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Loving this hustle by vando. Max still making silly mistakes. He aint ready as i thought he’d be by now
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- Sep 5, 2010
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Dat Vando Energy.
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#myvando
- Sep 5, 2010
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He makes things so much harder than it has to be.
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Max getting important experience guarding SGA, Booker, Beal etc this season though. Trust the process
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Both factors can be true (A. Ham/starting lineups & B. the issues you brought up)
Starting line-up doesn't matter to you and I and fans, but it definitely matters to the players.
Players being unhappy with their roles, unsure with what's expected of them and who they're sharing the court with, leads to confusion and lack of effort & disengagement, which leads to all the issues and symptoms of what you mentioned. Roster construction of course plays a role, but it's the coach's job to best utilize what he's got and manage personalities and egos and put them in position to succeed. And his defensive schemes have been questionable.
Feel the difference in energy tonight? Small sample size but I hope this keeps up
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These guys seemed to have finally practiced against a zone defense finally.
- Feb 5, 2013
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Just need them to stop using a zone defense
- Sep 19, 2012
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and why would they need to use a zone?
darthska
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Why can't we play like this all the time? Why, why, why? 
darthska
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Trade deadline approaching, everybody hustling their tails off.
- Sep 5, 2010
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The schedule makers should allow the Lakers to play the Thunder the rest of the season.
- May 17, 2007
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Best game I’ve seen the lakers play in a smooth 6 weeks.
- Feb 29, 2000
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maybe give cam reddish the same amount of minutes jaxson hayes gets going forward? 
- Sep 5, 2010
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Can we get Vando or Rui back in there?
- Feb 23, 2010
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great time to play stupid basketball
- Jan 18, 2006
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How is AD not at the line for an and 1?
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Pockets hate timeouts smh
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got damn it bron wear the freshwaters more often. im bout to buy the vandos 
- Aug 2, 2008
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Some of the calls in the last 2 minutes 
- May 17, 2007
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try not to talk about the refs but they’ve been wilding tonight lol
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Ref tried so hard not to call that foul on SGA
- Sep 19, 2012
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No need to address anything else you said in your post because this sums it up right here.
Hope.
I hope this team can play hard every night…for 48 minutes. Because that’s not even something that we can count on with this group…to play hard.
Maybe next game they can put together a simple effort but I wouldn’t be surprised if they came out and stinked up the joint. Hopefully not, but I wouldn’t hold my breath with this group.
darthska
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So anyways, it's crazy that this player you're suggesting we HAVE to play hasn't played at all tonight but the defense against the #2 team in the West… is *profanity* phenomenal.
I know. You're not wrong. Ever. Not expecting "My bad. I see that the defense is actually better without him on the floor tonight."
Expecting some quip about... who cares?
Cam isn't playing and we look better.
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We did it
