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

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I saw something that said the team remains undeterred. While that’s not a bad thing I also hope this isn’t like 2011 when we had delusions of grandeur saying we gon come back from 0-3. There needs to be more urgency.
If we aren’t attacking all day next game then I know what time it is.
 

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Top 10 like I stated. If his injury wasnt taking away from his lift and driving ability then top 5.

His offensive shortcomings are from the 3.. idk why you're pretending that he isn't the most efficient 2pt scorer, while being the teams best facilitator.

At some point YOU gotta start arguing fair instead of the Stan chit. I've routinely said his 3 ball is unacceptable and he needs to attack more, but I understand the limitations to that and why he isn't (foot/age, roster limitations) but he doesn't get a pass from me on it. I simply am able to understand he's gotta be better while knowing why he isn't better

Who cares about him having being the most efficient 2 pt scorer, his ts % would have him ranked 25th for all players that average over 30 mpg in the playoffs. TS% is way more indicative than 2 pt %. This is what I mean when I say you're disingenuous.

1) He's the most efficient 2 pt scorer in the playoffs

Fact: That's completely irrelevant


2) He's been one of the most dominant defenders in the playoffs

Fact: Actually he hasn't.

Bragging about him being the most efficient 2 pt scorer would be fine if he wasn't a perimeter player and if this was the 1970's before the 3 pt line existed.
 

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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.
Did you watch game 6 of the Warriors series?
 

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D'Angelo didn't play in the 4th. Reaves didn't come back in the game until the 7 minute mark and if you think Dennis can initiate an offense because he had 5 assists the other night.:russ: Stop watching boxscores and watch the game. D'Angelo is an average at best playmaker and Ham has lost trust in him. In the last 5 games he's 4-21 from 3 and the Lakers have been outscored by 79 points when he's on the court.:gucci:
Ngga we in the game thread they played 12 hours ago fukk outta here with that ‘’wAtCh tHe gAme’. We all watched the game. Some of us just know better than others what we watchin :gucci:

They beat Memphis by 40 with D Lo scoring 30. He saved them in that game 4. Lonnie walker did in another game. That’s not a diss to bron, that’s a GOOD thing that shows he doesn’t have to be Superman

So D Lo being unplayable now does not mean ‘up, well it’s old school Bron time’. That is not going to work. Ever again. Lefukkno. The blueprint that’s been working is let others create more and let Bron stay off ball more than usual. Save his energy for late. That’s it. It’s worked. Yet you on that ‘What you expect him to do he got no help’ :scust: Nasty work.
 

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That was the only game they used it. Idk if they are just waiting for a high leverage game or what.. it's weird that they aren't using it on the regular
They’re not a good offensive team so the principles of utilizing quality strategies doesn’t sink in with them consistently.. good offenses do the right thing consistently they exploit the right matchups consistently…these guys don’t really do that so you’ll see erratic results
 

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Ngga we in the game thread they played 12 hours ago fukk outta here with that ‘’wAtCh tHe gAme’. We all watched the game. Some of us just know better than others what we watchin :gucci:

They beat Memphis by 40 with D Lo scoring 30. He saved them in that game 4. Lonnie walker did in another game. That’s not a diss to bron, that’s a GOOD thing that shows he doesn’t have to be Superman

So D Lo being unplayable now does not mean ‘up, well it’s old school Bron time’. That is not going to work. Ever again. Lefukkno. The blueprint that’s been working is let others create more and let Bron stay off ball more than usual. Save his energy for late. That’s it. It’s worked. Yet you on that ‘What you expect him to do he got no help’ :scust: Nasty work.
I didn't say LeBron didn't get help. I said D'Angelo has been trash and literally didn't play in the 4th quarter. You were complaining about LeBron running the offense while ignoring who was on the floor. I think LeBron has been best in these playoffs playing off the ball/not being the primary ball handler, but the lineup Ham started the 4th with was the wrong one for that to work. Ham is coaching like he has prime LeBron and it's killing them.
 

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I didn't say LeBron didn't get help. I said D'Angelo has been trash and literally didn't play in the 4th quarter. You were complaining about LeBron running the offense while ignoring who was on the floor.I think LeBron has been best in these playoffs playing off the ball/not being the primary ball handler, but the lineup Ham started the 4th with was the wrong one for that to work. Ham is coaching like he has prime LeBron and it's killing them.
Well now the math ain’t addin up. You were just laughing at the thought of Dennis initiating, and like every one else you’re essentially saying D Lo serves no purpose. So who’s been allowing Bron to work off ball?! Who’s going to if you don’t want them to do it? :wtf:

Bottom line, I’m not the knee-jerk type. I’ve been watching bron for years and I STILL feel this is his best supporting cast ever. I’m standing on what I’ve seen when I first thought this team could go all the way: I love these guards. If you gotta bring D Lo off the bench do that but he’s not ‘unplayable’. I fw dennis enrgy good things happen when he’s on court. And Reaves is my guy.

Bottom line if Bron doesn’t have a psychotic break to start the 4th LA wins. The others did enough. Bron lost them the game period.
 

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Lakers got to find a way to defend Murray better, and treat him like he is Curry. This Nuggets team is tough because you either deal with Jokic going off or deal with Murray going off. You let both of them go off and it's definitely over. :francis:

Also Lakers transition defense is really trash and Nuggets are showing it to them everytime Lakers turn over the ball or brick threes.
 

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I still have faith that we can come back from being down 0-2, but this series is giving me 2011 vs the Mavs flashbacks

Just untimely clutch shots from the opposition
 

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Well now the math ain’t addin up. You were just laughing at the thought of Dennis initiating, and like every one else you’re essentially saying D Lo serves no purpose. So who’s been allowing Bron to work off ball?! Who’s going to if you don’t want them to do it? :wtf:

Bottom line, I’m not the knee-jerk type. I’ve been watching bron for years and I STILL feel this is his best supporting cast ever. I’m standing on what I’ve seen when I first thought this team could go all the way: I love these guards. If you gotta bring D Lo off the bench do that but he’s not ‘unplayable’. I fw dennis enrgy good things happen when he’s on court. And Reaves is my guy.

Bottom line if Bron doesn’t have a psychotic break to start the 4th LA wins. The others did enough. Bron lost them the game period.
Since you seem to be struggling with comprehension. Answer this, in this lineup
Bron, Rui, Dennis, Vando, Walker: who should be running the offense?

You brought up D'Angelo scoring 30 in game 6 against Memphis. What has he done since? He was 1-5 from 3, got routinely cooked on defense last night and again he wasn't on the floor in the 4th. Ham clearly thinks he's unplayable when it matters. That's the reality.

I agree that this is one of the deeper rosters LeBron has ever played with. I wouldn't say they're the best though. They're also wildly inconsistent including the player who's supposed to be the #1 option

LeBron took 3 horrible shots, but given the line up on the floor at the time there is no reason to assume the Lakers would've scored doing something else. They missed 10 straight shots. They weren't all Lefukk you 3s.

His 3 blown layups were more the reason they lost than those three 3s.
 
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