So it looks like they're gonna hang on.

But if I'm LA I come out of this game DAMN nervous.

Way too many things had to go well in that 1st 15 minutes or so that they just can't count on going well every night, especially on the road.

Not sure there's anything the NBA can do to make LeBron 5 years younger.

Half court offense still needs to be better. Defensive intensity was there today though.

Sure they can, he just needs to drink blood.

Goddamn that was as ugly a win as you'll see, especially at home. From a betting favorite.

Back to the drawing board, JJ -- you've got work to do.

I like what Vincent is giving them btw, I'd consider playing him more on the road. I'd probably also stop starting/playing Hayes completely.

How do you know he's not?

Excuse me Avocado Ice Cream. ;)

So from what I can tell, Luka and LeBron scored or assisted on 33 of the 34 made baskets in that game.

I'm sorry, that's asking too much of those guys with the defense that Minnesota was running. That was seeing a square peg and a round hole and just finding a bigger ****ing hammer.

Never saw any adjustments from Reddick at all.

There's a reason they only scored 60 points in the last 3 quarters of that game. Minnesota adjusted and LA just didn't adjust back at all.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Amazing defense by LeBron &amp; the Lakers tonight.<br><br>Offensively though, different story. Horrendous. No creativity at all. <br><br>I&#39;ll take the win but LA should&#39;ve won this game by 25.</p>&mdash; Barry (@BarryOnHere) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarryOnHere/status/1914901989697425807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Found it -- DFS assisted on Vincent's 3 pointer at the end of the 1st quarter.

That's it. For the rest of the game, James and Luka scored or assisted on every single basket.

That's just awful man. That's a little kid spamming plays in Madden. Wow.

Suspend McDaniels for that Draymond-level trip.

Chuck setting in on the Lakers offensive creativity right now.

Glad these guys are seeing the same thing I was. I really am floored by how shitty they ran that offense in that game.

I haven't seen anything like that from them all year. Almost like they got the big lead and then tried to play prevent; an Andy Reid game. They didn't want to show anything in a short series so they just didn't DO anything for the rest of that game.

Just hideous, hideous offense.

Redick lying about them playing good offense and he knows it.

Yeah, I heard that but I think what he was saying (in the context of his answer) was that "We played a good offense tonight..."

Because he went on to talk about how they felt a run coming from Minnesota.

I dunno -- I can't imagine he was trying to say they played good offense themselves.

That entire presser was...odd. He was awfully strident for a guy who's team just played like shattered ass.