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YulisCromwell:
Dave Griffin has, Pat Riley has. Youd have to be dumb to think lebron can control maginka and jeanie. Werent you lot saying he wanted to get Lue fired as well? Future events proved he certainly didnt. Stop promoting bar talk as fact.

You want Dave Griffin to come out and tell you he was a lame duck? Lmaooo everyone knew Pat Riley ran the ship in Miami. Thanks for telling us what we know Captain Obvious

YulisCromwell:
Rich paul owns klutch. No way he puts lebron over AD. Another dumb thing is people around lebron never get credit for their business acumen. Akin to Phil calling them his posse.

What are you like 5? Who set him up? What was he handling before LeNomad got into the league? What clout and cred does Rich Paul have without LeNomad? Please shift

YulisCromwell:
So how is that stat padding?? Stat padding means it has no positive effect on the game so if they are winning, how does that qualify as stat padding

They are 33-42. That's what I can glean from all this Old Wives Tale you're telling

YulisCromwell:
LOL Because of injuries and other factors yet. Not even mad, they werent going to win it anyway

Story for the gods. There was time to make the playoffs. They folded

YulisCromwell:
Let me explain a certain concept for you in basketball called double teaming, usually when one player draws the attention of more than one opposing player, it tends to open opportunities for shooters, and if hes an elite passer these opportunities are even more pronounced. Thats what people say when they mean shooters and rollers play better with lebron. Doesnt mean if they make their shots they wont get their praise but its easier for them with a player like lebron. Now you know, theres no need to thank me.

KCP's season high of 35 pts was at Milwaukee.

Guess what? LeNomad didn't play.

So stop yarning verbose megedefegede. KCP is a notoriously streaky shooter and when he gets cold even John Stockton couldn't assist him

YulisCromwell:
Lol 1A 1B yet 1A was pretty clear for everyone to see, yet 1A was the best player in the league. If you win a championship and you werent the best player on your team you were carried period! If 1B had as much stake then pippen would have a claim to being the GOAT too.

Are you comparing Pippen's numbers to Kobe? Go to the history of NBA and show me anyone who put up the numbers Kobe did as a player that was supposedly carried.

It's bush league logic to claim a player that isn't the outright best in his team was carried. So Xavi was carried by Messi or what is this megedefegede logic you're chatting

YulisCromwell:
LMAO! Your man went from winning championships and going to the finals to missing the playoffs the season shaq left, in his prime too. Get to the finals? what happened after 2010?

Kobe without Shaq - 3 Finals
Shaq without Kobe - 2 Finals

After 2010 Kobe got old. Getting to 7 NBA Finals in 10 years in a tougher conference took its toll.

YulisCromwell:
I can list three players ahead of him at each point within this period, from duncan to dirk to lebron. just off the top of my head.

Fake news.

Which of them went to more Finals than Kobe within that period

YulisCromwell:
LOL! The man with 11 rings, the man the finals mvp award is named after doesnt have a claim. The most dominant force in NBA history doesnt have a claim to mount rushmore. SMH, Russell and shaq are usually ranked between 4th to 8th so they do have a stake. Ive seen shaq in many peoples mount rushmore including that clown skip. Plus mount rushmore only has 4 players so it cant be one for each position, its about the four greatest period.

You're joking! Lmaooooo that Celtics team had 8 HOFers. They were stacked to the teeth!!

They had the most talent and least competition by a country mile.

Shaq ain't on my Mount Rushmore. When you have a teammate that can carry the scoring load while guarding the other teams best perimeter guy while you feast on bums at your position it's easier to dominate

YulisCromwell:
Horry ended up with 7 being carried at various points in his career.

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YulisCromwell:
LOL, small fry, 32% is a bad 3 point shooting percentage, 36% is good. 39 and above is considered elite. This is common knowledge, youd think.

There is nothing good about a 36% shooting percentage. That's bang average!

YulisCromwell:
This literally makes no sense whatsoever! So lebrons return should automatically fix their momentum and then fix zo do, kuzma and ingrams injury too yes??

