He showed respect and class to us when our guys were down. Even though OKC fans had zero compassion for Luka and AR, lets show class.

The Lakers might have three of the biggest steals of the summer 🤫

Matisse Thybulle and Ziaire Williams are BOTH on minimum deals, but the value they’re bringing to this team are WAY bigger than their contracts suggest. 💯 Plus Cam Carr at the draft position we stole him, our front office was cooking.

Thybulle and Williams both made plays on both ends of the floor and will be HUGE keys to our success this season 🙏

To all the haters’ rhetoric:

“Lakers won’t win more than 30 games this season”. We’re 10% there already.

“Lakers have only beat trash teams”
Proves we’re not one of them.

There’s always some simple brained rebuttal but let our record, our leader Luka, and our coaching, and play making speak for itself. Top 3 seed this year with an essentially new team where AR is our most tenured player. LFG! So excited to continue watching and supporting our Purple and Gold!

Continue being realistic: we need to get rid of Looney Tunes and find at minimum a decent backup big. There’s just no one on the market worth pursuing at the moment that I see but if we can solve that, we are true contenders this season and the next few seasons.

It seems personal now between JJ and Vando. Adou has been out every game, Jake missed last game, Looney is a disaster in his 5 minutes every game, and we just got killed on the boards by Utah with them exposing our lack of size and physicality at forward and center. Kessler has an off game and we literally have nobody. Still not a single Vando minute across the first three games.

It’s getting to the point where I think JJ has to swallow his pride and play Vando here and there. Some matchups may not be for Vando, but you’re telling me he deserves 0 minutes when JJ can barely field a big man rotation? It’s getting ridiculous

Off night for the big man. Perhaps he's still dealing with conditioning issues, perhaps he stayed up a little too late the night prior, maybe he had jitters making his return to the team that drafted him, maybe the Jazz game planned to neutralize Kessler. I don't know, I wasn't there. But let it go and prepare for another big matchup against Clingan in Portland.

I believe this was Luka’s one-legged 3 pt attempt lol only attempt he missed in the 4th quarter.

Even Jazz fans knew they were watching greatness today 🔥

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/reaveau01.html

https://www.nba.com/game/lal-vs-uta-0022600112/box-score

Basketball reference hasn't updated yet, but for the season he's 61% from 3, just under 90% from the line, and 64% from the field.

A few things surprised me, but overall it matches the eye test. This is a cohesive roster whose players mostly fit the main guys.

Jake on the top of the list when paired to each player of the top 3 players isn't really a big surprise, the team seens to always make a run when he is on the floor since the preseason. He failed to hit his shots tonight, but his impact was huge again.

Matisse above Ziaire, Grimes and Mamu when paired to each of the top guys somewhat surprised me, his playmaking on defense is clearly impacting the results. The most important here is that every rotation forward has been clicking with the main guys.

I'm not going to judge Sexton since it is only his 2nd game after missing the preseason and he has been sharing the floor with Looney impacting his numbers. By the way Looney by himself is impacting the numbers of most players coming of the bench, the same happens to Grimes and Mamu.

The only clear need is really a good backup C that fits the main guys, Looney minutes has been brutal, he has been absolutely unplayable outside garbage time. The starting four hole has been filled with a great deal of success by the combinations of the players we have available.

The eventual development of Carr and Adou have potential to make this a really, really deep roster.

I hate to get hyperbolic but watching Luka has me feeling like a kid watching Kobe again. Absolute killer on the court. How lucky are we as fans to got to witness Kobe then Bron now Luka Magic 🙏🙏🙏

If he keeps up his level of play, can we retain him after the end of this season? He’s been solid for us so far and I would want the Lakers to retain him

Is this the year luka finally makes the jump in his free throw percentage? It's always been weird that a guy who shoots as well as he has from the three has been a league average free throw shooter for his career.

With the Jazz sending 2, sometimes even 3 bodies in the paint to ensure that Kessler does not get a lob dunk, put back or rebound, it created 14 wide open 3s for Ziaire and Matisse, who were exceptional shooting the ball tonight.

While I do think Kessler could have done a bit more on the offensive and defensive glass, getting bear hugged by 2 big men on your first game in your old city isn't always easy.