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Please rearrange the national tv schedule. I don’t think we need to see these guys get beat every night.
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No Danny Green,Caruso,KCP, Kuzma or Javale… Traded/Let go all your dirty work guys just so you can have a super team w/Russ and some minimum guys
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I'm gonna need Lebby to do an episode of The Shop explaining his thought process in gutting the team to bring in Westbrook.
Made absolutely no ******* sense.
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Russ cheerleading again. 
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OAN, how is Winning Time? Anyone watch IT yet? There a thread in General?
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No Danny Green,Caruso,KCP, Kuzma or Javale… Traded/Let go all your dirty work guys just so you can have a super team w/Russ and some minimum guys
EVERY team has atleast 1 of those dirty work guys, Lakers legit have non. Reaves their closest dude but hes a rook. Cant have a rookie be your dirty work dude.
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Heard it's a banger so far. Not much traffic on the General thread yet
Gonna try and get on it after I finish some other things up
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Lakers so bad they gonna make me cue up the latest Power: Force episode with Super Saiyan Tommy.
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vogel ain’t the GM…
blaming the chef because he can make a masterpiece out of the shh ingredients he was given
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No scheme or lineup combination can save them.
They’ve allowed a FORTY point quarter in 4 of the last 5 games, gave up 20 in a 5 minute OT period against the tanking Rockets.
Starting with 44 allowed to the Pels in the 3rd.
Dwight got the start. One of the greatest defenders ever in his prime, now getting picked on in his old age. No longer capable of playing against other team’s starters.
- First You see Dwight in no man’s land in the PnR. Hayes is in the dunker so that’s supposed to be an easy rotation for Ariza but he’s late.
-Then Dwight takes one of the laziest fouls you’ll ever see
-Then he tries to cheat and guesses completely wrong
-Then he’s in no man’s land again
-Last, Reaves helps off of the 3 point line to prevent a midrange jumper
DJ checks in for Dwight, the deficit grows to 30, DJ gets released from the team the very next day
Vogel just doesn’t have any real options here. No real adjustments can be made from a roster or schematic standpoint.
Vogel is left with an awful LeBron/Melo frontcourt duo. It goes about as well as you’d expect. Next game vs Dallas, 41 allowed in the 2nd.
Spence gets Melo on the switch, Melo handchecks & pays the price. This is one of the weaknesses they have even if AD is healthy. Not hard to seek out Melo or whichever other victim they’ll have out there.
-Then Baze gives up a straight line drive
-Neither Bron or Russ have boxed out for several years, so Powell gets an easy o board & putback
-Dinwiddie gets Melo again & they trap. After the first pass out of the trap, Melo doesn’t rotate anywhere
-LeBron at the 5 didn’t get the ball on offense on the original possession or after the steal gets frustrated so he decides to jog back in transition, gets beat down the floor & gives up a dunk. Terrible body language & unacceptable effort from your “leader.” Very very selfish.
- Stanley gets beat, Bron on the backside just watches
- Luka gets Reaves on the elbow in a cross match, Bron on Dinwiddie - a pedestrian shooter spotting up behind the arc. Bron gives no help at all
Extremely low effort, it’s like he’s trying to rest on defense to have energy to chase his numbers on offense. He shows no desire to move his feet defensively.
-THT with an extremely short “close out” you can barely call it that and he gets blown by anyway
-LeBron complaining to the ref, takes his time getting up and never gets past halfcourt on defense
Mavs let them all the way back in it with a bunch of terrible jumpers & lazy passes, then Luka picks on Bron to close it out
-First look Bron doesn’t really bother the shot.
-Next you see Bron trying to sit on Luka’s right, Luka attacks Bron’s lead foot & Bron just doesn’t have the lateral quickness anymore. Stan helps & Russ is supposed to help the helper & force the kickout to the corner (defensively an open 3 is better than an open layup) but Russ is out of position
- Luka attacks his lead foot again & gets by…. again
- At this point Bron is embarrassed so he ducks the matchup for the last 2 minutes. Handing Luka off to his other overmatched teammates. Too late though, damage already done & another loss. At one point Dallas hit 9 in a row late.
