Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 18114 Location: L.A County, 26 miles away from Staples Center
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:36 pm Post subject:
DrDent wrote:
True story in the West:
From seed 7 on down, the hottest team is...
drum roll...
The Rockets
Mainly the emergence of Jabari Smith and Jaylen Green staying healthy.
IfHouston gets another solid big to split the minutes with Sengun I can see them making a huge leap next season.
A decent center with a 10 day contact could have won the game for us.
AD playing soft 10-15 mins could have won us the game against Houston.
Even at the beginning we played so many easy games still we messed up. Look at the number of chances we are getting. It is just ridiculous not to make the play in.
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
Agree to disagree. Kyrie isn’t my cup of tea. Would have accepted him when we were desperate, but we aren’t anymore.
We just lost against a Mavs team without Luka
Lost to a tanking Houston team.
lost to a Knicks team without Brunson
we're 3 games under .500
We're in a great spot right now.
Never said we were in a great spot. I said we aren’t desperate.
If we had this team all year, we are a 4 or 5 seed. If we have this team with a better coach, we are a solid 3 or 4 seed.
would mean we are fine or content with the current situation no? If the team isn't trying to legit compete this year i agree though. Build for the next year.
Dont know how good Lebron will be at near 40 or how long AD's body will hold up next season.
Ham will remain as well dont see him going. Maybe we'll be decent next year. Will be dependent on Lebron and AD staying healthy.
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
I’m a Dlo hater but how can anyone watch tonihjt and blame him for the loss.
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
I’m a Dlo hater but he’s not the reason we lost. Did he miss a big shot with 17 sec left yes but we were up 4. AD single handedly blew this game. He’s lost us multiple games with his ft shooting and tonihjt his terrible defense added to it
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
I’m a Dlo hater but how can anyone watch tonihjt and blame him for the loss.
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
I’m a Dlo hater but he’s not the reason we lost. Did he miss a big shot with 17 sec left yes but we were up 4. AD single handedly blew this game. He’s lost us multiple games with his ft shooting and tonihjt his terrible defense added to it
It can be both. Did Dlo miss any big shots before that one with 17 seconds left? I counted 5-6
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Not nonsense. Truth. He was subpar this game. When his threes aren't falling he has no other means of getting baskets. He cant get to the rim thats why he keeps doing those awkward pull up middies.
But he had 11 assists. I just hope he isn't as dreadful being the 3rd guy when Lebron comes back. I saw enough of that in the playoffs from him last season.
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Bad shots = turnovers, and why are people defending him but pile on Russ every loss?
Rui only 16 minutes tonight when he was a positive?
Why did they have AD on Klieber when all he does is camp outside which takes AD out of the paint?
Both plays at the end you can see AD trying to cover the paint hard. Just leaving Klieber open on both plays.
Rui would have been better guarding Klieber on those plays, and left AD on Wood who is much slower player.
Or Ham should have put Gabriel on Klieber.
Told you Kidd made the right adjustment by taking out Powell down 5, and I believe Ham would make the adjustment if we are still playing now(maybe 3rd OT), slow in game adjustments is the trademark of ham
Yup that was terrible coaching by Ham at the end there... He did have Gabriel in there but he had him guarding the wrong guy. Also I would have sat DLo since he obviously didn't have it. I would have taken my chances with Scho who had going tonight being guarded by Kyrie.
Rookie head coaching by Ham has been really showing all season long.
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Not nonsense. Truth. He was subpar this game. When his threes aren't falling he has no other means of getting baskets. He cant get to the rim thats why he keeps doing those awkward pull up middies.
But he had 11 assists. I just hope he isn't as dreadful being the 3rd guy when Lebron comes back. I saw enough of that in the playoffs from him last season.
Remind me again how Kyrie did in the playoffs last season. Oh yeah, a first round sweep.
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Bad shots = turnovers, and why are people defending him but pile on Russ every loss?
Does a bad shot by any player count as a turnover? Or just the players you don't like?
Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 18114 Location: L.A County, 26 miles away from Staples Center
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:48 pm Post subject:
BandwagonLBJhopper wrote:
KingKobe20 wrote:
Not forcing any actions to get DLO, Dennis, or Austin the ball to shoot these free throws in the end lost us the game.
Rewatched the play leading to AD’s free throws it was horrible.
Dennis and DLO sprinting different directions. Wtffff is that?!?
No brush action. Terrible terrible terrible
Haven’t been critical on Darvin in awhile but those little things are the difference maker in winning ball games.
Yup, really dumb.
This is the thing, we don't have the margin for error. We need him to coach at the top of his game in these scenarios.
