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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 5:54 pm    Post subject:

NEXT GAME:
    Los Angeles Lakers vs Denver Nuggets
    Ball Arena | Tuesday, May 16, 2023 โ€ข 5:30 PM PT

      Western Conference Finals / Gm#1
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 6:00 pm    Post subject:

Mo, are you ready?
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 6:12 pm    Post subject:

Denver runs 8 deep more or less. Their offense is Jokic, Murray and literal role players who just do their thing. You make Jokic a passer or a scorer (like we did with Steph). The only person on earth who could possibly do this is AD and guess what, we have AD.

In terms of role players, I think D'Lo/Reaves/Vando/Rui/Dennis/Walker match up fine or slightly ahead of KCP/MPJ/Gordon/Brown/Braun/Green.

DLo/Reaves/Dennis/Walker vs. KCP/Braun/Brown => slightly ahead to LA
Vando/Rui vs. MPJ/Gordon/Green ==> slightly ahead to Denver
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 6:21 pm    Post subject:

Draymond - "It's going to be on the Lakers to ... you either gotta stop Joker from passing or stop him from scoring. The easier one to do is stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both you lose. It's very simple."

https://streamable.com/7ozw8o
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 6:57 pm    Post subject:

drae wrote:
Draymond - "It's going to be on the Lakers to ... you either gotta stop Joker from passing or stop him from scoring. The easier one to do is stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both you lose. It's very simple."

https://streamable.com/7ozw8o

Agree. Him getting 51 didnโ€™t equate to win. 25 and 12 does.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:00 pm    Post subject:

Halflife wrote:
drae wrote:
Draymond - "It's going to be on the Lakers to ... you either gotta stop Joker from passing or stop him from scoring. The easier one to do is stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both you lose. It's very simple."

https://streamable.com/7ozw8o

Agree. Him getting 51 didnโ€™t equate to win. 25 and 12 does.


Iโ€™d cut off his assists and let AD play 1:1 D on him
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:04 pm    Post subject:

Bron2AD wrote:
Halflife wrote:
drae wrote:
Draymond - "It's going to be on the Lakers to ... you either gotta stop Joker from passing or stop him from scoring. The easier one to do is stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both you lose. It's very simple."

https://streamable.com/7ozw8o

Agree. Him getting 51 didnโ€™t equate to win. 25 and 12 does.


Iโ€™d cut off his assists and let AD play 1:1 D on him

I think the only downside is that jokic can pull AD out of the paint which is where he is devastating this postseason. Rui can certainly get some time on him.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:06 pm    Post subject:

https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1657935116415692810?t=ZthNsmtBIUS1q5LrgttRlQ&s=19
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:10 pm    Post subject:

Bron2AD wrote:
Halflife wrote:
drae wrote:
Draymond - "It's going to be on the Lakers to ... you either gotta stop Joker from passing or stop him from scoring. The easier one to do is stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both you lose. It's very simple."

https://streamable.com/7ozw8o

Agree. Him getting 51 didnโ€™t equate to win. 25 and 12 does.


Iโ€™d cut off his assists and let AD play 1:1 D on him


Bron can actually guard Jokic
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:18 pm    Post subject:

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The team is leaving for Denver tonight. I wonder if it's to get acclimated to the altitude. Normally they would leave the day before a game.

https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1657908906876706823?t=5LV40-6QdYwo7nlkt4op0Q&s=19


As a former, no longer athlete ( ) I am onboard with this as everytime I have exited Denverโ€™s airport I feel the (bleep) difference. Itโ€™s insane.


Ex Athlete? When was that? 50 years back? ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Not too far off ๐Ÿคฃ

Jkโ€ฆeven if it feels like it lol
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:19 pm    Post subject:

drae wrote:
Draymond - "It's going to be on the Lakers to ... you either gotta stop Joker from passing or stop him from scoring. The easier one to do is stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both you lose. It's very simple."

https://streamable.com/7ozw8o


Coach Draymond is correct. Itโ€™s always been like this with the nuggets.