With lebron the lakers are a 40+ win team while without him they are on track for 30. So what exactly are you trying to say please?

The Lakers aren't the only team that dealt with injuries. Stop these watery and rubbish excuses. Their record is their record

The Lakers packed it in with Ingram and Ball when the playoffs were out of reach.

YulisCromwell:
LMAO! Your man won a ring averaging less than 16 points in a finals. He was carried by the best player in the league period. You picking out one or two series in between wont change that! They won 3 rings, Shaq was finals MVP all three times and it wasnt even close. You can whine all you want but it wont change this fact.

As a 21 year old. No shame in that! I told you he was only carried in 2000. Not sure what your point is

I've proven you're chatting lies. Shaq padded his numbers vs bare wastemen from the Eastern Conference. Everyone knows this now

Back then the disparity between teams from the East and West was pretty wide. That's why from 99-06 only two teams from the East won a title.

Kobe was not carried

YulisCromwell:
Can we stop with this lebron is the GM balderdash? it has been refuted multiple times by multiple GMs. Maybe next time Klutch and the lakers front office need to learn to keep things quiet or at least not make it too public.

Who are the multiple GM's that have refuted this? How many coaches have had issues with LeNomad again? It's an open secret that he doesn't like being coached.

Lmaooo are you hearing yourself? Who owns Klutch Sports? Isn't it one of his stooges fronting it for him. He created that toxic situation to start with

YulisCromwell:
So playing games is now chasing triple doubles So if all hes chasing is triple doubles how do they have a better win record with him and how do they have a positive point differential with him?

Why all these Jamb questions. Didn't OKC win while Russ was chasing triple dubs?

YulisCromwell:
Laker players with better numbers almost across the board with lebron on the court
Hart
KCP
Javale
Kuzma
Possibly more, but these are three shooters and a roller/dunker. This pseudo analyst doesnt think shooters play better with Lebron, this is new levels of shameless vapid hate

Boohoo. But they are still 11th in the West. 9 games from playoff contention

Story for the gods! There is a difference between playing better and not giving a player credit for a good game. It's tedious with you Bronsexuals. You can't eat your cake and have it.

Same KCP dropped 7 points in a game where LeNomad played and KCP gets the blame (rightfully so) but don't tell me KCP scores 30points then LeNomad gets the credit. We ain't buying that shyte

You can loathe Kobe but don't bring that nonsense myth that Kobe was carried in my vicinity. I will destroy it.

Kobe was guarding and still dropping these numbers. Put some respeck on Kobe's name

More of Shaq carrying Kobe

YulisCromwell:
LOL The only people who believe kobe deserves to be in the conversation are clowns who bought into the whole "mamba mentality" rubbish. Shaq deserves to be in the discussion far more than Kobe. At least shaq had the highest peak in NBA history. He carried teams including kobes bum a-s to three rings.

Pure unadulterated B.S!! The only year Shaq ever carried Kobe to a ring was the 2000 season. Every other season they were 1A and 1B. Go and rehash this myth and urban legend to basketball neophytes not OG's like us. Anybody who told you Shaq carried Kobe after year 2000 is lying from the pits of hell

Kobe won two rings without Shaq! Kobe will win rings and get to NBA Finals with any competent big man. These are facts

YulisCromwell:
Kobe DID NOT have an era! How can you have an era when you were never the best player in the league

This is another bold-faced lie. From years 2005 to 2009 Kobe was the best player in the league.

Go and ask San Antonio Spurs and Greg Popovich about Kobe and the pain and sorrow he caused them from age 22

YulisCromwell:
Wilt Russell Shaq KAJ all have claims to mount rushmore but second place to Magic, Lebron and even Timmy dont, so what are you even talking about? Is the SG the only position where the best doesnt belong in the discussion?

Neither Shaq nor Russell have any claims to Mt Rushmore. The idea of a Mt Rushmore is not to have more than one player per position so I don't know why you're chasing your tail

YulisCromwell:
LOL the man literally has missed more shots than anyone else in NBA history. And in the NBA theres a huge difference between a 36% three shooter and a 32% three shooter. Thats pretty obvious.

