The NBA just got boring. LA will win it all. Neither the Heat or Celtics will be able to stop them. A group of the best athletes got together to find an easier way to the championship.
Boring. Too bad, the games were interesting without the Lakers.
The NBA just got boring. LA will win it all. Neither the Heat or Celtics will be able to stop them. A group of the best athletes got together to find an easier way to the championship.
Boring. Too bad, the games were interesting without the Lakers.
Two teams, Lakers and Clippers, that play in the same arena and steal the best players in the league from smaller market teams. Have either actually developed any talent lately or earned it through struggle and high draft picks like all the other successful teams have to do? Nope. The Lakers are actually very beatable. MOST PEOPLE don't realize this. Two man team plus role players they are. Danny Green can't score when guarded closely in the playoffs. He thrives off lazy regular season defenses and uncontested shots. GOOD defender though. The Celtics would beat them. They have half a dozen guys who can score at will anytime and play great defense. They would slow LeBron and AD with smart coaching and great defense and make others beat them which would be cryptonite for LA.
The Nuggets only have 2 guys in contrast. The Heat would probably lose to Lakers though it would be close. LAKERS fate all depends on celtics heat series result. CELTICS WOULD BEAT LAKERS IN 6. LAKERS BEAT HEAT IN 7.
NBA guy wrote:
The NBA just got boring. LA will win it all. Neither the Heat or Celtics will be able to stop them. A group of the best athletes got together to find an easier way to the championship.
Boring. Too bad, the games were interesting without the Lakers.
A team that hasn't made the finals in a decade are ruining the league with their dominance?
Dominance has been the norm, not the exception for a long time.
-Bill Russell and the Celtics won 11 titles in 13 years.
-The Celtics and Lakers in the 80s.
-The Bulls for almost the entirety of the 90s.
-Lakers in the early 2000s
-Whatever team Lebron was on 2010-present
-Warriors 2015-2018
The 2020 Lakers didn't invent being dominant. And who actually knew they were the best team in the NBA?? They have a lot of talent but so do a handful of other teams. It seemed likely that the Clippers and Bucks were actually better, and no one could have predicted they would both flame out so early on.
I don't see that the Lakers are unbeatable.
did the time I ain't kiddin wrote:
Two teams, Lakers and Clippers, that play in the same arena and steal the best players in the league from smaller market teams. Have either actually developed any talent lately or earned it through struggle and high draft picks like all the other successful teams have to do?.
I don't know about developing talent, but the Lakers have been pretty bad for most of the 2010s, and just off the top of my head they had two #2 overall picks (Lonzo and Ingram) who they gave up (with a whole lot else) in order to get AD. They didn't 'steal' AD - they gave up almost all of their young talent to get him. And it turned out to be a brilliant move.
Ratings suck. Catered to radical political movements. NBA sucks.
But the real question is which team’s city has the most unburied buildings available for arson should their team win?
NBA is a thug league wrote:
Ratings suck. Catered to radical political movements. NBA sucks.
But the real question is which team’s city has the most unburied buildings available for arson should their team win?
Arson is like after a NHL championship or at some large college like University of Kansas after a final 4 win. NBA fans are pretty tame and lame.
More like Lebron goes from team to team that has done star players where he can add his piece to it.
Joined Wade in Miami.
Went back to Cleveland when they got Kyrie.
Goes to the Lakers who have Davis.
And Leonard going from San Antonio to Toronto to the other LA.
You don’t have championship teams built with the draft and players staying there.
Star wrote:
More like Lebron goes from team to team that has done star players where he can add his piece to it.
Joined Wade in Miami.
Went back to Cleveland when they got Kyrie.
Goes to the Lakers who have Davis.
And Leonard going from San Antonio to Toronto to the other LA.
You don’t have championship teams built with the draft and players staying there.
TheLakers had Davis before Lebron?
Maybe I’m wrong about that one.
Point still is they are putting players together that have been established elsewhere to build these teams.
And the players are building their teams more than the coaches are.
Star wrote:
Maybe I’m wrong about that one.
Point still is they are putting players together that have been established elsewhere to build these teams.
And the players are building their teams more than the coaches are.
Putting star players together has been going on for 40+ years. Does it make a difference if its player driven or GM driven?
In the past it was done by GMs now the players seem to be more involved and the GMs fill out the roster with supporting players and others who are expiring contracts etc...
Imagine if kawhi had joined the lakers with lebron and the brow.
The heat are a physical team. They could try the beat them up method and see if lakers can still play smooth.
The NBA is ruining the NBA.
Nothing new. This season has been a crapper...I really don't consider the title legitimate this year.
I also look at it this way, if I were in my 20's, young, rich, yeah, I'd rather be in LA too. But this is not a new trend.
What ruined the NBA were the rule changes. They removed all the physical contact and hand checking from the game around 2000, turning into a layup drill. The game is softer than a high school game and it allows one dominate player to carry a team. With the rule changes Iverson took his team to the finals. Then Wade won a finals by himself.
Then you much easier free agency rules and the fact that agents essentially collude to create all star teams. Lebron played with a "super team" in Miami. Then he goes back Cleveland where he plays with Irving and Love. And now he gets a first team all NBA player in LA to play with.
But the ultimate bigger is that the NBA is a no defense/no contact, stats first league and that makes it more difficult to even the playing field.
Even though each team has the same salary cap unlike in Europe, the NBA is like the European Soccer Leagues. Certain teams will be good, glamorous and desirable while other teams will develop players and watch them leave for greener pastures.
No soccer player wants to play in Stoke or Sheffield and no free agent wants to play in Memphis or Oklahoma City.
EPL had its Leicester City moment and the NBA had its Toronto Raptor moment.
Blaming Lebron for going to Miami and the Lakers is like blaming Ronaldo for going to Real or Juventus.
Compared to the super friends Warriors, you know when one of the three best players in the NBA decided to join a 70 win team, this team is nothing close to unfair. Sorry Lebron is one of the three best players in NBA history and any team he is on will be a contender.
Also not his fault the Clippers choked. Although not a suprise that "playoff Paul George " choked just like every other year unlike fictional super clutch "playoff Paul George" that only exists in Paul George's mind.
People still watch the NBA?