LeBron James 2021-22 Regular Season Thread - Part ?

[MisterHibachi]

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This is insane, man

[MisterHibachi]

Part of me wonders if a straight up Westbrook for Simmons swap for LA would make sense if the Westbrook thing really starts to sour the locker room. Can't imagine they'd get rid of him for purely basketball reasons at this point but maybe if he starts to cause rifts.

Neither can shoot, but at least Simmons isn't a turnover machine and can theoretically play good defense. I say theoretically because we haven't seen him play in 7+ months now and he'd be going to a completely different system/situation.

Zero chance Philly takes Westbrook though, I don't think any team acting rationally would. You'd have to find a really dumb GM who only cares about box scores and is desperate to keep his job.

Simmons for Westbrook would be an absolute homerun for the Lakers. But Morey won't do it unless someone has his family at gunpoint, and even then he probably would rather quit than trade for Westbrook again.

[RCM88x]

Part of me wonders if a straight up Westbrook for Simmons swap for LA would make sense if the Westbrook thing really starts to sour the locker room. Can't imagine they'd get rid of him for purely basketball reasons at this point but maybe if he starts to cause rifts.

Neither can shoot, but at least Simmons isn't a turnover machine and can theoretically play good defense. I say theoretically because we haven't seen him play in 7+ months now and he'd be going to a completely different system/situation.

Zero chance Philly takes Westbrook though, I don't think any team acting rationally would. You'd have to find a really dumb GM who only cares about box scores and is desperate to keep his job.

Simmons for Westbrook would be an absolute homerun for the Lakers. But Morey won't do it unless someone has his family at gunpoint, and even then he probably would rather quit than trade for Westbrook again.

Ah, I guess I felt like the consensus here was that Simmons would be bad since he's allergic to shooting and thats not good with Lebron. But Westbrook really has been bad enough to where that would feel like a win I think.

[trickshot]

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This is insane, man

The bank shot I get but the turn around fadeaways kill me . He never had that shot, he just tries things in games for sh*ts and giggles. Probably saw Lebron do it and started a game of horse.

Can we also take time to marvel at just how many of these had a teammate wide open somewhere on the floor.

[KTM_2813]

Took a break from RealGM because the endless MJ versus LBJ arguments were starting to rot my brain, but I had to jump back in after seeing the level that LBJ is playing at these days. Stinks that the Lakers aren't better but I'm not sure that anyone has ever played at this level so late into a career. Even if someone has, I'd imagine it's a short list.

[nzahir]

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This is insane, man

Omfg this is bad lol

I don't see our way out this year though

[PistolPeteJR]

Lol of course even the punches missed

Lmao. GOAT post of 2022 so far

[Jdw38]

https://lakersnation.com/lakers-rumors-kendrick-nunn-expected-to-return-before-end-of-january/2022/01/12/amp/

Nunn will be back soon it seems.

[PistolPeteJR]

Part of me wonders if a straight up Westbrook for Simmons swap for LA would make sense if the Westbrook thing really starts to sour the locker room. Can't imagine they'd get rid of him for purely basketball reasons at this point but maybe if he starts to cause rifts.

Neither can shoot, but at least Simmons isn't a turnover machine and can theoretically play good defense. I say theoretically because we haven't seen him play in 7+ months now and he'd be going to a completely different system/situation.

Zero chance Philly takes Westbrook though, I don't think any team acting rationally would. You'd have to find a really dumb GM who only cares about box scores and is desperate to keep his job.

Simmons for Westbrook would be an absolute homerun for the Lakers. But Morey won't do it unless someone has his family at gunpoint, and even then he probably would rather quit than trade for Westbrook again.

Ah, I guess I felt like the consensus here was that Simmons would be bad since he's allergic to shooting and thats not good with Lebron. But Westbrook really has been bad enough to where that would feel like a win I think.

It's very good if you play Simmons at the 5 rather than DAJ lol, and AD hates it, so let AD and LeBron space things out.

Simmons-AD-LBJ frontcourt is the best frontcourt in the league and it's not close.

[Baski]

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This is insane, man

Does anyone know if Westbrook actually practices any of these shots? Or offensive sets? He has too many moments where he has no plan and just does stuff for the sake of it. I'm not sure I've seen anything similar from a multi-time All NBA player like him.

[McBubbles]

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Does anyone know if Westbrook actually practices any of these shots? Or offensive sets? He has too many moments where he has no plan and just does stuff for the sake of it. I'm not sure I've seen anything similar from a multi-time All NBA player like him.

In my opinion, absolutely not. If Westbrook practiced these shots and didn't make them you'd think he'd be frustrated. He doesn't give af. Chucks up some random **** and then looks bashful and embarrassed when it doesn't go in because he knows he just did something stupid that he shouldn't have.

Then after the game says he won't lose any sleep and that his game isn't predicated on making shots lmao.

Very much the words of someone who quite literally does not care about whether or not his shots go in, and if you're a player that doesn't care if their shots go in, you're probably not practicing that many shots on the first place, let alone reverse-pivot turnaround fadeaways off the glass.

[thebigbird]

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[toodles23]

I can't stand watching THT play.

[Baski]

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You gotta feel bad for Pierce. You can tell that this isn't how it was supposed to go in his mind.

It's a bit similar to LeBron and the Warriors but I think LeBron will handle it way better than Pierce post-retirement.

[falcolombardi]

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You gotta feel bad for Pierce. You can tell that this isn't how it was supposed to go in his mind.

It's a bit similar to LeBron and the Warriors but I think LeBron will handle it way better than Pierce post-retirement.

Pierce issue seems to be that he thinks he was way better than he actually was, it legitemely seems like he thinks he is as good or better as lebron or wade and it annoys him than everyone else disagrees

lebron probably wouldnt have a reason to feel like that since he is already considered the best player of his era regardless of those warriors finals losses

[colts18]

LeBron's worst defensive half I've ever seen. You can count on one hand how many steps he has taken on defense. Vogel is the only one who can't see that Bigman LeBron lineups are a complete disaster.

[yoyoboy]

LeBron at center provides about as much rim protection as Isaiah Thomas at center would lol. Dude is just not moving or jumping at all.

[loveandbeer]

When we're not godly from 3, we can't stay in the game.

[trickshot]

That wasn't just coasting, he gave up. His patience finally broke. Bad omen.

or maybe good, the team was headed for a playoff disaster.

[MisterHibachi]

I'm so tired of Russ. He killed all momentum in like 10 seconds to close the 3rd quarter