LeBron James: It Was A Must Win And We Didn't Get The Job Done

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 12:18 pm

The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the New Orleans Pelicans at home on Friday night in what was a must-win game. Afterwards, LeBron James didn't mince words about the Lakers performance.

"The big picture is that it pretty much was a must-win for us, and we didn't get the job done," said James. "We had great opportunities throughout the night, and we didn't make enough plays down the stretch. So that's the big picture."

Los Angeles dropped to 11th in the Western Conference with the loss. They now trail the Pelicans by three games. The Lakers also trail the San Antonio Spurs by a full game for 10th, which is the final spot in the Play-In Tournament. In addition, San Antonio holds the tiebreaker over LA, meaning the Lakers essentially trail by two games.

Via Dave McMenamin/ESPN

RipCityKJ · Post #2 » by **RipCityKJ** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 5:55 pm

Lol this makes me so happy. Watching the lakers fail and possibly not get a pick out of it is simply the best!

deeps6x · Post #3 » by **deeps6x** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 8:00 pm

LeBron should fire himself as GM. He is really bad at it.

rgm70 · Post #4 » by **rgm70** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 8:22 pm

RipCityKJ wrote:Lol this makes me so happy. Watching the lakers fail and possibly not get a pick out of it is simply the best!

Yeah, stay happy with the lakers bad season... I'm still sitting at home counting all our banners.
Come on, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10... ya gettin' tired? Theres more: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
And let's not forget that we won the last one two years ago. Still fresh in my mind.
Oh, how many chips does your team have?

:lol:

Lalouie · Post #5 » by **Lalouie** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 9:27 pm

FEEDING FRENZY!!!

zero wins the rest of the way

donaldtrump_00 · Post #6 » by **donaldtrump_00** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 9:59 pm

rgm70 wrote:
RipCityKJ wrote:Lol this makes me so happy. Watching the lakers fail and possibly not get a pick out of it is simply the best!

Yeah, stay happy with the lakers bad season... I'm still sitting at home counting all our banners.
Come on, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10... ya gettin' tired? Theres more: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
And let's not forget that we won the last one two years ago. Still fresh in my mind.
Oh, how many chips does your team have?

Congratulations on 17 world championships. I doubt anyone is mad at that. It's more LeBron trying to get kobe and mj beneath him is everyone's issue. He wants 7rings so bad to make false claims. Regardless of what happens this season we all know he will play gm again this summer. It's just crazy how these teams built and somehow they manage to still come up short.even Davis back they still can't beat new Orleans at all. Wait till zion is back next year. And on that bubble championship. We all know the clippers and lakers was the real finals. To bad it never happened.

Pickled Prunes · Post #7 » by **Pickled Prunes** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 11:15 pm

rgm70 wrote:
RipCityKJ wrote:Lol this makes me so happy. Watching the lakers fail and possibly not get a pick out of it is simply the best!

Yeah, stay happy with the lakers bad season... I'm still sitting at home counting all our banners.
Come on, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10... ya gettin' tired? Theres more: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
And let's not forget that we won the last one two years ago. Still fresh in my mind.
Oh, how many chips does your team have?

What you should be counting is Westbrook's airballs, or maybe how many times Lebron pretends to get poked in the eye. (eye-flop?) It's way more fun, this stuff is happening today. I don't know if your up for it though. You're going to need more than 10 fingers and 10 toes.

rgm70 · Post #8 » by **rgm70** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 1:25 am

Pickled Prunes wrote:
rgm70 wrote:
RipCityKJ wrote:Lol this makes me so happy. Watching the lakers fail and possibly not get a pick out of it is simply the best!

Yeah, stay happy with the lakers bad season... I'm still sitting at home counting all our banners.
Come on, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10... ya gettin' tired? Theres more: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
And let's not forget that we won the last one two years ago. Still fresh in my mind.
Oh, how many chips does your team have?