Still ended up with a ring for each finger so what's your point?

A 36% and 32% 3 point shooter are two below average 3 point shooters. Don't have time for any pointless hairsplitting arguments

steady986:
Him playing doesn't guarantee a win, it just guarantees better performances. Simple

Remind me their record since LeNomad's return please

We're really paying €80m for a defender that requires knee surgery

YulisCromwell:
LOL You expect the team to return to shooting on all cylinders after lebron missed a quarter of the season plus with injuries at various points to key players? Theres a difference between giving a player most of the credit and giving him all the credit. With all great players its pretty obvious theyre the most important factor in the win. Thats why these days the team with the most wins usually produce the MVP. When a team loses the best player cant possibly be at fault but everyone else. Thats just a simple concept that has been applied to all greats. But when its lebron its a problem/ You lot just shamelessly keep shifting the goal post, its embarrassing!

He may be a streaky shooter but its a well known fact that shooters play better with lebron on the court. If you dont agree with this you need to go back to basketball 101.

No. We expected the team to not completely implode. He missed 17 games which is about 20% of the season. He returned with almost 40% of the season to play.

The problem is LeNomad did not believe in this team. He wanted them all out to bring in Anthony Davis so in a way whatever problem they had chemistry-wise is largely on him

Every team is dealing with one injury or the other so try another excuse. James Harden played without Capela, Gordon and CP3 for almost 25 games at different points of the season

When a team loses and the best player is just chasing triple doubles and not carrying his team knowing their limitations like Harden is then he deserves a significant share of blame.

Stop repeating this nonsense. There have been numerous games KCP played horribly with LeNomad on the court. Didn't KCP finish with this 7 points on a night LeNomad played a while ago? A player scores 29pts via his own shooting LeNomad gets credit, LeNomad plays and the player shoots badly LeNomad still gets credit while the player gets crucified. Nonsense

YulisCromwell:
So telling the truth about him is disrespecting him? no one ever denied that hes great but he doesnt belong anywhere near the GOAT discussion.

Naah that's not even the issue here. It's not about this particular instance, I'm saying generally The Kobe slander and disrespect is very real. Especially among Bronsexuals.

I recall the other day Nick Wright coming on TV saying Kobe didn't have an era. That is how nonsensical things are becoming

Why does Kobe not belong in the GOAT discussion? Some say it's Wilt, some say it's Kareem some say it's Magic so why can't Kobe be in the conversation

YulisCromwell:
You said high volume shooting guards had low efficiency, i just refuted that claim. The man was just a brick layer with a green light.

List the volume Shooting Guards bar Jordan and their career Field Goal percentage let's compare and see if they were more superior. List their PER too while we're at it

YulisCromwell:
Granted, but the second greatest at any position bar the center you'll find doesnt belong in mount rushmore.

2nd greatest PG Oscar/Isaah/maybe even curry
SF Bird/KD/Dr J
PF Dirk/KG/Malone

None of these guys belong in mount rushmore.

Of course they are not competing with the GOAT. Nobody in the Mount Rushmore of basketball would be there if Jordan played their position

YulisCromwell:
I'm talking about their efficiency. At least harden can say he shoots more 3s, whats kobricks excuse?

Kobe shot a fair amount of threes in his time too. He's 9th all-time in attempts. The difference is minimal i don't get why you're hammering on it. One is a 36% shooter the other a 32% one. None of which screams elite efficiency anyway

YulisCromwell:
Stop pushing this narrative that has been refuted many times. Are you really trying to deny the lakers play better with lebron on the court? Real talk, did lebron shag your girlfriend or something?

Nonsense! What's their record since he returned. I refuted the notion because this nonsense you people do and give LeNomad all the credit when things go well and shift the blame to the teammates when things go South needs to die.

KCP a well known streaky player scores 35 and reverts to mean the next day and next thing it's because LeNomad didn't play as if LeNomad playing guarantees a win in Utah

YulisCromwell:
How is that an awful analogy? You literally just claimed a player is better than another player because his team beat the other players team?

