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

[MyUniBroDavis]

Is it laziness or energy conservation?

It’s the same thing lol

He’s conserving energy on that end by being lazy, it’s not inherently wrong till playoffs but it still stands out at times

There’s a difference between being lazy and being efficient. Lazy means you have the capacity and lack the will to lean on it. That’s not LeBron on the court generally speaking.

In the regular season it absolutely is lol, it’s fine to preserve himself to be ready in the playoffs

[EmpireFalls]

It’s time to apologize to Russ. He was scapegoated as the main problem with this team, but that wasn’t it. The problem is that everyone else behind LeBron and AD are legitimately fringe 7th men at best. There’s zero even close to scary offensive players outside of Reaves and none of their role players are 2 way players.

They’re legitimately bad offensively, not just mediocre, bad. It’s hard to see how they make the playoffs.

[dcstanley]

It’s time to apologize to Russ. He was scapegoated as the main problem with this team, but that wasn’t it. The problem is that everyone else behind LeBron and AD are legitimately fringe 7th men at best. There’s zero even close to scary offensive players outside of Reaves and none of their role players are 2 way players.

They’re legitimately bad offensively, not just mediocre, bad. It’s hard to see how they make the playoffs.

They lost four starter/rotation level players (KCP, Kuzma, Caruso, Dennis) to acquire Russ' 47 million dollar contact just for his performance to vacillate between a replacement level player and an MLE player. Though, Pelinka is to blame for making the idiotic trade not Russ.

[letskissbro]

This team is as miserable to watch as the 2022 and 2023 teams.

-November 27th. Some of yall didnt wanna hear it.

[homecourtloss]

Because they drafted Austin Reeves and Alex Caruso, you have to give the Lakers the benefit of the doubt, but this Hood-Schifino character defies belief that he’s in the NBA.

[rk2023]

LeBron is hijacking the Lakers offense right now, this might be the worst half I’ve seen him play across my whole duration watching him.

[nzahir]

It’s time to apologize to Russ. He was scapegoated as the main problem with this team, but that wasn’t it. The problem is that everyone else behind LeBron and AD are legitimately fringe 7th men at best. There’s zero even close to scary offensive players outside of Reaves and none of their role players are 2 way players.

They’re legitimately bad offensively, not just mediocre, bad. It’s hard to see how they make the playoffs.

No, dont gaslight us please

Russ was horrible here

The guy legit averaged an airball or backboard shot a game, made horrible TOs, gave us negative spacing, and was a horrible defender here (either overly aggressive and got burned or fouled or lost af off ball). Also tried to take over late and cost us some close games

Remember we went on a great run after we moved him last year. We beat Memphis (yes they were injured, but pretty handily beat them) and GS (who just won it all the year prior). We were in 3 extremely close games with 1 Den that went down to like 1-2 plays each.

We need to make some **** trades right now though

West is stronger and we don't look as good as last years team

Some reasons as to why we look worse:

Lost Dennis to replace him with Vincent who isn't playing. Dennis was very solid for us besides the Den series. He was a consistent spark plug who could generate offense out of thin year

Reaves was better, especially on defense

Wenyen was better than Wood or Hayes

Vando was better

Health issues have hit us harder with role guys (Rui keeps missing time, Dlo missing time, Vando missed a lot of time and playing a bit gimpy seems like, Vincent out, Prince missed some games iirc)

I am really unsure if any small deals will do us any good. Feels like we need a major change at this point

Lavine seems like the option that is most realistic. Rui, Dlo, JHS, and Hayes for Lavine and Drummond?

Lavine, Prince, Vando, Bron, AD
Vincent, Reaves, Cam?, Wood, Drummond
Christie

I woild say to also look to try and upgrade the 3/4 spot instead of Vando, but not sure who makes sense. Realy nobody that has length

Maybe Torrey Craig? Give them some 2nds? Maybe a swap instead?

[zimpy27]

Because they drafted Austin Reeves and Alex Caruso, you have to give the Lakers the benefit of the doubt, but this Hood-Schifino character defies belief that he’s in the NBA.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-nba-rumors-few-la-lakers-personnel-coveted-jaime-jaquez-jr-chose-big-swing-safe-bet

Lakers were thinking of JJJ but decided on a risk rather than a sure thing..

that's all you need to know abou tthe decision making at the helm..