Their peak is when Murray and Jokic are both setting up teammates in addition to getting 20+ points themselves.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:40 pm    Post subject:

So far in the playoffs, Denver has the:

3rd worst transition defense
3rd worst ball screen defense
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:49 pm    Post subject:

LakerSD wrote:
Bron2AD wrote:
LakerSD wrote:
32 wrote:
The team is leaving for Denver tonight. I wonder if it's to get acclimated to the altitude. Normally they would leave the day before a game.

https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1657908906876706823?t=5LV40-6QdYwo7nlkt4op0Q&s=19


As a former, no longer athlete ( ) I am onboard with this as everytime I have exited Denverโ€™s airport I feel the (bleep) difference. Itโ€™s insane.


Ex Athlete? When was that? 50 years back? ๐Ÿ˜‚

Jk


Not too far off ๐Ÿคฃ

Jkโ€ฆeven if it feels like it lol


lol
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 8:06 pm    Post subject:

32 wrote:
https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1657935116415692810?t=ZthNsmtBIUS1q5LrgttRlQ&s=19


This is great

This looks like something that a buffalo Bill fan would do Iโ€™m a Laker fan and Iโ€™m a Buffalo Bills fan due to being deployed on both the East Coast and the West Coast
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 9:33 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 9:51 pm    Post subject:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6upZoC7Z4M


The moment he said he had Phoenix as a finalist lost all credibility right there! Like why so many picked Phoenix to get to the Finals is beyond me.... It was as clear as the the Arizona sunny sky... top heavy (2 stars, 2 questionable "would be stars" in CP3 and space cadet Ayton...) NO depth, no bench. Yet all these stupid media pundits still liked the Suns for whatever reason
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 10:48 pm    Post subject:

This series will be much more difficult than Memphis and Golden State.

The Nuggets have the bodies to match up with us, no problem.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 11:24 pm    Post subject:

JamaalWilkes wrote:
This series will be much more difficult than Memphis and Golden State.

The Nuggets have the bodies to match up with us, no problem.


Well Booker didn't have a hard time penetrating their defense. The only one who can give Bron a hard time is Gordon, who will give AR, DLo, Lonni, DS a hard time? Murray aint a defender.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 11:25 pm    Post subject:

DLo, AR, Lonnie, DS should attack Murray like how they attack Curry.

Bron can be a decoy in this game or he can attack Murray or MPJ on switch. Everytime Gordon guarding him, give it to somebody who Murray is guarding, no need to force it.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 11:34 pm    Post subject:

1995Lakers wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6upZoC7Z4M


They are right on the switch, Booker capitalized on it, dont know why Lebron can't.
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2023 11:56 pm    Post subject:

32 wrote:
https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1657935116415692810?t=ZthNsmtBIUS1q5LrgttRlQ&s=19


Poor Austin missed out, lol.
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PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2023 5:35 am    Post subject: Re: ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€ Lakers (7) vs Nuggets (1) ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€ - Western Conference Finals Thread

Treble Clef wrote:
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Game 1: Tuesday
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4:

I think itโ€™ll be over after these four games. Denverโ€™s only hope was for someone else to take the Lakers out.

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PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2023 6:13 am    Post subject:

ESPN Picks

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Denver Nuggets (1) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (7)

Kendra Andrews: Nuggets in 6

Jerry Bembry: Nuggets in 7

Omar Raja: Nuggets in 7

Nick DePaula: Nuggets in 6

Nick Friedell: Nuggets in 7

Israel Gutierrez: Lakers in 7

Tim Legler: Nuggets in 7

Andrew Lopez: Nuggets in 6

Tim MacMahon: Nuggets in 7

Bobby Marks: Nuggets in 7

Dave McMenamin: Lakers in 6

Kevin Pelton: Nuggets in 7

Omar Raja: Lakers in 7

Ramona Shelburne: Lakers in 6

Andrรฉ Snellings: Lakers in 7

Marc Spears: Lakers in 7

Ohm Youngmisuk: Nuggets in 7

Final tally: Nuggets 11, Lakers 6


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PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2023 6:18 am    Post subject:

Has Ramona every picked a series correctly? Her pick concerns me.
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PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2023 6:20 am    Post subject:

Same formula. Take 1 the first 2 Denver home games, win both home games, and be in a position to just win 1 out of the final 3 games.

I think our home court advantage is real, but so is Denver's.
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