No. I said so because he was the better player in 4 out of 6 playoff series they dueled. They are pretty much dead even on other stuff. This slander and Kobe disrespect must stop.

I get on Twitter and see Faux Lakers fans who are actually LeNomad fans slandering Kobe and downplaying his greatness

YulisCromwell:
Off the top of my head Drexler, Gervin, Miller and Mj are all high volume shooting guards and i can bet my left nut theyve all shot better than that. Efficiency has always been a part of the game, the bloody brick layer just never had it period. Glad you brought up Harden, theyre in the same ship. Harden is even better because he shoots more 3s.

Still only one player in that list is better than Jordan. 47% shooting to 45% is the statistical hairsplittin apostates like Nick Wright and others like to dance on to push nonsense propaganda

None of this perceived lack of efficiency stopped Kobe from being the second best SG of all time. Go and ask the teams Kobe slaughtered including the Spurs in the playoffs whether Kobe was efficient or not

Harden better than Kobe? Lmaooo.

steady986:
I'm just talking strictly player performance here. Honestly everybody plays like crap when the king ain't playing. No leadership, everyone seems confused.

Even with him they still play like crap else they would be in the playoffs so what gives?

What yeye leadership has he provided this season?

YulisCromwell:
So because the warriors beat the cavs in 2015 curry is better than lebron?

I loved Kobe as a kid but the man is one of the most overrated players in NBA history all thanks to good marketing (Mamba mentality aka brick mentality). I guess like everything else he got his marketing team from MJ. this man legit never shot over 47% from the field. Boot leg MJ and thats saying something. I have him in my top ten though.

When will you stop using awful analogies mate?

Kobe beat the Spurs being the best player in the Series on 4 different occasions. With and without Shaq

45% shooting is par for the course for a high volume Shooting Guard especially in that era. He would have slightly higher numbers if he played now that there's a higher emphasis on efficiency. James Harden is arguably the best player in the league and he also shoots sub 47%. Nothing new

YulisCromwell:

Kobe did rank himself ahead of MJ and LeBron, but Kobe vs. Tim Duncan might actually be the better debate https://t.co/RSaIRwu408 pic.twitter.com/TWuGWd2KhQ

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) March 28, 2019

Bare facts! I was thinking the exact same thing. Like kobe was literally never the best player in the NBA and he thinks hes the GOAT. Mamba Mentality = Delusions of grandeur.

Do you know how many times Kobe Bryant destroyed the San Antonio Spurs? Lmaooo! He was well known as the Spurs killer. I'm tired of you indomie generation fans I swear

Roland17:
That celebration was disgraceful to watch, how the entire Lakers bench did not get a technical for stepping on the court is beyond me. I think that is the highlight of their season sufficient enough for them to bring some sort of closure.

Miles Turner is only 23!!!!! A lot of upside for the kid and with Nate he will get better especially now that he has been paid.

PG3 has to be consistent if the Thunder team hope to go deep in the post season, this is because they lack offensive depth and Brodie is not a volume scorer the team can depend on. They would have to force teams to play under 100 or 105 to get comfortable victories.

The refs didn't want to compound the woes of the Lakers.

My problem with Myles Turner is he can be a bit too passive on offense. He settles for too many jumpshots instead of attacking the rim and utilizing his size

OKC are a weird conundrum of a team. Their offense can grind to bottom level at the most inopportune time. It's why I question their ability to offer any type of threat to the Warriors

YulisCromwell:
Top teams in the east? which top teams? And there are bad teams in the west? do the warriors count as well? cause i can remember the lakers spanking them on christmas day. But wait... i thought you lot said the east was weak and all the teams are bottom feeders in the west? Stop changing the goal post.

Didn't he get blasted by Philly, Toronto and Milwaukee?

Yes bad teams like Memphis and Phoenix that took the piss on your king and hastened their demise and surrender each time they tried to mount a revival.