Just got to WCF and the offseason starts with risk taking moves

[RRR3]

Actually think Ham had a decent enough starting lineup today, but they're still playing like ****. Then again playing Hood-Schifino over DLo is insane (yes I know DLo is an incredibly flawed player but cmon)

[nzahir]

Actually think Ham had a decent enough starting lineup today, but they're still playing like ****. Then again playing Hood-Schifino over DLo is insane (yes I know DLo is an incredibly flawed player but cmon)

Dlo is hurt...

[RRR3]

Oh well then I think Ham is actually running ok lineups for once based on the box score. Maybe the team has quit on him, in which case there's not a whole lot he can do...

[zimpy27]

Oh well then I think Ham is actually running ok lineups for once based on the box score. Maybe the team has quit on him, in which case there's not a whole lot he can do...

They couldn't hit a 3 today, just a bad shooting night. It happens.

[RRR3]

Oh well then I think Ham is actually running ok lineups for once based on the box score. Maybe the team has quit on him, in which case there's not a whole lot he can do...

They couldn't hit a 3 today, just a bad shooting night. It happens.

They often shoot bad tbh more of LeBron sucking than anything else based off the boxscore. But my fear is that Ham draws the wrong conclusions from it and benches Reaves to go back to starting Vanderbilt and Reddish together Pelinkduh certainly shouldn't be sitting on his ass rn

[zimpy27]

Lakers offense is a big problem. Ham being moved on is the easy fix, get a different coach with better offensive strategy.


Harder fix is to change personnel. It's not very clear what type of players they need to be successful with Ham

[tone wone]

Prince, Lebron and Dlo are their best 3pt shooters.

0-11 from Prince/Lebron and Dlo didn't play.

If AD doesn't get worn down; maybe Lebron will come out of this funk (been really mid since the IST) and we'll get a couple weeks of those 2 playing near MVP level. If that happens maybe they'll go on a run and move up the standings but outside of that there's just nothing here.

You just can't be this bad offensively and call yourself a good team. There're even bad in transition because of how lousy they are with turnovers.

[GSP]

It’s time to apologize to Russ. He was scapegoated as the main problem with this team, but that wasn’t it. The problem is that everyone else behind LeBron and AD are legitimately fringe 7th men at best. There’s zero even close to scary offensive players outside of Reaves and none of their role players are 2 way players.

They’re legitimately bad offensively, not just mediocre, bad. It’s hard to see how they make the playoffs.

Are Dennis, Lonnie and Malik that much of a difference tho......this team replaced those 2 with Prince, Reddish, Wood.......Denis, Lonnie, Malik was better offensively for sure but worse defense

Otherwise its the same team post trade that looked like a top 5 team and made it to Wcf..........Reaves, Vando, Rui, Dlo..... i dont get how theyve fallen off like this. Ad has been great and Bron has played even better than last season.......also no chance Reaves is a fringe 7th men cmon now he was a solid 3rd option in Wcf run. He was playing over all star caliber talent for team Usa too.......did he fall off that much?

[Mos_Heat]

Get DFS and either Bogdanovich. But the season is probably cooked anyway. Lebron at pg won't work in 2024

[Heej]

LeGone James babyyyy. Can't wait for our boy to leave this incompetent piece of s*** franchise. Gonna be amazing to see them turn into Knicks West over the years and these undeserving inbred fans get what they deserve.

[JLei]

Because they drafted Austin Reeves and Alex Caruso, you have to give the Lakers the benefit of the doubt, but this Hood-Schifino character defies belief that he’s in the NBA.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-nba-rumors-few-la-lakers-personnel-coveted-jaime-jaquez-jr-chose-big-swing-safe-bet

Lakers were thinking of JJJ but decided on a risk rather than a sure thing..

that's all you need to know abou tthe decision making at the helm..

Just got to WCF and the offseason starts with risk taking moves

I think the Lakers get the benefit of the doubt in the draft.

Jordan Clarkson with the 46th pick
Kyle Kuzma 27th pick
Ivica Zubac 32nd pick
Larry Nance 27th pick
Josh Hart 30th pick
Alex Caruso undrafted
Austin Reeves undrafted

They picked up like 7 borderline starter/ guaranteed playoff rotation players from the bottom of the first round/ 2nd round to undrafted.

They didn't exactly hit on their top of the lottery picks but it's not like they really passed on anyone/ didn't take the consensus prospect (Lonzo over Tatum I guess is bad scouting).

[Colbinii]

LeGone James babyyyy. Can't wait for our boy to leave this incompetent piece of s*** franchise. Gonna be amazing to see them turn into Knicks West over the years and these undeserving inbred fans get what they deserve.