Lakers (40-21) at Celtics (45-18) Game #64 3/8/25

[BringToughnessBack]

Luka cant handle Brown on him! Love it.

[liam]

Good close to the half.

JB gets a tough whistle.  Not just tonight... it's consistent.  He gets the raw whistle that Tatum thinks he gets, lol.

They are world champs and they both get crappy whistles!!!

[Who]

That game turned into some bad basketball towards the end of the first half. Too much dribbling and one-on-one play by both teams.

[Billz401]

Did they ever explain why the challenge was successful but then JB didnt get his free throw for the and 1? These refs have been beyond putrid tonight

[Phantom255x]

Between the poor shooting start and the refs, I'm pretty pleased the C's are ahead at halftime.

Keep attacking Luka and hopefully the bench shots start falling as well. Would like an old fashioned 2nd half beatdown 

[tenn_smoothie]

Why are we guarding Lebron with a shorter White and slower Horford when we have two excellent big forward defenders in Tatum and Brown ?

[blink]

Luka cant handle Brown on him! Love it.

Me too man.   Luka is still having bad dreams about JB guarding him in the finals.  Nothing has changed.

[liam]

Why are we guarding Lebron with a shorter White and slower Horford when we have two excellent big forward defenders in Tatum and Brown ?

Switches...

[liam]

Luka cant handle Brown on him! Love it.

Me too man.   Luka is still having bad dreams about JB guarding him in the finals.  Nothing has changed.

Throw some Tillman on him...

[tenn_smoothie]

Did they ever explain why the challenge was successful but then JB didnt get his free throw for the and 1? These refs have been beyond putrid tonight

They said it was a "no call", just not an offensive foul. At least we got that.

[blink]

Why are we guarding Lebron with a shorter White and slower Horford when we have two excellent big forward defenders in Tatum and Brown ?

Well JB is guarding Luka most of the time in initial coverage.   Al seems to be guarding Lebron most of the time since both are playing center right?   Probably switches are why DWhite is on Lebron at times.

[tenn_smoothie]

Look at this studio clown show.

[SCeltic34]

We have to clean up on transition defense and not have lapses in rebounding.  I'd prefer not to cheat towards Doncic.  He's going to make the right pass most of the time.  it ended up with a lot of open 3's from the Lakers players.

On the Lakers end those live turnovers absolutely killed them.

[tenn_smoothie]

Luka cant handle Brown on him! Love it.

Me too man.   Luka is still having bad dreams about JB guarding him in the finals.  Nothing has changed.

Throw some Tillman on him...

I'd love to see that, just rough him up some, he will go hide.

The guy is not in good shape.

[SparzWizard]

Did they ever explain why the challenge was successful but then JB didnt get his free throw for the and 1? These refs have been beyond putrid tonight

They said Luka leaned with his head on defense...flop? Idk but commentators said "good no call"