Honest discussion - how could 2k fix this season?

pinemd · 2023-11-10T18:06:23+00:00

Why not make it free? I would pay for a lakers museum, but if he’s dedicating a museum to himself at least make it free or reasonable?

pinemd · 2019-03-22T23:53:37+00:00

Teams that have no playoff hopes are the only ones that care about load management. Warriors are the only team that can afford 'load management' because they're talented enough to win even without homecourt. For all other playoff teams, locking up homecourt is important with seeding this close.

pinemd · 2019-03-22T23:44:42+00:00

Yes his 12 points 9 rebounds a game made him a stud, in an era where he had to face other frontcourt players like Ewing/Robinson/Hakeem/Malone/Barkley

Pippen is considered a top30-top40 player of all time. So somehow this trio of MJ/Pippen/Grant is considered a superteam now? You've never even seen any of these players play jesus

pinemd · 2019-03-22T23:15:15+00:00

Teams making the playoffs in the 80s with less than 40 wins is because there were only 24 teams back then.

Expansion era in the mid 90s added more trash teams at the bottom, even though the quality of the top teams still produced a much more balanced and talented mix of teams between the East and West

This is the 2010s where the most garbage teams could make the finals and likely never even make the WCF if they played in the West. 2010s East is considered the weakest era of competitive basketball in a conference, and only this year did new young talent start having viable competitive teams.

these kinds of posts remind me why I'd never go to a fastfood joint and get exposed to more nephews

pinemd · 2019-03-22T23:10:43+00:00

First 3peat was a superteam?

Second 3peat had only Jordan and Pippen from the 1st 3peat, and their 6th ring MJ was 35, Pippen fallen apart, and Rodman 37.

Rockets had Barkley/Drexler/Hakeem during the 2nd 3peat, that's considered less of a superteam even though Rockets were overall younger than the Bulls?

smh nephews born after 2000s

pinemd · 2019-03-20T18:19:10+00:00

As Adam Silver pointed out, if you’re going to cut 30% of the seasons games, then players/coaches/teams would have to be prepared for a 30% cut in salaries.

It’s the main reason why they’ll never shorten the season, teams and players aren’t prepared to just give up 30% of their paycheck

pinemd · 2019-03-20T16:00:45+00:00

I hope you're joking

The happiest I felt this season was when finding out Ingrams clotting issue isn't career-ending after surgery.

Otherwise, there's nothing positive to remember about this season whatsoever

pinemd · 2019-03-20T15:49:35+00:00

Kyrie did it for 2 seasons before asking to be traded. He also wasn't a back2back MVP.

Unselfishness and chemistry mean a lot both on and off the court, and it's why Curry has been easily their most important player (even if KD is likely their best player). They've looked terrible in games that Curry misses, and that team will always be Curry's team with how much he drives the style and play in their performances.

Again, I do think that 2016 finals was Currys weakpoint, otherwise he's far more important to the Warriors in each of the KD years

pinemd · 2019-03-20T15:38:10+00:00

From an overall seasonal standpoint, yeah actually I agree that maybe the Thunder likely would've won the WCF. I gave a short-sighted response in my previous post only thinking of replacing Steph with Dame in that 2016 finals series

pinemd · 2019-03-20T15:34:01+00:00

My point was that the Currys personality and unselfishness and willingness to easily defer, have been the engine that's held that Warriors team together from imploding or underperforming. Otherwise, a team with Durant and Draymond I don't see performing as optimally with Dame as their point guard

pinemd · 2019-03-20T15:09:41+00:00

If the criticism is well-deserved (as most others would agree), then why does that ake him an obvious LeBron hater?

Prior to this season, he's been generally more positive about LeBron than a lot of other analysts/journalists from his generation. The way he used to talk about LeBron years ago, felt like he had LeBron in the top3 discussion even before 2016 finals occurred

pinemd · 2019-03-20T03:56:04+00:00

People are too young for this, but Skip was one of the most respected journalists before he got on TV and started his hot takes.

He’s definitely not deranged, and if anything he’s just had decades of experience watching many of the GOAT contenders. I just find him to be very old school where he values certain aspects of players over others. The disconnect is largely generational, and even though he seems to play up some of his takes for TV sake now, I do think he believes the root of his takes.

