2026 West 1st Round Playoffs: (4) Los Angeles Lakers Vs. (5) Houston Rockets

Anyone know the status of FVV? Maybe this work in our favor?

 

Over / under FT Attempts per game for Lebron .... 19.5.

 

Durant is old, I welcome the extended rest in the playoffs.

 

5 games in 2 weeks…even the government thinks they’re working too slow.



Game 1 (Saturday)
Day Off (Sunday)
Game 2 (Monday)
2 days off (Travel; Tuesday/Wednesday)
Game 3 (Thursday)
Day off (Friday)
Game 4 (Saturday)
2 days off (Travel; Sunday/Monday)
Game 5 (Tuesday; after Game 5, game every other day, including travel)
Day off (Wednesday)
Game 6 (Thursday)
Day off (Friday)
Game 7 (Saturday)

Next series, if you advance, starts Tuesday(or Wednesday if you want). And just keep going.
Or just go back to best of 5 in the first round.

They’re not logging tall timbers, working a double shift. @Os Trigonum

 

This is true of every kind of fan base, every religion and most celebrities too.

Something about fans makes the insecure ones whacky.

 

i'm pretty sure they're going to do as much rigging as possible so LBJ doesn't go out in the 1st round.

i really hope i'm wrong but i don't feel like i will be.

 

Other recent teams have tried smalls on us. It's with mixed results. When the Wolves did it in stretches, it worked. Won that game with Ant out. However when Ott tried it with the Suns, it backfired. Our size punished them on the inside and increased that rebound discrepancy. Feels 50/50, can be damaging but not kryptonite.

The other thing JJ will most certainly try is zone. LAL used to do it even to other teams to help offset Reeves and Luka's defensive weaknesses. JJ will try it on the Rockets At this point Rockets has seen it from multiple teams, it becomes less about schemes, but more on focus, and shooting to bust that zone.

 

Possible bad news... A YouTuber who is mostly right about these things said that Doncic will play in this series as soon as Game 2. We shall see.

 

sauces

 

Whether in zone or in something like a gap help defense, expect the Lakers to deny KD easy looks while daring Okogie, Amen, Sengun, and Tari to shoot.

 

Which hurts my eyes just reading that….

 

we all grown men . . . well, except for Dickerson that is

 

I mean if he rush back by game 2, the likely hood of him getting hurt again is high, if they want to rush luke back to only just get sweep by OKC that fine.

 

No dancing kids @Os Trigonum @WestendMassive @clos4life