LA Bringin' Hollywood & Shay Shay to Bluff City | Official Lakers (#7) vs. Grizzlies (#2) 1st Round Series Thread

[Unbothered]

Smokin on that Grizz pack lol I'm so glad we humbled them. They talk way too much think I saw a breaking news report about a grizzly bear drowning in a lake .

I'm not sure who I'd want us to face we match up pretty well with the Warriors but I also believe we'd match up well with Sacramento despite their youth and pace .

Whoever we face, all I know is Lakers in 6.

 

[Fortunate Lee]

Funny how none of y'all cats had the same energy when I told you the deal about the Lakers last season. We'll see if you've got the same energy when they inevitably bow out of these playoffs.

My breh

They were pure ass cheeks last season! But we all saw the changes at the trade deadline and how they played a good stretch of the season without Bron.

Does this mean they will win a ring this year? No!

 

[Wild self]

This image is still to me

 

[Mars]

I think yall should lay off @Gil Scott-Heroin until the Lakers win the championship...If LA does not win it will be another wasted season and Gil will have the last laugh. Especially when the Warriors just won the championship last season.

 

[darryl]

I think yall should lay off @Gil Scott-Heroin until the Lakers win the championship...If LA does not win it will be another wasted season and Gil will have the last laugh. Especially when the Warriors just won the championship last season.

Nah fuk him. He's a frontrunning ass clown. He better hope the warriors win this series.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Memphis Pooh Bears

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Memphis, like Cleveland, doesn’t seem to have many offensive options in the face of stout defense

fukking playoffs tell the real story EVERYTIME

 

[-DMP-]

dbl

 

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[murksiderock]

My breh

They were pure ass cheeks last season! But we all saw the changes at the trade deadline and how they played a good stretch of the season without Bron.

Does this mean they will win a ring this year? No!

The Lakers are 23-10 (.697) in their last 33. The road only gets tougher from here, but same goes for every team remaining in The Tournament. It's hard to close out a championship...

The remaining teams in the field, here are their last 33 games:

Philadelphia 24-9 (.727)
New York 23-10 (.697)
Los Angeles 23-10 (.697)
Boston 22-11 (.667)
Phoenix 21-12 (.636)
Denver 20-13 (.606)
Sacramento 20-13 (.606)
San Francisco 19-14 (.576)
Miami 18-15 (.545)

For 2½ months the Lakers have been the best team in the Western Conference. I get why it's been slow for heads to put faith in this team, the first 4 months of this season were a disaster and only looked to be getting worse...

Every team's chances to win it all boils down to health and the ability to adjust to different matchup challenges your next opponent presents. That's what it comes down to for LA, ànd that's what it comes down to for everyone else. No one is different in that regard...

But we now have a rolling two months of the best team in conference, with absolute game-breaking, devastating defensive peaks. That defense should keep LA in every series even if they ultimately get eliminated; this level of defensive play will make them competitive with anyone...

Nothing is a lock and we certainly far from guaranteed, there are specific weaknesses other teams can exploit....

But we made it to The Elite Eight. Think about that. The way this year started, and the Lakers are one of the final 8 teams standing outta 30...

They have as good a shot to win as anybody else still alive and anyone downplaying the Lakers' chances is either a nonbelieving "Laker fan" or a pure Laker or LeBron hater...

 

[murksiderock]

Memphis, like Cleveland, doesn’t seem to have many offensive options in the face of stout defense

fukking playoffs tell the real story EVERYTIME

Cleveland was a massive disappointment...

Thru one series, what's your perception of the Lakers?

 

[chineebai]

Haha I could see this actually happening

 

[West Coast Avenger]

I think yall should lay off @Gil Scott-Heroin until the Lakers win the championship...If LA does not win it will be another wasted season and Gil will have the last laugh. Especially when the Warriors just won the championship last season.

That clown ass mothafukka needs to stop with his horrible ass opinions....he talks so much shyt and brings this all on himself....don't cape for that bytch ass nikka........

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Cleveland was a massive disappointment...

Thru one series, what's your perception of the Lakers?

All kidding aside The Lakers defense cuts off the ring like a great boxer if you don’t have enough offense. It was Bane & Ja on an island with them daring everyone else to shoot. AD is clogging up the middle right now so there’s nothing going down at the rim.

The thing that will probably do this team in however is a team with perimeter threats who shoot the midrange & balanced offense top to bottom. Who fits the bill still around?

Boston
Phx (seriously lacking bench depth)

With that being said Sac town has been an outlier experience wise & Denver just runs offense well flat out. Both with home court advantage and better than The Grizz from
A health & production standpoint

It was a good series win for the piss & purp/Savannah’s

 

[JordanWearinThe45]