12/30/25 10:30PM Pistons @ Lakers

[Tigeraholic1]

Crypto.com Arena - Los Angeles, CA

[Deleterious]

They still pick 5 starters and 7 reserves from each conference.  But that will make  up 3 teams of 8.    One international team and two teams from the US.  If that doesn't give you 8 international and 16 US players, Silver will name some players to fill the minimum requirement.  

So based on that, the starting 5 for the international team will be Luka, Giannis, Jokic, SGA, and Victor.  

 

[buddha]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

They still pick 5 starters and 7 reserves from each conference.  But that will make  up 3 teams of 8.    One international team and two teams from the US.  If that doesn't give you 8 international and 16 US players, Silver will name some players to fill the minimum requirement.  

So based on that, the starting 5 for the international team will be Luka, Giannis, Jokic, SGA, and Victor.  

 

brandon ingram?  i'd take duren over him for the all star team.

[Deleterious]

24 minutes ago, buddha said:

brandon ingram?  i'd take duren over him for the all star team.

It should be Barnes instead of Ingram IMO.  19/8/5 and should make all defense.  That is much better than BI.  

[casimir]

3 hours ago, Deleterious said:

They still pick 5 starters and 7 reserves from each conference.  But that will make  up 3 teams of 8.    One international team and two teams from the US.  If that doesn't give you 8 international and 16 US players, Silver will name some players to fill the minimum requirement.  

So based on that, the starting 5 for the international team will be Luka, Giannis, Jokic, SGA, and Victor.  

 

So what’s the point of voting east vs west?  Just pick the best 16 domestic and 8 international.

Edited December 29, 2025 by casimir

[Deleterious]

Cruise home games will now be broadcast on Fan Duel.

[Deleterious]

Looks like tonight's game is on Peacock and FanDuel.  

[buddha]

4 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Cruise home games will now be broadcast on Fan Duel.

i was just eating lunch at a bar and the cruise game was on tv here...

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

8 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Looks like tonight's game is on Peacock and FanDuel.  

NBC not Peacock

[Sports_Freak]

12 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

NBC not Peacock

They're showing the Philly Memphis OT right now on NBC. Going to delay the start?

[Deleterious]

5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

They're showing the Philly Memphis OT right now on NBC. Going to delay the start?

I flipped over to FD.

[Sports_Freak]

Just now, Deleterious said:

I flipped over to FD.

Same. I want NBC though. FF and rewind doesn't work very well on FanDuel with my Roku.

[buddha]

cade is such a good player.

[Sports_Freak]

Last quarter of a long trip. I hope the Pistons have the energy to finish the Lakers off. 

[gehringer_2]

whole team has the yips at the FT line.

[Deleterious]

Great, this will give Sasser fans something to talk about as he sucks for the next month.

[gehringer_2]

Pistons shot 42% on treys, 63% from the field overall......and 72% from the FT line. They'd have been off if they could have inbounded after Laker shooting fouls.   

[buddha]

i just dont think the lakers are all that good without reeves.  the whole team is a bunch of nothing and three one on one creators.  luka is still one of the best shot makers in the league.  reeves is really developing.  lebron is obviously not the player he once was, but he's still a very good point guard and can get to the line easily.

but they have zero bench (marcus smart?) and little ammunition to get better now that nico has been fired.

pistons bench ran them out of the gym.

[Sports_Freak]

11 hours ago, buddha said:

i just dont think the lakers are all that good without reeves.  the whole team is a bunch of nothing and three one on one creators.  luka is still one of the best shot makers in the league.  reeves is really developing.  lebron is obviously not the player he once was, but he's still a very good point guard and can get to the line easily.

but they have zero bench (marcus smart?) and little ammunition to get better now that nico has been fired.

pistons bench ran them out of the gym.

Points in the paint are huge for a team. They're usually higher percentage. The Pistons are near the top of the league in points in the paint. Really impressive. And also, the last game on a long west ciast road trip makes this win even more sweet. Again, impressive 

[Deleterious]

Points in the paint is just an awful stat and often misleading.  The Pistons do rank #1 in that category, but 2nd, 3rd, and 4th are New Orleans, Miami, and Chicago.  

A lot depends on how you get the points in the paint.  Detroit is what I call a volume team.  They take the 2nd most FGA's inside 10 feet.  But they shoot a horrible percentage when doing so.  Their FG% inside 10 feet is 57.5% which ranks them 22nd in the league.  So they get their points by taking more shots than most teams, not shooting a better percent.  Good they get a lot of attempts, bad they don't do much with those attempts.  

 

[Deleterious]

Jeff Teague was on his podcast today and said he would take Cade over Luka.  He said Cade actually plays defense and Luka doesn't even try on defense.  

Probably a bit premature for that.  We have seen Luka put a franchise on his back and take him to the finals.  Cade hasn't done that just yet.  But I get what Teague was saying.  

[buddha]

i think cade is playing better than luka right now, but right now is the regular season.  let's see how cade does when all defensive effort - and they get actual defensive effort from good teams - is directed at him.  i did see the lakers throw a lot of double teams at him last night, get ready for a steady dose of that come playoff time.