Rui Hachimura was asked at practice today if the Lakers' starting lineup has gotten back to where they were in last year's playoffs as far as chemistry goes after not playing together much to begin the season, and he hinted that Jarred Vanderbilt is hopefully returning soon:

"Yeah, for sure. Vando is still out, but he's gonna come back soon, hopefully, and our regular lineup that we had last year will come back at the right time. So we're all excited, we've been watching a lot of film and we've been communicating well. So I think it's gonna come together."

Rui Hachimura said the Lakers are approaching tomorrow’s game vs. the Warriors “almost like a playoff game.”

Lakers status report for tomorrow vs. the Warriors

yup

DLO made some good points about Ham's favoritism but he didn't need to diss Dennis like that especially since Dennis helped this team get to the WCF.

His issue was with Ham and he should've left it that instead of basically saying he's glad Dennis is not on the team.

At the end of the day, DLO played poorly that Denver series and he wont take responsibility.

All this looks worse if DLO starts playing like trash or he underperforms in the playoffs again.

Dennis Schroder responds

Just stumbled upon a Robert Sacre mix

Steve Kerr says he expects Steph Curry and Draymond Green to play against the Lakers.

Darvin Ham pregame on Spencer Dinwiddie's lack of aggressiveness offensively:

Darvin Ham was asked if he has seen a sense of urgency from his team lately given the circumstances they are in:

Austin Reaves exchanging jerseys with Dodgers legend Albert Pujols pregame:

Starters

Hayes throws it down

AD went back to the locker room to get his eye checked.

RUI

He's so good and getting better. I hope they don't trade him 😩

feels like AD gets smacked in the head everytime we play the warriors

Darvin Ham said the reviews and shot clock situation was "tough" because it threw off the rhythm of the game. He also pointed out how the Warriors were awarded two points due to a shot clock violation that wasn't called earlier, while LeBron's 3 was taken away after a review.

Darvin Ham says he hasn't seen a situation where a 3 was taken away because of an out of bounds call but "it is what it is."

bron dont care he needa retire

Jaxson Hayes on the reviews and clock malfunction at the end of the game:

"I've never seen anything like that before. We were on a nice little roll... It is what it is."

Austin Reaves didn't understand why they could go back and take LeBron's 3 away after the fact.

"Anytime something like that happens, it sucks."

D'Angelo Russell didn't want to get into details about the end of the game fiasco but thought it was "unfair" to everybody.

LeBron on playing without Anthony Davis: “We tried to pick it up but obviously there are some things we can’t do without AD.”