Game Thread | 2021-2022 Season | Game #72 | Lakers @ Cavs | March 21, 2022 | 7:00 p.m.

Our scheme right now is dreadful. Riding DG into the dirt is terrible. Goodwin can play. He played well in that first half but was burdened with a couple of guys who were absolutely enamored to be on the court with LeBron again.

Brown gave them life in his little stint, but that required Mobley getting into foul trouble in the 2nd half to be given the chance for some reason.

Windler gave them life on defense in the two games he played, but now he's back to zero effort Cedi, who is paired with zero effort Kevin. When both are hitting 3s, it looks great.

When neither are, it's glaring how little they care on defense.

Kevin looking all sad as Lebron ignores him post-game.

they even made fucking westbrick look good. That might be the biggest embarrassment of the night

kookoo said:

I feel like I won't even need to block JBB truthers anymore as they stop talking when it finally clicks in their brains that he's shit. Good coaches are able to coach through adversity against teams who play terribly. JBB is an average coach. We need someone good to replace him ASAP. I'm not even willing to take him to next season at this point.

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You know we used to shit on Ty lue and guess what he is a heck of a coach just saying

Are they injuries making us this bad?

I still want to give JBB the benefit of the doubt but...

Cedi had one of those really bad games tonight. Wished we had Moses play more in the first half. And also having Okoro and Windler play more and should have tried to get Okoro more opportunities aggressively as Lakers don’t play defensively. Our defense was bad tonight, off to Toronto.

LeBron went absolutely bananas.

That’s the most perfect the Lakers have played all year probably and not even close.

I’m embarrassed for the city of Cleveland….

Kyrie would never !!!

We had intensity in the 1st quarter, lost it in the 2nd, and never recovered.

We had a lot of good offense, no defense after the first quarter.

We got out-vetted. Our young team played like a young team. The old Lakers played like vets with 2 MVPs and a HoF 6th man.

Lakers TEAM STATS Cavaliers
131Points120
56.4%Field Goal52.3%
37.5%3 Pointers35.9%
81.2%Free Throws84.2%
41Rebounds38
9Off. Rebounds8
7Steals3
34Assists29
3Blocks2
8Turnovers12
19Fouls (Personal)19

For the first time all season mobley looked like a rookie not bad

LeBron will usually get his points. Augustine killed the Cavs

All4One1ForAll said:

I would take LeBron back, I don't even care at this point. Don't see how this roster becomes good enough to contend otherwise. We need a good coach on the floor in LeBron anyways, so long as we have JBB who fucking blows.

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Bro you are talking CRAZY right now.

You dont see how this roster becomes good enough to contend when our best 3 players are all 23 or under, we have no bad contracts, a ton of monetary and cap flexibility and own every single pick after this upcoming draft????

I mean I could have the LBJ dicsussion or whatever but saying this roster cant become good enough to contend without him makes you sound ridiculous.

The Cavs are 10 games above .500 with 10 games to go. They are going to end the year at least 4-6 games above .500 after being the 5th worst team in the league last year.

Tonight sucked. We have struggled defensively for about 4-6 weeks...but this has been a wildly successful year and we have one of the brightest futures in the entire league by far.

LeBron obviously got up extra for us tonight. No surprise. Their role guys shoot like that 1 out of like every 10 games. Even wide open like they were tonight...the Lakers usually fucking suck.

Yeah tonight sucked. But you are so wrong about this team going forward.

The Cavs let the “27 year old” LBJ in the field house tonight and played like a bunch of freshmen playing the varsity squad.

Osman is out there shooting pull-up hero 3s like he's fucking Klay Thompson or something.

Can we please get some role players off the bench who actually know and understand their role? Cedi HAS to play with effort and intensity to be a positive player most nights.

Instead, he plays with the defensive effort of a James Harden as if he's actually James Harden on offense. Lord help me.

Walter White said:

LeBron went absolutely bananas.

That’s the most perfect the Lakers have played all year probably and not even close.

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And the Cavs had a shot to take it multiple times. Good teams take it.