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

[jaydawg08]

Do they? Idk breh. I think they need this nikka to score 35.

We need the rebounding and additional rim protection. We also need to rotate Rui/Bron/AD onto Jokic. Unfortunately we just don't have an additional big who can give us even 7-10 min

Bron is basically that for this team. I just don't think he's got the legs and lift to give us 35, while also trying to battle on the boards, while also protecting the paint, while also guarding Jokic, while also being asked to be switched onto Murray... and to do all that while playing 41-43 minutes?

If he was able to only play 35 min a game, I'd be in agreement with you to go on attack mode. But this team has some holes that only he can fill, and unfortunately father time and that ankle have limited that gas tank

 

[HoldThisL]

That Bron/Reaves pick n roll is so good if that is any positive. Lakers should run that more.

 

[ghostwriterx]

A team losing minutes with a star on the bench isn’t new. It isn’t an anomaly.

What IS an anomaly is a player who’s missed 19 straight 4th quarter 3s taking three straight iso 3s in retaliation to being boo’d.

Nuggets were -2 with Joker off the floor. That's manageable. -9 not so much.

 

[ghostwriterx]

Don’t know why not ..he did it last series with those guys and at the end of game 1 this series

Since the start of the Warriors series that lineup had played 3 minutes total before tonight...

 

[Braman]

You think LeBron runs point all game? And you said I'm not watching the game?
Go peep the lineup to start the 4th.

Forget the game have you not watched his career? When bron wants to run the offense he goes and gets it full court. I’ve been laughing at that for over a decade you can tell when he hits override mode

He does it less with this team but he did it in the 4th

 

[darryl]

This is the closest LeBron will ever get to a 5th championship. The Lakers will not make a deep run like this next season with a 39 year old LeBron and injury prone Davis. @CantStop been saying it but this year is the best shot the Lakers have for a title man. They need to take advantage cuz I honestly don't see this opportunity coming up again

 

[tremonthustler1]

This is the closest LeBron will ever get to a 5th championship. The Lakers will not make a deep run like this next season with a 39 year old LeBron and injury prone Davis. @CantStop been saying it but this year is the best shot the Lakers have for a title man. They need to take advantage cuz I honestly don't see this opportunity coming up again

how about not making the same mistake every other team has made and hold D'Lo back

 

[ghostwriterx]

Forget the game have you not watched his career? When bron wants to run the offense he goes and gets it full court. I’ve been laughing at that for over a decade you can tell when he hits override mode

He does it less with this team but he did it in the 4th

You said he ran point all game. He didn't and hasn't all playoffs. He ran point when the only other ball handler on the court was Dennis who is a god awful decision maker. Reaves was on the bench the first 5 minutes of the fourth and D'Angelo didn't see the floor.

Rui
Vando
Walker
Reaves
Bron

Who exactly is supposed to run the offense in this lineup?

 

[Left.A1]

Since the start of the Warriors series that lineup had played 3 minutes total before tonight...

Then play a different lineup

 

[ghostwriterx]

Then play a different lineup

That's my point. Ham is just out there pressing buttons. Throwing out weird lineups with zero track record of success at critical moments.

 

[darryl]

This loss hurt.

 

[darryl]

@Gil Scott-Heroin shut up lol

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I'm chuckling at the fact that AD and D-Lo had awful games yet Bron taking the beats... y'all want Bron to dominate in the post but don't even pretend that AD or D-Lo can do the same.... for all the talk that Bron is "just another player" y'all always prove you know who really carries this team.

Which is why he should be working out of the post more ..like most great players do as they age out of athletic dominance …but he’d rather put up nasty 3 point attempts during his historic drought …it’s just not smart basketball ultimately and it bails the defense out …he’s had success in the post whenever he’s consistently went to it these playoffs …let’s see if his IQ overrides ego moving forward

Going to the post repeatedly ain't gonna work against a halfway competent defense unless you surround him with shooters. You can run it on occasion but not when they're ready to rotate. That's the reality of the zone era.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

A team losing minutes with a star on the bench isn’t new. It isn’t an anomaly.

Yes, because everyone knows that star is carrying the team. For you to pretend that star is costing the team when they're winning his minutes is cap.

Lakers were +5 in minutes without AD. But they were -9 in minutes without Bron. And that's despite Bron being forced to carry some straight stupid lineups.

You still haven't explained who you actually think should be running the offense, you just wave your hands in the air saying "not Bron."

 

[Mars]

This is the closest LeBron will ever get to a 5th championship. The Lakers will not make a deep run like this next season with a 39 year old LeBron and injury prone Davis. @CantStop been saying it but this year is the best shot the Lakers have for a title man. They need to take advantage cuz I honestly don't see this opportunity coming up again

Y'all say this every year. The Lakers weren't even supposed the be in the playoffs....The Lakers will easily be a title contender next season if these very doable things happen during the offseason:

* Lebron gets hit foot healthy
* Rui/Reaves continues to develop
* Sign shooter (S.Curry)
* Get quality minutes from a backup center (Maybe that's Bamba)

All of these things are realistic...Now if the Lakers could somehow find a way to acquire Kyrie without giving up Rui/Resve, they will be title favorites...One of the reasons Lebron got hurt in the first place was that he had to carry a huge load after AD went down. With the players LA now has and could acquire during the offseason. Lebron won't have to avg 33 ppg for a 1-month stretch of games.