So it's no longer, clippers will do nothing, but that LA would beat them. Ok. That team has too much talent to not make the play offs. Too much flawed talent to win it all.
Nuggets fell apart because they aren't good, despite having their 2 main star starters out injured for huge chunks of time (which, coincidentally coincided with their decline).
Still can't justify the portland thing.
I'll state random opinions here all the time and just say it's a hunch/feeling/opinnion. I don't try and claim them as fact.
Last year i said several times during the season that the Grizz were good, Marc Gasol is the best C in the west (which he really is BTW), and even after rudy went down, that they were dangerous. Their regular season had no way of proving it, but you just got that feeling.
The difference being you argue it with vitriol and spitting fire and try to state the things as undeniable facts. if instead of coming in looking for arguments, but rather conversations, your opinions would be treated really differently.
Nah, that's still Bynum. He ate his lunch the last time they played. The only one he can't flat-out punk is D12 and healthy Bogut, to an extent.
Oh yea. Kobes taking 3 more shots this season and his FG% is 3 points lower. 42-43 FG%? really Heavy? You want to praise that shit?
He gets a pass because some of those are just chucks to beat the shot clock. The main issue I've seen is that no one reins him when he starts to go off the rails. Dallas game is a good example of him scoring with the offense, just mid-range pull-ups and him and Pau taking shots from the top of the key.
But, that said, the nights where he goes for for 5/18, he needs to recognize that a bit earlier. We're only going to go as far as he takes us...but he has to realize that our frontcourt has a mismatch damn near every night, and they just make things easier for everyone.
That's actually one of the encouraging signs about Sessions, he actually goes away from Kobe sometimes and gets someone else or himself an easy shot. Kobe took like 1 shot in the 4th last game, Lakers still won.
I love him, he's still my favorite player and I want him to get #6, but he'll have to adapt a bit. One of the Lakers' beat writers basically said the same thing. He can still drop 40, which is fantastic, but those games have to come when needed, ie, playoffs. His minutes also need to be lowered, but that's our coaches fault.
