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NBA 2016-2017 Season |OT| What do the Liberty Bell and Ben Simmons have in Common?
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Andrew Korenchkin
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WOOT!
THE OG WESTBROOK!
Andrew Korenchkin
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It's really all about fundamentals. That's one of Luke's points of knowledge, I suppose.
Young said it's because the coaching staff told him that they believed he could do it and then he threw shade at Byron lol.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Or a mental game. I believe that. Basketball is indeed so much about I think I can, rather than I think I can't.
Mostly.
OKC's nowhere without Russy. They have a bunch of NBA players, players other teams would want, but they all depend on him to get them the ball in the right spot.
And two, I thought Colderon was suppose to be good at running an offense? Lakers starting unit is scattered. Second unit looks fun.
And two, I thought Colderon was suppose to be good at running an offense? Lakers starting unit is scattered. Second unit looks fun.
darkwing-buck
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LETS GO LAKERS
darkwing-buck
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Westbrook making his fuck-you shots, that stuff is scary
darkwing-buck
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Nick Young Redux
Andrew Korenchkin
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I can see why Russell killed it. His perimeter shooting is garbage but he's hard to shut down in the paint.
I have to admit, he did take like 4 steps there. But fuck it, we have been getting some shit calls lately, about time it happened in our favor damn it.
Fuck it, I'll join in: Swaggy MVP
MetalFearSolid
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I wanna apologize to Lakers-GAF about entertaining the idea of cutting Nick Young this offseason
RedAssedApe
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Hilarious that swaggy stole that pass meant for lou and hit the gsme winner
All Defensive First team I'm telling you. He's even willing to play defense against his teammates.
Khalifa Jayy
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Nick Young steals the pass from Ingram to Lou Williams to hit the dagger three.
https://streamable.com/2n8d
Lou Williams' reaction
https://streamable.com/2n8d
Lou Williams' reaction
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
We're still above .500...
Nick Young is playing defense...
The Lakers have a legit shot at the Playoffs...
How is this real life?
Nick Young is playing defense...
The Lakers have a legit shot at the Playoffs...
How is this real life?
Monochromaticx
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lakers are back ?
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
I'm still waiting for this all to collapse and the Lakers become mediocre-bad tier. Like, my brain can't accept this shit is going on right now...
If we had an easy schedule and were shitting on trash tier teams for the first two months, yeah, I wouldn't think much of this. The thing is.. Lakers schedule is tough as nails and they've already beaten a bunch of team that are either fringe playoff teams or straight shoe-ins. How is this real life....
edit- and the losses have been mostly competitive coming down to the wire.
If we had an easy schedule and were shitting on trash tier teams for the first two months, yeah, I wouldn't think much of this. The thing is.. Lakers schedule is tough as nails and they've already beaten a bunch of team that are either fringe playoff teams or straight shoe-ins. How is this real life....
edit- and the losses have been mostly competitive coming down to the wire.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
It all evens out in the end. This just means the race to the finish line post-All star break will be that much easier for the Lakeshow. I'm ok with this.
If the Lakers manage to win even ONE of the next two games against GS (I doubt it) I will officially believe.
bruh must of us were wondering if any team would take him for nothing, now this dude playing like this.
Luke tha gawd.
Now admittedly, Young is on a contract year (let's be real here, he's gonna decline his player option at this rate), and he's gonna get that JR Smith money. That's a pretty big motivation to play this well too.
Than again, who knows. Maybe I'm wrong again and he somehow declines his option because he's Swaggy fucking P.
I remember reading that the Lakers actually have one of the toughest schedules in the NBA, main reason is that they have to face the Warriors four times during the season.
Come on, no one is giving Swaggy, JR Smith money. As inconsistent as JR Smith has been, Nick Young is basically the poor mans JR Smith. He will get paid if he has a good season, that's the way the NBA works now but I think he might stay in LA, specially if we can attract talent with a winning record. I mean, he also has to like Luke somewhat, dudes playing d for once.
They're really the same player, one just plays with LeBron.
With the way he is playing at the moment, yes he will. 76ers we're ready to offer him that kind of money a few years ago before deciding to resign with LA. Now he's even better than he ever was, and in a time with the salary cap continuing to climb and every mediocre role player getting $10+ mill at least per year (see Iman Shumpert, Asik, Courtney Lee, Tyler Johnson, etc). He's going to get that money (assuming he declines that player option). And Lakers aren't going to give it to him if and when it happens cause that's going to be needed the year after for Paul George, etc.
This...makes...sense. Man we are living in a world where Mike Conley is the highest paid player in the league. I was talking mad shit about Nick Young at the start of season. Actually felt that Luke was not giving Ingram enough minutes, and giving way too much time for Nick. Anything can happen, I guess, and I gotta eat crow.
As a Laker fan, I find it funny how we are in a hurry to dream about Paul George (I daydream about this shit everyday now btw). I can already see him easily fitting into Luke's system.
Andrew Korenchkin
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I can't help but wonder what the team would be like if we hired Messina.