2 of Amerika’s Most Wanted: The Official GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers 2019-2020 season thread

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64-68 wins sounds about right.
I'd be shocked.

LeBron gets tired, AD gets cold, and there's no clear 3rd scoring option. This team is gonna lose a decent number of tough games plus they're due for a bad streak sometime during the season, something like losing 5 of 10 with some of those losses to bad teams. And they might well see a stretch with LeBron or AD sitting which will be real rough on either the offense or the D. Plus if they got the 1-seed then they're going to rest guys at the end of the year, and how many wins you really think Clippers/Denver gonna get?

I see them hitting 57-63 wins. A nice total but nothing legendary.
 

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Gonna be:

Top-10 all-time in threes
Top-30 all-time in rebounds
Top-5 all-time in steals
Top-5 all-time in assists
#1 all-time in points
Runner-up for DPOY twice
#3 all-time regular season MVPs
#2 all-time Finals MVPs
Most playoff game-winners ever
Most playoff buzzer-beaters ever
Greatest block in Finals history
Only team ever to come back from 3-1 in the Finals (and came back from 3-2 as well)
Has won 8 straight Game 7s
Beat the 73-win team
Got Cleveland a title

That's an insane resume
 

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I'd be shocked.

Already 15-2 without Kuzma finding his stroke and Bradley/Rondo missing a combined 17 games. LA will play at a higher level once Kuzma regains his form.

49-16 for the rest of the season is doable, IMO.
 

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I think you gotta play Bron less mins as well. I mean shyt we just HAD to keep Kuz right. So might as well play him/force him to step up to being the 3rd best player on the team. This KCP outplaying him shyt should not be constant.
He’s already averaging a career low in minutes..

nikkas need to calm down, sit back and enjoy greatness
 

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December will be interesting..their schedule finally gets a bit tougher..so far they didn’t have any real challenges or setbacks. How will they react if they lose 2 or 3 games in a row?
 

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The great thing about this hot start is that when the inevitable happens where we have to load manage or have some injuries, we have built up a decent cushion to lose a few games, and still be in the running for top seed.
 
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