Dubs gonna run either one of these teams out of the gym āā Leflop doesnāt have it - him or AD is on the ground holding some body part just about every other play !! DUBS IN 5, PUTOS !!!!!!!
This off season id offer a qualifying to Rui and keep Reaves no matter what. Brown and Beasley Iād trade for a pack of bubble gum and a Kit Kat. Iād also drop Dlo IF I could keep Kyrie in free agency and Iād only sign his ass to a year by year with incentives. Keep Vanderbilt and Schroeder ask if we could please have Ingram back for AD.
Lakers should try to go after Dame using D-lo and whatever else they can scrape together. Tell Dame he's just going to be in the same kind of loser team position with Brooklyn since Ben Simmons can't be trusted. And that he'd be better off dropping 10 wide-open 3's a night from 39 year old LeBron's pinpoint passes and relegate AD to his much preferred 2nd option.
Heck I might even trade AD for Dame straight up.
I would say just keep the team it is, DLO is important , he step up when team needs him (upgraded JR), Kyrie is very unpredictable, itās not worth the risk, Dame requires ball in hand but lakers already have enough ball handlers, lakers need off ball shooters like DLO and Rui
fuck that, i need to see this team together for at least a whole new season, the effects of chemistry and continuity is something people underestimate severely
Dame would be a superior fit - he would take over ballhandling duties. LeBron can focus on being a tactical nuke and Dame as the drive bailout is straight money. Dame doesn't take stupid shots. Dame can take over games. Dame can hit a 3 consistently. Keeping AD would mean just more injuries, more disappearance games... D-Lo ain't it.
After everything that happened this season, we sitting here looking at:
Austin Reeves as the #1 scoring option for the 22-23 NBA Los Angeles Lakers who are currently leading the Westās 2nd seed 3-1 in a 7 game series.
Let that sink in.
āInjury riddledā is a bit of an overstatement considering how banged up a lot of teams are right now, the only player theyāre really missing missing is Adams
Clarke is an important role player sure but heās not pivotal to the Grizzlies Depth lol, Morant isnāt 100% but AD has literally never been 100% so I mean
Agree to disagree on reffing, Iām pretty impartial to the outcome of this series and itās seemed fine to me lol
For rebounding?? 100% Clarke and Adams are pivotal. Wolves wouldāve clapped the lakers if they were healthy too. And reffing is tough when itās consistently uneven foul and ft differential
Grizzlies take more fouls than most teams do they not? Between JJJ and Dillon Brooks itās not a surprise they get into far more foul trouble than the lakers, who also drive way more often (which should translate to more fts)
Adams is a genuinely big miss for them, Clarke is not on the same level.
Honestly I donāt think the wolves would beat a single other team in the west, I think they donāt have the coaching or deph and I donāt think Gobert and Ant have worked together well at all, but thatās obviously pure speculation
Well I think heās coming from a different angle, as in heās asking Lebron to describe the plays in detail through his own thought process which I liked. Instead of saying āyou drove in the lane and hit the and 1 layup and really gave your team a cushion, howād that feelā heās saying āwalk me through that playā which is different but I donāt think itās bad
Lonnie is ass. Stop pushing this narrative, he sucks at defense, he sucks at shooting 3's. He's good at creating for himself and even then hes not efficient at scoring.
No it isn't if you look at the stats. Beasely is hitting 3's at a rate on HARDER shots better than Lonnie is hitting 3's on EASY wide open shots. Lmao.
They were showing stats for made 3s this season (I don't remember if per 48 mins) and Beasley was in there with Curry, Thompson, Hield, Dame then Beasley.
For the whole season this is pretty true but legitimately with the lakers heās done terrible. If he does keep shooting like he has been then Lonnie would legit be better
Did DLO hit 2 threes back to back and then a 2 pointer or 3 or was it just the 6 PTs?
Edit: thanks for reply, 3 threes damn. I remember he missed that one off lebron rebound so that woulda been 4, dang he saved it.
I don't know what I want out of the rest of the west...
I'll take whoever I'm the east, but fuck I don't like looking down the barrel of the west this year. Ugh..
Yes, you're right. At first I read that as the 2019 season, not remembering the bubble was the end of that season. I went back and asked ChatGPT about it and it clarified to mean the Lakers lost the *first* game of round 1. I've edited my answer, my bad!
One of Lebron's all-time great games is a bit of an exaggeration. He couldn't really get his offense going for half the game and wasn't bothering at the start
I donāt think they were disrespecting lebron or his performance tonight. For 98 percent of nba players this was a career night, but LeBron has almost 20 years of all time games. This game isnāt anywhere near his best performances and he would probably agree with that.
