THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP

[P C H]

I say this as someone who has Bron 3rd all time,

Just take your resume and be on. Because it get real dicey if you wanna talk about conferences.

We got guys like Harden and CP3 who are KILLED for their playoff failures because they're losing to KD, Steph, Duncan, etc.

While the winning Bron enjoyed in his career and on his resume resume is due in large part to the circumstances that the eastern conference provides.

And to top it off...he only been out west a season and a half, the playoffs ain't even here yet

 

[ballinsam23]

Bron talking way too soon.

In the West you need two legitimate all stars just to get out the first round sometimes. In the East, that might get you to the Finals.

 

[wavycrocket]

I say this as someone who has Bron 3rd all time,

Just take your resume and be on. Because it get real dicey if you wanna talk about conferences.

We got guys like Harden and CP3 who are KILLED for their playoff failures because they're losing to KD, Steph, Duncan, etc.

While the winning Bron enjoyed in his career and on his resume resume is due in large part to the circumstances that the eastern conference provides.

And to top it off...he only been out west a season and a half, the playoffs ain't even here yet

I watched the defending champ....55 win Spurs be a 6 seed...and lose to a 3 seed 56 win Clippers in 7 games in the west.



Meanwhile, LeBron James and his Super team Cavs with Kyrie & Love...was playing the 40-42 Boston Celtics with Jared Sullinger as a 2nd option

Bron so disingenuous and insecure when it comes to his “legacy”....that’s why he does all the goofy ****, and media stuff.

That’s my issue with him. No accountability. Ever. Changing of standards and narratives.

 

[Cashflow]

I watched the defending champ....55 win Spurs be a 6 seed...and lose to a 3 seed 56 win Clippers in 7 games in the west.



Meanwhile, LeBron James and his Super team Cavs with Kyrie & Love...was playing the 40-42 Boston Celtics with Jared Sullinger as a 2nd option

Bron so disingenuous and insecure when it comes to his “legacy”....that’s why he does all the goofy ****, and media stuff.

That’s my issue with him. No accountability. Ever. Changing of standards and narratives.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[friscostylez]

Man no one said that Lebron + Another top 5 guy in the west wouldn't be able to get **** popping in the West

Just that, he wouldn't make 8 straight finals. For perspective, he took a team with Jordan Clarkson, Jeff Green, Jr Smith, Larry Nance, as real rotation guys to the finals...and they still went 7 with Rookie Tatum and Oladipo's pacers. That's not cutting it in the west. Not close.

And that's all his critics were saying. And it's a fair talking point, since the 8 straight finals is propped up so heavily IMO

He wouldn't be playing Brandon Jennings and Kemba walker in the first round, he'd be playing Tim Duncan, Kobe, Harden, dirk etc.

You give credit where credit is due though. LBJ and the Lakers were in the mix xmas day last season, but so were the Tobias led Clippers, ya know?

wasn't the original argument Lebron can take any team to finals? based off his finals record, if he were on the west, he would have made it there a max of 3 times.

 

[BIG FISH]

I’m seeing a lot of “Who said a team with Bron and AD wouldn’t be good” when that DEFINITELY was not the sentiment prior to the season.
Dudes had teams like Denver and Utah being better than the Lakers
We having a convo about Bron being disingenuous while y’all being disingenuous as hell lol
Y’all be cool tho..

 

[niceshoes247]

Word?
U got the lotto numbers too?

wasn't the original argument Lebron can take any team to finals? based off his finals record, if he were on the west, he would have made it there a max of 3 times.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

I watched the defending champ....55 win Spurs be a 6 seed...and lose to a 3 seed 56 win Clippers in 7 games in the west.



Meanwhile, LeBron James and his Super team Cavs with Kyrie & Love...was playing the 40-42 Boston Celtics with Jared Sullinger as a 2nd option

Bron so disingenuous and insecure when it comes to his “legacy”....that’s why he does all the goofy ****, and media stuff.

That’s my issue with him. No accountability. Ever. Changing of standards and narratives.

Preach god

 

[B Sox]

Bron had the Lakers in the playoff hunt until he hurt his groin with an ill-fitted roster last season
Bron had the Lakers rounding into a top contender before the league suspended play

*Shrugs*

Ingram missed 30 games (including the final 19) and Lonzo missed 35 games (from mid January on). That probably didn't help.

 

[storm2006]

Trae Young’s advance from Klutch must have cleared

 

[MVP]

I just said the sentiment was the roster outside of he and AD wasn't ideal and subsequently why most of the media types had the Lakers in the lower half of the conference before the season started.

Good to see the rest of y'all come to me and wavycrocket truthing about Bron and the East though. We've been preaching from the pulpit for over 5 years now.

 

[MVP]

Ingram missed 30 games (including the final 19) and Lonzo missed 35 games (from mid January on). That probably didn't help.

Lakers were well outta convention by the time BI was out, that was sealed after his failed 'activation.

 

[wavycrocket]

This 49 win, 8th seeded Mavs team....took the Spurs in 2014 to 7 games . The same Spurs team...that demolished the Heatles in (at that time) by the LARGEST MARGIN in Finals history.

2014 Eastern Conference

2014 Western Conference

It was just a difference man. Doesn’t take away from Bron’s all time greatness. But when he pretends like the East wasn’t easy as ****, and he had stacked all the talent for a decade in that conference....he fronting.

 

[BIG FISH]

And we are talking about dudes being criticized for their playoff failures as if y’all don’t bring up Bron’s finals record at any given opportunity
I mean yeah he wouldn’t have made anywhere near the same amount of finals had he been playing in the West, but you could assume he’d have somewhere around the same amount of rings.

 

[wavycrocket]

Ingram missed 30 games (including the final 19) and Lonzo missed 35 games (from mid January on). That probably didn't help.

Half a game back from the 8th spot....then activate “playoff mode”...then talk about how you back etc...then this happens...to “the goat”?

He then proceeds to shut down the entire season, when he was healthy enough to play, because his team was out of contention.

Ill fitted roster...whatever. This is the supposed GOAT, struggling to beat Tanking teams, while his team is in the hunt for the playoffs .

That’s UNACCEPTABLE. Period.

 

[niceshoes247]

Keep talking...

 

[Cashflow]

 

[B Sox]

Half a game back from the 8th spot....then activate “playoff mode”...then talk about how you back etc...then this happens...to “the goat”?

He then proceeds to shut down the entire season, when he was healthy enough to play, because his team was out of contention.

Ill fitted roster...whatever. This is the supposed GOAT, struggling to beat Tanking teams, while his team is in the hunt for the playoffs .

That’s UNACCEPTABLE. Period.

You really going to get on him for sitting out the last 6 games of the season?

 

[darthska]

Bron talking way too soon.

Agreed.

 

[wavycrocket]

You really going to get on him for sitting out the last 6 games of the season?

He said if you healthy...you play . Man said he was straight, til he wasn’t . I’m not really knocking him for it. But it happened.

 

[shotsrangout]

took a break from this thread.

come back and dudes still talking about lebrons legacy.

 

[niceshoes247]

 

[wavycrocket]

 

[antidope]

Easily Cuffs the Clown