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These Celtics would wipe 2018 Lebron on the Nets. Never mind this older no defense playing jumpshooting version. Say na strength. Person dey drag 3pt attempts with Harden and Steph Curry this season. Strength no dey again. Omolomo dey take 8 3's a game. You think Father time na your mate?

A team with no passable defensive wing or big. Who is going to guard Tatum? Who will protect the paint for the Nets?


That Cavs was a top 5 offensive team. Boston on the other hand was 18 on offense. Compare that to All NBA level of Tatum and Brown rn. They would wipe the floor with 2018 Bron on these Nets, now talkless of the Cavs

Khanben:
Lebron and KD are not in the same category. If you replace even 37 year old Lebron with KD in this current Nets team, they will beat the Celtics.
Did you observe that the few times the Nets just moved the ball they got very good looks, and their role players shot a very good percentage.

Una don start this cap again. When we start dragging man's e go be like say we be Haters. Someone that could not finish 10th seed out of 15 teams will beat these Celtics

Bronsexuals don come again

Rookie 19 y.o Jayson Tatum averaging 14pts per game and 21 year old Jaylen Brown. That's like beating Scottie Barnes and Tyrese Maxey

If age and experience no matter how did Lakers this year miss the play in with 3 teams openly tanking

benji93:
Well according to some those folks back then couldn't have been able to defend against these guys.

That's why I keep laughing every time I heard 7ft monster who would guard him menenemenene. If 6'6 Draymond Green can guard Jokic, Ben Wallace guard Shaq that should tell you height and size is overrated

Can't even imagine MJ, Pippen and Ron Harper taking turns to body KD, it would be ugly

Khanben:
20k people shouting at you baba is pressure ohh. You put 99.99% of the human populatio in that situation and they will crumble

And yet some people deal with it easily. I can tell a guy like Powell doesn't work on his free throws. he's even a role player with nothing to lose so why was he visibly shaking

A40:
Our Akwa Ibom brother really doing well.

You worry too much about the Nets. They play too poor defensively to be a threat. I actually see Boston as a dark horse. And looking at the East Boston can still finish as high as 2nd seed.

Everything 40stradamus predicted is coming to pass e be like. Anyway let's see how the Bucks cope without Middleton. I no too trust those Bucks

aliondo:
Oh men...the defense on him is just too good...was about commenting on this..

I said it here. Nothing to be scared about with these Nets. Boston showed me something that final game where they won and didn't duck the smoke to face Brooklyn sorta like what Milwaukee did last season

benji93:
I believe the pressure has gotten to him, and well the defense is crazy.

This game do or die. You just gotta impose yourself. A Bruce Brown cannot be cooking in your watch. This ain't the Bad Boy Pistons

Kevin Durant's play has been unconscionable. 3 shots?? 3?

Roland17:
Watch his feet and you would see why. Man was shaking from his waist down, the pressure was too much!

Man. Sports psychologists are so necessary. What people call pressure. So many people deal with way worse on a daily basis. Like the Shaq interview where he was talking about how his stepdad showed him what real pressure was

Powell cost the Mavs that game. How do you miss both free throws

kendrick9:
how can the best midf. in the team be tag along? Liverpool sold gini and brought in a better player. The real tag alongs are guys like goretza and kimmich

Where you throw Fabinho? Best midfielder una

Dortmund's recruiting policy have been shocking. They better make use of that Haaland geld before they sink deep into mediocrity. Their squad is so mid it's crazy

slimghost:
The stats confused people. Man is a terrible footballer. Can’t even do the basic things.

Lmaoo, Sometimes I sound like a hater cos I speak the truth too early

Fraudnandes stans how market??

@Lana1 Wagwan blaad

Bucks are laying a smackdown on the Bulls

benji93:
Common. Do you really believe this?

Man's really trying to make us believe the Lakers front office was solely responsible. They just purposely offloaded the guy they drafted and Montrezl and KCP plus a future draft pick that could be useful in the future for no reason!!