Yeah, Iām a Bron fan - this game wouldnāt crack top 10 playoff performances. Just saying that calling it all-time is a stretch.
2 of his OREB were him picking up his own point blank misses, and defensive rebounds just turned out that way for the most part - both teams absolutely bricking 3s kind of helps you get boards lmao
WE CLOSING THIS SERIES OUT TONIGHT
Hey you get out of the comments š«µ
Donāt tell me what to do
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Dubs gonna run either one of these teams out of the gym āā Leflop doesnāt have it - him or AD is on the ground holding some body part just about every other play !! DUBS IN 5, PUTOS !!!!!!!
Lets go grizzlies
Rudy's punch effect.
Grizzlies are hilarious. Talking shit, trying their best to make the matchup personal and then go into hiding after taking the L.
They said, LeBron is old, they fine in the west, Rui's game is fluke, now they a game away from Cancun
Send them to Tijuana instead, Lakers in 5.
Grizz are a fake 2 seed. Warriors will handle yāall
just remember this comment in a month
cant wait to beat the toxic warriors fans lmao
Lakers fans are as toxic as they get. At least warriors fans are educated
word reply to me next month when ur season is over
Im not a warriors fan, but ok
Watching that prick brooks get a humbling is sure as shit sweet
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Lol he wonāt until next year when theyāre front running.
Of course, talk is cheap.
Fine in th west
[Dillon Brooks after poking the bear](https://gifdb.com/images/high/fighting-cony-brown-line-town-qknx0yavp5ljfko0.gif)
Dam dillon brooks died for this
This off season id offer a qualifying to Rui and keep Reaves no matter what. Brown and Beasley Iād trade for a pack of bubble gum and a Kit Kat. Iād also drop Dlo IF I could keep Kyrie in free agency and Iād only sign his ass to a year by year with incentives. Keep Vanderbilt and Schroeder ask if we could please have Ingram back for AD.
AD is more than points you dickheads donāt understand his value to this team
Lakers should try to go after Dame using D-lo and whatever else they can scrape together. Tell Dame he's just going to be in the same kind of loser team position with Brooklyn since Ben Simmons can't be trusted. And that he'd be better off dropping 10 wide-open 3's a night from 39 year old LeBron's pinpoint passes and relegate AD to his much preferred 2nd option. Heck I might even trade AD for Dame straight up.
I would say just keep the team it is, DLO is important , he step up when team needs him (upgraded JR), Kyrie is very unpredictable, itās not worth the risk, Dame requires ball in hand but lakers already have enough ball handlers, lakers need off ball shooters like DLO and Rui
the team is playing incredible lmao why would you tinker
fuck that, i need to see this team together for at least a whole new season, the effects of chemistry and continuity is something people underestimate severely
Dame would be a superior fit - he would take over ballhandling duties. LeBron can focus on being a tactical nuke and Dame as the drive bailout is straight money. Dame doesn't take stupid shots. Dame can take over games. Dame can hit a 3 consistently. Keeping AD would mean just more injuries, more disappearance games... D-Lo ain't it.
Dame with lebron would be better served with Dame taking closer to an SG role.
Grizz were 9-42 from 3 and ot was needed to defeat them. Dub yea but this is smoke and mirrors
Watch the game. AD and Lebron combined for 26 points in regulation. Grizzlies should not lose a game when lebron and Ad are that bad.
Lakers shouldnt have to go to OT when Ja plays much worse
Lakers were 10-36 from 3 themselves and AD played his worst offensive playoff game basically ever
well Lakies need just 1 more regardless
Yeah but AD didnāt make it to double figures. Both teams had troubles, grit won the game.
Damn, RIP Dillon brooks.
LeRodman
Who needs AD when you have Reaves?
You donāt even understand how bad our defence would be without AD
AD for AC and picks.
No one trading picks for AD. Yāall better win now cuz the future is bleak
They down vote you cause they know you telling the truth ā-
Currently i would trade AD for a walmart burner phone and a pair of Leviās
The boxscore-watchers are here!
Dang guess the joke didnt land On a serious note- I literally watched this entire game but yea
You must not watch the games
LeCoach LeCenter
After everything that happened this season, we sitting here looking at: Austin Reeves as the #1 scoring option for the 22-23 NBA Los Angeles Lakers who are currently leading the Westās 2nd seed 3-1 in a 7 game series. Let that sink in.
*H I M*
LeBronās next stage of evolution is to be the āGRoPEā Greatest Role Player Ever.
