The Champs Escape The Beam & Now Face The King's New Regime! | Official Lakers (#7) vs. Warriors (#6) WCSF Thread

[KidJSoul]

People consider steph his rival?
Hell the main people who hate James also hate curry
I don't even consider them rivals considering the super team era has mitigated the personal rivalry narrative

If steph didn't exist, LeBron would already be the GOAT

 

[DraymondT]

Lakers in 4

Aint no fukkin way dawg

this read like a Ballsack Sports tweet

 

[jaydawg08]

If steph didn't exist, LeBron would already be the GOAT

You mean, if KD didn't lose that 3-1 lead

 

[CSquare43]

Lakers fans making the mistake thinking Steph Curry is Ja and Dray is Dillion brooks

After we win (in 6/7?) it's gone be like:

This could/will be another great series depending on how healthy both of us are by the end of it...





#JustsomekidsfromAkron

 

[Waterproof]

Ima keep it a bean, much respect to the Dubs stanbase but I can’t really respect y’all run til y’all check in wit GOAT franchise and beat us.

This Negro just jinxed his Lakers

 

[VegasCAC]

The 4 time champion born in Akron got this

 

[Waterproof]

Bro San Francisco just shot 32.8% from 3 on 41 attempts vs the Sacramento defense. Sacramento played better D most of the series than they did in the regular season, but they don't have the versatility or flexibility of the Lakers D...

Again, the Warriors were 32.8% on 41 3pa/game vs that defense. We all know SF shooters are a threat but I think you're envisioning a boogeyman we haven't seen from this '23 SF squad...

In comparison the Lakers shot 31% on 35 attempts/game. The real disparity would be about four made 3s, 12 points, in SF's favor, without accounting for anything else...

D'Lo is terrible on D but Schroder isn't, and while Schroder had a poor series offensively vs Memphis he has the ability to be a real offensive threat, and frankly, we're going to need him to be. Here's the thing...

The Lakers have shown the ability to throw out devastating defensive lineups, truly game-breaking defense, and still get offensive production, with two specific lineups: Schroder-Reaves-Vanderbilt-LeBron-AD, which Vanderbilt is your only consistently flawed offensive threat;

And D'Lo-Schroder-Rui-LeBron-AD where D'Lo is your weak link defensively but he's actually holding up quite well in this specific lineup and he brings a plus offensively...

Personally bro, I'm excited to see the Warriors tinker their lineups versus this level of creativity and suffocation. This ain't gonna be a Warriors 3pt parade---->obviously they'll have their runs, we know this. But there's been no test vs this squad and I see no reason you can't play Rui, all he's done is grow since becoming a Laker...

SF's 8-man rotation, similar to LA's, is full of guys who are limitations on one end of the floor and streak shooters...

These nikkas is scared

Making all types of shyt up in thier head

GSW already in their head's

Warrior's in 5! We getting y'all punk asses out of here quickly

 

[JordanWearinThe45]

dikk rider

 

[Waterproof]

The thing about trying to analyze what the Warriors can do is that they're so fukking inconsistent that it's a fool's errand.

We never know if Poole will be in a highlight reel because he went off or because he fumbled. Same goes for a lot of cats in this team.

One thing y'all seem to have forgotten is Wiggins. Man transforms into a straight demon whenever he faces LeBron.

LeBron must of brushed him off or something because you ain't lying when he face LeBron Wiggins turns into Ron Artest Defensively just harassing LeBron James non-stop relentless

 

[Waterproof]

What's off about my analysis?






That matchup is a mess for the Lakers on the other end though. If they're playing Steph/Klay/Wiggins/Poole plus either Draymond or Looney inside, who the fukk is gonna cover the four perimeter players for the Warriors? Bron is a step slow at 38, Rui isn't a perimeter defender, and D-Lo is terrible at defense. Reaves can guard someone, but all the other Lakers who can play defense are worthless on the offensive end, making it easy to throw double-teams at Bron or AD.

I think it's going to be tough to play all three of AD, Bron, and Rui at the same time. You can't trade 2s for 3s. I feel like the most likely lineup for the Lakers is going to be rotating AD, Bron, and Rui in the 2 frontcourt spots, then having Reaves, D-Lo or Schroder, and Vandy or Brown. They'll play some time with AD/Bron/Rui, especially if Looney and Draymond are on the court at the same time, but the Warriors are going to exploit that shyt if they play it too much.

Lakers fans acting like they didn't see this Truth

 

[Earnings]

dikk rider

Game 7 Draymond pull some shyt like this

 

[Waterproof]

Dray better contain his lust for Bron long enough for us to get 4 wins. I don't wanna see no hugging or chatting with the enemy during timeouts.



Having a bonafide Bronsexual on your squad while we play LA is quite the conundrum.

Dray Do Got The Hot's for LeBron James

 

[TheNig]

LeBron must of brushed him off or something because you ain't lying when he face LeBron Wiggins turns into Ron Artest Defensively just harassing LeBron James non-stop relentless

I always thought it had something to do with the trade. I think Wiggins was looking forward to playing with him and Kyrie and had that trigger pulled to get Love.

But yeah... Cuh be extra motivated to play against LeBron for some reason.

 

[jaydawg08]

Dray Do Got The Hot's for LeBron James

Nikkas always gotta make chit gay.. why do y'all do this??

 

[Waterproof]

Klay Thompson right now all up in his head, making up hot takes from sports show's, sports columns convincing himself that nobody respects him and they think he's washed up

Klay light weight is a psychotic sociopath he's about to come out drop 55 first game and average 45 for the series

Warrior's in 5!