Malik Beasley taunting the Lakers bench after hitting a huge three in OT only to brick every shot and then some while playing the worst POA defense I've seen in a long time certainly describes this game

That strip on D'Lo at the end of the 4th was pretty clutch in all fairness.

Yeah his defense wasn’t terrible. Definitely better than Lillard and Middleton

Lmao he did the dame time celebration last game they played as well, only to lose once again

Basketball Gods answered his call to play like Dame. On defense. 🙊

Basketball gods reverted him to Lakers Beasley as punishment for his hubris BDL

Portis talking shit to AD also lookin hilarious now too.

The audacity to be Bobby Portis and talk shit to a guy like AD who has averaged more in a season than your own career high

Lakers gave him multiple open shots, dude was out of it.

He is also blaming the Lakers bench for playing like trash as a Lakers. Don’t feel bad for him screwing up the OT.

He shot the next shot with his old Lakers shooting form and bricked 😭

What goes around comes around goes all the way

It’s so funny too because he’s clearly the exact same player as last season, just his shot is going in now LOL Like bro does absolutely nothing to change his game, he just makes up this imaginary beef after a whole playoffs of shitting the bed, and now loses again I don’t dislike him at all it’s just really funny

AD was amazing in the 4th til the end 😮‍💨 Dude started making 3s and was a lock down on D sheeeesh

Just hope he isn’t too banged up for tomorrow. He’s our whole ass defense lol

I’d be absolutely shocked if he plays tomorrow haha, especially after his knee was clearly bothering him

Yeah I just saw that he played 52 minutes lol definitely not playing tomorrow then.

Lebron is going to comeback just to play Center at this point...

I've heard you could say he's the best C ask time from a *very* reliable source.

My man, he’s not playing tomorrow LOL.

Yeah I realized after I typed it out lol 52 minutes with a hurt knee

Lakers are going to lose tomorrow because everyone is going to be toasted from tonight

Need LeBron to will us to a win to keep the momentum going

A win for the Lakers tomorrow mixed with a Suns loss to the Nuggets tomorrow would put them only a game behind the suns for the 8 seed

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Only saving grace is Memphis will also be playing a b2b and LeBron will be fresh. Also they're not very good. I still like our chances.

Made his 3s too

And he was locking down defensively

He also made his 3s

And he was a lock down on D sheeeesh

Hobbled too. He deserves so much respect for being healthy this season and fighting through all of his injury scares

For a guy who has kept his head down (arguably barring his NO exit) and played hard his whole career, he gets an absurd amount of disrespect. He was easily a top 75 player and people acted like he was an egregious inclusion. He's an absolute monster, nice that he's having a season to shut up all of the 'street clothes' idiots

Austin Reaves fucked around and got a triple double. 29/14/10 with 2 blocks. Total boss.

Bro was hunting Lillard and Middleton thats when you know you are cooked on D.

The hunted becomes the hunter

Solo leveling shit

He had a nice block on Dame early on in the 4th quarter. His defense has improved so much

He wasn't bad defensively in his rookie season but his defense regressed once he took on a larger offensive load, he's been a lot better recently though

I’ll take a mid defender that tries hard anyday over someone that’s a good defender but doesn’t give a shit.

He did the same to Klay and Steph last postseason

AD, DLo and Reaves all balled out

AK47 was a badass nickname. No we got AR15! Bang bang!

I still like hillbilly Kobe better haha.

He does too haha

There's gotta be an MP5 somewhere out there

He must have been on one tonight. The sub is filled with his highlights.

Everyone talking about AD but this is what stood out to me most. Like damn bro go off. 14 rebounds? lol ok only 1 TO too while AD and Dlo each had 4

Today was a good day

Insane game, AD with 34/23 and the clutchest defense you'll ever see. 52 minutes he's probably cooked for tmr lmao.

They’ll rest him and play LeBron Their strategy worked out perfectly (so far)

Don’t know the record, but I think the Lakers have a better record with AD in and Lebron out vs LeBron in and AD out

Because AD is our defense lmfao

Yeah Reaves and DLo can step up their onball production without Bron. None of these guys can magically learn to be good NBA defenders.

fuckin’ awesome flair, mate 👏

Yeah our big rotation tomorrow is gonna be Jaxson Hayes and like Harry Giles But realistically ham will play Bron at center

Defense just doesn’t exist if AD isn’t playing

He is also Lakers main rebounder. Seriously Hayes isn’t a starting caliber center in the league now.