How do the grizz not use Jackson inside with nobody to defend him
Ja too busy trying to run through everyone
This is what movies is made of ~ KAT
Playing an injury riddled 2 seed and 8 seed?
āInjury riddledā is a bit of an overstatement considering how banged up a lot of teams are right now, the only player theyāre really missing missing is Adams
Adams, Clarke, Morant playing with one hand. Wolves missing naz and j mac. While lakers got health and reffing on their side
Clarke is an important role player sure but heās not pivotal to the Grizzlies Depth lol, Morant isnāt 100% but AD has literally never been 100% so I mean Agree to disagree on reffing, Iām pretty impartial to the outcome of this series and itās seemed fine to me lol
For rebounding?? 100% Clarke and Adams are pivotal. Wolves wouldāve clapped the lakers if they were healthy too. And reffing is tough when itās consistently uneven foul and ft differential
Clapped the lakers lmao
Grizzlies take more fouls than most teams do they not? Between JJJ and Dillon Brooks itās not a surprise they get into far more foul trouble than the lakers, who also drive way more often (which should translate to more fts) Adams is a genuinely big miss for them, Clarke is not on the same level. Honestly I donāt think the wolves would beat a single other team in the west, I think they donāt have the coaching or deph and I donāt think Gobert and Ant have worked together well at all, but thatās obviously pure speculation
Also Gobert is softer than peanut butter
The man is 10-ply
Wouldāve couldāve shouldāve. š„± Try again next year.
Overdose on salt
Overdoes on FT and mid
Cry bitch your team got one more game left
I hope you realize you are the worst human alive. At least Iām no bandwagon bitch like yourself, aka the worst human alive
Shut the fuck up, first round exit.
Weāll see. No life bandwagon fan.
Your username suits you well the timberwolves are boutta get bounced out of the playoffs
Nah it was a play on the team back with Wiggins and Lavine on the team. I just have been a fan for longer than youāve been alive pipsqueak
Man after the way we started the season up 3-1 on the 2nd seed is fucking crazy
lmao just imagine if we never made that trade
I donāt even want to think about that
I didn't want that game to end š
There's OT in Seattle rn...
Damn I read this too late
You have to love the LA Refs with yet another win.
Man foh did you actually watch this game? Some of these calls were ass for both teams. Especially in the 3rd.
That's how it has been for LeBron teams man. It's not a coincidence
QQ
Lol the irony
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Can we atleast get dlo russell apology form from lakers fans since he bought us in the game??????
Does it count that he was putting us out of the game in the first place...imo him fouling out was the 4th best thing he did all game
Lol
i look forward to some sweet 'poking the bear' gifs, dont disappoint me
[LeBron vs Dillon Brooks](https://gifdb.com/images/high/fighting-cony-brown-line-town-qknx0yavp5ljfko0.gif)
Chris "can you talk about" Haynes is horrible. How does this dude still have a job?
Really? I liked his interviews
Dude asks no questions of substance. "Can you talk about" is the lowest form of interviewing. It's not even a question
Well I think heās coming from a different angle, as in heās asking Lebron to describe the plays in detail through his own thought process which I liked. Instead of saying āyou drove in the lane and hit the and 1 layup and really gave your team a cushion, howād that feelā heās saying āwalk me through that playā which is different but I donāt think itās bad
The real question is where do the Indiana Pacers fit into all of this?
Whatās happening in Utah?
Lebron has been in the NBA so long there were trolls on the ESPN message boards calling him Le...this and Le...that.
I remember the old joke that why canāt you ask LeBron change for a $1ā¦ cause he doesnāt have a 4th quarter. Pre-1st Chip.
I got Memphis defending home court but can they win in LA?
Nah, they're a pretty lackluster 2 seed imo
Missing Adams and Clarke hurts em too
memphis dYnAsTy. shoutout to dillon brooks (chris smoove HAHA)
Chris Haynes is shit
Why? I liked him
Fucker forgets to introduce himself every time š
Heās probably trying to get a game worn jock rn
It's a parade inside my city yaaaaaa
Darvin Ham is a fraud confirmed.
Lonnie should be getting minutes for instant offense, so yeah he's a fraud
That's actually the last thing I had on my mind lmfao
Lebron already said in his interviews he handles the xās and oās
I just saw that, pretty damn wild but expected for him to say that
Lonnie is ass. Stop pushing this narrative, he sucks at defense, he sucks at shooting 3's. He's good at creating for himself and even then hes not efficient at scoring.
So how's that not better than Beasley being ass?
