Official Game Thread: Hawks at Lakers

[Nash]

DJ just keep shooting 3's. Who cares

[Jody23]

Welp...On to the next one !!!

[MaceCase]

Aw lord, going down in a blowout

[MaceCase]

Whew, looking like just a bad tweak for Jalen

[Jody23]

And of course Jalen gets hurt right when he was about to check out.  He may not play the next game and doesn't that end his eligibility to win MIP?

[NBASupes]

42 minutes ago, RedDawg#8 said:

So, we still bragging about the defensive improvement?

I expect better effort in the second half. This is when you miss having a dude on the court to make Lebron respect you. When he smells blood he goes to another level.

This team don't have an adjustment for when their shot is not falling.

[JayBirdHawk]

9-41 from 3. There's your ball game.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, kg01 said:

@Spud2nique when you see what JJ just did to Reeves, you might literally die. 

 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Selfishly, that JJ injury may have just doomed my fantasy team, if he misses more than 1 game.

Hopefully he can put some ice on it and be ready by Wednesday.  Should've been out of the game in the first place, down by 30 in the 4th quarter.

[Spud2nique]

Well, I was super excited and we looked really clean off to that 8-0 start. Then we started goin cold … really cold. Just seemed like the 4th game in 6 nights took its toll. Not an excuse but kinda.  

 

JJ is an absolute stud. That dunk on Reeves had me giggling for a couple minutes giddy style, then the baseline reverse wow . Dude is a finisher extraordinaire and he’s got the outside shot improve each game. Shame about the ankle injury and Clint’s clown feet again. 

Get ready for the Suns on Thursday. 
 

We are playing faster, more unselfish and with a lil umff in our game.

 

Go Hawks!!!

[Spud2nique]

 

[Spud2nique]

9 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

then the baseline reverse wow .

 Get this man into the dunk contest next year!!!

[Spud2nique]

 

 

[AHF]

I’m not even a little mad about this one.  I was kind of shocked and impressed that everything went right against the Clips.  No surprise that the Lakers didn’t lay a similar dud after seeing their little brothers get crushed by us.  JJ with some epic highlights but I’m not going back to watch this one in full.  On to the next game.

[JeffS17]

No choice but to chuck threes because Laker paint defense is so good.  That's also usually what guys do when they're tired, so this was kind of an expected result.  Hope JJ is good.

[NBASupes]

4 minutes ago, JeffS17 said:

No choice but to chuck threes because Laker paint defense is so good.  That's also usually what guys do when they're tired, so this was kind of an expected result.  Hope JJ is good.

Lakers interior D is always elite, Trae just gives them hell so we make it look vulnerable to a degree but this is the reality of playing the Lakers.

[Gray Mule]

James is still king!  This was game #1211 that he's scored at least 10 points per game.  This goes back many years to the game he didn't do it.

Hawks opened the game by kicking the sleeping Lakers.  When they awoke, this is what happened.  Wonder why we lost?

Lakers made 17 free throws.  Hawks made 12.

Lakers hit 15 three-point shots.  Hawks hit 9.

Lakers hit 57.8% of their shots.  Hawks hit 42.9% of their shots.

Losing this one by 31 points, there is no saying if a certain player had played differently, we could have won.  Nope.  After we kicked them in the face, it was over.  In this one, everyone on the Hawks bench got to play.  This is the one good thing we did.

[AHF]

27 minutes ago, Gray Mule said:

In this one, everyone on the Hawks bench got to play.  This is the one good thing we did.

Yep.  No excessive minutes for anyone (esp DJM) in this one.  

[kg01]

43 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

Lakers interior D is always elite, Trae just gives them hell so we make it look vulnerable to a degree but this is the reality of playing the Lakers.

Not tryna be 'that guy' but games like last night fly in the face of the 'trade Trae' and 'they're better without Trae' people.

The contrast between the last matchup and this one was stark. 

[Spud2nique]

3 hours ago, AHF said:

I’m not going back to watch this one in full.  On to the next game.

I don’t blame you but I must say this was one of the best 30+ point blowouts as far as us looking good. Yes, we got blown out but we still played the right way and tried to do it all night with the passing, shots just weren’t falling.

Not saying watch it but JJ, maaaan, that guy alone is making me get through this year a bit easier thus far. He’s a star ️.