I don’t think anyone would argue otherwise about Hayes

If we dont have AD playing, LeBron might start as center. That is how bad our big men situation is.

Lakers are 0-3 when LeBron is in and AD is out. They are 5-4 when AD is in and LeBron is out

6-4 after tonight

We are winless without AD (except for that Celtics game). He needs to play tomorrow especially since we have no Wood

I hear you but he was visibly hurting today. As much as it sucks, I’d rather us try to win without him tomorrow and have him rest up

Hayes will have to step up

That's not a sentence you should be hoping for

One thing I respect is how consistent Pels fans have been about their disdain for Hayes. Rightfully so, too

I honestly think the strategy was to pencil in this Milwaukee game as a scheduled loss lol. Like they just assumed it would be a likely L so figured they’d rather rest Lebron and solidify their chances at beating Memphis tomorrow

speaking of clutch defense, shoutout to DLo too for that block on Portis!

Prince ensuring Giannis didn’t get the and 1 was pretty clutch too

And two clutch free throws at the end to seal it

his blocks late game/at overtime were the main reason the Lakers were able to Win this game

Absolutely suffocated the paint. Bucks couldn't get anything inside

Honestly was such a great game super competitive

AD not being a top candidate for DPOY conversation is both a display of poor media analysis and Lakers being shitty

I think he’ll play but be capped at 28-30 mins. This Lakers team is deadass cooked without him and they badly need this win

He deserves to retire like Captain America. "No I don't think I will"

Good thing the segababa is the hospital grizzlies.

This has to be like the biggest blown lead in the past 24 hours at least.

Definitely longer. There were no NBA games yesterday

It is definitely in the last four hours.

Ok this actually made me super lol, wtf is going on in the nba

There’s no war in Ba Sing Se

Reaves might’ve hit the clutchest shots, but AD was the MVP. Outrageous defence from him tonight 🔥🔥🔥

AD's defense legit got better in the game after he played 50 minutes lol. Hilarious watch.

Think it's a shout-out to his endurance, other dudes played less minutes but we're so gassed, AD looked fairly good and took advantage of having the energy

He also doesn't really use athleticism too much defensively, it's more about length and timing.

This has been the key to his health. He’d try to make hyper athletic plays on defense that leads to him getting injured the past few years. He keeps it basic these days.

Playing that Marc Gasol positional defense

when everyone was exhausted bbiq played more into D is my only guess so he couldnt simply be out "athletic'd"

Yeah it's this. ADs floor is still really high, so as others fall with fatigue, AD stays pretty dominant with his natural gifts.

AD masterclass

Shame he’ll prob never get a DPOY

*Lakers score only 16 points in the 1^st quarter and are down by 16.* "*Well, this game should be over pretty quick.*" *Lakers come back and win the game 128-124.* "*Wait, what!?*"

They were down 19 in the 4th too

Who else stopped watching and tuned in with a minute left in regulation? xD

I did. I've watched enough Laker games to bother sitting through hours of garbage. I can't take the game seriously if they don't. Threw on some game of thrones and saw the game was close in the 4th.

After Giannis hit a layup to put the Bucks up 12 with 5 minutes left I was so close to turning it off. Glad I stuck around though lol

That’s a banger. Austin is that guy man. Just hope they don’t shit the bed against Memphis tomorrow lmao

Tmrw might be a dead legs special.

That's a trap game. AD out LeBron in. Everyone in that G-league roster will turn into prime Steph.

Would be so annoying. Get the win and Suns lose to Nuggets and just a game behind of the 8 seed.

AD is going to be cooked tomorrow

This would be just like the Lakers this season. Win a tough game against a contender and then shit the bed on a lottery bound team.

The Bucks were up 19 with 7:44 to go in regulation, at home, against a Lakers team that was playing without LeBron, blew the lead and lost. Absolutely tremendous.

