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Roco14 wrote:People are now waking up and seeing that Kawhi had a better supporting cast in Toronto than in LA with the clips. It just not such a smooth fit even though the talent is arguably better.

You can put Lebron with a bummy team like Cleveland with injured stars and he still gets to the finals. Put a prime kawhi on that team and they might get bounced in the first or second round.

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Benedict_Boozer wrote:

CIN-C-STAR wrote:A clearly-past-his-prime Lebron just owned a firmly-in-his-prime Kawhi.
Yeah, it's one regular season game, but some people were trying to say that Kawhi the 4-time All Star was a GOAT candidate for the past couple months

This. I don't want to hear it anymore, Kawhi is in his prime he should be dusting a 35 year old LBJ and he can't even come close to that.

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MoMan24 wrote:

NoZoLakers wrote:

Roco14 wrote:People are now waking up and seeing that Kawhi had a better supporting cast in Toronto than in LA with the clips. It just not such a smooth fit even though the talent is arguably better.

You can put Lebron with a bummy team like Cleveland with injured stars and he still gets to the finals. Put a prime kawhi on that team and they might get bounced in the first or second round.

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

NoZoLakers wrote:

MoMan24 wrote:

NoZoLakers wrote:tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

spurs traded him to tor out of spite somewhat so just be grateful it worked out for tor end. he want gona stay no matter what so stop crying already

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28854970/lebron-james-helps-lakers-clinch-first-playoff-berth-2012-13

On Sunday, the Lakers will try to beat another title contender for the first time this season when they square off against their Staples Center hallway rivals -- the Clippers (43-19). The Clippers are surging, having won six straight games and are at full strength with a healthy roster. They beat the Lakers in the season opener without Paul George and again in their highly anticipated Christmas night showdown.

The third meeting between the two Los Angeles teams was postponed after Kobe Bryant's death, setting up Sunday's encounter as their third matchup this season.

"We know how well they've been playing as of late," James said. "They're at full strength. We're at full strength. And we look forward to the challenge to see how we can match up with them again. So, you know, the first game, we kind of threw that game out the window. It's the first game of the season. Who were we? Who were they? They had way more returning guys than we did [at that point]. We were still trying to figure out ourselves.

"And then the Christmas Day game, we didn't play to our capabilities. We played great in the first half and then the second half we let it kind of get away from us. So we just look forward to see if we can continue to play good basketball, no matter win, lose or draw."




LeBron as usual can't just own something straight up. Basically first loss is forgotten because it was a new team (Nevermind no PG, yes I realized they had no Kuzma or Rondo). Kuzma and Rondo are basically negative players this year, so having them out was a blessing probably.

Second loss is a classic "we beat ourselves" type deal. Admits they played well, then choked. Clippers held them to 3 points in the last 5 minutes. Maybe he can talk about how AD has 2 ppg in 4th quarters vs the Clippers? Then he hedges with basically saying win, loss or draw doesn't matter, just the effort does.

I can see Sunday going either way, but it's pathetic to me that time and time again the supposed 2nd best all time player has an excuse for each loss. Imagine Jordan or Kobe talking like this?

MoMan24 wrote:

NoZoLakers wrote:

Roco14 wrote:People are now waking up and seeing that Kawhi had a better supporting cast in Toronto than in LA with the clips. It just not such a smooth fit even though the talent is arguably better.

You can put Lebron with a bummy team like Cleveland with injured stars and he still gets to the finals. Put a prime kawhi on that team and they might get bounced in the first or second round.

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

homecourtloss wrote:

KyRo23 wrote:Bruh you posted a whopping 45 excuses in the game thread today.

Cite them, please, for lulz.

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Lmao Avery Bradley ties season high already with 5 threes. Gonna be the next Shake Milton, drop 40 then be average the next 5 games

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Bradley revenge game. In before he drops 10 points combined the next 5

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Let's see Avery Bradley play like this just once more ALL SEASON lmao. You think in a series this man is gonna outplay every single one of our role players?

Tigersrule wrote:lol paul george having one of those games smh..ofc its against the lakers. Lemme see this man do this in the playoffs

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:So far I'd guess Lakers should win this. They are playing way smarter. Clippers just jacking up horrid shots.

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Lmao LeBron lowers shoulder, knocks PG away and gets foul

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What's scary is Clippers role players have actually been trash with Lou/Morris/Shamet/Green/Jackson. Lakers top heavy again. This game is basically a 2 on 2 so far.

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Zubac is getting shoved by 2-3 guys off the boards every other play. Need a call

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Clippers need to start really putting guys on their back if they are gonna ref like this.

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Roco14 wrote:

NoZoLakers wrote:

MoMan24 wrote:Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

spurs traded him to tor out of spite somewhat so just be grateful it worked out for tor end. he want gona stay no matter what so stop crying already

1. learn how to spell. "he want gona stay"? "Kawahi"? illiterate.

2. You're clueless about the game of basketball. And probably everything else.

If the spurs wanted the worst for kawhi, they wouldn't have traded him to the eventual champs.

KyRo23 wrote:

homecourtloss wrote:

KyRo23 wrote:Bruh you posted a whopping 45 excuses in the game thread today.

Cite them, please, for lulz.

His main thing is to cite "anomalies" like Bradley playing well or the Clippers shooting bad as excuses to losing. Most of it is just complaining with underlying excuses that he contradicts when the fouls happen the other way.

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Lmao Avery Bradley ties season high already with 5 threes. Gonna be the next Shake Milton, drop 40 then be average the next 5 games

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Bradley revenge game. In before he drops 10 points combined the next 5

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Let's see Avery Bradley play like this just once more ALL SEASON lmao. You think in a series this man is gonna outplay every single one of our role players?

Tigersrule wrote:lol paul george having one of those games smh..ofc its against the lakers. Lemme see this man do this in the playoffs

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:So far I'd guess Lakers should win this. They are playing way smarter. Clippers just jacking up horrid shots.

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Lmao LeBron lowers shoulder, knocks PG away and gets foul

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What's scary is Clippers role players have actually been trash with Lou/Morris/Shamet/Green/Jackson. Lakers top heavy again. This game is basically a 2 on 2 so far.

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Zubac is getting shoved by 2-3 guys off the boards every other play. Need a call

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ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Clippers need to start really putting guys on their back if they are gonna ref like this.

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chrismikayla wrote:LOL you'd think people would realize that you shouldn't create hot take threads, because if it doesn't work out that thread is getting bumped and the OP rightfully roasted.

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:

xdrta+ wrote:What do you want him to say, they're a better team, we don't have a chance? This is nothing, all players talk like this.

No, I want him to keep it simple. They beat us twice and we are motivated to not let it happen again. The moral victories look pathetic coming from someone of his caliber. Like I said find a clip for me of Jordan doing this kind of stuff? Or even Kobe? To elite competitors a loss is a loss to learn from, there are no excuses or moral victories.

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