We still in zone

Aight

rebounding is gonna be our achilles heal all season especially with the emphasis on getting back in transition so it's not even likely we match a team that's killing us on the offensive glass/second chance points.

Darvin Ham says on that tonight was a "huge step backward" for the Lakers in terms of their defensive rebounding.

"We just got to wipe ourselves off and get ready for another tough one in Miami."

Darvin Ham: "You can't scheme rebounding. You got to get the damn ball, plain and simple... There's no play I can draw up to get rebounds."

Half these guys just don’t go after it and it’s so annoying to watch. One thing about Max is even if his shot is off or his defense is lacking at times, he’s a guard that goes after boards for real.

Vando coming back will help this for sure, need that

we need an identity and play big

our defense pathetic, rebounding sucks.... what Is Ham strength as a coach? He's Lebrons boy or what? our rotation are whack

Bring me Kai Jones for Jackson

i’ll take a bag of doritos over both of them

Hopefully low effort games aren't a trend. Prince should help a lot for our starters.

Need Vando and Prince back ASAP

Prince is playing tonight

KSI Jones! Y not

Jaxson Hayes is out for tonight’s game in Miami due to his left ankle sprain.

Max Christie does an interview, arranged by Activision’s public relations team in promotion of the November 9 release of Modern Warfare III.

Here's some of the basketball related stuff:

Before you got some good minutes in last game, Darvin Ham called you one of the “young jewels” of the roster, and I know there are a lot of fans who have been excited watching you in Summer League, preseason, and in flashes last year. How have you been able to balance the demands of your day-to-day basketball workload and personal life while also being patient in waiting for your on-court opportunity to emerge.

Yeah, I’m a big believer in controlling what you can control. Now I’m in an opportunity where I’m able to play. We’ve got Gabe out for the next two weeks I think, so that’s an opportunity for me. But like you said, leading up to it I was sort of just watching if you will. To me, that was something that was out of my control. That’s not my decision to make, so all I can do is show up every day and work as hard as I can.

Like I said, control what I can control, be the best version of myself both on and off the floor with recovery and then on the court, obviously, with my skill work. Really just staying ready and like an opportunity like last game came up, where I was able to play, then there’s gonna be an opportunity in the next multiple games as well for me to play. I think just the culmination of me just trying to control what I can control while I was sorta waiting is gonna allow me to play well in the next couple of games when the opportunity does come.

Is there anybody among your teammates, coaches, or family who has been in your ear about that kind of mentality, controlling the controllable?

A lot with my family, I was sort of raised that way. But I have a lot of support from all of my teammates to be honest. Austin’s been a really good support guy for me because I’m in the same position he was in last year, so he’s been supporting me throughout. And D’Lo, D’Angelo has been supporting me as well.

LeBron has had a few talks with me as well, just making sure I’m staying ready, staying focused. So I have the full support of all my teammates, so it feels good to have that confidence as well as with my inner circle, my mom, dad, brother, those guys too.

You mentioned taking care of your skill work as one of those controllable elements. What in particular is a point of emphasis in your work these days?

I think the fundamentals are always important, but I’d say the most important skill, in this game at least, is the ability to shoot the ball. I’ve always been a good shooter all my life, and so I want to make sure I’m keeping that tool sharp, for sure, getting my shots up every day.

This morning I went and got my shots up, still want to make sure I’m keeping that tool sharp because if I can make shots, then, you know, I’ll need to be on the floor. That’s always an important tool to have in my bag, in any player’s bag. Being able to shoot is super important.

In 21 minutes against the Clippers, you had nine deflections, the most by any player in any NBA game this season, regardless of minutes total. How were you able to do that in your first extended run of the season?

To me, defense is all about energy and effort, and like — I’ve said it earlier, controlling what you can control. Going as small as into games, controlling your energy and effort. That’s something you can control all the time. Things that you can’t control, maybe you can’t control if you make your shots, how many shots you’re going to make all the time, or you can’t control your teammates, but things you can control are your energy and effort, and that plays very well into the defensive end of the floor.

And so, to me, that’s all it was. I just played with a lot of energy and a lot of effort and a lot of adrenaline since I hadn’t played in a while and it was my first game, so I think that sort of played into it a little bit, just me being out there, playing as hard as I can, letting me get some deflections, some steals, impacting the game in that sense. Like I said, my shot wasn’t really falling that game, but I was able to impact the game in other ways, and that was my defense. So always finding ways to impact the game, even if it isn’t offensively because obviously, we have LeBron, AD, and D’Lo. Offense isn’t an issue for us. Defensively is where some guys might take plays off and that’s my opportunity to sort of fit myself into the mold.

Full interview: silverscreenandroll.com/2023/11/6/23945880/max-christie-lakers-lebron-james-austin-reaves-dangelo-russell-call-of-duty

bounce/lob threat

that’s it

its one thing if he was a prime deandre jordan type lob threat.. but hes not

such a waste of a signing, shouldve got biyombo

thank god

Need that swap

Edit: could've used this swap