LaMelephant: The LaMelo Ball Thread (#2)

Rich4114 · Post #961 » by **Rich4114** » Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:33 pm

Well whatever happens, we need to find a way to sustain non-LaMelo mins and be a passable NBA team. Even when LaMelo is healthy, the moment he sits down the team crumbles apart and cannot function on offense because we have zero other playmakers. We're going on year 10 of not taking backup PG seriously and I'd argue they got lucky with Jeremy Lin because they signed him to a cheap one year deal coming off a series of bad seasons.

Post #962 » by **fatlever** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:26 pm

https://www.tmz.com/2025/02/19/lavar-ball-foot-amputated/?adid=social-tws

is this real?
lavar had to have his foot amputated? wtf? these ball feet are cursed

SWedd523 · Post #963 » by **SWedd523** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:37 pm

That's wild lol

JustBuzzin · Post #964 » by **JustBuzzin** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:55 pm

SWedd523 wrote:That's wild lol

Nothing funny about that. Show some respect please.

Post #965 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 pm

fatlever wrote:https://www.tmz.com/2025/02/19/lavar-ball-foot-amputated/?adid=social-tws

is this real?
lavar had to have his foot amputated? wtf? these ball feet are cursed

I believe Dieon Sanders had a similar issue, but don't follow football so not sure why I think that. Know a guy that had this happen as a complication from diabetes, best wishes to Lavar on a speedy recovery and only a minorly inconvenienced quality of life.

SWedd523 · Post #966 » by **SWedd523** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:43 pm

JustBuzzin wrote:
SWedd523 wrote:That's wild lol

Nothing funny about that. Show so respect please.

You should calm down. might I interest you in some weed?

HornetJail · Post #967 » by **HornetJail** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:07 pm

those damn BBB sneakers...

(i'm sorry)

EmpireFalls · Post #968 » by **EmpireFalls** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:38 pm

LaMelo has gone thru a lot recently. I do think the kid is mentally strong enough to deal with it, in part because it doesn’t seem like he’s much of a self-reflection type, but I hope he has a positive mindset about the whole thing.

wilson115 · Post #969 » by **wilson115** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:34 am

Read on Twitter

Post #970 » by **Diop** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:46 am

that Lakers defense at the end was terrible, once Lamelo got past his player he had bugger all pressure.

his biggest issue was probably the glare coming of lebrons head.

Lucky Mark Williams wasnt there to block it :lol:

Snidely FC · Post #971 » by **Snidely FC** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:04 pm

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EmpireFalls · Post #972 » by **EmpireFalls** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:13 pm

Could not be more proud of the kid especially knowing what he’s going through with his family.

The team looked really happy and together after that last shot. Young core bonding. Brings a tear to mine eye

MasterIchiro · Post #973 » by **MasterIchiro** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:16 pm

Snidely FC wrote:

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Doncic is a cone.

And obese.

That looked unfair. LaMelo is mean picking on the belly.

I'd much prefer to build around skinny LaMelo than Doncic.

MasterIchiro · Post #974 » by **MasterIchiro** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:23 pm

wilson115 wrote:

Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter

Loved seeing Mark bark in approval after that LaMelo make. Impressive to see Big Mark fresh off life support and playing 29 minutes without his wheel chair!

Post #975 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:17 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6149005/2025/02/20/lamelo-ball-tmnt-puma-shoes/

Cowabunga, dudes!

KembaWalker · Post #976 » by **KembaWalker** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:52 pm

i wouldnt blame my ankles for rolling themselves to get out of being seen in those lol

Post #977 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:59 pm

KembaWalker wrote:i wouldnt blame my ankles for rolling themselves to get out of being seen in those lol

The Baxter Stockman and Shredder ones are more normalish, but yea, pretty wild. Have to have a Melo-sized personality to get away with the Krang ones.

Post #978 » by **fatlever** » Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:10 pm

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Lou Williams went off on lamelo

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EmpireFalls · Post #979 » by **EmpireFalls** » Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:19 pm

Find it hard to blame LaMelo for the margin of loss, but there is a concerning amount of “quit” that exists in him that is getting harder to ignore.

Of course easy for us to say from the couch, he’s getting triple teamed and mauled on the perimeter.

SWedd523 · Post #980 » by **SWedd523** » Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:29 pm

He's not wrong

And this is what happens when you're this far into your star player's career and nobody cares about winning games.

Whole team is rotten, and fans are so used to it that the team just put up the WORST three games in history and most folks are going "eh shrug, moving on"