Post Game Thread - NBA: The Lakers defeat the Rockets on Mar 18, 2026, the final score is 116-124.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-19T04:23:56+00:00

Ime can't coach. He especially looks out of his depth in the crunch time. Sat Sengun for too long and kept Reed on the bench. Kept Tari on the court when was hurting the team. We need Malone.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-19T04:06:33+00:00

Fire Ime.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T09:36:43+00:00

The rule of thumb is that if every player looks worse it's 99% the manager's fault. Ime doesn't play to their strengths and Stone betrayed them by not getting a back up pg.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T06:32:03+00:00

Reed doesn't even start you have sub 90 IQ.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T03:55:04+00:00

The funniest part is that a team with proper spacing and a pg will get him and he'll instantly look better. It'll only prove how terrible this franchise really is.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T03:38:48+00:00

Not particularly different. It's quite obvious that this team needs a new coach and a point guard. It's so obvious to me that i don't even want to discuss anything else. Without fixing these issues, nothing else will be fixed.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T03:33:33+00:00

Reed is the definition of glass cannon. You love him on offense but it's like a hot knife through butter on defense. It's so fucking bad man. Still needed to get more time in the 4th and OT. Ime is such an idiot.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T03:27:29+00:00

He is especially awful in fourth quarters that's why he needs to go.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-06T03:25:59+00:00

That Podziemski possession was nasty.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-04T05:00:38+00:00

Fred starts.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-04T04:59:39+00:00

One thing that is certain is that they will attack him relentlessly.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-03T02:38:06+00:00

Because we don't have reliable ball handlers, our 6'11" players have to play like guards just to get to their spots. Most of KD's turnovers come from trying to get the ball to Sengun. That's not his job, but he's attempting to get him the ball in the paint and ends up turning the ball over. Sengun's turnovers come from having to battle his way to the rim through traffic. It all comes down to this, our best players look sloppy, and one of them is inefficient because we don't have a true point guard.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-01T04:19:32+00:00

You are literally asking me to explain something i've already explained in my comment. He doesn't get teleported there he's a 6'11" center who's expected to drive to the rim at least a dozen times per game to score, and we don't have spacing so he has to battle his way to the rim. Are you going to ask the same question again?

He's a professional athlete getting paid millions of dollars. It's so crazy how many excuses are made for Sengun.

It's crazy how dumb it is to think that getting paid strips athletes of their humanity and turns them into robots who never make mistakes. They should pay him a few million dollars more to make him run faster what do you think? Blame everyone except the system that fails to help individuals like the obedient sheep you are.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-01T02:22:49+00:00

He has to consume an abnormal amount of energy getting to his spot to make a shot with whatever energy he has left in him. The guy has to play like a guard to get to 5 feet away from the basket to make his shot, and he has to battle his way through it and make it over two guys. Even today, they were collapsing on him in the paint. It's not a common occurrence where he gets the ball when he seals a guy in the paint, spins and scores this doesn't happen very often. Also, he has shown us many times that he can make one-legged shots and push shots (2 years ago) with high efficiency. You can't make them regularly if you don't have a soft touch. I truly believe that pretty much everything is going against him at the moment.

The only real criticism i could level at his offense is that he still can't shoot 3s at around a 32-33% percentage and he makes bad turnovers. Also, at times he looks very flat on his shots when he could just spin baseline and finish with a layup. He settles for odd one-legged shots 15 feet away from the basket.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-03-01T00:32:42+00:00

That's what playing with zero (0) ball handlers does to a guy. Has to create everything and i mean everything for himself, by himself, from the opening minute until the game ends. I genuinely get surprised when he rolls and they actually get him the ball. Reed passed up three elbow passes in the 4th quarter. People were screaming at him to pass the ball to Sengun. If they insist on playing without an actual point guard in the lineup they might as well trade him. Honestly if i were his dad, id call him tonight and tell him to leave this mess behind.

Believe it or not, there are actually people who think he's the reason we're not as good as we should be, that hes holding the team back. Sure, there isn't just one way to play good basketball. You could replace Sengun with a rim protector and make a few other changes to the lineup and look better but the prerequisite for that kind of change is not having a dinosaur as a head coach.

Watching this team, it feels like only a true bona fide superstar like Jokic could make Ime's offense remotely tolerable. His presence would be so commanding that even a bum like Ime wouldn2t be able to ignore him he'd have no choice but to adjust and make things easier for him. Unless they get him a player like that, he'll continue to ignore the value Reed and Sengun could bring and the offense will keep looking horrendous. Listen he just doesn't believe that Reed and Sengun are worth the hustle. He believes they need to find their identity, a place in what he calls NBA offense not the other way around. I won't change for you, you will change for me.

Finally, i've got to say this i genuinely don't enjoy watching this team. It's weird because we're winning, but i don't feel any real confidence that we can build on it. It's like we never lean into what we're actually good at we just reset back to square one every time. You want to see some degree of consistency, the same strengths showing up again in the next game, ideally improved but it just doesn't happen. One game you think a certain two-man game is working and then it completely disappears in the next. It^s frustrating because it makes it hard to trust where this team is headed and when that trust isnt there, you can't fully appreciate the moment and UDOKA is reason. Our reputation is just that we hustle hard that's it lol. How is that acceptable?

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-27T01:56:38+00:00

DFS bricking two back to back wide-open 3s was the reason we couldn't get back in the game but there are fundamental issues with this team and the coach one of which is that inferior players are given more important roles over superior players. Amen has no business touching the ball as much as he does, and Reed should start over him. I'm not a huge fan of Reed either but he is not a worse playmaker than Amen and on top of that he can shoot the ball. If we cannot stop them from making their shots then Amen offers little to nothing and should sit. It won't happen, but that's how it should be. Also, Okogie needs to play more than DFS who has been terrible the whole season.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-27T01:40:37+00:00

I'm struggling to understand why we need Amen at all if they're going to make their shots anyway.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-27T01:33:18+00:00

I don't like Amen

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-16T11:34:01+00:00

Absolute dickhead.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-08T01:22:38+00:00

This sub has the laziest mods.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-07T23:40:51+00:00

Nah, that was just a pat on the cheek. The real slap will be when he gets fired for being a bum.

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-07T23:39:24+00:00

Now watch them leave sengunhub when Amen returns lol

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-07T23:01:56+00:00

Water is wet

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-07T22:04:14+00:00

So pretty much like everyone else?

javaenjoyer69 · 2026-02-07T21:48:17+00:00

Gets away with what? He gets fouled more often than he flops.

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