NotClayMerritt

Another game where the result was positive but so many variables that leave a mixed taste in your mouth. Disasi and Badiashille were fucking massive today. They can share MOTM.

"Masterful gambit, sir."

That was so Clippers. All of it. Blake Griffin is gonna see this game and come back for 1 more year.

This game some how wasn't as close as the score suggests.

Anthony Davis being ass against elite big men is not a new development. This has been happening his entire career.

It’s going to be so easy for Rudy to get Draymond suspended again the next time they play lol. It’ll basically be like a cheat code

5 years in and you're still getting the 9 point game on 3-11 shooting from RJ Barrett.

The Lakers are either choking away a lead late in the game or staging a huge false comeback. Just one normal game please.

23 years old, over 150 professional games played, and he's taking lessons from something that shouldn't be happening whatsoever after about 50 professional games. The way he totally loses his composure when frustration creeps in is his biggest flaw aside from staying fit. It's like he doesn't fully understand just how important he is as a player. I use to joke that our entire attack flows through him because he's a literal game changer but then the more he played the more that joke became a fact of life. So, sure, Malo Gusto playing next week isn't necessarily a bad thing but it's clear how much Reece ups the levels when he actually plays.

At the end of the day, Newcastle showed more fight and intensity despite 3 games a week and an injury crisis than we did. Their distinct gameplan was to attack our left back, to play long balls over the top. It was also to disrupt our shape and solidity and it worked in part due to the extreme lack of discipline shown by our players. We made it far too easy for them. That was one of the worst 2nd halves I can remember us playing and we were lucky to only have one player sent off. So much stupidity on our part everywhere you looked.

Btw, our former Academy POTY right back playing extremely well out of position at LB whilst our £64 million LB had another shameful performance was especially noticeable and depressing.

Calling our errors today schoolboy errors is an insult to schoolboys.

All Cucurella has to do is run hard and he’ll trick half the fan base into a redemption arc. He’s still a bad defender.