₦airaland Forum

Just few hours after Skip Bayless questions LeBron's efficiency in the 4th quarter this season, he scores 12 to help the Lakers win. You love to see it.

etidy:
The 76ers were afraid to risk it all to get Harden but I thought it was a mistake.

They left it late to the point when the Nets became desperate.
They are not winning the NBA title with Simmons unless he develops some shooting. Embiid and Harris has clearly stepped up. But Simmons is holding this team back

Did you write this before or after the game ended?

Let's see what the media would say tomorrow. Lemme start frying my popcorn

Are Harden and KD going to play 40 mins every night? It's 40mins each and we still have overtime to come. Harden player 41 against the Bucks. They both played 40 against Magic.

Kilishihunter:
Yes bro Brady is the higher super bowl winner between the two cause Rice has 3. But the number of records Rice has to his name is highly and madly insane. Over a 100 records. Well I get your point picking tom Brady cause most feel a quarterback is more critical to a team than a wide receiver . But Jerry Rice was almost uncatchable when on the run and hardly dropped a pass and He has more records than Brady despite playing for only 16 years and Im sure many of his records won't be broken even till after his death. And most of us won't forget the deflagrate ball deflation scandal which implied they've been cheating for a long time. But as usual there's no debating that Tom Brady is in the top 3 and is the greatest quarterback of all time.

Haba, this one is an indictment on the illustrious career of the man na. I've always felt that that deflategate was just a whole load of bullocks. Definitely unintentional. There were studies that even showed that the weather could alter the pressure of the ball. And those balls were even reinflated at halftime in that very game and NE still scored 28 more points, more than they scored with the so-called deflated balls.

benji93:
I am not surprised at all.

Lol. How would you?

Well, congrats on your mini trophy you won there

Meanwhile, for the UFC fans, who watched Holloway vs Kattar? Damn, Max was in beast mode. I've never seen that guy fight like that. Over 700 attempted strikes and over 400 connecting. On top one person body. That has to be a top 3 most dominant performance in UFC history.

Damn, the Lakers dropped all the way down to first place with that loss. I'm so gutted.

birdman:
Kenny and Charles trying to start something. If Harden is now the PG what is Kyries role. Hmm

Harden has to be the PG, he's the best passer on the team. Kyrie would have his moments though.

mattfeuter:
Maybe the Knicks are Back

Haaaa. Back bawo. This is a one-off

How do the Celtics lose by 30 to the Knicks?

Luka on fire. 4 straight threes.

mattfeuter:
He might be.

It’s not even the fact that he’s a good scorer, it’s always the efficiency for me.

I respect efficient players and not just guys jacking up shots.

This was why it never worked in OKC having Westbrook as his decision maker.

The only fear now For the Nets should be Kyrie.

Maybe we have to distinguish most diverse scorer from best scorer. Because if you say best scorer, LeBron has to be on that list too the numbers are there to prove it.

mattfeuter:
You don’t stop great players.

You just Hope to contain them.

Especially that slim reaper

Yes, making sure they don't go for 40 each night

Lol

Greatness

nairamaniac:
This actually shows how great LeBron is and has been over the years.

Before Davis came to L.A, he wasn't amongst the Top-8 best players.

At most Number-10. Remember that during those many years/seasons we had Westbrook, Cousins, Butler, Kawhi, Steph, Bron, Paul George, Harden, Bron, Durant ahead of Davis.
I may not be accurate in my retrospective-ranking, but I'm sure I'm at least 80% accurate.

Then he comes to LA to team up with Bron and we say both are best Duo.

Meanwhile we have Paul George and Kawhi who were both inside Top 6 for like 3straight seasons, we are not calling them both Best Duo.

Then we have Harden&Kd, winners of 5 scoring Titles between them, we are yet to call them best Duo.

The point is that any Top-15 that teamed up with Bron would automatically make them both the BEST DUO, period.

I agree with all your points, but these guys I highlighted have never been better than AD in this league

Android17:
You are not answering my question. I asked you if he is being honest because he predicted that the LAL will win even when you know that ever since KD called him out, he has voted and spoken against KD.

What are you even talking about? Do you listen to Chris Broussard at all? Brousdard has always spoken well of KD, both before and after that incident.

Android17:
Broussard is honest because he is predicting Lakers to win? You do know that Broussard is mostly saying so because KD put him in his place in 2019?

Predicting Lakers to win is being dishonest?
And which team did he predict last year initially before he changed his mind because he saw what was happening? Tell me if that's not honesty.

Trey Young looks way off this season.

Don't let the age fool you.

And now that a lot of the offensive load has been taken off him he can do some damage on the other end too.

Chuck always has something to say

mattfeuter:
That episode was pure comedy.

