? Even dreamt about it before the trade?
Gentry waited until 5 min in the 4th to put in Reddick huh
God, we need Favors to get healthy and say healthy.
[QUOTE=RobertM320;1512862]He's 1-7 tonight. He's had several nights like this. I don't mind 35-36%, but how about on 3-4 attempts per game, not 7-10. He's not good enough to be taking that many threes.[/QUOTE
Someone is telling him that it’s ok. That’s the problem.
We are trying to develop our players for the future not win an NBA championship this season. So yes I want Lonzo to continue shooting 3s. I think he can take a better selection of shots while mixing up his offense a little more. Only way for him to improve is on the floor
Ball has had a shakey game but it's against elite competition. Last night, he was solid. We were being absolutely murdered until he entered the game and righted the ship. Ball is the best leader we have for the offense. Kinda odd to ignore the steadying hand last night and only harp on his play against the best in the game.
One of Favors or Zion would have completely changed this game. We're just missing our interior sentinel.
Wow we are not good at FTs.
I think it’s the overall situation. He’s just not making smart decisions. He’s settling for shots that he just isn’t good enough to do consistently. He’s had more bad games than good ones. He was -27 tonight, which can’t be overlooked. That means he isn’t making up for the bad shooting by playing defense.
wake me up when zion returns..
Elfrid Payton or Lonzo Ball?
It was also a better game to start Okafor unless he was on a minutes restriction.
Harrel is too wild and strong for Hayes. Who only pulled down 3 rebounds in 29 minutes.
Hayes was considerably better on defense in general than Okafor though. It's easy enough to say that Harrell is too strong for Hayes, which is absolutely true, but it's equally true that he's better on basically everyone else, whereas Okafor doesn't have anything like the lateral quickness required to defend anyone smaller than about 6'8. And frankly, Okafor was getting shredded by Harrell too.
Just for some evidence to this point, Hayes was an overall net negative tonight but only a small one (-0.3 net rating) whereas Okafor was a stunning -59.9. Of course part of that is due to the lineups they were playing with, but not all of it. Okafor really isn't a good defender by any stretch of the imagination.