What you should be counting is Westbrook's airballs, or maybe how many times Lebron pretends to get poked in the eye. (eye-flop?) It's way more fun, this stuff is happening today. I don't know if your up for it though. You're going to need more than 10 fingers and 10 toes.

so what, it's a down year... we had nine before the last chip.
you can offend me all you want, call me stupid, I still got 27 chips and you don't.
Lebron is a basketball player, he'll come and he'll go. Lakers are what I'm about. Down years happen even with the best teams in sports.
See you when we get our next chip.

rgm70 · Post #9 » by **rgm70** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 1:27 am

rgm70 wrote:
Pickled Prunes wrote:
rgm70 wrote:Yeah, stay happy with the lakers bad season... I'm still sitting at home counting all our banners.
Come on, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10... ya gettin' tired? Theres more: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
And let's not forget that we won the last one two years ago. Still fresh in my mind.
Oh, how many chips does your team have?

What you should be counting is Westbrook's airballs, or maybe how many times Lebron pretends to get poked in the eye. (eye-flop?) It's way more fun, this stuff is happening today. I don't know if your up for it though. You're going to need more than 10 fingers and 10 toes.

so what, it's a down year... we had nine before the last chip.
you can offend me all you want, call me stupid, I still got 27 chips and you don't.
Lebron is a basketball player, he'll come and he'll go. Lakers are what I'm about. Down years happen even with the best teams in sports.
See you when we get our next chip.

17... typo

LaRance · Post #10 » by **LaRance** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 2:03 am

Lakers may as well sit this playoffs out and get a good lottery pick. Lakers are old and slow. they need some extra young bodies on the team.

alienpick · Post #11 » by **alienpick** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 4:08 am

rgm70 wrote:
rgm70 wrote:
Pickled Prunes wrote:What you should be counting is Westbrook's airballs, or maybe how many times Lebron pretends to get poked in the eye. (eye-flop?) It's way more fun, this stuff is happening today. I don't know if your up for it though. You're going to need more than 10 fingers and 10 toes.

so what, it's a down year... we had nine before the last chip.
you can offend me all you want, call me stupid, I still got 27 chips and you don't.
Lebron is a basketball player, he'll come and he'll go. Lakers are what I'm about. Down years happen even with the best teams in sports.
See you when we get our next chip.

17... typo

The Boston Celtics say hi. Also easy to win chips when there's only 8 teams in the entire league, and you are one of a few teams that still exist from that era.

PS. Trade that overrated bum AD and Westbrick. Stop wasting Lebron's legacy

Years90Suns · Post #12 » by **Years90Suns** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 7:22 am

That is que consequence of going to a franchise en decadence because your real owners, the ds of this world, told you to do in order to be near xxxxwood and all the self-considered upper class so they can control you and you can work for their purposes and follow their orders...

spree2kawhi · Post #13 » by **spree2kawhi** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 8:11 am

They wanted this.

gpoon · Post #14 » by **gpoon** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 12:13 pm

LaRance wrote:Lakers may as well sit this playoffs out and get a good lottery pick. Lakers are old and slow. they need some extra young bodies on the team.

Didnt they trade their picks away? I don’t think they have a pick next year…

Salty1 · Post #15 » by **Salty1** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 4:38 pm

gpoon wrote:
LaRance wrote:Lakers may as well sit this playoffs out and get a good lottery pick. Lakers are old and slow. they need some extra young bodies on the team.

Didnt they trade their picks away? I don’t think they have a pick next year…

Yes they traded the pick to the Pelicans who traded it to Memphis. MEMPHIS IS GETTING LETHAL.

Pickled Prunes · Post #16 » by **Pickled Prunes** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 7:45 pm

rgm70 wrote:
Pickled Prunes wrote:
rgm70 wrote:Yeah, stay happy with the lakers bad season... I'm still sitting at home counting all our banners.
Come on, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10... ya gettin' tired? Theres more: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
And let's not forget that we won the last one two years ago. Still fresh in my mind.
Oh, how many chips does your team have?