Anyway stop obfuscating. The crux of the whole gist is LeNomad came back to a team in playoff contention before All-star break and yet by first week of March they were already out of contention. I'm not interested in the rest of your banal arguments and nitpicking stats like Beans. It serves no purpose

I had the Lakers missing the playoffs and I wound up right

YulisCromwell:
Because you rooted for GGG and wanted him to win period. Whether you stan him or not youre biased, admit it.

All I asked was for the fight to be called down the middle. GGG was robbed for both fights. Simple

YulisCromwell:
Most media houses i personally checked predicted Canelo would lose mostly because they felt he lost the first one.

Surely they must have a name

YulisCromwell:
So wilder was out boxed, i'm sorry were you expecting a different outcome? in case you missed the memo, wilder cant box, hes a KO artist/slugger. Fury is an outboxer so when it comes to the sweet science fury obviously outboxed him, but he didnt win.

Stop repeating this stale retort. We know what Wilder is. The point is that with 1 and a half knockdowns (that ninth round slip don't count) the overwhelming majority didn't think Wilder even deserved a draw! Do you know how badly you have to have performed for even your own people to not believe you deserved a draw?

YulisCromwell:
Why would there be any controversy over bias if it was as clear as you claimed especially if the other judges or one other judge scored it the same way

Because of people like you. However the important thing here to note is people are attacking the Mexican judge not the Brit. There is no way a Brit judge handing Fury the win will not also cause controversy solely based on his nationality. What matters is everyone jumped on the Mexican judge for his scandalous scorecard.

Let me ask you. Do you believe Wilder won the first 4 rounds?

YulisCromwell:
Why would he need a tune up to beat a guy he just beat? Lol! Fury was scared and decided to secure the bag before fighting again period.

Because it was argued that he took the Wilder fight prematurely to start with. You ought to be ashamed that a guy that was almost 3 years out of boxing outshone Wilder to the point even his fellow Americans didn't believe he deserved a draw in a fight held in his own country

YulisCromwell:
Why would he under price himself going into the biggest heavyweight bought of the decade? Like i said, wilder has the biggest money making potential out of all of them. Hes the american KO artist.

If you want to be the Undisputed Heavyweight King then that's a small price to pay knowing you hold the aces once you win the belt.

Wilder can't generate as much money as AJ. Not in this life! Wilder on a very good day cannot fill out 15k arenas without a major name like Fury or AJ in his own country

YulisCromwell:
LOL He wasnt ducking the guy you lot claimed beat him when he wanted the rematch with fury. When AJ asked for 50m and got what he asked for then refused the fight, he wasnt ducking Wilder. Keep deceiving yourselves, wilder isnt scared of anyone. Just look at their current opponents Breazale though a can himself is the best out of them. But screw these heavyweights trying to be business men instead of fighting the best. Theyre all shameless. Thats why the heavyweight division is the desert of boxing now. Zero excitement. Fury wilder AJ theyre all a pack of bums! Me defending wilder doesnt change that, you lot just need to be consistent.

Lmaooooo. Where was the contract for this so-called $50m monopoly money. Where the heck is Wilder going to see $50m. No one over 5 years
old believed that ruse. Wilder was asked to forward the contract of said $50m which he is yet to do till this day

Wilder ducked AJ twice refusing to agree to an April date in Wembley

The Breazale Wilder wants to fight now AJ beat 4 years ago. After all the noise AJ has been vindicated

Anyway it's a shame the way boxing has gone. I miss the good old days where the best actively sought out each other and fought with no TV drama or network circus. Now it's borderline WWE

YulisCromwell:
Were they celebrating the crossover or beating the team

The score was like 32-29 when it happened. It hadn't been determined who would win or lose at that point so clearly they were celebrating the crossover

YulisCromwell:
Yeah right this is the first time a crossover has garnered a reaction from the bench in the NBA.

It was OTT for a team not going to the playoffs. Who was that sitting and rolling on the floor like he was being exorcized

steady986:
KCP goes from scoring 35 points while playing with LeBron, to scoring 7 without him. What is it they say about this LeBron man?

