**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

[BRONBROW2020]

Lakers playoff basketball tomorrow.

the blazers will upset us hahahahaha

 

[D_eezus]

Lakers playoff basketball today.

FIXED

 

[freeze]

Rondo byke

who auntie is that?

 

[freeze]

Clips was getting SMACKED too

The fix is in

were down 5 when he was ejected actually.

 

[CHAOSE57]

Lakers playoff basketball tomorrow.

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[had pants]

 

[had pants]

 

[thasoleful1]

16 games to get to # 17 let’s goooo we byke!

 

[DLF]

Andrew Goudelock was a walking bucket

 

[pmatic]

May the spirits of Vander Blue, Jabari Brown and Elias Harris guide the Lakers to a championship.

 

[darthska]

Glock!!

 

[DLF]

That typical human emotion where we are irrational when against the wall and almost knocked out.

1) when we were struggling with the Howard Nash artest pau and kobe team - people were like: man we should play Goudelock! Wtf is D’antoni doing

2) I remember losing to pistons in 2004 finals And people were like: WTF Phil, play Byron Russell!!!

 

[DLF]

Anyone else kind of over the over analyzing of every other series and how it affects the lakers. You’ll hear guys talk about : lakers gotta stay fresh for clippers, omg if this series goes more then 4 we are done...need clippers series vs others to go long to tire them out etc

it’s like people don’t learn from the past playoff runs. If you’re good and poised and resilient, you will win. Don’t need all these extra antics and excuses. Just focus on your team. If they can’t beat an 8th seed, we didn’t deserve to win. Every game is a learning experience. Those Kobe teams always went 5-6-7 games. “Tired” isn’t an excuse

 

[pmatic]

After landing Anthony Davis in 2019, some expected that the Lakers would be able to add another impact player this offseason. But given the paucity of quality free agents and the salary cap almost certainly falling lower than anticipated, the Lakers likely will enter free agency with only their midlevel exception (worth around $9.3 million in the first year) available to add a real piece.

Given the Lakers' lack of depth on the wings, that seems like the right area to upgrade. But the best options out there -- names such as Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton, Pacers guard Justin Holiday or Heat forward Jae Crowder -- are helpful players who won't necessarily move the needle.

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[thegrandpuba26]

Anyone else kind of over the over analyzing of every other series and how it affects the lakers. You’ll hear guys talk about : lakers gotta stay fresh for clippers, omg if this series goes more then 4 we are done...need clippers series vs others to go long to tire them out etc

it’s like people don’t learn from the past playoff runs. If you’re good and poised and resilient, you will win. Don’t need all these extra antics and excuses. Just focus on your team. If they can’t beat an 8th seed, we didn’t deserve to win. Every game is a learning experience. Those Kobe teams always went 5-6-7 games. “Tired” isn’t an excuse

Well it's all in an effort for people to discredit LeBron. "you see, LeBron ain't real, he's 36 losing in the first round for the first time in his career". Give me a damn break, every great has mishaps. Nobody wins all the time.

For the record, I really don't see how a team that has the 5th worst defense wins anything. If they coughing up 120 pts to the Grizzlies, good luck guarding AD, LeBron, or even Kuzma.

 

[Lizakers]

I liked Jabari Brown

 

[ValarMorghulis]

Cant believe I'm going to type this but Dwight gonna have to play and play special to nullify Nurk's presence on the boards

 

[moonman818]

We just need our bigs to not suck honestly.

You would swear we're going up against Tim Duncan & David Robinson in 99' the way some people hype this Blazer team

 

[ValarMorghulis]

I do not trust Javale, as one shouldn't lol

 

[MajinZuub]

I liked Jabari Brown

Dude was such a big deal in the bay area throughout high school, really thought he'd hang in the league for a minute back then.

 

[VinMillerHearn58]

Playoff basketball. It’s been a while.

 

[darthska]

We just need our bigs to not suck honestly.

That's it.

 

[darthska]

I do not trust Javale, as one shouldn't lol

NBA Champion Javele can and should be trusted to contribute as a role player. Double double every night? No. 23 boards every night? Second cooking of Shaq? No. But just be a solid role player by being what he's good at? Yes, he can be trusted to do that.

 

[had pants]

 

[MVP]