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The Lakers be moving mad. Pelinka done lost his mind

I learned two things from the Knicks winning the championship this year:

1. Your best players have to be healthy in the playoffs. And no team is an exception. We all assumed OKC were going to be fine without JDub but his absence hurt them more than you can imagine.

2. The league is wide open. There are 8-12 teams than can literally win it all next year if they just put one or two things together.

Josh Hart said f*ck them picks

Brunson wasn't about to let no freaking OG Anunoby touch that Finals MVP

Only one man did it

Wait o, the Knicks later won that game?

Omo

Kibbs:
Haven’t curry and IT proved that already?

Toh. There's a myth that only all-time great small guards can lead their team to a championship

Can you win with a small guard as your best player?

Na this finals we go take answer that question

The Spurs better manufacture another 41 and 24 from Wemby or else this is going to end pretty quickly.

OKC in 6 though

birdman:
Lol, why are you still pained? Face the Thunder that swept you na. Oh, I forgot, yall only speak loud when bullying playoff newbs. Its not even that you got swept, its how you got swept. 4th option Ajay lighting yall like a cigar That was more like a spanking than a sweep. But Issokay, enjoy that good cali weather, we will see yall next year!

We didn't have Luka. That's all the excuse I need

The Pistons are just the Houston Rockets of the East. They play dirty and had but have zero offense. Plus they each have a player named Thompson.

greypencils:
Your lakers aint shit. They are not a standard to measure OKC's abilities.

So what is the standard? The Spurs? A team that has only one regular season as evidence of how good they can be. Lol. Una go soon learn.

I know we're all thinking the Spurs can stop OKC, but get that thought out of your minds because it's not happening. OKC are a complete level above Spurs. And don't say Spurs dominated them in the regular season and in-season tournament, that is ages ago, and in low stakes basketball. This is the playoffs, ain't no messing around here. I watched this team hand my team basketball lessons. And I know the Lakers are a level below the Spurs, but we're a decent team too. And it didn't matter. OKC just has multiple weapons they can throw at you.

And I know there's the Wemby factor, but it won't be enough. The only thing OKC need to do is make him as inefficient as possible on the offensive end, because Wemby will be Wemby defensively. But I know OKC has ways to work around the Wemby paint presence too.

It's either going to be a bloodbath, or it's going to end very quickly. Whichever way, I still back OKC to come through.

greypencils:
LEBRON JAMES IS THE FIRST PLAYER IN NBA HISTORY TO BE SWEPT IN BOTH CONFERENCES AND SWEPT IN 3 DIFFERENT DECADES

THANK YOU GOAT 🐐😆

Make I like your post. What an achievement. First player to be great in 3 different decades

greypencils:
3-0. Beatings confirmed.
Bring out the brooms gentlemen! Steady's man had better retire.

There's no shame in getting swept by the best team in basketball with your Batman out injured and your Robin playing like crap

birdman:
Embiid, thank you for letting me down just in time, just like you did in fantasy playoffs lol

meanwhile, we need your commentary on the impending beatings your Lakers will collect tonight

Lol, everybody go collect ontop OKC hand no worry. That team na cheat code SGA has not had a single good game in this series yet dem don blow us out for all the games

Lol

birdman:
the same centers that play in the playoffs play in regular season na, lol. If their intensity goes higher in playoffs, why wont embiids own go higher as well. Thank God for stats, otherwise you for jus dey argue dey go If anything, sixers should have been punished for keeping an mvp caliber player on the bench half the season for ghost reasons, doing just enough to get into the playoffs, while other teams like celtics risk Tatum to compete

A wise man once said, "playoff basketball is a different sport from regular season basketball"

birdman:
It was funny, watching Lakers think they had a chance at half time. I see this series as one that will convince Lebron the ring days are over. Even with Luka, Lakers are too old, too slow to play 48minutes of fast paced ball with OKC. Even Caruso looks slow on that team!

Lebron can average 20ppg with this crew, but it will not be enough.

Lol. First of all, the Lakers are not old. You can say LeBron is old, but that's it. Secondly, OKC don't even play a fast paced type of game. It's their aggressiveness that makes it look like They're playing fast. They're middle of the pack in terms of pace both in the playoff and in the regular season. They prefer half court basketball. They score fewer transition points than even the Lakers. And they don't even move the ball around like the Lakers do, with or without Luka. Their game is basically give SGA the ball in the half court and let him cook, while the worker bees feed on kickouts and cuts and put backs.

Be like this series go short o

birdman:
Embiids ppg and rebounds were higher versus the west this year.

In the regular season, yea?

birdman:
Embiid was load managed all season, so his total stats hide how good he has been this season. They saved him up for playoffs, and celtics were the unfortunate first victim

Lol, it's all about matchups. Which center on the Celtics was working Embiid? Any team he meets in the west is smacking his behind with that bum knee and back. The east doesn't have prominent big men that can work him.

birdman:
Steady986 wey u na. Na only after victory we dey see you. If you no show now now, bball gods go deny your boy fictory

Lol, me wey don win series since 3-0. Wetin dey to talk again? E good as we extend am sef, more days for Luka to recover.

etidy:
I think a team in the West has to trade for Giannis to counteract the wemby defense conundrum in the paint.
A fit Giannis is probably the only player I see giving wemby problems.

A fit AD too. Guys that finish with power, intention and versatility at the rim. But sadly, AD's prime years are behind him. I hope I'm wrong though.

Nah, this is out of pocket

Bronny James outscored the entire Rockets bench in a critical playoff game. We'll be keeping that as evidence when anyone brings up the "Bronny doesn't belong in the NBA" bs

In the last 29 years, NBA teams were 1713-1 when leading by 6 or more in the last 30 seconds in a playoff game. They're now 1713-2 thanks to the Rockets

Missed opportunity by the Rockets there. Huge miss.

How did Warriors fans suddenly think their team is any good? This thread wey we dey since October wey we no hear pim.

Anyway, if I'm the Warriors, I'm breaking this thing all up. Dem don try. The longer they postpone this thing the worse it's going to get. That Jimmy trade wasn't necessary. Your two superstars are old and injury prone. Just let it go. The rebuild will take some time but it will be worth it in the end.

SmooshCHN:
Ask me this question again.

I don ask am again

OKC will run Curry out the gym

What they gon say now?