Ugggggh. Nothing to do with the fact that it's the 2nd night of a back to back in Utah of all places. And you wonder why people troll with glee when LeNomad loses. As if Bron was not there when same team lost to the Knicks and Suns. Smh

Ibime:
Yet during that prime, nobody crowned him top defender cos they knew he's just a carryalong in a once-in-a-generation German and Bayern team. Once that generation declined starting with the exits of Lahm and Schweinsteiger, Boateng showed his true self which led y'all to claim old age has caught up with him at just 28 years old.

I'm sure it's also Lahm and Schweinsteiger that helped Boateng win German footballer of the year
and also helped him into the Euro All star team

Anyway nobody has time for polling booth awards. As even you have finally confessed this season after seeing the light. At the end of the day trophies is what stands you out as an elite defender not polling booth awards.

John Terryble is one of the few overrated defenders who never led his country past the quarterfinals of any major tournament. It was during his regime that a whole England failed to make it to the Euros

YulisCromwell:
LOL So maybe the west isnt as stacked as you claim it is after all. Again, if a team wins against those teams in his conference where you are required to play them in some cases more than twice then loses to the top teams and then clears the eastern teams he should qualify for the playoffs. The funny thing is the lakers have a horrible record against the so called eastern weak conference but you confused lot keep talking about the west just to suit your dumb narrative.

15 teams in a Conference can't possibly be stacked. Get real please!

Your argument still doesn't make any sense. So he beat the weak teams in the West, which his competition likely also did, struggled with the top teams in the West and teams from the East but more importantly didn't make the playoffs. How does LeNomad and the rest of you Apostates come out with anything but egg on your faces?

Did LeNomad come to make the playoffs and win titles or just beat up the dross of the Western Conference to prove a laughable point

YulisCromwell:
LOL! Like i said, you lot are all biased because you hate canelo. Apart from the legends i mentioned many others felt the same way too, just dont remember their names.

Hagler vs SRL, now that was a robbery.

I don't hate Canelo. Had he won fair and square I'd say so. I'm not on GGG's payroll so why should I defend him blindly

Ohhhh so you know Hagler and SRL was a robbery. Maybe there's hope for you after all

YulisCromwell:
As a matter of fact, yes they did.

Where is your proof mate?

YulisCromwell:
Wilder was never going to outbox fur, what are you smoking. Wilder was only supposed to KO him and anything less than that was why everyone was unimpressed by wilder and so impressed by fury especially after getting up. Wilder won 5 rounds including 2 10 8 rounds, fury won 7. 113-113 like the BRITISH judge saw it was a fair result, everything else was hyperbole by the british fans who cant just shut their mouths, the AJ lovers and the wilder haters like you.

Dude I expected Wilder to win going into the fight. However he was completely outboxed. Did you even see the Final round? Fury got up and wiped the floor with Wilder with Wilder having to hang on to him for dear life. Stop it! If the best he could get in his own country was a controversial draw then technically he lost the fight

And had the British judge ruled in favor of Fury it's still guys like you that would claim favoritism and that he was being partial to his compatriot. What pundits are asking is what fight did the Mexican judge watch that made him award a 115-111 score

The Mexican judge had Wilder 4-0 in the first 4 rounds. Lmaooooo! Who would watch that match with functioning eyes and give Wilder all 4 rounds

Last I checked Mayweather, Teddy Atlas and Max Kellerman are all Americans and not AJ lovers, try another excuse

YulisCromwell:
LOL Fury literally admitted he refused to accept the wilder rematch but wilder was down for it. Fury even said wilder is now so pissed at him hes refusing to pick his phone calls. Fury ran and signed a contract with ESPN and now hes fighting some german tomato can, its embarrassing! One judge was american, one canadian another british, if the brit had scored it for fury then fury would have won, stop speaking out of sentiments!

Fury wanted a tune up fight before taking on Wilder. Nothing wrong with that. There is no rule that says Wilder must be his next opponent

It could be argued that the Brit was overcompensating and not trying to look biased it explains why nobody attacked him. The question is how did Alejandro Rochin arrive at that scorecard? This is what everyone in Professional Boxing is asking till today. His reputation is in tatters as we speak

YulisCromwell:
As for wilder refusing the 100m DAZN offer, heres why hes fully justified. Just a few months ago you lot said 15m was more than he ever made and he should accept it to fight AJ but now theyre offering him 40M? Hes the american with punching power, hes the one with star potential, and why was DAZN hiding what AJ was going to make? Like he said, hes with the people that made mayweather who he is so he should stick by them, very soon 100m will seem too little as well.

