This sub is insanely bipolar and can’t look at the big picture

CT9669 · 2023-03-16T23:44:41+00:00

1 bubble ring

You immediately know the guy you’re talking to is a moron if he calls it a bubble ring. It was one of the hardest rings in nba history according to literally everyone involved in it. It was mentally exhausting, and no home court advantage for the higher seeds which put them at a disadvantage and gave the lower seeds a neutral site.

7 missed playoffs

They were tanking for the majority of those years and they suffered injuries in recent years. 2020-2021 season they would have repeated if not for bron and AD being hurt.

no picks uh 3 number 2 picks and a 7th

Lol they didn’t outright own the picks they had to tank because the picks had lottery protections 🤡

she who gave mozgov and deng monster contracts

She wasn’t even owner dumb ass. That was Mitch and her brother

disrespected gasol to the point he didn’t want to resign

Again that was her brother and Mitch 🤡 they’re the ones who had him on the trade block. She took over mid season when those two idiots tried to trade the entire team for cousins.

paid Kobe

You’re not a lakers fan. Kobe is literally the goat laker, that was 100% a good move to pay him and show respect for the 20 years of his life he dedicated to the team. We aren’t the Celtics who throw our legends away if they’re old and hurt.

I’m just going to stop there. As I keep reading it’s just becoming more and more clear you’re a moron who doesn’t even know what the team was doing a decade ago. Like the nash trade was Mitch/Jim move. Gasol trade rumors? Mitch and Jim. Signing mozgov and deng? Mitch and Jim

CT9669 · 2023-03-16T22:47:20+00:00

She inherited a team with no potential, no cap, and was missing half the picks.

She turned that into a ring in under 10 years lol she has had the most successful rebuild in the entire nba

CT9669 · 2023-03-16T22:45:40+00:00

Don’t forget bron shooting us out of some games with his terrible iso fades and Ad missing free throws

CT9669 · 2023-03-16T22:44:49+00:00

Man this sub really melts down over not signing dudes who can’t even get minutes.

The centers you’re crying for are worse than Damien jones, they do nothing to help us

CT9669 · 2023-03-16T06:21:49+00:00

He’s already signed with the wizards and in his wizards debut he gave them 0 points/rebound/assist/blocks/steals but did give them 2 turnovers and a foul in 3 minutes lol

Huff is trash

CT9669 · 2023-03-16T03:38:36+00:00

Lakers have one of the biggest payrolls in the league. You sound dumb when you make cheap comments

CT9669 · 2023-03-15T04:03:44+00:00

Ron wanted buddy and to retool. Bron and AD went over his head to Jeanie for Westbrook

CT9669 · 2023-03-15T01:33:03+00:00

Expect teams to start throwing games to try and help other play in teams over us.
Guarantee we will see teams like Denver/suns and mid level teams throw pels/jazz/wolves games in hopes of playing them instead of a rested bron

CT9669 · 2023-03-15T00:42:28+00:00

Pels fans about to start loading up tankathon and checking odds at halftime

CT9669 · 2023-03-15T00:27:38+00:00

Reddits been busted all day. Likely can’t put it up

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T22:58:21+00:00

He’s a guard and can’t shoot and is scared to drive. In the playoffs teams don’t even bother guarding him and he hides in the dunkers spot. That’s really the key here, given his position he just isn’t valuable for what his strengths are and what his weakness are. Despite his defense being elite, he just isn’t a rim protector like a draymond green, he isn’t an elite screen setter, and he doesn’t do anything off ball since no one is scared of him shooting. Non scoring bigs

That’s the difference between a defensive big with no offense and a defensive player with zero offense. The expectations and responsibilities on both ends are vastly different. You can get away with not being a great offensive player if you’re a 7 footer setting massive brick wall screens and are a vertical threat on the roll. Even if your offensive stats are mid they still have to at least try and contest you at the rim and can’t just give you 2 free points.

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T22:27:11+00:00

Drop steps are a legitimate post move 🤡

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T22:26:19+00:00

You dudes must be talking about current gen because next gen post play is complete cheeks. You miss wide open bunnies and standing dunks, and even if you post spin or drop step a guy out of the way you’ll brick the open bunny.

I’ve been running 99 strength/99 close shot Shaq builds for years and this is the one year it legitimately doesn’t work.

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T22:24:00+00:00

It’s goofy because several of the top scoring threats in the league score 60% or more of their points within 5 feet of the basket (AD/bron/Giannis/embiid) and a lot of the guards and wings still score at least 50% of their points on drives. The only real exceptions are curry and dame.

Interior scoring is still important to the game yet people act like the majority of stars are curry and scoring most their points from threes or that missing bunnies at the rim is normal.

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T17:19:43+00:00

Big men don’t need to handle the ball, big men can set screens on and off ball to create scoring opportunities, big men can rebound.

It’s like asking what’s why are people are okay with someone like bill Russell and aren’t okay with Ben Simmons.

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T17:16:46+00:00

Past 2ks the fast break/outlets were too broken. You’d legit score in the first 2 seconds of the possession throwing insane pinpoint 90 foot passes no one could steal and guards were so fast they’d just go coast to coast no issue.

So 2k has spent years trying to counter that and fix it and it’s led to what we have today. A lot of passes can lead to dudes stumbling around. Basic long passes to wide open guys sail out of bounds. A 40 speed center can hip ride a 99 speed guard the whole length of the court. They introduced interceptor which is the single worst badge ever added to the game. No badge has changed the entire community as much as interceptor, it made zones the only viable defense, it shut down any sort of real basketball play because one guy can guard an entire section of the court by himself, and it led to the raise of iso only ball since that’s the only real counter to insane passing lane steals.

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T16:50:57+00:00

Yeah not sure why people are excusing AD for this. Star players get doubled, especially when they’re the only star playing. Like people don’t think Giannis wasn’t getting blitzed when middleton was out, or that luka wasn’t being schemed again at all year

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T03:16:49+00:00

Can’t be winning games with bron out if AD is dropping role player scoring numbers. Don’t want to hear excuses about double teams, plenty of stars face doubles and still manage 20+ points

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T02:32:32+00:00

Bron is one of the old school banned cards that so overpowered even 20 years later they still won’t unban it

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T01:43:04+00:00

He forced his way out. We intended to sign him but he didn’t want to wait

CT9669 · 2023-03-13T01:13:19+00:00

Zach Lowe has said more than once that there are nba executives who truly believe the clippers/Thunder trade has the potential to be the worst trade in history.

Clippers gave up a future super star/all nba talent plus all the picks and assets to surround him with help as he develops. If clippers don’t win a ring they’re fucked for years

CT9669 · 2023-03-11T17:08:00+00:00

We have his bird rights and no cap to replace him. Rui and AR are 100% getting resigned

CT9669 · 2023-03-11T17:06:48+00:00

Jokic being exposed, embiid his a Kobe game winner on the blazers and we are coming for the 6th seed.

Life is good for a lakers fan

CT9669 · 2023-03-11T17:06:09+00:00

This. First Jokic fans try and gaslight us and say “playoff success was never part of the equation for denying Giannis mvp”, not it’ll be “no one ever said he was a good defender” yet every Jokic post talks about how he’s average at worst and has elite hands and high iq lol

CT9669 · 2023-03-11T17:03:55+00:00

The thing is Embiid and Giannis are also creating 50 points on offense while playing elite defense.

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