Next game is the clippers, no other choice but the Bron/Melo frontcourt again. 40 allowed in the 3rd
Start with Melo guarding nothing. He has a million clips like this.
-Lakers do a good job getting back in transition & Mann goes 1 on 2, Bron sees that decides to make it a 1 on 3
-Zu leaks out, both Russ + Melo completely oblivious
-Bron not guarding anything
-Russ with another terrible decision, Bron barely gets past the logo on the possession so he’s the first man back in transition & clearly wishes he wasn’t
-They’re just bending over at this pointReaves is not equipped to switch onto any starting 5 and they give him zero support
-Bron/Russ PnR with Russ rolling which is actually a good idea that we should see much more often, just poor execution. Zu in a deep drop so Bron has to score to make him step up a bit more. Instead Russ can’t finish, and the 3 lakers who get back are Reaves, Monk, & Melo
-Dwight showing again why retirement is near. He just can’t move around anymore.
Next game is the Warriors & Bron puts his heart and soul into it
Lakers get a day off & he still has to sit against the Spurs, another day off & he returns against Houston & looks terrible on both ends.
Had a game winner but didn’t feel good enough to challenge David Nwaba at the rim
Melo PnR torture begins. He’s just not equipped to protect the rim. On the other end you see Bron physically just couldn’t get up for this one.
Melo in a drop guarding nobody, Reaves dies on a weak screen like he’s expecting Melo to switch
This was actually nice action out of the time out. Set a low screen for Russ & make EJ & Sengun think. You get a defensive breakdown with EJ guarding nobody, but Reaves has a tendency to be trigger shy
Russ smokes the layup & Bron essentially quits on the game
KPJ blowby on Reaves, clock running down, Melo helps, Bron helps the helper… but Malik Monk apparently thinks it stops there
Late shot clock trap to try to force a turnover, Melo guarding 2 guys on the weakside & he’s way too flat. He’s directly in front of Sengun so there’s no way he can get out to Green
LeBron is only about Kareem right now. He’s consciously moving his feet on that end as little as possible
Melo, Monk, & Russ don’t have any idea where to be, & Dwight Howard can’t move anymore Looking at their remaining schedule, outside of the Washington game, I’d take the over for the rest of the season.
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Heard it's a banger so far. Not much traffic on the General thread yet
Gonna try and get on it after I finish some other things up
was it euphoria I told you, you needed to watch recently?
i know it was something, can’t remember what thou
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Heard it's a banger so far. Not much traffic on the General thread yet
Gonna try and get on it after I finish some other things up
Same. Currently finishing my rewatch of Happy Endings, such an underrated and underappreciated show when it originally aired.
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Yeah 2nd season. Thats next. Just got done with Snowfall
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Worse than Russys mid range game and layup percentage
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They could use 50 tonight
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I always forget how bad we are until we play.
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LeBron is only about Kareem right now. He’s consciously moving his feet on that end as little as possible
Looking at their remaining schedule, outside of the Washington game, I’d take the over for the rest of the season.
Bron making a mockery of the game right now
. It’s shameless. Purple & Gold should be pissed.He’s been Conserving energy to put up crazy numbers for some years now. But it’s at an all time high now. **** is funny to watch.
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Saw the pilot. My thoughts
Didn’t know it was a thread. Good looks!
Heard it's a banger so far. Not much traffic on the General thread yet
Gonna try and get on it after I finish some other things up
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the checks do not say Klutch anymore?
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I said something similar a while back in the Lakers thread and they went wildBron making a mockery of the game right now
He’s been Conserving energy to put up crazy numbers for some years now. But it’s at an all time high now. **** is funny to watch.
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