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2020 Lakers:

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Danny Green
Lebron James
Anthony Davis
Javale McGee

Bench: Alex Caruso, Rajon Rondo, Kyle Kuzma, Markieff Morris, Dwight Howard

2021 Bucks:

Jrue Holiday
Khris Middleton
PJ Tucker
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Brook Lopez

Bench: Bryn Forbes, Pat Connaughton, Bobby Portis, Jeff Teague

Played on neutral court

Do the Lakers have the bubble version of AD or the RS version?

I'd pick the Lakers in 6/7. I like how they match-up and I'll still trust LeBron over Giannis in a series.

That Lakers team is IMO 2nd LeBron's best team(initially had them as 1st, but forgot the 2017 Cavs who I rate very very highly).

Eddy_JukeZ wrote:Do the Lakers have the bubble version of AD or the RS version?

I'd pick the Lakers in 6/7. I like how they match-up and I'll still trust LeBron over Giannis in a series.

That Lakers team is IMO 2nd LeBron's best team(initially had them as 1st, but forgot the 2017 Cavs who I rate very very highly).

Better than the 12-13 Heat?

I'm taking slightly past peak Wade over anyone else Bron has played with (yes even bubble AD).

I'm gonna say the Lakers here as well, 2 of the 3 best players and I think DDV injury hurts the Bucks as they have to start no offense Tucker against strong Lakers D, and overall could use another bench player or two.

This round robin didn't really stick, but nonetheless the votes we did get seem to suggest the Lakers are considered the best team of this decade so far

Lakers vs Bucks - 13-5 Lakers
Lakers vs Warriors - 7-3 Lakers
Bucks vs Warriors - 6-1 Bucks

Bucks. The 3 years apart from that the Lakers missed the playoffs twice and lost in round 1. Only won a series in the bubble never in front of the Lakers home crowd.

JordansBulls wrote:Bucks. The 3 years apart from that the Lakers missed the playoffs twice and lost in round 1. Only won a series in the bubble never in front of the Lakers home crowd.

it says the series is played on a neutral court, so wouldn't that be a good thing for the Lakers according to you?


How could the Lakers have missed the playoffs twice if Anthony Davis has only been on the team for 3 years and one of them was a championship year?

HeartBreakKid wrote:

JordansBulls wrote:Bucks. The 3 years apart from that the Lakers missed the playoffs twice and lost in round 1. Only won a series in the bubble never in front of the Lakers home crowd.

it says the series is played on a neutral court, so wouldn't that be a good thing for the Lakers according to you?


How could the Lakers have missed the playoffs twice if Anthony Davis has only been on the team for 3 years and one of them was a championship year?

No not if fans are around.

JordansBulls wrote:

HeartBreakKid wrote:

JordansBulls wrote:Bucks. The 3 years apart from that the Lakers missed the playoffs twice and lost in round 1. Only won a series in the bubble never in front of the Lakers home crowd.

it says the series is played on a neutral court, so wouldn't that be a good thing for the Lakers according to you?


How could the Lakers have missed the playoffs twice if Anthony Davis has only been on the team for 3 years and one of them was a championship year?

No not if fans are around.

Lakers had HCA taken away from them each series’s that doesn’t make sense bruh

MyUniBroDavis wrote:

JordansBulls wrote:

HeartBreakKid wrote:
it says the series is played on a neutral court, so wouldn't that be a good thing for the Lakers according to you?


How could the Lakers have missed the playoffs twice if Anthony Davis has only been on the team for 3 years and one of them was a championship year?

No not if fans are around.

Lakers had HCA taken away from them each series’s that doesn’t make sense bruh

Sure it does, fans weren't there. Jamal Murry and Donovan Mitchell scored 50 twice in the same series as well. When did it happen other than MJ and Iverson?

JordansBulls wrote:

MyUniBroDavis wrote:

JordansBulls wrote:No not if fans are around.

Lakers had HCA taken away from them each series’s that doesn’t make sense bruh

Sure it does, fans weren't there. Jamal Murry and Donovan Mitchell scored 50 twice in the same series as well. When did it happen other than MJ and Iverson?

Aint no way you’re not an npc bruh

Lakers dominate this i feel. Aren't they basically just a better version of the bucks?

Lakers. Bucks have the best player but almost everything else(minus Jrue maybe) favours the Lakers.
That team had a bigs rotation of AD(his best version), Dwight and McGee. Giannis is great but the Lakers have the personnel (with additional help of LeBron) to ware him out. And if he's not scoring in bunches, Milwaukee's bench isn't great at this.
That said, Middleton is the X factor. If he gets hot in the series, Milwaukee can beat anyone.

KGtabake wrote:Lakers. Bucks have the best player but almost everything else(minus Jrue maybe) favours the Lakers.
That team had a bigs rotation of AD(his best version), Dwight and McGee. Giannis is great but the Lakers have the personnel (with additional help of LeBron) to ware him out. And if he's not scoring in bunches, Milwaukee's bench isn't great at this.
That said, Middleton is the X factor. If he gets hot in the series, Milwaukee can beat anyone.

Bubble ad played like a top 10 all-timer, so even "best player" isn't a big advantage here. We basically saw a better version of "hot middleton" in bubble murray and lakers still won in 5.

the only real weakness with the lakers is shooting but playoff bucks might be the worst shooting playofff team so...

Lakers in 6. Trying to contain both Lebron and AD with the way they were playing is a lot to ask of any team. The Bucks barely got by the Nets with Harden and Kyrie hobbling and missing half the series. One other thing, Giannis isn’t going to have his way with AD, Lebron and Dwight taking turns bodying him.

2020 Lakers were a dominant, dominant team that won the title Playing mostly in second gear. Aside from the garbage 10 minutes, liquor 7 of the most dominant playoff runs ever and that was in a completely sterile, neutral environment favoring teams that could shoot well the Lakers themselves were poor three-point shooting team and played by many measures antiquated basketball, yet still they dominated.

It will be a good series, but I think the Lakers in six.