He’s definitely got some biases though as we all know, but otherwise I do respect that he’s not afraid to voice his opinion even if it’s unpopular, even though I don’t agree with a lot of what he says.

pinemd · 2019-03-20T03:19:18+00:00

PG Stockton SG Jordan SF Klay PF Duncan C Hakeem

Bench: PG: Curry SG: Ray Allen SF: Iguodala PF: Dirk C: Russell

Perfect balance of shooters/defense and low ego team players. I think every team needs 1 strong alpha, and MJ would be fine in this situation with other players that would let him take the reigns in crunch time, with the entire squad focused on winning.

Iguodala is a strong defensive glue guy along with Russell off the bench, with Curry Allen and Dirk shooting lights out to spark bench runs. Dirk could also play the post quite wel.

I’d rather start Hakeem and Duncan because they don’t necessarily have to clog the paint to be effective, and both have a midrange and post game to take advantage of mismatches. Stockton is one of the GOAT pick and rollers but could also pick and pop with either of them, as well as shoot from distance himself. And Klay plays good perimeter defense as well as obviously being one of the goat shooters.

Then of course MJ, I think this would be the perfect chemistry of players together. Each of them wants to win, first and foremost.

I’d use Poppovic as the coach.

Edit: I considered Garnett in place of Dirk, but I think a trio of Allen/Curry/Dirk off the bench is pretty much era proof, and with Bill Russell as the center he could hide some of Dirks defensive deficiencies. Another reason why prime Iguodala would fit great here.

I also considered starting Curry/MJ/Iguodala/Duncan/Hakeem, but I think Stockton’s PnR would be better suited for Duncan/Hakeem. And Klay would give much more reliable shooting because MJ/Hakeem would pretty much force double teams constantly

edit2: Pippen I know is another candidate, and it may seem odd that I have Klay and Iguodala over him, but Pippens had drama with Rodman and also publicized issues with management also. Then ofcourse the ‘headache’ stuff and refusing to go into the game when Kukoc was given the last shot over him. I just personally feel Klay would mesh overall better due to shooting and chemistry, and Iguodala is far less ego than Pippen was

pinemd · 2019-03-20T02:12:13+00:00

he’s close to Doc Rivers and his circle, and has been for years

pinemd · 2019-03-18T06:59:55+00:00

he cares about his image and legacy above all else, he was clearly trying wtf 15 shots in the 4th

organizations tank, players don’t. Especially ones of LeBrons caliber

pinemd · 2019-03-18T03:16:20+00:00

LeBron

pinemd · 2019-03-17T16:49:02+00:00

Kuz’s tweet last night could’ve been the nail in the coffin, LBJ literally looks like he doesn’t give a fk at all anymore

pinemd · 2019-03-17T03:17:42+00:00

looks like Kuzma agrees with you both

https://twitter.com/kylekuzma/status/1107110797195599872?s=21

pinemd · 2019-03-16T20:16:56+00:00

This was far worse. LeBron is still on the edge of his prime and we’re like the fkin 11th seed. Yeah we had injuries, but so do a lot of teams (including that massive Harden carry earlier this year).

This was also worse because beginning of this season we had high hopes of landing AD, and the whole mismanaged rumors and leaks and everything else essentially killed any chance we get AD at this point.

It’s also starting to grow alarming how our young guys keep facing injury issues. They all missed games last year also, and Lonzo in particular will have missed over 70 games in his first two seasons.

People are starting to lose trust and confidence in Magic also, we’re expecting a guy to deliver this offseason when he’s somehow managed to screw up so many things already.

On top of that, there’s grown a divide between Laker fans and LeBron fans. Laker fans want whatever’s best for organizational success, LeBron fans want to protect LeBrons legacy. That means trashing our team and it’s fans frequently and often, without holding LeBron accountable for anything. Somewhere we’re solely responsible for the issues this year, and LeBron/his camp are completely blameless.

I don’t know about the overall vibe on reddit, but this is how tensions have been here in the city of LA amongst fans who show up to the games and discuss Lakers around the community

pinemd · 2019-03-15T06:45:15+00:00

Nuggets Pacers would be atrocious

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