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Mr. Orange said:
You honestly may want to talk to someone about this, so you aren't apoplectic when Bron is holding the trophy in June. I don't see anything stopping playoff LeBron and AD.
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^The Lakers may very well lose in the playoffs, but it certainly won't be to the Mavericks.
 
Another competitive 130 to 84 game
 
SK808 said:
I totally get why ratings are down. My enthusiasm for basketball was really high at the start of the year, but is rapidly fading as the season rolls along. The Lakers basically never lose, so its Golden State all over again. Just too much talent on one team. Not too mention that LeBron is all any media talks about, and it feels like another lame lopsided NBA season.
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This is the least amount of basketball i have watched in all the years i have watched it. I try to watch random games, i quickly get bored. Like you said, its December 7th and minus some crazy injuries nobodies beating tje Klutch boys. People can pretend, well, maybe Milwaukee or maybe the Clippers.....nah. Like i said in mid-October, that Lebron/AD combo cant be topped. Just think, old Bron wanted Kawhi TOO. They would be 23-0 with him. The Nba is barely a sport these days. Basically a big joke.
 
The narrative that the Lakers are a superteam is really amusing. All summer everyone laughed at Rob Pelinka, Lakers missing out on kawhi, Lakers overpaying for AD, Lakers hiring Vogel, etc. And now faced with the possibility that they might actually be good, the response is to either trivialize their competition or to paint the Lakers as some sort of stacked superteam.

The Lakers are far from a superteam and even further from the sort of inevitable champion posters in this thread have implied them to be. They have obvious weaknesses. Their roster lacks playmakers and wing defenders. They have two guys on the entire team capable of dribbling the ball past half court without turning it over against any kind of pressure - one of them is LeBron, who the Lakers need to do so many other things as well, and the other is Rondo, who ruins their defense. They have nobody to guard the Giannis, Kawhi, PG types unless they use LeBron or AD on them, which is a tough ask given their offensive burdens. They are of course still capable of winning it all. But only if their best two players play really well in the playoffs. And if a lot of things break their way (health, Kuzma becoming a reliable third scorer, AD actually being willing to play the five which he has barely done this season, Rondo’s miraculous good shooting continuing, etc). And even then the Clippers will be a tough out in a seven game series.

This isn’t like the Warriors with KD where Curry or Durant could suck for a game, and they would still win. If LeBron doesn’t play well, the Lakers will absolutely lose - same with AD. When the Warriors had Durant they were Vegas favorites to win over the entire field combined. On the other hand, the Lakers are not even the clear favorites, and anyone would be wise to take the field over them. Their best players are going to have to carry them through four rounds of the playoffs; they will have to beat multiple 50 plus win western conference teams just to make the Finals. It won’t be easy for them to win it all. I still suspect they ultimately won’t. If they do, it will be well-earned by LeBron and AD.
 
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ACisKING said:
The narrative that the Lakers are a superteam is really amusing. All summer everyone laughed at Rob Pelinka, Lakers missing out on kawhi, Lakers overpaying for AD, Lakers hiring Vogel, etc. And now faced with the possibility that they might actually be good, the response is to either trivialize their competition or to paint the Lakers as some sort of stacked superteam.

The Lakers are far from a superteam and even further from the sort of inevitable champion posters in this thread have implied them to be. They have obvious weaknesses. Their roster lacks playmakers and wing defenders. They have two guys on the entire team capable of dribbling the ball past half court without turning it over against any kind of pressure - one of them is LeBron, who the Lakers need to do so many other things as well, and the other is Rondo, who ruins their defense. They have nobody to guard the Giannis, Kawhi, PG types unless they use LeBron or AD on them, which is a tough ask given their offensive burdens. They are of course still capable of winning it all. But only if their best two players play really well in the playoffs. And if a lot of things break their way (health, Kuzma becoming a reliable third scorer, AD actually being willing to play the five which he has barely done this season). And even then the Clippers will be a tough out in a seven game series.

This isn’t like the Warriors with KD where Curry or Durant could suck for a game, and they would still win. If LeBron doesn’t play well, the Lakers will absolutely lose - same with AD. When the Warriors had Durant they were Vegas favorites to win over the entire field combined. On the other hand, the Lakers are not even the clear favorites, and anyone would be wise to take the field over them. Their best players are going to have to carry them through four rounds of the playoffs; they will have to beat multiple 50 plus win western conference teams just to make the Finals. It won’t be easy for them to win it all. I still suspect they ultimately won’t. If they do, it will be well-earned by LeBron and AD.
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Yeah...it's amazing how many people have already penciled in the Lakers, the Bucks, or the Clippers as inevitable champions. In reality, we may not have an odds-on favorite til the finals.
 
Nathan S said:
Yeah...it's amazing how many people have already penciled in the Lakers, the Bucks, or the Clippers as inevitable champions. In reality, we may not have an odds-on favorite til the finals.
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Mavs got this in the bag tbh
 
The bucks are actually the team steamrolling everyone atm.

No one worried about them as inevitable champs huh?
 
Rich said:
The bucks are actually the team steamrolling everyone atm.

No one worried about them as inevitable champs huh?
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They're steamrolling everyone while also having the toughest schedule in the whole league. Yeah, I'd say the Bucks are the favorites if I had to pick one.
 
Rich said:
The bucks are actually the team steamrolling everyone atm.

No one worried about them as inevitable champs huh?
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Absolutely not...2009 Cavs on steroids. We saw Giannis get gameplanned for and limited last year.

If it's Bucks vs. Lakers in the Finals, I'm going with the vast championship experience of the Lakers.
 
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