Cooked Kings, bytchmade bigs, and shytty snitches: Your 2022-23 GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers season thread
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Boonapalist
Superstar
All we need is Bamba to come in and elbow Murray in mid airThis is literally 2011 all over again all the way down to the delusion
Ham started D-Lo and Vando when I've been saying since before the series started that it should be Rui and Schroeder. Even Walker would be better.
I don't see how this loss doesn't come down to rotations when you have certain players who are performing SO much better than other players for the most obvious reasons.
D-Lo's only role should be the guy you bring in if you're down 10 with a stalled offense and wanna see if he'll microwave a quick comeback. I'd say he could run the offense when Bron resting, but not even sure about that since he's been so bad in those non-Bron minutes.
Nope, I wouldn't.You just watched the Sixers collapse for the Nth straight year and still say that shyt?
The Lakers literally have a title under these same two stars already, and just took care of the team that won the title last year.
Sixers looked like shyt.
Boston can never finish off anyone, they couldn't even beat the Warriors last year.
Knicks/Hawks are trash.
Cleveland is inexperienced as hell and folded against the fukking Knicks.
Bucks were the scariest team but Middleton is lacking, Giannis got hurt, and Jrue played like trash.
It would be down to the Heat and their Cinderella run.
If the Kings, Warriors, Grizzlies, and Suns were in the East instead, you'd be gassing them more.
Kings is fools gold. I felt the Lakers would beat the Warriors. The Suns still need to adjust roster wise to the trade of KD. They still need some key pieces.
Saying the Sixers played like shyt maybe fair compared to Boston but LAL ain't Boston. LAL is a flawed team. Been a flawed team. Still a flawed team. @Gil Scott-Heroin wasn't lying for saying Memphis was clearly better. He just underestimated the lost of Adams and Clarke and YSL Morant crash out. LA and GS are severely flawed. Both really weren't contenders this year. No one but Denver was in the West this year.
LA is obviously flawed, but Boston isn't?
Lakers are at least competitive with the #1 seed. Boston is getting blown the fukk out by the #8 seed. Comes on now.
And the Celtics already lost to that same fukking "flawed" Warriors team.
lol at GSH dapping that shyt after being wrong in the Memphis AND Golden State series. Of course he thinks everyone can beat the Lakers, it's why no one takes him seriously anymore.
No, they aren't. They just got no heart and are poorly coached but they would whoop the Lakers in their current state ass. They are far superior team and talent wise to the Lakers. That team is built to win but they don't have the players to overcome adversity. That said, they are too superior to the Lakers and Ham ain't much different than Joe so it would be light work for the Celtics.
This ain't surprising, the Lakers aren't suppose to even be here. They are here and that's amazing. Now it's time to really build a contender that can win it all. They should have never got rid of Caruso, Green, or KCP.
Any team with 2 scorers can beat the Lakers. It’s why we were able to beat Grizzlies cause they had Ja and Bane to a certain extend. The games we lost to the Warriors were the games Klay or Wiggins got off. Look at what Denver is doing to us. We don’t have a big 2 that can go toe to toe with another teams big 2. We have no one that can get a bucket on the perimeter. Celtics would have whooped us. Ironically we would have had a chance against Miami. This team does well when they can zone in on one guy.
It's fascinating to watch how grand narratives are concocted on the flimsiest evidence. Lose two close games in Denver and suddenly you can't beat any team with two scorers. If D-Lo and Bron hit just 1-2 more threes each of the first two games, completely different narrative.
Ja and Bane are obviously "two scorers", but you just tossed that data out cause it didn't fit the narrative.
Steph, Klay, Poole all scored 20+ in Game 1 and the Lakers won anyway, you ignored that too.
Nothing about the Laker defense is predicated on "zone in on one guy". AD and Bron are both playing elite team defense with multiple other players showing they can stay in front of their man. Literally the only major issue on defense after three rounds has been "Everyone targeting D-Lo". The solution to that is to stop playing D-Lo.
AD and Bron's inconsistency IS a problem, but that has nothing to do with how many scorers the other team has. And if any role players other than the SG could hit threes at an acceptable rate, that current AD/Bron output would be enough.
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
I’m tempted to go to the game since tickets are pretty low. 
We had the lead in game 1 for 30 seconds
We had the lead in game 3 for 16 seconda
Keep pushing the narrative that this series has been close though just because of a bunch of fake comebacks lmao
You get extra agitated when AD and Bron get called out when you’re trying to pin this series on the 4th option. I’m sure the Celtics are losing because of Malcolm Brogdon though
I was talking games 1 and 2 and you post a random, irrelevant stat from games 1 and 3. This is just like your previous comment, you make up grand narratives on the most cherry-picked and arbitrary shyt.
One day you might claim that LeBron singlehandedly threw Games 1 and 2 in the final minutes. The next day you claim they "weren't even close" solely because of who held the lead, not matter how small that lead was when it mattered.
The only thing that makes a game close or not is the fukking score and whether both teams have a chance to win in the final minutes. Lakers had the ball and a chance to tie in the final minute of Game 1. Lakers cut the lead to 2 with a minute left in Game 2 despite having missed 3 of their last 4 shots. They obviously could have won either game if just 2-3 shots had gone the other way. Even Game 3, the Lakers had the lead with 7:30 left in the 4th quarter.
You haven't posted one bit of evidence that the Lakers can't beat teams with two scorers, or that multiple scorers somehow break their defense set.
Dr. Narcisse
Veteran
Jamal Murray and Jokic are having - Bubble Bron/AD level dominant run this series. If Murray was just regular season good the Lakers are up 2-1 right now. Both are near 30 PER this series.
Hawala Man
All Star
The one problem is if the Lakers do win game 4 can they fly back to Denver with only 1 day rest for a game 5?
In that case game 4 needs to be a blow out victory for them.
It's funny how Lakers fans in this thread talking about rotations when Pelinka got manipulated by Klutch and Bron to sign Tristan Thompson who is
useless. No one mentions the important role Dwight Howard played in the bubble ring the last time they played the Nuggets.
In that case game 4 needs to be a blow out victory for them.
It's funny how Lakers fans in this thread talking about rotations when Pelinka got manipulated by Klutch and Bron to sign Tristan Thompson who is
useless. No one mentions the important role Dwight Howard played in the bubble ring the last time they played the Nuggets.
You ever notice how the
Side question, do you think Klutch manipulated them for the entire year up until that point to avoid signing a single backup rim protector? I'm guessing that those 20 games where AD was out and old-ass LeBron was the closest thing to a rim protector on the team, the main thing on his mind was, "How could I manipulate these owners into continuing to ensure that I play as much center as possible"?