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

[-DMP-]

We need headband bron tonight.

Bubble AD

Game 4 Lonnie

Game 3 DLO

First round reeves and rui

Plz just finish this shyt tonight

 

[BucciMane]

Laker fans finna be shytting bricks after tonight, watch what I tell ya. They already know they ain't winning game 7 in GS

Lakers fans are rare. Most "Lakers fans" here actually want the Lakers to lose, so they can continue with their anti-LeBron narratives. Probably the WOAT fanbase.

 

[Black Mamba]

Lakers fans are rare. Most "Lakers fans" here actually want the Lakers to lose, so they can continue with their anti-LeBron narratives. Probably the WOAT fanbase.

Then they aren’t Lakers fans don’t fukking call these idiots that

 

[NoMorePie]

Gonna be real interesting how the Lakers retool the roster around Bron and AD. They just didn't have enough to make it to the conference finals because they didn't have enough reliable go-getters

 

[BucciMane]

Warriors by 20+.

 

[jaydawg08]

Nggas gon be saying this when he’s 45 my goodness give it a fuking rest

They closed out Memphis by FORTY and he had 22. This team is deep they do not need heat game 6 LeBron to win this game or a chip.

They may need to.. there's gonna be moments in that playoff run where he's gonna need to go get an efficient 35. Tonight looks like one of those nights

 

[Braman]

They may need to.. there's gonna be moments in that playoff run where he's gonna need to go get an efficient 35. Tonight looks like one of those nights

The only way for age 38 Bron to have that type of game is to play bron ball, milk the clock, heat check 3s, big minutes which = ZERO defense. That ain’t it

I’m telling you man Reaves-d lo-Schroeder is a problem. Especially at home. (Klay just so happens to have Reaves in hell this series).

Ideal distribution for LA:

AD-28-32
Bron-25-28
DLo- 15-18
Reeves- 14-16
Schroeder- 10-13

Instead of a bron hero game, what would be be better is a 20+ spot from one of those guards, and all 3 has done it. (Reaves vs Memphis game 1, DLo game 6)

If AD is consistent they legit don’t need hero Bron they are that good. Didn’t even mention Rui either and he also has had a 20 spot

 

[VegetasHairline]

Gonna be real interesting how the Lakers retool the roster around Bron and AD. They just didn't have enough to make it to the conference finals because they didn't have enough reliable go-getters

 

[Roland Coltrane]

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You're missing most of the equation. Just looking at their averages isn't how it works.


Lakers averaged 26.6 fta/game, best in the league. They only gave up 20.8 fta/game, also best in the league. So against the AVERAGE team, their gap was already 6 free throws. And after AD/Reeves returned and the Lakers picked up all those players in trades, the gap from February-April was actually over 9 free throws.

Warriors averaged 20.2 fta/game, worst in the league. They also gave up 25.2 fta/game, sixth worst in the league. So against the AVERAGE team, their gap was already -5.


If drawing fouls was simple addition, and the new Lakers were 9 better than the average team while the Warriors were 5 worse, then you would guess that the new gap should be 14. But in reality, free throw disparity is more than simple addition. Because the Lakers know how bad the Warriors are at defending without fouling, they attack even more than usual. Because the Warriors struggle to score inside against the Lakers, they draw contact even less than usual. As a result, the free throw gap doesn't just add, it increases even more than that.


The expected free throw gap should be something larger than 14. In reality, the gap each game (not counting intentional fouls at the end) has been:

21
1
20
6
0

Honestly, the 21 and 20 are slightly high but not unexpected considering how different these teams were in the regular season. The 6 is very low, but not impossible as a one-time event. The 1 and 0 are absolutely bizarre. How does by FAR the worst free-throw drawing team in the league, going against the BEST free throw preventing defense, manage to get to the line just as many times as the BEST free throw drawing team going against one of the worst free throw preventing defenses? And not just once, but twice in the same series....both times in must-win games that otherwise would have meant an early end to the series?

Anyone who is serious about it would see Games 2 and 5 as dramatically different from the norm that had been established in these team's play all season.

You can tell @Rhakim doesn't actually watch the games.

He looks at stats and carefully curates a narrative from it for his agenda.

Notice how he's not actually specifying what's happening during these games of this series, or that there are distinct differences between what happens during the regular season and postseason. He's even foolishly using the Lakers FT differential during the regular season as a means to say they actually deserve to have that differential in their favor here. This is why he's making the mistake of thinking that any game in this series that doesn't match up with that FT differential is out of the norm, and not just maybe more a reflection of the refs calling it more evenly.

Not too dissimilar to Harden (and the 76ers) getting all types of calls in the regular season, but then once teams properly scheme for him and the refs don't fall for his tricks the same, he doesn't get the same regularity of calls in the postseason.


Word to Jalen Brown.

 

[Super Cheech]

Close out game. Finish this at Crypto

 

[Stop_It_5]

Gonna be real interesting how the Lakers retool the roster around Bron and AD. They just didn't have enough to make it to the conference finals because they didn't have enough reliable go-getters

Breh posting from the future

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

 

[HoldThisL]

Yo this how NBA players be flopping

 

[ALonelyDad]