Story for the gods. If he's serious about unifying the belts then he should take the offer. For now it's pretty clear Wilder is ducking AJ unless he can show us proof that Showtime are offering him a better deal. DAZN are not obliged to show Wilder what AJ is making. What's his business with another man's pockets?

Your windmill merchant has successfully ducked AJ for the second time. #NoSmokeWanted

birdman:
nah. the league was not that loaded then. If your winning pct was just under .5, you still made the playoffs in the west.

on another note, all the rule changes talent infusion from abroad makes this league s different beast. Talent is no longer enough, like it was when Kobe was the leagues MVP.. Everyone has talent now.

Where did you get this fake news? At no time did you get into the playoffs with under .5, there was even a year a 48 win team failed to get into the playoffs

That's neither here nor there since these present Lakers are more talented than the Lakers Kobe was saddled it. LeNomad had time and talent but was more interested in Anthony Davis than making do with what was available. There is no excuse that can justify LeNomad's team being out of playoffs contention with 15 games to go. We ain't buying that shyte

YulisCromwell:
Bohoo party pooper! Harden pushed off on his crossover last year and we couldnt hear the end of it for a few weeks. Leave him alone!

You lot are just mad cause the lakers arent in a state of melancholy or havent gone into depression like you want them too.

Lmaooo mad? I'm anything but mad. Actually amused that such a meaningless move would generate such a childish reaction

Depression lmao. Stop being so sensitive mate! The goal for the Lakers shouldn't be celebrating meaningless moves with your team 8 games under 500 especially a team with so many veterans

Ibime:
Here lies Boateng. A great defender in the years of our Lord, 2013 and 2014. His two most vocal supporters tried to eulogise him to the status of defenders renowned for over a decade of performance, but he relapsed on them before the age of 28.

Nothing wrong with having short prime so long as you use it to win all the important trophies for club and country.

Unlike the overrated ones like John Terryble who could not do anything outside park the bus defensive settings and shamelessly went to knack full kit when the team won with those same settings even in his absence

steady986:
Still watching that Lance Stephenson crossover on Jeff Green. Damn. That's what you call the Lance dance. R.I.P Jeff Green

He stepped on his foot bruhhhhh. Anyway no need to bash the highlight of the Lakers season

Look at the bench shamelessly celebrating like they won Game 7. A crying disgrace

YulisCromwell:
LOL but a tough conference shouldnt have "bad teams". Besides, if you beat the bottom teams, lose to the top teams and clear out the "weaker" east you still make the playoffs so that really isnt an excuse.

He came back wen they were out of rhythm, lost momentum, then the whole trade fiasco.

What are the odds a 15 team conference wouldn't have bad teams? I'm telling you your perennial stat padder padded his records against the dross of the division. However playing in a tougher conference means you need to be 10 games over .500 to make it to the dance. Their weak record against the playoff contenders put them at a distinct disadvantage

When he came back they had a soul lifting win vs the Clippers. Why didn't they build on it? Even in the East trades happened and they made noise come playoffs time. If LeNomad was as much a leader as Bronsexuals claim then why couldn't he lead this bunch to the playoffs instead of pouting like a teenager. Kobe led trasher teams to the playoffs

YulisCromwell:
Thats not how boxing is scored, canelo landed far more power shots. Again even GGGs trainer was complaining about how triple G fought.

Naah. His shots were mostly to the body. That was where he had his real edge

By the rounds GGG outlanded him 8 times while Canelo made up for it by landing disproportionate shots in the other 4. It's pretty much the same trick Sugar Ray used vs Hagler

YulisCromwell:
You mean the media houses that all predicted canelo would lose? surprise surprise they sided with their pick in a close fight.

