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

[West Coast Avenger]

Everyone will be sleeping on the nuggets. Jokic gonna do his thing.

They gotta contain Murray and MPJ gonna need to play smart basketball. Know your role and don't be a hero

Bruh they the #1 seed....no one is sleeping on the nuggets.... ....

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You're a liar...I never said Reaves/Dlo is on the same level as Booker/KD....Stop putting words in my mouth.

This is what you're doing here, whether it's intentional or not -

Phoenix had 2 players capable of scoring 25 pts, the Lakers have 4 (Bron, AD, Reaves, Dlo)...and don't forget about Rui/Dennis/Walker who can also drop 15 pts in any given game...The Lakers are a top 3 defensive team while Denver is below average....Lakers in 6

This is why I said you can't dumb it down to this.

You'd be better off saying Lakers have more scoring depth, but don't have the same high intensity, high-caliber scorers that Phoenix did.

 

[Sinnerman]

Lakers in 6

 

[FAH1223]

Bruh they the #1 seed....no one is sleeping on the nuggets.... ....

The media is already crowning the Lakers

 

[Premeditated]

Lakers in 6


right?



bet on black

but seriously, I think both teams will score easily and most the games will come down to who is clutch down the stretch

 

[Mars]

This is what you're doing here, whether it's intentional or not -

This is why I said you can't dumb it down to this.

You'd be better of saying Lakers have more scoring depth, but don't have the same high intensity, high-caliber scorers that Phoenix did.

Okay (I see your point).......seeing how Reaves hasn't scored 25 pts this postseason (scored 23 pts 3 times)..... I'll fall back and just say.....Lakers in 6.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Nuggets in 6

 

[Braman]

If LA guards the 3 with the same desperation they did vs GS, they win this series. But they have to treat these dudes the same way. Murray = Steph, MPJ = Klay, KCP is a better 3pt shooting wiggins

But LA has a pretty unprecedented habit of letting ‘others’ shoot 3s with no contest. You rarely see it at the nba level yet they did it all series. GP and Draymond made sense, but they even did it with divencenzo and moody. They can’t do that this series or they gettin cooked

Gordon, Braun, and Brown are all just avg or below avg shooters but without a contest an avg shooter is hittin that and it’ll be timely. They will actually need to play D

 

[FAH1223]

If LA guards the 3 with the same desperation they did vs GS, they win this series. But they have to treat these dudes the same way. Murray = Steph, MPJ = Klay, KCP is a better 3pt shooting wiggins

LA has a pretty unprecedented habit of letting ‘others’ shoot 3s with no contest. You rarely see it at the nba level yet they did it all series. GP and Draymond made sense, but they even did it with divencenzo and moody. They can’t do that this series or they gettin cooked

Gordon, Braun, and Brown are all just avg or below avg shooters but without a contest an avg shooter is hittin that and it’ll be timely. They will actually need to play D

LAL is also a bad transition defense team.

The Nuggets can run them out of the gym if they’re turning it over like crazy

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Nuggets in 5

Legacy series for Lebron..

 

[Flex Grossman]

If LA guards the 3 with the same desperation they did vs GS, they win this series. But they have to treat these dudes the same way. Murray = Steph, MPJ = Klay, KCP is a better 3pt shooting wiggins

But LA has a pretty unprecedented habit of letting ‘others’ shoot 3s with no contest. You rarely see it at the nba level yet they did it all series. GP and Draymond made sense, but they even did it with divencenzo and moody. They can’t do that this series or they gettin cooked

Gordon, Braun, and Brown are all just avg or below avg shooters but without a contest an avg shooter is hittin that and it’ll be timely. They will actually need to play D

If the lakers sell out to defend the 3, the nuggets will murder them in the paint. Warriors couldn’t do that. They’re too one dimensional at this point.

 

[Black Mamba]

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.

Man your analysis all over the fukking place just like it was for GSW

 

[West Coast Avenger]

The media is already crowning the Lakers

Were in the bigger market....ofcourse they are....

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

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.

You saying D’Tective Russell and Reaves are not notably better scorers than Cameron Payne is just one (of the many) reasons we shouldn’t take your opinions seriously

 

[Braman]

If the lakers sell out to defend the 3, the nuggets will murder them in the paint. Warriors couldn’t do that. They’re too one dimensional at this point.

With who? Jokic gon get his sure but they aren’t built much different than GS. Aaron Gordon isn’t ‘abusing’ Bron no time soon. MPJ is finesse. Murray is a problem but hey have Vando and now Walker to throw at him