LaLover11 wrote: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.
Spencer would be the miracle... That's the point
Just like Christian Braun is that little bit of random offense and energy the nuggets get from him.
Woods would be the other miracle like I've mentioned
Vando coming back and helping guard Porter Jr or Murray would be a big miracle that could help change the series, Gabe also needs to stop thinking and shoot!
4 potential miracles right there, if one or two come true
Well that's what would push Lakers to protect home court because most likely " role players " play better at their Home Arena vs being at the defending champs arena with high altitude disadvantage!
This very moment the Lakers and Nuggets are 1-1 in Playoff Series vs each others, Both won a Ring
It's a lot closer than people keep making it
Don't bring up Regular Season Games
Lakers we're up both games and keep getting tired
Only realistic option would be to have help off the bench
You can't expect to play LeBron and AD 48 Minutes
You tell me not to bring up the regular season but you want to bring up a playoff series from 4 years ago! Both these teams had different players and the players they did have were different ages. 24-year-old Jokic instead of prime Jokic. Closer to his prime Lebron. KCP is on the Nuggets now instead of the Lakers. Murray and MPJ were 22 and 21. Aaron Gordon was in Orlando and Denver was starting a washed up version of Paul Millsap in his place. Lakers had more shooting, more perimeter defense, and more rim protection against a much younger, less formed Denver team.
I probably wouldn't bring up the regular season games if they weren't part of such a massive body of evidence about this matchup. It's weird for you to ignore that you've played this team 10 times over 2 years and haven't won a single game. All I'm really saying is that it's weird that you still believe you're one role player popping off from winning 4 games against a team that clearly has your number.
- Vando got played off the floor in last years series. He would help your defense for sure but he'd hurt your offense so it's not clear he's worth it. Every team Vando has played for has faced this dilemma, the Lakers most recently.
- Lakers have been up in tons of playoff games against the Nuggets. Their problem has been closing them out.
- Wood is just as likely to hurt the Lakers with his poor pick & roll/post defense as he is to help.
Little things aren't miracles and the Lakers aren't small role player performances away from winning this series. They're small role performances from maybe winning a game.
Like... go off, king! Root for your team and hold out hope. Just know that everyone else is raising their eyebrows and rolling their eyes out of their head when fans like you talk about how close this is and how winnable this is and suggest tiny adjustments.
Again. Not saying it's impossible for the Lakers to win. We've seen all kinds of wild things in the playoffs. Nuggets could get hit with an injury. But saying Spencer Dinwiddie is going to flip the series, you have to admit is pretty silly.
