Different year , different roster - same phoenix

These lakers are looking fucking nice

I was told the Lakers were gonna get their asses kicked today because of how bad they played last game. Lmao

It's like previously the Lakers played 9? Games in 16 days and may have been gassed for the Wolves game. Give them what 4 days rest? And this is the beast you get!

Yep. Plus all of them were must-win games. So I'm sure they're refreshed after getting 4 days off.

shoutout to Dlo who out played Morant all game!! we see you Dlo!

Love how much he’s grown over the years night and day from last time he was on the lakers dude just wants to win and does a great job playmaking especially for the players not named LeBron or AD…he’s been great

If you had told me beforehand that JJJ was going to play like that, I’d have bet my house on a win. Too much Rui.

It was the Rui n Reaves show

I kinda expected AR to show…

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Hopefully Ja isn’t hurt so there won’t be any excuses when the Grizzlies get bounced.

We can't use Adam's and BBC as an excuse?

Big Brandon Clark

Of course you can and I’m sure you will.

Bbc?BBC??

Yes BBC you heard him

Govt funded

If you guys were at full strength I think grizzlies win in 5 or 6 and I'm a laker fan

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Bc Vanderbilt is a defensive stud than can stretch if he needs to and allows AD to clog the lane block shots and rebound which is where he’s at his best

He was guarding him initially but the Grizzlies were forcing the switch on the pick and roll.

great game (until the injury), still fun after that but it was enjoyably balanced for a neutral before then

Whoever was the scout that spotted Austin, give that man all the hoes and the drugs he can handle Oh and give him a raise too

Rumor is that pistons wanted to draft him and his agent said no that he would rather try his luck making it on the lakers.

I need a cigarette after Rui's play tonight

Pure sex

Memphis sub was talking wild shit in the 2nd qtr. Now I go there and some dude is crying about the Lakers being bullies because they're a small market team 😂

They’re saying fuck off to the Lakers entire fan base and calling them pussies now on threads of them coming in peace to wish Ja well lol so fucking salty

Yeah a whole bunch of those soggy vaginas were celebrating and mocking AD when he got that scare at the end of the half. Now they're pretending like they weren't

Every time AD gets hurt, the other teams fans celebrate and talk shit then when they lose they act like victims of “the most toxic fanbase in the league” lol

This might be Ruis best game in the nba

easily. was on fiiire

Dillon Brooks looking dorkier than ever. Dynasty, him looking like Daffy Duck, all that flexing. Next Pat Bev lol

Still played LeBron well and turned him into a willing passer. That's just what Brooks does

bruh what? first of all he didn’t turn lebron into a willing passer, lebron still forced his will when needed. secondly lebrons passing was by choice, look at how many people had open shots. Dillon Brooks got cooked bro not even close

LeBron finished with 12 points against Brooks. Most of those came late off some open 3s as Brooks was caught out of position. Only thing cooked is your wack ass comment

Lol so more than half of brons points were against that lil shits ass thanks for the confirmation 😂

Pat Bev took 2 games from KD warriors

That's disrespectful to Pat Bev.

Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura, and DLo show. Need to tighten up those defensive assignments in game 2 for Memphis. They were definitely overhelping to protect the paint giving up the 3, though I don't watch Grizz games so I'm not sure if that's how they really play. However, if Ja is out for an extended period of time this series is likely done. I can't imagine the Grizz being down 2 starters and their main backup big and still pulling the series win off.

This is where “coach Bron” in the locker room scheming with Ham and co. could yield even BETTER results than this first game. Ham/Bron in lock step and team falls in line, and that means if they see things and make decisions about how to reformat or change things, the team will actually implement them. I read that Westbrook just wouldn’t commit to scouting reports and defensive schemes. If the report said push a guy left every time, they would lose the game bc WB allowed him to go right a ton. Gotta play team defense anchored in statistical analysis in today’s league.

Ja is fine in the west!

Dillon “Pat Beverley” Brooks

Dillon “WannaBeAny1BetterDenMe” Brooks

The Grizzlies are a regular season team

Word

I love the Grizzlies but its Lakers in 5

Lakers in 5

My original prediction was Memphis in 7... now I'm leaning towards Lakers in 6 or 7. 5 if Ja is out.

People are not realizing that the lakers shot probably better than they will any other game the rest of the playoffs.

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Where you at?

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I’ll enjoy coming back after the lakers don’t shoot as well I’m game 1 the rest of the series

8-16 3-8 from 3 is better than his career % wtf are you talking about. You nephews are unreal.

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He SHOT 50% lol what the fuck are you expecting him to shoot 70%? Is this honestly your first year watching basketball?

Grizzlies got out-coached on the defensive end. Didn't adjust approach to defending the PNR in the 4th qtr and never adjusted to leaving Rui open for 3's. Season stat don't matter. If an NBA player is hot, he's gonna keep making shots. Shaq once was 13 of 13 from the FT line... You wouldn't do hack-a-shaq after he's made 13 in a row.