What you should be counting is Westbrook's airballs, or maybe how many times Lebron pretends to get poked in the eye. (eye-flop?) It's way more fun, this stuff is happening today. I don't know if your up for it though. You're going to need more than 10 fingers and 10 toes.

so what, it's a down year... we had nine before the last chip.
you can offend me all you want, call me stupid, I still got 27 chips and you don't.
Lebron is a basketball player, he'll come and he'll go. Lakers are what I'm about. Down years happen even with the best teams in sports.
See you when we get our next chip.

I'm pretty sure you have the same number of rings that I do. You just glomed on to a front runner. But you did just prove that you can't count. :wink:

I actually grew up in LA and saw Showtime in the Forum. (Magic, Kareem, Worthy) I met AC Green when he came to my elementary school. I was a huge Lakers fan as a kid. I jumped ship with the Kobe rape "accusations". I could not root for that man. (If that's what you want to call him.) How soon people forget!

Pickled Prunes · Post #17 » by **Pickled Prunes** » Sun Apr 3, 2022 9:05 pm

alienpick wrote:
rgm70 wrote:
rgm70 wrote:so what, it's a down year... we had nine before the last chip.
you can offend me all you want, call me stupid, I still got 27 chips and you don't.
Lebron is a basketball player, he'll come and he'll go. Lakers are what I'm about. Down years happen even with the best teams in sports.
See you when we get our next chip.

17... typo

The Boston Celtics say hi. Also easy to win chips when there's only 8 teams in the entire league, and you are one of a few teams that still exist from that era.

PS. Trade that overrated bum AD and Westbrick. Stop wasting Lebron's legacy

Lebron looks pretty happy today, sitting on the sidelines watching his season dissolve. I think he's comfortable just stat padding his legacy at this point.

alienpick · Post #18 » by **alienpick** » Wed Apr 6, 2022 2:13 pm

Pickled Prunes wrote:
alienpick wrote:
rgm70 wrote:17... typo

The Boston Celtics say hi. Also easy to win chips when there's only 8 teams in the entire league, and you are one of a few teams that still exist from that era.

PS. Trade that overrated bum AD and Westbrick. Stop wasting Lebron's legacy

Lebron looks pretty happy today, sitting on the sidelines watching his season dissolve. I think he's comfortable just stat padding his legacy at this point.

I think he knew early on that the Westbrook move was a bust. You could tell in his body language. I can't understand why nothing happened at the deadline. I think he also expected AD to be available a lot more than he was. Once he realized that AD was going to always be out, and Russ was a bust, he just gave up his playoff hopes.

Lebron is still a threat, on a decent team. Unfortunately he surrounded him self with two clowns and a bunch of old people. This summer will be telling. Will he look to improve his situation or just sit put and stat pad with the clown duo?

Pickled Prunes · Post #19 » by **Pickled Prunes** » Wed Apr 6, 2022 6:31 pm

alienpick wrote:
Pickled Prunes wrote:
alienpick wrote:
The Boston Celtics say hi. Also easy to win chips when there's only 8 teams in the entire league, and you are one of a few teams that still exist from that era.

PS. Trade that overrated bum AD and Westbrick. Stop wasting Lebron's legacy

Lebron looks pretty happy today, sitting on the sidelines watching his season dissolve. I think he's comfortable just stat padding his legacy at this point.

I think he knew early on that the Westbrook move was a bust. You could tell in his body language. I can't understand why nothing happened at the deadline. I think he also expected AD to be available a lot more than he was. Once he realized that AD was going to always be out, and Russ was a bust, he just gave up his playoff hopes.

Lebron is still a threat, on a decent team. Unfortunately he surrounded him self with two clowns and a bunch of old people. This summer will be telling. Will he look to improve his situation or just sit put and stat pad with the clown duo?

Some of us knew the day of the trade.... but of course Lebron is still a threat. However, it might require him to let the coaches coach and the GM's GM.