Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
From before the series started.
We've seen this exact game probably 5 times in this 10 game stretch. No reason to have expected otherwise.
And like I said earlier - this is not bad luck as much as it is a reckoning. Ham ****ed off with his rotations all season so a team that should've probably been a 3 seed, 4 at worst, is sitting 8. This is a direct reflection of poor coaching.
For the 'regular season doesn't matter' crowd - it damn sure has for the Lakers.
It seems fairly obvious they'd have given anybody a run in the West (but the Nuggets) as well with LeBron and AD playing this well in combination too. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
It seems fairly obvious they'd have given anybody a run in the West (but the Nuggets) as well with LeBron and AD playing this well in combination too.
And I think Russell had found himself until he vapor-locked against Murray and the Nuggets again.
If they manage to stay away from Denver, they're a WCF team. And there are teams that can/will play Denver harder than LA can.
It's just such an opportunity lost. And it's entirely because of a disinterested effort from the coaching staff for the first 3/4 of the season. Ham just throwing his hands up and saying "Hey - Vanderbilt is injured - what do you want me to do?" just pisses me off so badly.
He blew this season for them. Just completely torched it. [Reply]
This illustration infuriates me and shows how bad hero ball is. And this idea that player x HAS to take the shot. Nobody has to take the shot above anyone else. When they think they do you get terrible eFG percentages like this. This is the next evolution of analytics getting coaches and star players to realize this. [Reply]
I 100% admit that I'm a bandwagon Nuggets fan, so I certainly have no claim to any sort of basketball knowledge.
But I just have to say I find it kind of hilarious how similar this thread is compared to the last time I poked my head into any NBA discussions (last year's Lakers-Nuggets series). It's still pretty much just discussion about whether Lebron is awesome or sucks and KCC posting tweets to refute the idea. :-)
(For the record, I thought he was about the only Lakers player who looked like a threat yesterday, so it's hard to understand the hate, but I know I have very limited context.) [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
I 100% admit that I'm a bandwagon Nuggets fan, so I certainly have no claim to any sort of basketball knowledge.
But I just have to say I find it kind of hilarious how similar this thread is compared to the last time I poked my head into any NBA discussions (last year's Lakers-Nuggets series). It's still pretty much just discussion about whether Lebron is awesome or sucks and KCC posting tweets to refute the idea. :-)
(For the record, I thought he was about the only Lakers player who looked like a threat yesterday, so it's hard to understand the hate, but I know I have very limited context.)
Nobody thinks he sucks. It's more Ken Pom Connections mental illness on the subject on display [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
I 100% admit that I'm a bandwagon Nuggets fan, so I certainly have no claim to any sort of basketball knowledge.
But I just have to say I find it kind of hilarious how similar this thread is compared to the last time I poked my head into any NBA discussions (last year's Lakers-Nuggets series). It's still pretty much just discussion about whether Lebron is awesome or sucks and KCC posting tweets to refute the idea. :-)
(For the record, I thought he was about the only Lakers player who looked like a threat yesterday, so it's hard to understand the hate, but I know I have very limited context.)
You could go back a year or a decade (or even two in LeBron's case) and it would be the same here. People are threatened by his greatness.
Also, yeah, he sort of singlehandedly kept them in the game in that 4th Q yesterday when nobody else had anything going. It was honestly one of his more complete playoff performances in a while given some of the defensive plays he made like the old days. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni:
Nobody thinks he sucks. It's more Ken Pom Connections mental illness on the subject on display
Sucks? No, I don't think anybody outside of perhaps Clay might think that.
Unwilling to accept he's the greatest basketball player who ever lived despite every bit of evidence that suggests to the contrary? Yeah, I'd say so. There's not one player in basketball history who could have anywhere close to the kind of impact he did on the game yesterday in year 21. Instead of simply appreciating that, we have people trying to denigrate him for allegedly not being clutch (despite being probably the clutchest playoff performer statistically in history). Very sad stuff. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni:
It's shit like saying Stephs titles don't count when LeGM cried his way to Miami to form the "Little 3" :-)
LeBron had a 73 win team begging KD to join them just to defeat him. LeBron haters know that this makes LeBron the GOAT, which is why they pretend it never happened b/c if they were to ever acknowledge it, it would make all of their agendas 100% useless.
