KFBF
Superstar
I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings breh. My bad.
Cooked Kings, bytchmade bigs, and shytty snitches: Your 2022-23 GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers season thread
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This doesn't even make any sense.
- he started the year out of shape and spent the season getting back into shape (keywords being - getting back into shape)
- in the playoffs he wore down because he wasn't in the best shape.
This is the same year where they had an interval between the regular season and the playoff bubble. This is the same year where he averaged 37 minutes in seven games in the First Round; this is the same year he averaged 38 minutes in seven games in the WCSF. No big man can play back-to-back seven-game series' at nearly 40 minutes a piece, and lead their team back from 1-3 deficits, in both rounds, and not be in great shape.
I remember vividly of how folks were praising his conditioning during those first two rounds. He was in relatively great shape back then, it was just the fact he had to compete against multiple big men in the WCF, who could rotate on/off him which took its toll. He would struggle in the same circumstances even now, like every single big man would.
Again, this speaks less to Jokic v. AD, and more about the fact AD had the luxury of having Dwight and JaVale to battle opposition bigs. Now it's just him in the frontcourt, and he can't handle Jokic, all by himself. If AD ever hopes of getting back to that place, than the Lakers need to sign some bigs to do the dirty work.
The God Poster
LWO representa
Right. He’ll never be your father you’ll never be his son.
He's not gonna change into the person you want him to be
Boonapalist
Superstar
They want to bring Westbrook off the bench again. Let’s see how this goes 
Hammy down
Looking forward to seeing how Russ embraces his 6th man role now
Boonapalist
Superstar
They gotta thread on realgm. Everyday they bytch on there. I saw one of them say Pelinka sabotaged Bron on purpose so he couldn’t catch Kobe in rings. And a lot of them hope we never get a star again
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
It's not about who starts, but rather who closesLooking forward to seeing how Russ embraces his 6th man role now
and Russ needs to be out there in crunch time
They gotta thread on realgm. Everyday they bytch on there. I saw one of them say Pelinka sabotaged Bron on purpose so he couldn’t catch Kobe in rings. And a lot of them hope we never get a star again
Pelinka sabotaged Lebron by doing the moves Lebron requested him to do
steph_harden
Superstar
He showed up to camp fat as fukk that year. There‘s an obvious difference between ”getting into shape” and “dropping weight”. Jokic was definitely the later…..he took some time before he even hit his stride. And sure he played lots of mins destroying Gobert and Zubac/Trezl…but the min he ran into a physical team dedicated to making him work it affected his game. There’s a reason why he decided to stay back in Denver and spend the whole off season on conditioning…he had never done that to that point. Because he knew his conditioning was an issue.
Why would a LeBron fan care about what Kobe fans think of him? I'm confused
this never makes sense considering most laker fans were around from 2017-2019 post Kobe and pre Lebron.