(LOCK THREAD) The LeBron James- 23-24 NBA Thread - 40K POINTS+(Part 1)(NO INSULTING)

[MyUniBroDavis]

Alright boys either a 30 point win for the blazers so our agenda looks great or the lakers barely win lol

[Cavsfansince84]

I think as far as being "surprised" it makes sense that it's actually not that surprising to you that he's doing something unprecedented because he's simply the GOAT. But i think some of your earlier posts smack of being unimpressed by it. And it's a bit ludicrous for anyone to be unimpressed by seeing someone play better than any other NBA player has this late in their career, and by an insurmountable margin

No I didn't say anything about it being unimpressive. People are taking umbrage with me saying I'm not surprised by it or saying its not totally unprecedented in sports but that's because I've been around for a while and seen a lot of impressive stuff over the years. I'm just putting it in context as I see it. I think it will mean a lot more though if he can do it for like 70+ games plus a playoffs. That would really set him apart from what other guys have done in their late 30's. Even LeBron hasn't really put both together since 2020.

[homecourtloss]

Alright boys either a 30 point win for the blazers so our agenda looks great or the lakers barely win lol

You can’t win by 30 points if you can only make two three-pointers per half.

Lakers should’ve picked up Bismack Biyombo to help with defense and rebounding. Not sure what sideshow bob does.

Also, it seems like the clippers have any player that they wanted without trading any of their players, and still wound up looking like trash. They need to move between Westbrook and Harden.

Huh?

[Heej]

Alright boys either a 30 point win for the blazers so our agenda looks great or the lakers barely win lol

You can’t win by 30 points if you can only make two three-pointers per half.

Lakers should’ve picked up Bismack Biyombo to help with defense and rebounding. Not sure what sideshow bob does.

Also, it seems like the clippers have any player that they wanted without trading any of their players, and still wound up looking like trash. They need to move between Westbrook and Harden.

Huh?

Man don't disrespect Anderson varejao like that. He's synonymous with Sideshow Bob to me

[homecourtloss]

Lakers got a 37 to 9 free-throw attempts advantage against a G-league stocked tanking team and had to gut out a victory. Not sure what to think

[TroubleS0me]

Watch on YouTube

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I see Bball breakdown I don’t watch

hmm please elaborate more on this

[rk2023]

Alright boys either a 30 point win for the blazers so our agenda looks great or the lakers barely win lol

Looks like we got the latter.

Game balls tonight (aside from AD, who was all world and high impact in his minutes):

• Reddish. Set the tone early, trusted his handle and physical advantage to get to the basket and score efficiently. The first quarter probably looks like the Lakers of October / right after Halloween if he doesn’t come out like that. Event creation on defense to create transition plays and hustle was great too. Man, would I be excited to be wrong in this instance.

• Rui. What a way to get back into things. Have no comment on the late game blocking foul (lol), but he was passable on defense tonight while being in the right position inside the arc plenty of times to either get the basket or draw fouls. This is the Rui who Rob felt confident in paying

• Reaves. Not as high as the other three from a +/- standpoint, but I’m very glad he’s gotten his confidence back and kept his head up through a slump that some may have seen as the sky falling. His process in the 3rd quarter with getting downhill is what I like to see.

Very worthy HM to D-Lo’s 11 AST:1 TOV.

A wins a win. Especially when you only make 4 three pointers in 2023. Glad this team embraced a rim scoring identity, which further shows in the FT disparity.

[dcstanley]

Mattise Thybulle made as many 3s in the first half as the Lakers did as a team for the entire game.

[Mos_Heat]

Their 3pt shooting from a volume perspective is comical. 19 3s in a game that's straight from the Heatles days

[Heej]

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=BBALLBREAKDOWN

I see Bball breakdown I don’t watch

hmm please elaborate more on this

Known Bron hater, and there's other channels that do what he does. Also fits the stereotypical LeBron hater profile of being a racist white dude as he had race related controversies with some of his young players when he coached

[MyUniBroDavis]

Alright boys either a 30 point win for the blazers so our agenda looks great or the lakers barely win lol

You can’t win by 30 points if you can only make two three-pointers per half.

Lakers should’ve picked up Bismack Biyombo to help with defense and rebounding. Not sure what sideshow bob does.

Also, it seems like the clippers have any player that they wanted without trading any of their players, and still wound up looking like trash. They need to move between Westbrook and Harden.

Huh?

I was talking about the blazers winning by 30 or us winning by 3 lol

Also yeah he kinda ass

[MyUniBroDavis]

I see Bball breakdown I don’t watch

hmm please elaborate more on this

Known Bron hater, and there's other channels that do what he does. Also fits the stereotypical LeBron hater profile of being a racist white dude as he had race related controversies with some of his young players when he coached

No bball breakdown is stupid and doesn’t know what he’s talking about

I’m not even talking about an opinion perspective I’m talking about a coaching perspective he’s an idiot lol

[MyUniBroDavis]

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=BBALLBREAKDOWN

I see Bball breakdown I don’t watch

hmm please elaborate more on this

He’s an idiot lol

When he created a revolutionary defense of allowing everyone to get blown by is still hilarious to me

[MyUniBroDavis]

Lakers got a 37 to 9 free-throw attempts advantage against a G-league stocked tanking team and had to gut out a victory. Not sure what to think

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[letskissbro]

Can someone put into words why this team is so unfathomably bad from 3?