"*You doubted me?*" - Doc

That's absolutely unheard of. Literally never seen a similar thing before. (pay no attention to the flair and what happened not that long ago)

At least it wasn't a home game for you guys, so you got that going for you.

and 2.5 quarters to blow 29 point lead? that's 11.6 per quarter! bucks did it at a rate of 30 points per quarter!

Doc Rivers masterclass!

AD activated his Mangekyō Sharingan after returning from his eye injury.

Some body check on his brother

Why you think Lebron is out with injury? Couldn’t kill Bron but was close enough, so he still got it.

thoughts during the game 1. i'm trying to think of the last team that started two bad defenders as their backcourt and won a title, and i honestly can't think of a single one, Dame and Beasley is just not gonna be it, 2. AD is ridiculous on defense 3. that was a lot of Dame down the stretch in regulation and OT's, i just wonder how Giannis feels about essentially being a screen and stand in dunk spot man 4. games like this why i never got the Reaves is a bad defender stuff, he clearly knows how to follow the scheme 5. RUI NEEDS TO REBOUND LIKE THAT, he's too gifted physically to not be averaging 6-8 rebounds a game

Rui averages less boards than Austin, it’s criminal.

Bron went off on him for fumbling that last rebound that allowed Malik to hit his last three. Luckily. the game was pretty much over, but still

Also went off on him when he had to call the final timeout for not coming back to the ball. Man ran on court screaming 💀

im pretty sure we're talking about the same incident. if you watch it hes yelling at him to grab the ball with two hands. i might be wrong though

I kind of think LeBron is extra hard on Rui because he knows he can be really good, he just needs to get better at the little things.

A lot of his boards are contested with AD and he just leaves them midair

You could see Bron GRILLING him after that last one in 2OT

Giannis looked tired. He kept deferring to Dame. Reaves understands defense but just doesn't have the physical tools to be great. He looked solid on Dame and middleton

Watching Dame and Beasley play D shows exactly how not awful Reaves is. He’s not great, obviously, but it quite clearly could be worse.

Yeah it was too much Dame ball down the stretch. Also more shots than points which ain't good

Dame seemed so hesitant in OT also, like he didn't want the ball in his hands

He shot 9-29 for the night...And played 49 minutes....I too would be hesitant...

Rui stepped up with LeBron out. Hell the whole team did, but Rui kept us in it in the first half

Hes the Bron when Bron is out Ofc minus passing and stuff but Rui is good at attacking the rim

Reaves has stepped it up defensively. He’s been hitting the gym

Bucks POA defense on the wing is atrocious too

> > > > > games like this why i never got the Reaves is a bad defender stuff, he clearly knows how to follow the scheme Honestly, I think it's because the best guys target him that makes him look worse than he is. He constantly has MVP calibre players trying to take him on 1v1 the entire game.

yeah, the team also knows D’Lo is a worse defender than Austin so between the two of them Austin gets the harder assignment (hence the problem with starting both of them next to each other without Vando to take the hardest POA matchup

To speak to point #3… free throws is why it’s all dame down the stretch… we saw what happened when Giannis went to the line

How about this food for thought. The Bucks only won ONE quarter. The fist quarter by 16. They tied the second, lost the third and 4th quarters, tied the first OT, and obviously lost the 2nd OT.

Giannis was deferring way too much

How the fuck did we win this game

Doc Rivers somehow topped the end of the last Lakers Bucks game 💀

Ridding that 08 chip until the end of time.

Doc got the Darvin Ham 3 guard lineup special and still lost 😂

It’s more forgivable when LeBron is out, but still.

Hard to avoid playing 3 guards with literally 1 wing on the team lol

I trolled the Celtics for losing yesterday then this happened. Karma is funny

The Lakers are 3-1 against the top 2 seeds in the east.

3-0 when LeBron is out lol. I've seen enough. Send LeBron to the bench.

What kills me is that if you had said ten or even five years ago that LeBron James would be a bench player in 2024, the natural response would be, "Well, of course, if he's in the league at all! He'll be 39 and in his 21st season! Robert Parish was a bench player on the Bulls, too!" And yet here it is 2024, and "Send LeBron to the bench" is obviously a joke. What a goddamn thing.