You mean 18 media houses picked Canelo to lose or what are you saying sef?

YulisCromwell:
LOL! Call it what you want that was a 10-8 round on every score card. Plus a few close rounds early on. Again a draw is certainly not a robbery like you sensitive boxing fans always like to claim after a fight that doesnt go your way.

A draw is a robbery when there was a clear winner. Everyone and their dog knows this. It's why boxing and it's credibility is at an all-time low

YulisCromwell:
Nope, everyone expected wilder to knock him out, he performed below par and that made fury look good. But ask Fury why he blatantly ran away from a rematch with wilder, he knows. Like wilder said, when he hit him in the 12th, he "touched his soul". He knows the bermaine stiverne treatment awaits him in the rematch.

Yes I agree. Wilder should be knocking out a guy that was out of the sport for almost 3 years, borderline obese and took warm-up fights with a bunch of pizza delivery guys. Instead he was thoroughly outclassed and his fellow Americans boxers like Mayweather, pundits like Max, Stephen A and legends like Atlas all gave Wilder the L

I was not expecting Wilder to be taught a boxing lesson and almost getting knocked out after scoring a KO. It's a pity Fury punches like a fairy else Wilder would have been knocked out

Wilder is making the usual noise he made for the AJ fight till we found out it was all a ruse. Scoring a controversial draw in your own country is a polite way of telling you you lost the fight. Everyone in boxing knows this except you

YulisCromwell:
LOL Again he has a winning record against western teams. The lakers were derailed by a series of unfortunate events but they would have made noise this year. I am yet to see who can win in the NBA without help so what is wrong with getting some?

Yes because he padded his wins record with the dross of the Conference. A combined 11-3 against the dross that weren't sniffing the playoffs like Dallas, Pelicans, Sacramento and Phoenix

What I would expect a skilled analyst to point out at all times is that the Lakers were still in contention to make the playoffs with 31 games left when LeNomad returned.

YulisCromwell:
LOL Canelo won the second fight fair and square, i know pundits and fans hate him and predicted hed lose, i know many lost their money but be honest with yourselves. Even Abel admitted that Canelo took it to GGG, they wanted mexican style, he met them at the middle of the ring and your GGG couldnt do shit but take the plastic surgery canelo inflicted on him. Canelo won that clearly in my eyes. Andre Ward, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd and many others saw it the same way too.

Ohhhh no no no I would have to be really naïve to stake on that fight after it became clear that a Knockout was the only shot GGG had at scoring a win. I'm a logical bettor now not an emotional one.

GGG outlanded Canelo in 8 of the 12 rounds, 18 media houses and only 1 had Canelo winning. It was another heist

YulisCromwell:
And as for Fury, you cant get put on your a-s twice and cry about the decision. A draw is a fair result in my eyes. Thats how the british judge scored it as well.

Lmaooo you call that first slip a knockdown? That's desperate. I was actually rooting for Wilder but he let me down with his agricultural boxing. He put Fury on his a$$ in the 12th yet Fury got up and still outboxed him and almost knocked him out. It's a pity the boxing gods didn't bless Fury with KO power.

Even Americans thought Wilder lost that fight. Teddy Atlas, Max Kellerman, I've not seen a credible American boxing pundit that didn't hand Wilder the L for that fight

YulisCromwell:
i dont even care anymore, at least not as much as i used to. I have other things on my plate. I know its improbably but I just hope they trade him. The NBA sucks with him there and the playoffs will be even worse. Spoiler alert, the warriors destroy everyone on their way to another worthless ring. Wont even bother watching.

Yeah adulting will do that to you.

There's something that doesn't feel right about the Warriors. I don't think it will be as straightforward as everyone thinks

YulisCromwell:
Anywhere but the friggin lakers and their toxic fan base. And dont even get me started on the kobtards.

Must hurt knowing core Lakers fans don't give a damn about your Nomadic herdsman. He's even got booed and barely got a reaction when he passed MJ. Truth be told the way the Lakers surrendered so tamely spoiled the fun for some of us. 18 games to go and the season was already over. Damn