The Official NBA Season Thread: SFA Prevails

[B Sox]

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Getting tired of beating the Warriors every other day. Bring on the playoffs already. Regular szn is for the birds

 

[Public Enemy]

I had to look up why dlo only played 9 minutes. Damn that sucks. Taking the ball out of all things.

 

[theregothatman]

Lakers out here giving people false hope by beating a warriors team who got a total of 7 road wins this year.

 

[ill steelo]

Dame getting Hollywood. That was shockingly unprofessional.

Kings are one of the softer defenses in the league. Would’ve felt like the all star game that he just played in

 

[B Sox]

Joker had 24/18/13 on 62/100/100 splits against Mobley and Allen

 

[pmatic]

Something hilarious about Pelinka coming out of the shadows and sitting amongst the fans after the trade deadline.

 

[nick.]

Lakers really got up for the Warriors, huh? That was their championship.

 

[Hijo Del Promo]

Lakers really got up for the Warriors, huh? That was their championship.

Nah thats in June, our Season Championship is seeing Westrbrick go destroy the Paper Clipps.

 

[amitt5504]

Good guy Jim

 

[atlsfinest]

it hasn't worked with PG before. nor with KD, nor with Harden, nor with Davis, nor with Lebron. so I'm not optimistic but goodluck to him.

We really have to see this every time he switches teams at this stage of his career?

I swear, it's almost as if people haven't followed Westbrook's career. It's all good vibes and smiling press conferences until the ball is tipped up. Literally this exact same thing happened when Westbrook first sign of the Lakers. There was a long article ESPN bout how Westbrook met with LeBron and AD and Russ said he was ready to sacrifice in order to win a championship. It's all smiles, dancing and good vibes until Westbrook gets on the court and it ends up being the same old story.




There's this weird "push back to the pushback" on Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook wasn't the only problem with the Lakers. The team don't have great coaching and the front office to the bad job with roster management but Russ was a big part of the problem due to his inefficient play and poor decision making.

Part of the problem with Russell Westbrook in his last couple stops is that he was among the highest paid players in the league so simply having Westbrook's enormous salary on your roster made it difficult to build a competent team. Westbrook wouldn't catch so much heat if he were making $15M but the fact that he is the second highest paid player in the league and is basically a good bench player at the stage in his career made it even tougher to deal with. When you're paying someone $47M You need that player to be elite in Westbrook just isn't that guy anymore. The Clippers are in a better situation solely because they don't need Russell Westbrook. The Lakers, Wizards and rockets needed Westbrook to be elite and that's where they failed.

 

[703 hwy]

Portland resting dudes fresh off allstar break

makes no sense. Soon players will be resting in the playoffs

 

[Nipsey3000]

Edit

 

[WASHED KING]

Good morning GS FANS.

 

[Nipsey3000]

Dame getting Hollywood. That was shockingly unprofessional.

Kings are one of the softer defenses in the league. Would’ve felt like the all star game that he just played in

Except for him chasing Fox and red curry around for 35+ mins.

But I get it

 

[WASHED KING]

it’s almost comical how much better the Lakers are now Like the gap is more than significant.

Don’t know whether to congratulate Pelinka or be furious with him for acquiring Russ & his contract in the first place

Again, very fortunate Bron carried them to .500 when AD was out earlier. Otherwise they would’ve fell more than 10 games under .500 & it’s probably a wrap.

Now if healthy they’ll be right back in the mix.

They’re a very uncomfortable matchup for whoever finishes in the top 4.

Y'all haven't seen uncomfortable yet. Let the Lakers get into the playoffs.

 

[pums]

i’m maybe washed i had a wedding last saturday was drunk played 15 mins the next day against 2 pros over here.

I’m still on recovery mode bruh feel like **** . I get load management

 

[atlsfinest]

Something hilarious about Pelinka coming out of the shadows and sitting amongst the fans after the trade deadline.

 

[xxpizzo]

 

[WASHED KING]

People really going to give Pelinka credit for trading away Russ but wanted to blame Bron for acquiring him.

That's some crazy job security. Dude cleaned up his own mess.

 

[EZMONEY SERVANT]

 

[HIM]

it’s almost comical how much better the Lakers are now Like the gap is more than significant.

Don’t know whether to congratulate Pelinka or be furious with him for acquiring Russ & his contract in the first place

Again, very fortunate Bron carried them to .500 when AD was out earlier. Otherwise they would’ve fell more than 10 games under .500 & it’s probably a wrap.

Now if healthy they’ll be right back in the mix.

They’re a very uncomfortable matchup for whoever finishes in the top 4.

They have to be the favorites to win it all now. And tbh, anything less would be a tremendous failure with that roster.

 

[picasso swerve]

I might be late but this angle is crazy.

 

[xxpizzo]

Doc Rivers just said the NBA told Joel he had to play the ASG on 97.5. Embiid told him he wasn't going to play but the league told him to get out there​

Hmm interesting makes sense cause a sixers beat writer was hinting at this as well

**** adam silver clown ***

 

[trynafeelmink]

I swear, it's almost as if people haven't followed Westbrook's career. It's all good vibes and smiling press conferences until the ball is tipped up. Literally this exact same thing happened when Westbrook first sign of the Lakers. There was a long article ESPN bout how Westbrook met with LeBron and AD and Russ said he was ready to sacrifice in order to win a championship and the moment he got on the court It was right back to the same old Russell Westbrook.

There's this weird "push back to the pushback" on Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook wasn't the only problem with the Lakers. The team don't have great coaching and the front office to the bad job with roster management but Russ was a big part of the problem due to his inefficient play and poor decision making.

Part of the problem with Russell Westbrook in his last couple stops is that he was among the highest paid players in the league so simply having Westbrook's enormous salary on your roster made it difficult to build a competent team. Westbrook wouldn't catch so much heat if he were making $15M but the fact that he is the second highest paid player in the league and is basically a good bench player at the stage in his career made it even tougher to deal with. When you're paying someone $47M You need that player to be elite in Westbrook just isn't that guy anymore. The Clippers are in a better situation solely because they don't need Russell Westbrook. The Lakers, Wizards and rockets needed Westbrook to be elite and that's where they failed.

Fam he's off the team already give it a rest