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greypencils:
Can you imagine? Inexperience of both players and coaches experience showing. Make them kuku go house, Pacers too. Let the two experienced war horses go at each other. Kyrie has a ring, Jrue has one too. Luka has played a WCF before. [b]Tat and Brown have played 2 ECFs [/b]and 1 final. The major difference in the final will be Jrue and White. If they can stop Ky and Luka, they win. If they can't, the white boy gets his first ring, a legend in the making.

birdman:
Because he is handling the ball too much. Yes he sees the floor well, but he also slows down the game at this age. I would like to see someone try a ball dominant PG for once.

birdman:
Play like MVP?

birdman:
1. Do you think Kobe with this year's Lakers would have been swept by the Nuggets? 2. Do you believe Lakers with Kobe would be up 20 pts in 4 games and lose them to the same team in one playoffs series? Na simple questions o, dont do too much shalaye

greypencils:
That's his role on this Lakers team because of LeBron. His role in Brooklyn was the primary playmaker and he did it well to the extent of being chosen as an all star. He was the primary playmaker when LeBron abandoned this team last season when he thought they were done for. LeBron only resurfaced after they had fought their way from the bottom into playoff contention.

greypencils:
I didn't watch the game you are talking about. DLo scored 0/7. Other superstars would demand the ball even when their shooting is bad. Some score 0 at half and start to cook in the 3rd or 4th. D.Lo might score 0 but he will have his assist numbers up if given the ball to distribute till he builds confidence to go to the rim or shoot. But when Bron pushes him to SG instead of PG and his shots are not dropping, what else is he to do?

greypencils:
Do you think if Curry was intimidating, Poole would have the guts to be chucking 3s? Poole was confidently shooting dem 3s. The problem was, he wasn't knocking them down, wasn't passing when he should, ran his mouth too much and had that altercation with Draymond. If you say Draymond now, yes Draymond could Bleep you up mentally being his teammate, not Curry.

birdman:
You have thrown multiple names here, everybody has some blame, except Lebron . Of course you know this means guy man is not goat material right? Excuses up and dan

Look, I watched rockets when steve franchise and cuttino mobley used to costus games while looking like they were playing hard. I am familiar with pretenders. And I know what I saw in that Laker-Nuggets series. Your guys were trying to get big leads, then coast to the end. In other words, play with the minimal effort to win. That laziness cost them what could have been another ring this year.

Good luck to Lebron with the podcasts and movies. Zero leadership shown this year. Just whining up and dan. And good luck to AD, he goes back to being a max contrac t guy with zero responsibilities, just like he likes it . Na LA fans I pity pass. After being blessed by Kobe's work ethic for so many years, you have to put up with this refuse dump of a team.

birdman:
You realize Lebron slows down the game when he is tired, and holds the ball long enough to prevent guys from getting into rhythm. Do you want me to post multiple times he keeps the ball until 8s left on the shot clock? If we no blame leader of the team, who we wan blame again? Is he only leader when they are winning? If you want to chop accolades, why will you not chop criticism

larride:
How did Wolves get all these bigs though?

larride:
Haliburton is lucky to have starters and bench players turning up. Imagine a so called superstar dropping 6pts in round 2 of a playoff game.

greypencils:
I know you will make it a Curry vs LeBron matter. That's all you think of. In my post, I classifed Curry as washed too unless he stops chucking 3s. If he makes use of his midrange, he is still lethal. LeBron on the other hand is intimidating to his teammates. Both his coaches and his teammates are scared of antagonizing him. If Lebron demands the ball, no one dares to refuse him. As a result, that ball doesn't move freely. You can't compare Rajon Rondo's distribution of the ball to DLo's. These boys are playing scared. People here were dugging AD for not taking control of the 4th quarter in the series against Denver. If Lebron decides to play iso ball in the 4th quarter, Na who want stop am?

greypencils:
Read what I wrote again. This time, slowly.

birdman:
Its not just about ant mans skills. Its his leadership, being able to make a team want it just as bad. I believe it was a40 that said I was too harsh on Lakers. But I know what I saw, Lakers bench was at least as good, if not better.

This win, in nuggets territory exposes the fraud that was the lakers team this year. These guys were never going to win a ring this year and only wanted to be in the playoffs so they can say they didnt miss it.


It also exposes the Durants and Beals and Hardens. Even Kyrie and Kawhi. A whole generation just whined and got coaches fired, but never took that MJ crown. Them youngns exposing them now.

birdman:
Agreed on all points. Lakers should have used regular season to fine tune an offense that is not centered on lebron. Even of it meant losses this team has to keep game pace with the rest of the league

greypencils:
Poor rotation indeed. What the Lakers need is someone who will sit Lebron's candy ass down and not allow him handle the ball so much. He is stagnating their game play because most of the offense goes through him. He is taking too many isos, has the ball longer than he should and doesn't track back on defence when he loses the ball.

At one point in the series against Denver, He dribbled the ball off his own foot and then turned around and yelled at Prince about it. Like say na Prince make am lose ball. At another time, he was in pole position to catch a defensive rebound when Murray drove to the paint in front of him and Reaves. Reaves contested the shot, he didn't. He stood right beside both of them expecting the same Reaves who contested the shot to catch the rebound. When he didn't, he scowled at him. Who does that? He wants to play all offense and play no defense. He takes the glory when they win and shit on his teammates when they lose. You too dey here dey blame Darvin Ham because of the rotation. Yes I support you because he didn't have the balls to put Lebron in his place. LeBron has no business being PG at his age. When he pushes DLo out of PG position, what is the poor guy supposed to do if not to stand around and wait for crumb shots with no minute left on the clock, delayed shots because young Papa oldie is playing PG with his old arse moves.

greypencils:
All of 'em young stars would avoid anything Los Angeles now. Why allow some washed up stars use you to bolster their CVs when you can do bad all by yourself and attract all the attention they are getting? CP3, Bron, Kahwi, Harden & Westbrook are finished goods. Curry has a lot in his tank but until he learns to use his midrange more & stop stat padding by chucking 3s, I'll call him washed too.

birdman:
There was an edge that just wasnt there. I cant fully tell what it was, but I think Lebron's nice guy, players best friend attitude kept this team complacent. I think its too late for him to change it though, and that is such a shame. The coaching wasnt that great, but honestly I think the team's attitude, including Lebron and AD was a bigger problem.

But I know even you, you would prefer to see Ant man vs Jamaal. This lakers team needs to be blown up and real dogs brought in. If Lebron doesnt want to do the nasty job of calling out folks, get someone else who will. In my mind I keep dreaming coach gets replaced and you guys get Mark Jackson

Come an join us in cancuuuuuun

Skrrrrrrr:
Lol.
You have to be an extremely unbothered, indifferent individual to play with LeBron.
Davis has unarguably being the best players for the Lakers this series, but guess who everyone is yapping out?
Guess who steady says needs to improve?

Omo....