Especially when Chris finished talking and skip asked Shannon to speak, unc declined and mentions he wanted Chris to gloat some more.

After last year, Chris has learned not to bet against the King.

Lol.

Broussard is one of the few honest analysts remaining in the world. Asked if the Nets have a chance of winning the title with their big three and he gave an emphatic NO! But trust Skip. Lol. He kept whining about it even though he said just yesterday that he wouldn't trade the Nets bench prices for Harden. Lol. Shannon did him bad by bringing out a paper with the quote. You should have seen the look on Skip's face Uncle Shay was definitely made for Skip

chic2pimp:
It was Harden's decision to come join Him not the other way around and tbh I can't say I blame Him. No superstar in His mind will reject the prospect of teaming up with Harden. Heck even Giannis with the supposed beef He had with Harden will welcome Him with open arms. As long as Show me your rings continues to be the order of the day, we will continue to see these superstars band together to create super teams.

It's unfortunate that he found himself in that situation again. I'm quite sure he okayed the move.

But this is funny though; KD left GS to Brooklyn to prove that he can win a championship without a super team, then BOOM! Super team again
Caught me off guard there I must say.

I notice how Max Kellerman and all these analysts are giving these superstars a pass. They say Kawhi is expected to make the conference finals at least. They say KD is expected to make the finals at least even though he has two other superstars on his team. But poor old LeBron, they expect him to win it all or else it's a failure. There's levels to this thing abeg

mattfeuter:
Throwing this to the house

What do you guys think of the Lakers Chances of repeating now that the Nets have loaded up ?

Unbiased views would be appreciated

No doubt the Nets have the best trio in the league, but the Lakers have the best duo and the best team. Plus they're miles ahead defensively. Honestly speaking I think they should worry about getting out of the East more than anything, because the East is loaded at the top. The Bucks would love to make thongs right; the Sixer's actually got better this off season and they look scary; then there's the unknown quantity in the Celtics when they're healthy. Brown is not joking this year.

But by and large, if the Nets make it out it should be an interesting finale. I just think the Lakers would be able to dominate the Nets defensively. Plus the match ups don't favour the Nets. Who guards AD when Gasol is on the floor? KD? Then who guards Bron? Harden? We saw how that worked out last year. But on the other hand AD can take on KD seamlessly. Bron can guard Harden. When it's AD and Trez on the floor we can easily throw Trez on Harden and let Bron guard KD, while AD protects the rim. Schroder or Caruso can do a decent job on Kyrie. Then there's KCP and Mathews to handle Joe.

The key thing here is that the Lakers best offensive players are also their best defensive players, which means we don't have to sacrifice one for the other just because of matchups. But it's not so for the Nets. Green right now is their best defender, but he doesn't offer much offensively so you can't play him big minutes. Same with Jordan.

I'd love to see the finals happen though. Should be mouthwatering.

Afromentalist:
They do have an entire season to figure out how to play together, and at least 2 of their superstars are not load managers a la Kawhi. So they will build up chemistry.

Main concern should be defense and the ball distribution and even coaching. I am no sure Nadh can handle that , but these are lesser problems.

KD and super teams though

Lol. He's going for broke now. He's like "f*ck what they gon say"

mattfeuter:
They lost Jarrett Allen
.
You don’t think that’s huge?

Im not sure if DeAndre can protect the rim like Jarrett.

My brother! They basically gave up their entire bench for this trade. The fact that they still have about 12m in cap after that trade tells you how sh*t that team currently is.

I'm thinking that if Kyrie's head was right they wouldn't have done this trade. My gut feeling is that they'll trade Kyrie at some point this season. And they should pray he doesn't continue like this, if not they'll have to lose him for peanuts, maybe a fringe All star and a few picks, because not many teams would be willing to part with much for a problem like Kyrie.

mattfeuter:
Bro,

This is championship or bust. No ifs or buts.

One thing we know is KD and Harden will show up.

Same can’t be said about kyrie.

Make dem no sha give us any excuses if it doesn’t go according to plan with all that firepower.

If Kyrie plays then he'll show up no doubt, but I'm still trying to crack my head as to how this works. It worked for KD in GS because neither Steph nor Klay actually needed the ball; they were more deadly with their movements. And KD as well doesn't need the ball that much. But here we have Kyrie and Harden who are both ball hogs, with KD. One of them would have to turn to a spot-up shooter o , e no get how

So the Cavs just messed around and got Jarrett Allen

birdman:
so rockets are in rebuild mode, ol boy this year is going to suck. If you are coach silas, you praying and fasting right now - baba how did I end up in this mess I like Oladipo, but the only winner in this situation is the owner saving money

Rebuilding ke! With Oladipo, Wall, Wood, Cousins and Gordon? That's a team that's expected to make the playoffs at least. Then we see where they go from there.