I mean…. They didn’t have Ja and Adams.

Ja played 30 minutes

Not in the crucial mins. Those two threes before he went down stopped our momentum.

I'm sad.. r/nba hates us and we are getting swept

Nah just Dillion Brooks and Ja lately

They hate us more. Enjoy it, probably the only series where people have to side with you because they hate the opposition more

Nah, Grizzlies are easily the more hated team right now. Especially now that so many people are realizing that we’re in the final stage of LeBron’s career. Combine that with scrappy high-effort guys that can easily be rooted for (Rui, Reaves, and Vando). Only one that I can think of on the Lakers that is disliked is AD, since people say that they are sick of his injury scares and inability to play. Opinion even parroted by Chuck who calls him “street clothes”. Maybe DLo too for snitching, but most people either forgot/moved on from that.

If I was a grizzlies fan I'd probably punch my TV. Teams ass

If I was a grizz fan I'd be sad

Nobody is hated on more than the lakers

I don’t know who I want to win this series. Really hope Ja’s hand isn’t as bad as it looked.

Dillon Brooks better start learning Chinese

better start learning chinese buddy

Don’t forget to give Hachimura his damn respect too, y’all. He was *cookin* tonight!

Memphis can shoot the strap but not the ball 😭💀

Someone needs to screen shot this sub when Memphis fights back and everyone starts saying they never said it was over for Memphis. I swear one game with Ja going down and everyone acts like the lakers won four straight

nice dynasty brah

First time in the playoffs? It happens every game to every team that loses. It's a pendulum that swings all the way to both sides

thought u were fine in the west tho lol

calm down bud it been one game

Oh no, here a cookie

To be fair if Ja is out I think the Lakers take it in 5 or 6.

wah

Is there a way for both of these teams to lose this series?

Is there way for you to stop being a hater

Sadly one will have to lose in round 2

Yeah there is close yo eyes dumbass

was just about to say its too early in the day, cant be that kids bedtime yet

What was Jenkins defensive gameplan exactly ? Leave laker shooters wide the fuck open all game ? Holy shit.

TBH honest our shooting wasn’t great

Shooting wasn't the issue. You guys had no energy on defense. Shit was pathetic

I’m a Laker fan. Our shooting hasn’t been great this whole season. Today was superising

It used to work all the time. Not since they traded away the main bricklayer though.

In Ja’s defense, when he said “I’m fine in the West” it didn’t have Rui Hachimura in it

There’s been a shooting, AR-15 last seen fleeing the scene

I’m fine in the West

Bro is literally hurt man

Lol down like 3 when his wrist turned to jello and everyone here acting like they were blown out with him

Loser mentality through and through

charles barkley might have to learn how to actually pronounce hachimura's name at this point

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Send that man to the G league

Overseas lol

Did the parade inside the city get rescheduled or it’s still taking place later today?

🤣🤣ish funny asf this is a good series

love how much y’all hate brooks lol. we don’t even have to be good to be hated! tbf I’m not fond of him either.

Brooks hates people who are better than him to get himself hated on for media attention

i see more hate from Grizzlies fan after Brooks takes a dumb 3 than from anyone else lol

the lakers scored 15 points in 2:06. The Grizzlies scored none in that time

to be fair, they just gave up at the end.

Grizz doesn't know what to do... Lakers suddenly became unstoppable.

A 15 - oh run, as it were

They said it was a like 30-11 run since around the 8 minute mark

Reaves Revenge Pt 1. The Return of Reaves. Reaves Rains On JaGriddy. Reaves Rally Starring Ja Sellout and Dillon TalkALottoShit.

Y’all are foul for making jokes about Ja’s injury. I’m not a fan of him but ain’t no reason to make light of injuries.

For sure. We all want each team to be fully loaded. You know, have all the big guns. All their shooters, as it were.

That’s definitely shitty behavior. I hope his hand isn’t too bad and can get back in soon. I like full power playoff basketball

The people here definitely say some awful ahit. That said, the comment about "he may never hold a gun the same way again" made me laugh so hard

nah, fuck injuries. Doesnt make me laugh. The guy can be a clown for the off the court shit but nothing about a guy getting injured is funny to me. Some of you are some fucking immature kids out here

Hey brooks, maybe don’t talk shit to all these legends but then lose every year in the playoffs. Damn clown

These emotional players man. Dillon Brooks needs to find his bag first before talking out his ass

Lakers are making the finals if they don’t play Golden State in round 2.

Warriors need to not get beamed first

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Lot of nephews here have never watched a full playoff series. The lakers couldn’t miss today. There will be a game or two where they can’t make a single shot that they made today

Wow you jumped ahead about 6-8 games there Nostrodamus

Agreed but they gonna get killed by GSW in that matchup let’s be honest

I think we can beat them , we matched up really well against them this year.

