LeBron James 2021-22 Regular Season Thread - Part ?

MisterHibachi · Post #1041 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:08 am

Absolutely ridiculous LeBron didn't get the call on that dunk. And got a tech on top of that.

MisterHibachi · Post #1042 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:09 am

Russ having the ball to close every quarter is **** dumb.

McBubbles · Post #1043 » by **McBubbles** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:09 am

MisterHibachi wrote:
letskissbro wrote:Jesus Christ imagine if LeBron played with a cast as balanced as this Bucks team in his career.

Giannis has it pretty good. His two stars are better than what LeBron had in 2016 yet only one gets the super team moniker. Middleton is better than 2016 Kyrie and Jrue is better than Love.

Um, Giannis's team was OrGaNicAlLy CrEaTed, excuse you 8-)

AmIWrongDude · Post #1044 » by **AmIWrongDude** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:16 am

LeBron continues to get shafted by the refs while Giannis gets every call (most deserved but still). I just don’t get it.

Seems like everyone gets calls but him

letskissbro · Post #1045 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:20 am

Giannis was shooting below 30% from three coming into this game by the way. He’s also below 40% between 10 feet and the 3PT line. Basically a repeat of the Christmas game 2 years ago when he turned into Steph Curry. Can't believe AD actually fell for a 35 foot pump fake

homecourtloss · Post #1046 » by **homecourtloss** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:21 am

We’ll see what kind of pride the Lakers have. They can’t win this game, but a strong second half can make it look reasonable.

letskissbro · Post #1047 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:27 am

Whenever Westbrook sees a white guy on him he just assumes he's a bad defender and stomps on the gas lmfao. I noticed he did this with Caruso in the bubble and got humbled multiple times before deciding to cool it

MisterHibachi · Post #1048 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:28 am

homecourtloss wrote:We’ll see what kind of pride the Lakers have. They can’t win this game, but a strong second half can make it look reasonable.

They always have these fake comebacks. I don't buy it anymore

letskissbro · Post #1049 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:29 am

A lot of this isn't even bad defense. Bucks are just hitting everything, contested or not

MisterHibachi · Post #1050 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:29 am

letskissbro wrote:Giannis was shooting below 30% from three coming into this game by the way. He’s also below 40% between 10 feet and the 3PT line. Basically a repeat of the Christmas game 2 years ago when he turned into Steph Curry. Can't believe AD actually fell for a 35 foot pump fake

He always shows up against AD. He takes that matchup personally

letskissbro · Post #1051 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:33 am

MisterHibachi wrote:
letskissbro wrote:Giannis was shooting below 30% from three coming into this game by the way. He’s also below 40% between 10 feet and the 3PT line. Basically a repeat of the Christmas game 2 years ago when he turned into Steph Curry. Can't believe AD actually fell for a 35 foot pump fake

He always shows up against AD. He takes that matchup personally

It's sad to see how large the gap between the two has grown since 2020

MisterHibachi · Post #1052 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:34 am

letskissbro wrote:
MisterHibachi wrote:
letskissbro wrote:Giannis was shooting below 30% from three coming into this game by the way. He’s also below 40% between 10 feet and the 3PT line. Basically a repeat of the Christmas game 2 years ago when he turned into Steph Curry. Can't believe AD actually fell for a 35 foot pump fake

He always shows up against AD. He takes that matchup personally

It's sad to see how large the gap between the two has grown since 2020

Very. I think AD was genuinely better in 2020, and he's kind of stayed at the level, especially since getting healthy this past month. But Giannis has gotten so much getter. He has top 10 potential, maybe even higher, and AD just isn't that level of player.

MisterHibachi · Post #1053 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:36 am

Russ makes me hate basketball. I hate to keep piling onto this guy, but it's just ridiculous how bad he is on the court. He's managed to ruin a LeBron/AD combination and I thought it was impossible to do that.

MisterHibachi · Post #1054 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:41 am

I think about the Lakers going all in for CP3 a year ago instead of Russ this year every time Russ turns the ball over.

letskissbro · Post #1055 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:45 am

MisterHibachi wrote:Russ makes me hate basketball. I hate to keep piling onto this guy, but it's just ridiculous how bad he is on the court. He's managed to ruin a LeBron/AD combination and I thought it was impossible to do that.

Nah he deserves to be piled on. This is the worst basketball player I've ever watched. And this is after two seasons of Rondo and Drummond

I keep trying to find the words to describe how bad this dude but everything feels like an understatement. He's a disgrace to basketball

homecourtloss · Post #1056 » by **homecourtloss** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:50 am

Are the Lakers of the last two years the worst technical foul shooting of all time? How is it that their center who can’t shoot anymore is the best available free-throw shooter? Lol. Also, I miss the days AD would go 11-12 or 9-9 from the free throw line.

Greyhound · Post #1057 » by **Greyhound** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:50 am

homecourtloss wrote:
Greyhound wrote:That BS small lineup has put the game out of reach.

Vogel on the job.

The other option was putting DAJ in there since Howard is out. It would have been the same thing. 54 points in 16 minutes allowing 68% shooting…sad.

The big lineups have yet to be tried since Davis has returned with this increased level of effort, mobility and effectiveness.

It may be worth it to try AD at the 4 alongside a true center (a couple minutes here and there) to see how it looks with this AD.

I don’t view these garbage small lineups (with LeBron at center) as something you can use against good teams.

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Vogel should let Westbrook do his thing by giving him the keys to those small bench units, instead of tanking LeBron with them.
I think LeBron and AD should be playing together as much as possible (since they play very well off of one another), while Westbrook should be the one lifting (or at least attempting to lift) the bench units.

Just my 2 cents.

letskissbro · Post #1058 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:51 am

TaintsHisTeam

MisterHibachi · Post #1059 » by **MisterHibachi** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:52 am

The one silver lining of this season was LeBron potentially winning a scoring title. That's getting more and more unlikely every game.

letskissbro · Post #1060 » by **letskissbro** » Wed Feb 9, 2022 4:54 am

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