The Joker Seeks The King's Trouble For The First Time Since The Bubble! | Official Lakers (#7) vs. Nuggets (#1) WCF Thread

[Ribbs]

Should be a good series plus the Nuggest fanbase is a lot calmer than the Warriors and Grizzlies fanbases

Got the Nuggets in 5

 

[Mars]

Why marginalize KD and Booker to "scoring 25 points", as if they both didn't average 30 ppg this postseason?

Because it's much tougher to guard a team with 4 players capable of dropping 25+ points than a team with 2 players dropping 30 with very little help from the role players...Also, the Lakers' depth will preserve Lebron for the later games in the series...... Just look at Booker/KD.....They lit Denver up the first 4 games of the series then were gassed for games 5/6:

Games 1-4 Book/KD avg 68.1 pts on 55% shooting
Games 5/6 Book/KD avg 44.2 pts on 40% shooting

Now look at Lebron in the GS series:

Games 1-4 Lebron avg 22.3 pts on 45% shooting
Games 5/6 Lebron avg 27.5 pts on 61% shooting

 

[MVike28]

Who do you even support?

You've been on my dikk all postseason long, playing tag-along with other posters throwing shots at me. Have I hurt your feelings in the past?

It’s jokes Breh not that serious

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

nikka do you like sports? Do you like basketball.

Yall always concerned with the media. fukk the media.

Get ya drinks, lemon pepper wings, snacks and enjoy the damn show

Can’t enjoy the series when so many nasty narratives about to come from this.

 

[G-Zeus]

Pope was balling last game...will be interesting

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Because it's much tougher to guard a team with 4 players capable of dropping 25+ points than a team with 2 players dropping 30 with very little help from the role players...Also, the Lakers' depth will preserve Lebron for the later games in the series...... Just look at Booker/KD.....They lit Denver up the first 4 games of the series then were gassed for games 5/6 where they shot a combined 30 for 75 (40%) and averaged a total of 44.3 ppg ( 22 pts apiece)

Dlo and Reaves are not notably better scorers than Ayton, CP3 and Payne (all of whom were kept in check by Denver).

It's dishonest to push the Lakers' players up to a arbitrary measurement of scoring and lower the Suns' players. Yes, the Lakers have better depth, but it's not as simple as saying they have more scorers capable of scoring x-amount of points, when KD and Booker have both proven to be considerably greater scorers than every single Lakers player this postseason.

 

[CantStop]

Dlo and Reaves are not notably better scorers than Ayton, CP3 and Payne (all of whom were kept in check by Denver).

It's dishonest to push the Lakers' players up to an arbitrary measurement of scoring and lower the Suns' players. Yes, the Lakers have better depth, but it's not as simple as saying they have more scorers capable of scoring x-amount of points, when KD and Booker have both proven to be considerably greater scorers than every single Lakers player this postseason.

This nikka said cp3 and Payne are on the same level as DLo and Reaves scoring wise lmaooooo. Without checking I can tell you Reaves has had more 20 pt games this series than Payne and CP3 had all playoffs combined.


Is it dementia, delusion or ptsd

 

[Mars]

Dlo and Reaves are not notably better scorers than Ayton, CP3 and Payne (all of whom were kept in check by Denver).

It's dishonest to push the Lakers' players up to a arbitrary measurement of scoring and lower the Suns' players. Yes, the Lakers have better depth, but it's not as simple as saying they have more scorers capable of scoring x-amount of points, when KD and Booker have both proven to be considerably greater scorers than every single Lakers player this postseason.

What does Booker/KD scoring more in the playoffs have to do with anything?... They are sitting at home right now...And they could not score in games 5/6 when Phoenix needed them to.....Lebron will not fold late in a series like KD/Booker

 

[Braman]

These polls are useless. They should close as soon as the series starts

 

[VBM]

@FAH1223 threat title is slightly gimmicky with the rhyming. Think you should have taken a page from Magic Johnson:

"The Lakers Beat The Warriors And Will Now Play The Nuggets in the WCF"

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

This nikka said cp3 and Payne are on the same level as DLo and Reaves scoring wise lmaooooo. Without checking I can tell you Reaves has had more 20 pt games this series than Payne and CP3 had all playoffs combined.


Is it dementia, delusion or ptsd

I never said on the same level.

I said not notably better, in the context of this argument.

Reaves and Dlo are both averaging 15 ppg this postseason; CP3 averaged 12 ppg and Ayton 13 ppg this postseason.

That's a lot more reasonable than trying to group Reaves/Dlo and KD/Booker together, as if they require the same defensive attention and are of the same scoring ability which is what @Mars is doing.

 

[Big Boss]

The Nuggets are not the Warriors where Loney and Dray can be left open on the perimeter where AD can clog the lanes and roam around freely.

Who is the first guy off the bench if AD gets into foul trouble for Lakers? This is a series where they will miss Dwight and McGee.

X-Factors for Lakers: Dlo, Reeves and Vando

X-Factors for Nuggets: KCP, Brown and MPJ

I got Nuggets in 6 due to one day rest and knowing how injury prone AD can be. You need 3-4 games of 28 and 15 rebs of production from him.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

What does Booker/KD scoring more in the playoffs have to do with anything?... They are sitting at home right now...And they could not score in games 5/6 when Phoenix needed them to.....Lebron will not fold late in a series like KD/Booker

Because you're trying to put Dlo and Reaves on the same level as them.

You can't just say Lakers have four players that can average 25 points and the Suns only had two, as if they're all the same caliber of scorers. If the Lakers had two KDs and two Bookers, then your argument would make sense, but they don't.

 

[Mars]

I never said on the same level.

I said not notably better, in the context of this argument.

Reaves and Dlo are both averaging 15 ppg this postseason; CP3 averaged 12 ppg and Ayton 13 ppg this postseason.

That's a lot more reasonable than trying to group Reaves/Dlo and KD/Booker together, as if they require the same defensive attention and are of the same scoring ability which is what @Mars is doing.

I never said Reaves/Dlo is on the same level as Booker/KD...I said the Lakers have more players capable of dropping 25+ points which makes them tougher to guard

 

[VegasCAC]

Because you're trying to put Dlo and Reaves on the same level as them.

You can't just say Lakers have four players that can average 25 points and the Suns only had two, as if they're all the same caliber of scorers. If the Lakers had two KDs and two Bookers, then your argument would make sense, but they don't.

Nuggets fan now?