Roland17:
Ajala pretty much assembled this team, anybody saying otherwise is a bloody liar. This is what upsets me with Ajala’s followers. When it works and is good, he is LeGM and all that, when it is sour and tasteless, oh, it’s someone else’s fault.

Before the Lakers moved for Westbrook, Ajala had a private phone call first with Westbrook before meeting Westbrook and AD privately, everyone and their mama knows this. Westbrook and AD met with Ajala in Ajala’s home in LA to discuss the move..After the conversation, Ajala told the Lakers of what he had put together and boom Westbrook was a Laker with pieces going different places…it is not be the first time Ajala was tapping up a player without any consequence in the league… so what the hell are we talking about here? All of a sudden, Ajala did not conjure this move?

The great Magic Johnson suggested a Lakers move for DeRozan after DeRozan’s agent hit Magic up about DeRozan’s interest to join the Lakers but he was pretty much turned away by Ajala when the idea was sold to him and that is because Ajala already had his stuff cooking with Westbrook. Now, while the DeRozan deal was not going to be possible, I admit because of serious cap issues, the underlying fact was that Ajala already conjured the idea and did what he wanted, he was running the show and it blew up in his face.

Rob Palinka had no idea about Westbrook becoming a Laker! We have seen how controlling Klutch is and how they have Rob’s numbers!

See link

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-russell-westbrook-met-lebron-142427784.html

Bronsexuals can only deceive themselves not we that know better. Who else will drink their Zobo?

Imagine claiming that Pelinka just brought Westbrook on his own without LeNomad's approval. Traded all their younger depth players because he suddenly had a man crush on Westbrook like Morey on Harden

Say na IQ, IQ ko Q-tip ni

Had they gone on to win now Bronsexuals would drool about how their man did the impossible winning with the guy everyone said couldn't win. Nick Wright, Shannon and all the millions and millions of Bronsexuals around the world would not have let us hear the last of it

Memberclub:
Conley is such a Fruad

Big time fraud. Mitchell has also been down tooling since getting that bag

Roland17:
Those who ruined the Lakers season from the start should stand up, raise their hands and be accountable. All these Vogel tirades is not the primary reason why the Lakers flopped. The Lakers hierarchy and ownership watched Ajala and Klutch sports control recruitment of players until they grew some balls to say NO. They differed to Ajala and the decision to pursue Westbrik instead of other options that would have given them more depth and quality but somehow, Ajala has stayed quiet about his failures. Lets not act like any of these cats wanted to play defense on any given night! They all approached the season with their respective agendas and it blew up in their face.

How 3 hall of famers failed to make it to the play in despite playing more minutes together than other combinations in a weaker conference needs an open inquiry.

No mind narrative shifters. When them dey denge po dey tell us make we keep same energy we no hear word.

When they were too cool for preseason wey dem suppose use blend we no hear anything

Shey na Pelinka bring Carmelo come?

The truth is Frank Vogel was the fall guy. Someone that had the Lakers as a top 5 defense suddenly forgot his bread and butter. Yeah right

Hohenheim:
Hornets fire Borrego, they need a coach that will give Melo the keys full time.

Borrego is a mid coach but their bigger or biggest issue is Melo taking that next step and improving his efficiency. They also need to find something to do about Rozier and Bridges, especially Rozier. Someone that inefficient cannot be your starter taking the second most shots or most shots

birdman:
Based on the beef with Pelinka, this appears not to be how it went down. Lebron just played along as usual Mr nice guy. Lebron likely also though he could incorporate westbrook, and it would all work out, like you said. oops

