Ninja Scooter
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30+ shots by Kobe and hopefully a Laker loss? This is exactly what I wanted from this season.
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2014 NBA |OT| Let's just wait it out. Be NKY/LAL fans and lose our games together.
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CassidyIzABeast
Member
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Honestly, this is the season. Thy've put everything into this game
RedAssedApe
Banned
lol fun watching kobe jack up shots
Lmfao. Too great.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Another one for the good guys
Barack Lesnar
Banned
these "lol this is awesome, my team lost, let's tank" type of posts are just pure shit
Lakers will win against Charlotte. They played the Suns and the Clips pretty well.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Why the fuck would I want this garbage ass team to win? We need that top 5 pick more than we need to be mediocre.
sf2fanatic
Member
It's been so frustrating listening/watching Laker games because they need so much help on D. I wanna agree with the announcers that tonight in the 4th Suns had it easy getting to the basket
Barack Lesnar
Banned
wrong thread
It's no guarantee we get a top 5 pick. Look at last year, we got some shit pick and the kid turns out to be some injury-prone flop.
Ninja Scooter
Member
the more we lose the closer to a guarantee. Again, I'd rather have the pick than win 30 games and lose the pick. It's not like we're talking about either being in the lottery or making the playoffs. This team is terrible. It's just a matter of how terrible they can be. I'd rather just bottom out. Not like I'm taking any pride in going 30-52 over 15-67.
Hahaha that picture from the Rose Garden. I'm sad they changed the name.
edit: I'm hoping we see a 50/50 night for Kobe. (shots/points)
I'm on a sugar rush and just fantasized that he was the Warriors' 4.
edit: I'm hoping we see a 50/50 night for Kobe. (shots/points)
Here's some history on where Kobe's night ranks!
Tonight was the only night where someone didn't score at least 50.
Tonight was the only night where someone didn't score at least 50.
It'll be fine. We're three games into the season. People are going to over analyze the shit out of these first games in Cleveland.LeBron
Barack Lesnar
Banned
The problem with the Cavs is there's not enough shots to go around. Dion Waiters shouldn't be taking 1 shot less than LeBron. Waiters is a scrub, a cocky scrub too. Kyrie shouldn't be taking 5 shots more than LeBron. Tristan Thompson (!) shouldn't be taking the same amount of shots as LeBron.
LeBron needs to assert himself. He needs to become the alpha dog and put these inefficient 40% FG shooters like Kyrie and Waiters on the burner.
With Miami, it was LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. None of the role players messed with them. They knew who the alphas were and knew who needed to be getting the ball.
LeBron needs to assert himself. He needs to become the alpha dog and put these inefficient 40% FG shooters like Kyrie and Waiters on the burner.
With Miami, it was LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. None of the role players messed with them. They knew who the alphas were and knew who needed to be getting the ball.
I still can't believe the front office couldn't pick up one really good free agent signing this offseason. That's all it would have took to at least make the team competitive. When you're 20 mil under the cap (whatever it was) and you're best signing is Jeremy Lin, there's a problem. You've fucked up.
Ninja Scooter
Member
They didn't want to sign anyone beyond 2016. Bottoming out was the best option. There wasn't a free agent out there that would have made them competitive enough. I think the front office made the decision to ride out Kobe's last 2 years.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I don't wanna hear about Kobe being the reason nobody signed, either. He's done in two years. So all you have to do is sign your huge, long-term max contract and deal with him for two years and then you got the team and the city all to yourself... the top dog for the Los Angeles Lakers. Just had to weather the storm for two seasons. The front office couldn't convince a guy to do that?
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Love, Melo, even guys like Parsons... any one of them would have made the team competitive. You're telling me if Love signed, this team wouldn't be playoff bound?
Ninja Scooter
Member
Love was not a free agent and we had nothing to trade for him. The only option was to wait for him in free agency and that is gone now. They tried to get Melo but he wasn't giving up the extra year and $25 million NY could offer. Parsons is a nice player but he would only make this team marginally better. We'd still be a non-playoff team only without a lottery pick. The one guy I think they will go after next season is Marc Gasol. Barring that, 2016 is the year they will have a ton of cap space and hopefully, will be able to sign some marquee free agents.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
How about resigning Pau? Playoff team if you resign him. He's dominating in Chicago: http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/996/pau-gasol
19/9 and 3 bpg
Plenty left in the tank.
Pau and an aged Kobe are going to push the Lakers over Grizz, Mavs, Suns and Pelicans? I don't see it...
Ninja Scooter
Member
Not a playoff team if you resign him. The 8th seed in the west won 49 games last year. I think you are underestimating just how shit this roster is if you think a single player (especially one the calibur of Pau or Chandler Parsons) would make them playoff contenders. This team is one of the worst 3 in the league.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Kobe, Pau, Lin, Davis, Ellington, Nick Young, that's a 7th or 8th seed. You never know what could in a series so just getting into the playoffs is huge.
0-5 could easily be 3-2 right now if someone like Pau was on the team:
vs Clippers - had a 4 point lead entering the 4th
vs Golden State - had a lead deep into the 2nd
vs Suns tonight - obviously could have won this
At the very least, 2-3, which would be totally fine for a monster 5 game stretch vs 5 playoff teams, including 4 games in 5 days.
Heavy stop you're delusional again.
Warriors, Spurs, Clippers, Mavs, Blazers, Grizzlies, Rockets, Suns, Pelicans, Thunder, are all objectively better than the Lakers. You can make a case that the Nuggets, Kings, Timberwolves and even the Jazz are better, meaning every single western conference team.
Warriors, Spurs, Clippers, Mavs, Blazers, Grizzlies, Rockets, Suns, Pelicans, Thunder, are all objectively better than the Lakers. You can make a case that the Nuggets, Kings, Timberwolves and even the Jazz are better, meaning every single western conference team.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Idc I'm not completely giving up on the season yet.
LMAO, NBA-Gaf might've dead but you still going stronk bro..
Hard not to admire that.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
You guys remember when Lebron was good at basketball?
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
probably just incentives and what not so the warriors can feel he will stay motivated.
But Pau isn't on the team. So why does that conditional statement matter?
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I said it after game 1, Waiters is on borrowed time in Cleveland. There was a play that night that was a clear hockey assist play from Lebron, using Waiters as the pivot pass. Waiters totally missed it. When my non-basketball ass can see something developing on screen before a player does, then that player's IQ is suspect. Waiters just isn't smart enough to play with Lebron. I think Lebron's passiveness last night might have been the first signs of that frustration setting in. Waiters and Kyrie were terrible.
Also, did Blatt simplify the offense to accommodate Love? I just saw someone mention that on a forum, and wasn't sure if that was a thing or not. PEACE.
Also, did Blatt simplify the offense to accommodate Love? I just saw someone mention that on a forum, and wasn't sure if that was a thing or not. PEACE.
MEN LIE, WOMEN LIE, BUCKETS DNT!
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
i can't wait till they trade waiters for the trash can in indiana and he gets the mike-bibby/mike miller style 2010 standing ovation from those shitty fans in cleveland.
Xplatformer
Member
Warriors vs. Clippers battle tonight!
Bring it!!!!
Bring it!!!!