**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

[theregothatman]

 

[darthska]

Hmph, I didn't know anyone was recording me. Cool.

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

Lol at the notion that DLo is the main reason the Lakers got swept against Denver. "Untrained eyes."

The fact that MPJ averaged 9.6 rebounds against the Lakers is lost in everyone with an "Untrained eye" as Spoelstra told Ramona Shelburne yesterday LOL. So true though lol

Wanna know why MPJ averaged damn near 10 boards against LAL?

Cause LAL played one rebounder the whole series - AD, who had zero help in the paint. Period.

Unlike MIA, who had KLove out there starting last night and LED THE HEAT IN REBOUNDING with 10 boards IN 22 VALUABLE MINUTES BRO lol and at the same time limiting MPJ to 6 while allowing BAM to focus on slowing down Joker, a luxury AD never had cause he had zero Big Man help.

And oh btw, MPJ led the Nuggets in rebounding in Game 1 of the Finals. So you wonder why the GREAT SPOELSTRA decided to play his old, washed, battle tested Big Kevin Love much to the chagrin of Modern NBA fans lmao.

Lakers losing the series to Den had little to do with DLo stinking up the series and more to do with AD lacking another big to help him neutralize AG and MPJ's damage in thr paint.

Hmm, no wonder Tristan Thompson played IMPACT BASKETBALL when he finally received extended minutes in game 4.

Rocket science folks.

That's why Spo went BIG in game 2, brought the battle tested KLove back in the fold, and BOOM! MIAMI WINS.



As long as AD has a bunch of non-rebounders and non-bonafide bigs starting next to him and as long as AD is starting at the 5 with no big man help, he ain't ever winning another championship. And I got a rack sitting right here waiting for any "Modern NBA" fan to challenge me on this claim.

 

[darthska]

I agree with all that, but everyone loves guards and fancy dribbling and deep 3s. Preaching about bigs is seen 'old timey.'

I'm with you.

 

[MIKE LOWERY]

Vando/Bron/AD and Rui/Bron/AD matches up size wise. Bam is smaller than AD and is getting cooked just the same. Size is not the issue. Hell LAL has better personnel than MIA, on paper.

They couldn't match DEN's output. Most of that can be attributed to their $30 million starting pg who **** the bed.

Doubling off 40% shooters to help on Jokic, the best passing big man in the game, didn't help either.

 

[pmatic]

 

[DLF]

I’d do it.

Dlo
Reaves
Luka
Rui
AD


I’m wit it

 

[pmatic]

 

[tay1]

Kyrie on that guy ayahuasca

 

[atlsfinest]

Don't even understand how this would work, even in Kyrie's mind. Dallas can't trade their picks far into the future and they have no real assets outside of Kyrie and Luka. Kyrie just out here talking just for the sake of talking.

 

[thasoleful1]

These idiots think we trading Lebron for nothing when they traded all their pieces for Kyrie give up Luka you dumb ****s

 

[pdino]

Dallas got no assets. Would just be Lakers taking their bad contracts. They ain't giving up Luka

 

[lovehateself]

 

[essential1]

Kyrie been watching those Amazon documentaries again.

 

[drewsone]

bron and kyrie funny af lmao

 

[sohi 23]

I’m down for Luka for Lebron

 

[Lizakers]

If Lebron wants it, lakers will accommodate

 

[darthska]

Kyrie got a hold of that GOOD 'sage'.

 

[drewsone]

If Lebron wants it, lakers will accommodate

not sure how true this is
bron wanted ty lue lol

 

[thasoleful1]

Kyrie a dumbass, he wanna play with Lebron so bad take a pay cut and come on over

 

[drewsone]

he wanna play w/ bron but not $30m less lmao

 

[atlsfinest]

If you're LeBron, I just don't understand why you'd want to go to Dallas. His son is playing at USC, literally down the street from the Staples Center and the Lakers are a better team. He would literally be leaving a team that made the conference Finals for a bottom 10 team in the league.

Also, I would imagine LeBron is smart enough to understand the CBA and he knows that we would have to give up all of the players that helped us make the conference Finals in order to get Kyrie, It's not like we can do a simple 1-for-1 swap of D'lo for Kyrie (and it's not like Dallas would make that trade anyway).

LeBron really wants to go back to a Big 3 of LeBron, AD and Kyrie (with literally no depth) or LeBron Kyrie and Luka (with no depth) then LeBron isn't nearly as smart as I think he is.

 

[atlsfinest]

he wanna play w/ bron but not $30m less lmao

The new CBA would make it near impossible for Dallas to have 3 players making $40M+. The rest of the roster would literally be veteran minimum guys

 

[grittyman]

Not even wasting any brain cells on this silly news.

Next topic please

 

[darthska]

If you're LeBron, I just don't understand why you'd want to go to Dallas. His son is playing at USC, literally down the street from the Staples Center and the Lakers are a better team.

His son is playing at USC, literally down the street from the Staples Center

Staples Center

#notmycrypt