Bruh. Lebron cannot escape this smoke. Pelinka is the guy who mortgaged what was essentially their future to bring AD. Even if you absolve him of blame for DeRozan no way we're going to play like he wasn't a party to Westbrook's arrival. Same Westbrook that helped the Wizards to the playoffs? What was the common complaint? Wasn't it the fact that the Lakers had no one else to handle the ball whenever Lebron sat? Whatever you feel about Westbrook if you claim you expected he would be this bad I'm sorry that's cap

Suggesting that the Lakers traded their entire depth for Westbrook's albatross contract without Lebron's cosign is laughable. Pelinka's head would be on a pike if he acted unilaterally

Remember we have seen something similar before back in 18 where the Cavs had a midseason trade, even moving his guy D.Wade. difference was the Lakers had no cards to play. They had nothing! Who will take THT and Westbrook? Not even Detroit

Wheww, Mavericks dodged a bullet with the Jalen Brunson injury

birdman:
There was no allure. It was a boneheaded move by front office, and they tried to rope Lebron and AD in by spreading rumors that they wwere in on it. Same front office tried to spread rumors again that Lebron and AD were OK with not making a trade. That time around, Lebron kukuma raise voice because it was obvious Pelinka was trying to sneakily use Lebron as cover for his moves.

To me, the fact that Lebron never sat WB down and set him straight means Lebron was just going with the flow, trying not to offend.

Come on bro. If Lebron said let's run it back they would have run it back. Suggesting the Lakers would have gotten Russ without Lebron's approval is fallacy

I think the Lakers and especially Lebron really believed Westbrook would come and lighten the load of ball handling and facillitating. It would also be a feather on his cap to be the only guy to win with Russ. As the season went on it became evident that they have gotten themselves into more than they bargained for

FO as at all star game were at the point where they had no real moves to make, they had traded their depth and it made absolutely no sense to lose a pick for John Wall. They had no moves to make

Sitting down with WB would have been a waste of time. Lebron is a smart guy, he figured at some point in the season that he couldn't win with this guy and this guy was not wired to win. Westbrook is hard headed. But Lebron thought he was a project he could handle, He was dead wrong

The Mavs cannot miss from 3. Almost like the absence of Luka is helping them play team basketball. Ball movement is top notch

This is the craziest comeback I've ever seen, Wow. The bottlejob the T.Wolves did in the 4th was epic. Despite Ja and Dillon Brooks shooting 8 of 31

Roland17:
KAT just sabi fall pesin hand. Dude is way too emotional to stay focused and locked in. This is a very easy match up for him and I am disappointed he is not eating them like barbecue chicken!

I am worried about the Grizzlies offense, it is not diverse as many of the players can’t create offense on their own. Bane has kept them in this game with timely buckets from beyond the arc.

He's not that guy. Can't stress it enough. More skilled than past bigs Menenemenene

Roland17:
You mean 2023 right?

Naah. 2003

Interesting stat. Only 5 guys played all 82 games this season

Mikal Bridges led the league in total minutes played. He would be 36th in 2003

Khanben:
Booker and Middleton our for multiple weeks.

Nwora time!!

Khanben:
Looking at what the Celtics are doing to KD and Kyrie, this would not be happening to Lebron or even Luka. This idea that they will play pick up basketball in the playoffs without ball and player movement is laughable. Yesterday KD did not set one screen even though the Celtics made sure to contest every single entry pass made to him.

This is also a coaching issue. Which is why I find it so shocking that Steve Nash a HOF PG does not run any sets. It's basically OKC with KD and Westbrook all over again.

Again this is what happens when people keep pushing narrative of 'skills' instead of fundamentals. Which is what PGs of old have over this present bunch. Which is why you put CP3 with a bunch of mid players and the offense is still clicking

When people like Kyrie sef come out and say we don't need a coach. Media and hoop fans don too gas those boys and we're seeing the results

Roland17:
The Bulls have tied the series..

The Bucks are lacking something, not sure if it is the Bulls killing the excitement by slowing the game but they look indifferent and uninterested.

They really could have been down 0-2. Something has not been right with that team all season long.