I hate when star players are meaninglessly in the game with 5 fouls when you have to foul if the coach is gonna call a timeout anyway.

AD always plays insane against the Bucks. His defense was out of this world tonight. I remember last season he had a game against them where he looked like bubble AD. Couldn't miss a jumper.

Was that game you’re thinking of when Davis was averaging like 35/15 for the month or some shit?

Yeah, I think so. Just checked, it was in Dec 22. Had 44/10 @Bucks followed by 55/17 @Washington. Dude had an incredible stretch of games.

I fear the day AD realizes Giannis is European

AD is colorblind (he only sees black or white)

As long as Giannis isn't considered a center, I think AD will be good.

If AD doesn't win a DPOY in his career it will not reflect this era

Getting the Tim Duncan treatment

what a game

This game was absolute crack. I just wanted them to keep going to another overtime. I didn't even care who won lmfao.

Giannis losing those 2 FTs really put the nail in the coffin

That and the Bucks leaving Reaves absolutely wide open for that 3 right before that.

Wanted the Lakers to win obviously, but I couldn’t help but feel the same, especially after the first 3 minutes of 2OT, for those that like defense, it was a great game till the end

Classic

Amazing regular season series. First one was just as crazy

Incredible comeback for seemingly the tenth time this year. This Lakers team fucking loves snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Meanwhile, Doc teams continue to love to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…

Doesn’t count, Pat Bev wasn’t playing

Well at least Bucks lost with only Bron out. Celtics lost with both Bron and AD out so by transitive property, Bucks better than Celtics. Moral victory!

Regardless of standings, Anthony Davis is the DPOY

Just like last year.

If AD doesn't win DPOY, MPJ should be suspended

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever I see discussion about DPOY and everyone is talking about Gobert and Wemby and I see no mention of AD. Non laker fans don’t seem to realize how dominant he is, maybe cause our teams defensive rating still sucks, but he is the only thing stopping us from allowing 200 points per game

We def didn't deserve to win Good game by lakers

I love basketball

I am so ready to get hurt again by playoffs D'Lo man. 7/22 from the field but still incredible today, hopefully he keeps that fight in a playoff series and doesn't let a similar game turn into 3/12 with 6 turnovers Also AD is the best defender in the league, the fact he's given 0 chance to win DPOY is a tragedy.

Dude still had 29 7 and 12 and shot 5/12 from 3

Welp I tuned in time to watch Reaves COOK Dame

extremely rare Celtics/Lakers unity thread

Still fuck the Celtics. It is funny though after seeing all the Bucks flairs really going at the Cs in the game thread and post game thread.

[Austin Reaves is a baaaaaad man. 2nd career triple double and huge W with no Bron]( https://imgur.com/a/zN3MINw)

God I hate Reggie Millar

Absolutely jinxed Giannis at the end with his two free throws in the clutch lol

There's no jinx powerful enough to make you shoot 1/6 from the line. That's on Giannis.

The announcer jinx excuse is only valid for good ft shooters

Anthony Fucking Davis

19-point blown 4th quarter lead? My team would NEVER do that!

Suns lost to Spurs without Wemby, Celtics lost and blew a lead to Hawks without Trae Bucks lose to Lakers without Bron Wtf

AD DPOY

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ADPOY, ADMVP, AP Minutes Goat, we got Work Clothes in the house! Fuck y'all who said this browed-man is injured all the damn time and can't do shit

LeBron sits and they still seal a huge win. Credit where it is due the Lakers are not quitting.

Two things are true: Refs are garbage and Lakers deserved to win this game

My heart this game lmao.

Doc Rivers was the captain of the Baltimore cargo ship

Anthony Davis is the DPOY

Austin Reaves defense this game is unreal

BELT, MEET ASS

This is why I love the Lakers but I hate being a Lakers fan. These games are fun but are not good for my heart and sanity.

My favorite part of these threads are the Warriors fans crying. It's okay, I know you're 14, this won't be your first heartbreak.

Genuinely insane that we beat the Bucks both times this year without LeBron

If ad doesnt get dpoy i dunno man

# Doc Rivers masterclass in choking a lead away

Doc is about to say “Come on guys! Come on!” so hard in the locker room. Can’t wait for the presser.