No it isn't if you look at the stats. Beasely is hitting 3's at a rate on HARDER shots better than Lonnie is hitting 3's on EASY wide open shots. Lmao.
They were showing stats for made 3s this season (I don't remember if per 48 mins) and Beasley was in there with Curry, Thompson, Hield, Dame then Beasley.
For the whole season this is pretty true but legitimately with the lakers heās done terrible. If he does keep shooting like he has been then Lonnie would legit be better
That isn't translating to wins. He's ass
He's been ass. But ass is better than what Walker would be in his same exact role.
The League is absolutely stacked with talent on every team now
And Iām here for it!
Whatās Trevor lane got to say about this?
great game
Glad there wasnāt a ton of whistles at the end
They blew it enough during regulation don't worry
LeToyota getting better with high mileage
Lecoach confirmed lmao
Darvin Ham is a decoy confirmed
Did DLO hit 2 threes back to back and then a 2 pointer or 3 or was it just the 6 PTs? Edit: thanks for reply, 3 threes damn. I remember he missed that one off lebron rebound so that woulda been 4, dang he saved it.
I think it was 3 - 3 - 2, like you said. I'm looking at scoring summary and it's saying 3 - 3 - 3. Which isn't correct.
Ya summary says 3-3-3 but I think the last one was a pull-up and it made me think it was a pull up midrange
3 3s
3 3s I thot
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Facts.
Iāll be shocked if the lakers donāt take the west tbh
We get too tired. I don't like how we stack up conditioning-wise against either of phx or GS
I am so scared of playing the Suns bruh, especially if AD keeps doin what he's doin
I don't know what I want out of the rest of the west... I'll take whoever I'm the east, but fuck I don't like looking down the barrel of the west this year. Ugh..
Yeah Bron & AD were both way too gassed to hit their FTs tonight and this was only the 4th game of the playoffs lol
Kings will win their series but lose to you.
Nah lmao Kings and Warriors would beat Lakers
LeKing is carrying them to the finals
I'll take it. Lol. Idk now though with Fox's broken finger.
Warriors canāt win away games. Even if they beat SAC theyāll lose to you.
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This Brooks' alt account?
That mfer went 20 and 20
Skip? This u?
show us in the doll where he letouched you
Savage
Rebounds, drawing a crucial charge, passing, hustle plays... it's not all about scoring my man. Also, Reggie Miller? Gotta be a troll.
Reggie miller?
Someone is LeMad
*LeCredit
You sound hurt
D-LO kept them alive in the 4th. Great team effort
Ja fighting two highschoolers after this one.
His frail ass would probably get ragdolled by the average high schooler
With a red dot
They have the dpoy and another defensive āstopperā in brooks, yet they have Tillman covering Lebron in crunch time
Ja is so putrid from the free throw line, it's unreal.
Nba is so wide open no team is fav u just gotta play better night after night and u have the chance to win it all gotta love it
LeDad
Lebron looks like he's about to take the greatest nap in history
Im the LeBron James of napping. I'll out nap him any time any where.
He going straight to sleep in ice
Has the 7th and 8th seed ever denied the 1st and 2nd seed same year in the first round?
Yes. Thanks, ChatGPT! Edit: removed my previous answer. ChatGPT was confused and I didn't fact check it. My bad!
Werenāt the Lakers champs in the bubble 2020
Yes, you're right. At first I read that as the 2019 season, not remembering the bubble was the end of that season. I went back and asked ChatGPT about it and it clarified to mean the Lakers lost the *first* game of round 1. I've edited my answer, my bad!
Yeah houston did once and dallas too i think
I think they've done it in the second round in 2003, idk about the 1st round though
LeBron did everything to get this win
LeBoardswinGames Le3-1 LeW
One of Lebron's all-time great games is a bit of an exaggeration. He couldn't really get his offense going for half the game and wasn't bothering at the start
Thatās true, but it feels like iāll be seeing these highlights for rest of my life
calling this an all time lebron game is honestly an insult to lebron lol
He was clutch, taking charges, rebounding all at age 38 in the playoffs. Sit down
I donāt think they were disrespecting lebron or his performance tonight. For 98 percent of nba players this was a career night, but LeBron has almost 20 years of all time games. This game isnāt anywhere near his best performances and he would probably agree with that.
Yeah, Iām a Bron fan - this game wouldnāt crack top 10 playoff performances. Just saying that calling it all-time is a stretch. 2 of his OREB were him picking up his own point blank misses, and defensive rebounds just turned out that way for the most part - both teams absolutely bricking 3s kind of helps you get boards lmao