Before the season I figured they'd be a solid shooting team. Cranjis said that bball index rates this as LeBron's best shooting team since 2017 and the best shooting team of AD's career. But at this point it's starting to feel like, sustainably bad.

I haven't looked at the shot quality stats but if I had to guess I'd say the issue is that Reaves and DLo are the team's two best shooters but since they're being used a lot as on-ball creators the Lakers aren't getting them many easy looks. Add to that the fact that neither can consistently collapse the defense and a lack of off-ball movement and it's resulting in a lot of tough looks for everyone else as well.

[MyUniBroDavis]

Can someone put into words why this team is so unfathomably bad from 3?

Before the season I figured they'd be a solid shooting team. Cranjis said that bball index rates this as LeBron's best shooting team since 2017 and the best shooting team of AD's career. But at this point it's starting to feel like, sustainably bad.

I haven't looked at the shot quality stats but if I had to guess I'd say the issue is that Reaves and DLo are the team's two best shooters but since they're being used a lot as on-ball creators the Lakers aren't getting them many easy looks. Add to that the fact that neither can consistently collapse the defense and a lack of off-ball movement and it's resulting in a lot of tough looks for everyone else as well.

Nah we’re getting good shots up lol

Reaves/Dlo/Prince should be our highest percentage 3 point shooters, maybe in that order, the fact that the 3 of them are shooting so poorly early is kind of the issue, and it’ll work itself out, Dlo is shooting the shots he normally shoots, prince has gotten good shots too. Reaves maybe a bit tougher but I’m not worried about his shot either

Outside of that it’s just Gabe/Christie/reddish shooting unreasonably bad early on. (Jesus Gabe lol) but it’ll come back up

[TroubleS0me]

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[homecourtloss]

Can someone put into words why this team is so unfathomably bad from 3?

Before the season I figured they'd be a solid shooting team. Cranjis said that bball index rates this as LeBron's best shooting team since 2017 and the best shooting team of AD's career. But at this point it's starting to feel like, sustainably bad.

I haven't looked at the shot quality stats but if I had to guess I'd say the issue is that Reaves and DLo are the team's two best shooters but since they're being used a lot as on-ball creators the Lakers aren't getting them many easy looks. Add to that the fact that neither can consistently collapse the defense and a lack of off-ball movement and it's resulting in a lot of tough looks for everyone else as well.

Nah we’re getting good shots up lol

Reaves/Dlo/Prince should be our highest percentage 3 point shooters, maybe in that order, the fact that the 3 of them are shooting so poorly early is kind of the issue, and it’ll work itself out, Dlo is shooting the shots he normally shoots, prince has gotten good shots too. Reaves maybe a bit tougher but I’m not worried about his shot either

Outside of that it’s just Gabe/Christie/reddish shooting unreasonably bad early on. (Jesus Gabe lol) but it’ll come back up

The shooters will eventually start making shots, but the worrying thing is how you can play 5 out and everyone who plays can theoretically shoot threes INCLUDING your bigs (i.e., AD and Wood) other than Hayes, but you wind up only taking 19 threes in a game.

For the season after last night:

—Lakers are dead last in the league in three-point attempts and makes per 100 possessions
—Lakers take the third highest % of their shots from 16ft—3pt in the league AND shoot the 5th worst % from there

^This is a coaching and scheme problem right here. We saw a different approach in preseason in which this team was actively hunting for threes.

[Heej]

hmm please elaborate more on this

Known Bron hater, and there's other channels that do what he does. Also fits the stereotypical LeBron hater profile of being a racist white dude as he had race related controversies with some of his young players when he coached

No bball breakdown is stupid and doesn’t know what he’s talking about

I’m not even talking about an opinion perspective I’m talking about a coaching perspective he’s an idiot lol

Oh well IDT he's actually wrong on what he breaks down. What he chooses to look at or emphasize I guess could be

[MyUniBroDavis]

Known Bron hater, and there's other channels that do what he does. Also fits the stereotypical LeBron hater profile of being a racist white dude as he had race related controversies with some of his young players when he coached

No bball breakdown is stupid and doesn’t know what he’s talking about

I’m not even talking about an opinion perspective I’m talking about a coaching perspective he’s an idiot lol

Oh well IDT he's actually wrong on what he breaks down. What he chooses to look at or emphasize I guess could be

Oh I didn’t watch the video I just meant he’s stupid most of the time he goes through stuff