No sense of urgency.
And fwiw I like to give Darvin some credit.
I’m really digging the lineups he’s using nowadays.
-AD and Wenyen at the same time was great and hope to see more of it until Bron gets back.
-He realized that Lonnie’s style doesn’t really fit our unselfish style of play anymore and limited his minutes.
-Still plays DLO and Dennis together in stretches but they’ve proven to be affective.
Obviously a really tough rookie coaching season for D. Ham.
Looking across the way Jason Kidd looks like a genius after tonight’s win and it wasn’t to long ago he was in Darvin’s situation
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Bad shots = turnovers, and why are people defending him but pile on Russ every loss?
Does a bad shot by any player count as a turnover? Or just the players you don't like?
Mainly the emergence of Jabari Smith and Jaylen Green staying healthy.
IfHouston gets another solid big to split the minutes with Sengun I can see them making a huge leap next season.
Good for DreamShake! he’s been patiently waiting
I always felt like they were better than their record. Biggest difference I see is Jabari is actually playing like a top 3 pick? Can’t remember if he was 2 or 3 but he’s the difference in this little surge. His numbers look good.
Once the rockets get Wembanyama, Dreamshake will be back on LG
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Not nonsense. Truth. He was subpar this game. When his threes aren't falling he has no other means of getting baskets. He cant get to the rim thats why he keeps doing those awkward pull up middies.
But he had 11 assists. I just hope he isn't as dreadful being the 3rd guy when Lebron comes back. I saw enough of that in the playoffs from him last season.
Remind me again how Kyrie did in the playoffs last season. Oh yeah, a first round sweep.
Dude honestly....Kyrie is so above DLO as a player it's ridiculous to even mention them in the same sentence. DLO has done (bleep) all as a player.
DLO's averages and percentages plummets come playoff time. Dude was averaging 35/39 splits as the 3rd guy on the Wolves team.
No way im giving this dude a lengthy contract. He's 27 years old and hasn't done (bleep).
Im not willing to give Kyrie a lengthy contract neither.
But it damn sure isn't because of his play.
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Dlo seems to have regressed the last 3 games _________________ "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money & position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold & contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Once again we built a statue to Rob for getting Dlo, Vander and Beasly for Brick and a 1st. After few games, except Vando, the trade doesn't look that great.
DLo was a plus 6, misses A LOT of shots, but had 11 assists.
Would still rather have him at $25 million then Kyrie’s flakey personality at $40 million.
The trade was great. The coach, however, was a very bad hire.
Without the bad coach, however, do we even make such a great trade?
There is absolutely no way i'd want DLO over Kyrie personality and all. Watched him last playoffs and he was beyond horrendous.
It’s not even a matter of that it’s a matter of having a competent point bench actually behind him because you can afford it or just being able to afford one player in a bunch of scrubs
Give me D’Angelo Russell every time because Kyrie is going to cost a ton
I agree with that. Kyrie would probably cost a lot. But hypothetically if i had to choose between either one of them im taking Kyrie and im not even flinching. Personality and all. DLO is decent but he doesn't move the needle at all for a team. Maybe as a 3rd guy he can be good but i saw what he did as a 3rd guy in Minny. He was horrendous.
But Kyrie would gut this team with the contract he'd demand.
Can you seriously argue that Kyrie does move the needle for a team? What successful teams has he been a part of since he's left Cleveland?
Kyrie-AD-Lebron would be considered title favorites.
But like the poster said It would be impossible because of the contract he'd demand. Bench would also be gutted probably.
Im not a fan of DLO's game at all. He's decent. But if his threes aren't falling he is nullified.
Nonsense. He led the team in assists and had 0 turnovers tonight
Bad shots = turnovers, and why are people defending him but pile on Russ every loss?
Does a bad shot by any player count as a turnover? Or just the players you don't like?
Dude did you see some of the ridiculous shots he took? The (bleep) up awkward looking mid rangers because he cant beat his guy to the rim?
He missed a couple of threes thats whatever. His weird ass pull up mid rangers are horrendous.
The fault has always been a mix of personnel (Russ part of this), questionable coaching decisions and our stars rarely showing the ability to carry a team like their name would suggest.
I think deep down Lakers FO knows that Lebron and AD just can’t do it consistently anymore. Whether it’s mindset or availability, they can’t do what a Giannis does for Milwaukee for example.
I don’t want to rely on Lebron and AD again next season. Something will happen again for the 4th year in a row. They won’t have Russ as the scapegoat and they won’t be able to use the deeper roster as the scapegoat either.
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