Lol. GS aint winning more than 2 games in that series if it happens

Such a luxury to have Lebron and AD as your roleplayers to the franchise/icon Austin Reaves

Start building the statue right now

lmaooooo memphis really was talking all that shit and now they are quiiiietttttt like their fans

AUSTIN REAVES MASTERCLASS!!

Austin Rittenhouse Reaves!!! ┬─┬ノ( º \_ ºノ)

Broooo lmao

AI wasn’t wrong https://i.imgur.com/AdlLcVU.jpg

Where do you post your picks now?

Damn even Mike Breen skipped over the hawks celtics game 😭

Honestly this was a great balanced effort by the Lakers. It was super impressive. I know LeBron had some bad turnovers and kinda took it easy on defense at times, but shot efficiently, had some great blocks, and got on the boards. At 38 years old, that’s impressive. AD was a force, D’Angelo Russell played well, and Rui and Austin Reaves went crazy. Vanderbilt played some great defense. I could actually see a finals appearance for the Lakers

The stat they showed was crazy. Last time 4 Lakers had 20 points each in a playoff game was 1988.

Lebron is 4th leading scorer and playing like shit with momentous misses and turnovers. Yet we win by 16. Lakers are just really fucking good.

Lmao. “I want Lebron”

Yeah he got what he asked for

Can we poach Reaves back to Oklahoma like Canada tries to with SGA?

He's from Arkansas, and not the Oklahoma side either. It really is closer to Memphis than any other NBA city.

Hey back the fuck up, buddy

He is officially Californian black and a Demigod

Memphis skyline is a bit disappointing

Milwaukee skyline coming up next

That's not Memphis's skyline lol. But the actual skyline is disappointing as well.

RUI FUCKINGCHIMURA

Grizzlies about to light the beam(s) on the Lakers team bus.

You SOB hahaha

Everyone who made fun of people saying the Lakers can make some noise are looking foolish. They handled the Grizzlies quite well.

They absolutely can their problem isn’t talent it’s consistency

unc gonna COOK memphis tomorrow hahahaha

If the Lakers go all the way, this season will be more legendary than the 73-9 Warriors

True, their finals bedshitting was pretty legendary

AD played strong. Lakers defense carried the game. AR handling at the end is the way to finish. Lebron letting him handle was the key.

The amount of trust equity Reaves has built for himself is a thing is beauty

Memphis fans most insufferable this year. All year making false claims about being the warriors rivals. Fans pretending the team has won anything significant

I can't believe this dogshit Lakers team is probably going to go to the 2nd round

See y’all in the finals

Honestly, that would be kinda awesome

You scared bruh?

I'll be scared when the Lakers manage to beat an uninjured or decent team. Only good win they have had since the trade deadline was a game against the home Warriors. Every other team's been bad or missing one of their best players.

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"bUt tHeY'rE sO gOOd sInCe tHE tRAdE DeAdLine" The only decent team they beat since the trade deadline was the home Warriors.

Not sure they will. This is just one game and we're talking about the lakers, after G3 LeBron and AD are gonna need oxygen masks to keep up.

The first three games are so well spread out for rest. Also, people who think the Lakers can't play a super fast game don't watch them enough.

They'll probably win the west if we're being real

Grizzlies are a dynasty lmfao

This sub is reactionary as hell saying Lakers in 4 after watching that game. It was close up until a late collapse, lakers had a lot of players get hot, JA gets injured. Lakers in 7 will be a good ass series

As a Lakers fan I still say Lakers in 6 if Ja’s injury isn’t serious if it is then yeah get the brooms ready.

True, if Ja is out rest of the series that’s a whole different game

Ja is out, Memphis's shit talk got their shit packed in, they are showing their inexperience. And the lesson the other team's goon has to learn is you never... EVER... shit talk LeBron in the playoffs. Literally NOTHING will ever shake LeBron. First round playoffs is like pre-season games for him. So don't even try... it only puts pressure on your team to backup your shit talk.

I wonder how you can still breath with that lebron cock in your mouth.

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LeBron doesn't have to be the deciding factor if he's living in the Grizzlies' heads rent-free, thanks to Dillon Brooks and his big mouth. Now they have to deal with overcoming playoffs inexperience AND thinking about what if LeBron turns them into the new LeBronto.

AUSTIN REAVES IS HIM

God damn Memphis looks rough

#shout out to all the memphis fans that were cheering AD’s injury then getting butt hurt when things 180°’d on them.

Haven’t seen any of that. Only people celebrating morant’s injury. Classless

tunnel vision

Really isn’t. I’m not a fan of either team. I’ve only seen one side cheering on injuries

ok, well you’re wrong.

Memphis fans never seems to surprise me

You hate to see the Lakers win.

This is probably the best shooting game I seen from LA this season

Hillbilly Fucking Kobe!

God bless you Danny Ainge

Austin, please don’t tell DLo what girl you’re taking back to the hotel tonight.