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2021 NBA Offseason Thread

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I said in the summer that the Sixers would and should look into a Simmons for Paul swap.

For all the Simmons stans on this forum, I would not want that guy on my side in the playoffs (but I do accept the counter-argument about Paul’s injuries.)

It’s a high risk move either way. Simmons complete inability to shoot makes him useless in the playoffs unless he has floor spacers around him and everything is allowed to run through him (like Giannis does - but Giannis is a considerably better scorer). On the other hand, he’s young and he is good at everything except shooting. CP3 is a great shot creator, an incredible shooter, and still a plus defender. But man he’s never freaking healthy and now he’s old to boot.

I saw this incredible fact that the other day was the first time Joel Embiid ever faced Chris Paul. Every previous meeting, one or the other (or both) was injured. Imagine depending on both of them to be healthy through a playoff run.
 
Three players are having insane statistical seasons this year: Giannis, Harden, and Luka. Hard to even say which of them has been the most impressive though my vote would probably go to Giannis.
 
Lets be honest LeBron choked in 2010 against Boston too.

Rajon Rondo was the best player in the series. Not LeBron. And no one will ever forget his game 5 meltdown.

lol too funny. That series was literally 4 vs 1. Reminded me of the series lebron played against the magic that year.
 
What exactly are you trying to prove by going back almost a decade to dissect LeBron's worst playoff games? Yeah, he sucked in some playoff games. What superstar hasn't?

Hell, you can even look at Jordan for bad playoff games. Bulls go up 2-1 in the 1989 WCF. They stole home court in game 1. Jordan then loses 3 straight. Goes 5-15 in game 4, 4-8 in game 5 (wow Jordan only took 8 shots in a playoff game in a tied series?). Game 6 he goes 13-26, but only 5-12 from the free throw line. Yikes! Got out scored by Vinnie Johnson and Mark Aguirre in game 5.

We're a month away from 2020 and people are still harping on the 2011 Finals. It's because ever since that moment there's nothing LeBron's critics can really point to. Every superstar has had terrible playoff games. There just wasn't 24/7 social media analyzing every second of every game back then.

Well said. A lot of sour grapes in here.
 
I think it's both true that LeBron has failed at times and that LeBron has been unlucky at times. He absolutely failed in 2011 - that loss was one hundred percent on him. As others have pointed out, he also failed in 2010 (though personally I don't think that Cavs team was good enough to win it all either way). He's also had luck bounce his way - Ray Allen's three pointer saved the Heat in game 6 in 2013 before LeBron took over in game 7.

On the other hand he's been bounced multiple times when he played really well (2009 against Magic, 2014 against Spurs, 2015 against Warriors without Love and Kyrie). 2015 was especially unfortunate with the Cavs' injuries. And that's all before the second best player in the league was able to join a 73 win juggernaut through a once-in-NBA-history cap spike. The Durant to Warriors move basically wasted another two years of LeBron's prime; it really didn't matter how well he or anyone else played - nobody was going to beat a healthy version of that team. That was incredibly unlucky.

Lebron has been lucky at times just like many other great players. The difference that folks here fail to acknowledge is that the cavs have had a history of being a terribly ran organization. Outside of the lebron years and the lenny wilkins year the team has done nothing in 40 years.

Just the fact of lebron willing this franchise to 5 finals and one championship is a miracle in itself.
 
MEEEEELLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy to see Melo back on the court. I hope he balls out.
 
Brandon Ingram is gonna get a max contract extension
 
Good lord the Lakers have played alot of home games to start the season. So when they win tonight they will be what, 12-2. So are they headed for a 2016 Warriors type season? Are they THAT good or is the league that watered down? Basically we went from knowing one team was going to win the title to now knowing its between two teams. Nice product.
 
Good lord the Lakers have played alot of home games to start the season. So when they win tonight they will be what, 12-2. So are they headed for a 2016 Warriors type season? Are they THAT good or is the league that watered down? Basically we went from knowing one team was going to win the title to now knowing its between two teams. Nice product.

Its the same old, same old with the NBA. One team has a collection of players that are so dominant that no one can compete. Just like Durant and Curry being paired up, LeBron and AD are simply too talented and MVP-caliber for 95% of teams to have a good chance of winning. Add into that their insane schedule to start the season (mostly at home, against below average teams) and if you've got another team that you know will almost never lose when you look at the schedule for each night.

It will be interesting when they start playing the likes of MIL, PHI, HOU, DEN, etc - but I agree with your point that the "parity" people were talking about and hoping for was largely an illusion, because even most of those teams have a talent and star shortage in comparison to the LA teams. May as well be the LABA instead of the NBA.
 
Good lord the Lakers have played alot of home games to start the season. So when they win tonight they will be what, 12-2. So are they headed for a 2016 Warriors type season? Are they THAT good or is the league that watered down? Basically we went from knowing one team was going to win the title to now knowing its between two teams. Nice product.
You think it's only between two teams? I can't agree. Based off what I've seen, it is still wide open.
 
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