cupcakesnake wrote:LaLover11 wrote:
Spencer or Gabe have to score lol
Or should the Lakers keep doing the same thing from the past 10 games and keep losing?
Maybe just maybe make adjustments, might be a good thing to give yourself a chance
Nothing wrong with fans trying to think of possible adjustments to give their team an advantage. It's when you say stuff like...
If Lakers protect home court they will win this series
and then suggest Spencer Dinwiddie can help do that, non-Lakers fans feel you need a reality check.
I'm not telling you to give up hope, I'm telling you that the Lakers aren't one adjustment away from turning this series around. They're making significant adjustments every game. They're playing a superior opponent that has massive advantages against them. I actually admire the how the Lakers are playing. They show up to every Nuggets game and execute their gameplan extremely well. You can tell the players are locked in, high effort, and high-execution.
There will be new adjustments next game too. Maybe even ones that get Dinwiddie going. I just think you should be talking about winning a single game or making the series competitive instead of being like: this is how the Lakers win (against a team that has beaten them 10 times in a row).
I dunno. When I was watching my T-Wolves in the early 2000s get eliminated in the first round by the Spurs, Lakers, Mavs... I was never like "if we can just get Kendall Gill going we got this". I knew we had almost zero chance. I hoped to make it a competitive series (we made it to 6 games against the Lakers in 2003!) and also hoped for a flat out miracle.
Seeing Lakers fans treat this series like they can win without a miracle is hard to take seriously. You're a play-in team playing the defending champs. The team that swept you last year in the playoffs, then swept you in the regular season, and has won 10 straight games against you.
I'm not saying you can't possibly win. I think it requires something closer to a miracle than a Spencer Dinwiddie based adjustment.