Cooked Kings, bytchmade bigs, and shytty snitches: Your 2022-23 GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers season thread

[Jalether]

This ain't the gsw,no easy lick this time around

You beat bum ass Draymond,Poole, a washed up klay and an injured Wiggins and a team with no elite center and started feeling yourselves, get your bum ass out of here

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Like clockwork

Truth be told @Black Mamba this is why the Lakers needed to steal game 1 like the last 2 series. Ham taking too long to adjust to Jokic cost us that game. That was the one to get.
We knew AD doesnt have the same motor after playing 40+ mins in game 1s of the series.

 

[CantStop]

Cuz Dlo is bette eh
fukk OFF

Your stupid ass doesn’t realize we would have to renounce Rui and TRADE assets to get him. We don’t have the cap space for him and Mavs won’t be playing fair so get ready to lose Reaves while you’re at it too. All for what?

 

[ghostwriterx]

Him being on the floor is not the same as him being on the floor and jackin for beats

So his +/- is misleading. If Bron is on court and staying off ball and cutting and scoring in transition and posting when Murray is on him, and letting them young bulls go….LA is elite. They got two 10 point leads like this

But when Bron plays bronball it’s a disaster

LA has now played 14 playoff games: AR has 5 20 point games. Rui has 4 wtf games . D Lo has a 30 ball and 3,4 19/20 games….the walker game….that’s damn near every game bruh. It’s not a fluke this supporting cast is really good. AD’s inconsistency and when Bron plays ego ball has held them back

LeBron hasn't played "Bron ball" in years.
+/- is not "misleading", the Lakers literally outscored Denver with LeBron on the court and were outscored by 9 when he sat. Agree he has to tighten up his shot selection.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

The narrative for a large part of this playoff run is that Bron only has had ONE 30 point game?... People were making comments that Bron wasn't being aggressive enough for the past 2 series. Even in Game 1 they were questioning why he wasn't playing more aggressive looking to score.

Bron has 3 point issue. Now he did shoot well to end the Warriors series. However, 0-10 in this series. Makes 4 and maybe the Lakers are 2-0. Although realistically. He needs to go 2012 mode in terms of just stop shooting that shyt. He's got the best 2 point % in the playoffs. The missed 3s are like turnovers.

 

[Braman]

I mean Bron needs to be on the floor for his rebounding and additional rim protection. We have AD then Bron, and that's it. Bron is BY FAR our 2nd best defensive player and it's not close

The reason we are the defensive team that we are, is because AD and Bron are playing elite ball on that end. Dennis and Reaves aren't playmakers, and DLO has just not proven himself to be good enough on that end either. Reaves is good at finding lanes then getting his own shot, same with DS, and DLO is just.... honestly I'm not sure what DLO does well on a consistent basis

Understood. There is still plenty of opportunity to sit bron more.

If Malone can sit JOKIC in the middle of a tight competitive 4th, ham can sit bron.

But….stubborn. Still thinking this is that old George hill Jr smith Cavs squad

 

[jaydawg08]

Bron has 3 point issue. Now he did shoot well to end the Warriors series. However, 0-10 in this series. Makes 4 and maybe the Lakers are 2-0. Although realistically. He needs to go 2012 mode in terms of just stop shooting that shyt. He's got the best 2 point % in the playoffs. The missed 3s are like turnovers.

Absolutely.

I've said it a couple times in these threads that he shouldn't take more than 3, and should be banned from taking any with 6 minutes or less in the game. He's killing them on that portion of it.

He's been elite from 2, and his defense has been 2020 level type of impact

 

[Black Mamba]

Your stupid ass doesn’t realize we would have to renounce Rui and TRADE assets to get him. We don’t have the cap space for him and Mavs won’t be playing fair so get ready to lose Reaves while you’re at it too. All for what?

fukk off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You been nothing but a negative nancy ass nikka these playoffs god daniit

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

LeBron hasn't played "Bron ball" in years.
+/- is not "misleading", the Lakers literally outscored Denver with LeBron on the court and were outscored by 9 when he sat. Agree he has to tighten up his shot selection.

Breh is 18-25 on 2 point shots this series.

If he just gets to his spots and shoots more that way he could dominate. Now the issue is does he have the stamina to drive to the rim all game? Maybe not. However, foot injury or not. He cant settle.

 

[GreatestLaker]

it was 7 minute left and you calling game plus the series over. they down by 5 at the time. That shyt was weak

Any non biased fool could have seen how the game was going.

 

[Braman]

LeBron hasn't played "Bron ball" in years.
+/- is not "misleading", the Lakers literally outscored Denver with LeBron on the court and were outscored by 9 when he sat. Agree he has to tighten up his shot selection.

Then you clearly don’t know what bronball is. Bronball = milking the clock and/or taking a stare down ball stopping stepback tired 3. Did you watch the game

And again, it is misleading bc there is nothing in +/- that accounts for a player completely going rogue. Overall, Bron played well. But in the first few of the 4th? Quite literally bc of him they went from +5 to -12 in about 5 minutes

That was essentially a different player. So in this instance his overall “+2” is completely useless it tells you nothing. The man went -17 in 4 minutes.

 

[CantStop]

fukk off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You been nothing but a negative nancy ass nikka these playoffs god daniit

you know what we need instead of 2 players who are injury prone, inconsistent, washed and derail in the playoffs?

3 of them!

 

[Black Mamba]

you know what we need instead of 2 players who are injury prone, inconsistent, washed and derail in the playoffs?

3 of them!

 

[Braman]

Nah breh. Clearly Bron is washed and is contributing nothing. The fact that they were winning in the 40 minutes Bron was on the floor but were a -9 in just 8 minutes with him on the bench means nothing.

Through 2 games:

Russell: -41
AD: -18
Bron: -2


Bron has not played "perfectly". He's not hitting his threes, and at 38yo it's literally impossible for him to play 40 minutes leading the offense while playing stellar defense AND magically being able to slash on every play just because fans want him to. He's launching shots instead of driving because he's wiped. He should stop shooting those....but then go through AD instead? Y'all saw how that work.

If Ham had just benched D-Lo like I said before Game 1 AND before Game 2, Lakers would be 2-0 right now.

He doesn’t need to lead the offense!!!

That’s the fukin problem. You’re getting close to 20 a game from Reaves and Rui. You have ball handlers galore. He can chill and chose his spots and just run point in crunch time. That ain’t George hill and Rodney hood out here….but nah, he’s tryin to run point all game and getting HIMSELF gassed

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Him being on the floor is not the same as him being on the floor and jackin for beats

So his +/- is misleading. If Bron is on court and staying off ball and cutting and scoring in transition and posting when Murray is on him, and letting them young bulls go….LA is elite. They got two 10 point leads like this

But when Bron plays bronball it’s a disaster

LA has now played 14 playoff games: AR has 5 20 point games. Rui has 4 wtf games . D Lo has a 30 ball and 3,4 19/20 games….the walker game….that’s damn near every game bruh. It’s not a fluke this supporting cast is really good. AD’s inconsistency and when Bron plays ego ball has held them back

D-Lo is -41 for the series while Bron is -2.... but the supporting cast is really good and it's all Bron's fault?

How the fukk is that even possible? Do you realize how crazy it is that Bron had absorbed that much net negative in D-Lo's minutes and yet still is damn near positive for the series?

And AD -18 too.... this team is lost against good teams without Bron on the court. He's having an elite impact on both ends of the court even WITH his shooting struggles. But he's not going to be able to run the offense and play elite defense for 40 minutes AND still drive to the hoop 15-20 times a game like y'all claim you want him to. That hasn't been physically possible for any player in history.