Lakers are like 10 games under .500 and u bragging about 50 pts against ass teams. Bron’s inability to close out games is a big reason why theyre ass.
Breh nearly all of Kobe's famous games came from facing bad teams during seasons where the Lakers didn't do shyt.
Bron is clearly declining athletically and is winded as fukk by the end of games. This has been visible since 2019. That doesn't change the fact that he's demonstrating unprecedented scoring skill at this age on a regular basis.
Honestly if AD and Nunn were healthy and playing well this would still be a team that scared teams. Especially if they could have resigned Caruso and gotten literally anyone other than Russ.... or even not making a trade.
Caruso
Monk
KCP
Bron
AD
With Nunn, Carmelo, Reeves, Kuzma off the bench. They wouldn't be favorites but they would definitely be a darkhorse title contender at the very least.
Team been screwed a couple years in a row off the assumption that the Durant-Kyrie-Harden Nets or scrappy Clippers + PG13 + Kawhi would be some juggernauts you had to hit a moonshot to beat when they really could have just played it conservative and still had a title shot.
Like I told y'all for two fukking years if you had traded THT when his value was high you'd be better off too.