VanWest82 wrote:HeartBreakKid wrote:LA Bird wrote:Skimmed through the thread and noticed this blatant revisionist history that somehow didn't get called out
The Lakers net rating went from +7.1 to -6.6 during the bubble, the largest decline of any team in the league. They had the second worst net rating out of the bubble teams ahead of only the Beal-less Wizards and they were so awful offensively during those bubble games that it dragged them down from the 4th best offense to outside of the top 10 for the season. Saying the Lakers looked like they were shot out of a cannon in the bubble puts into doubt whether you even watched any actual games at all.
Good call out.
L.O.L.
I was referring to the playoffs not the 8 games Lakers basically treated as preseason given they already had the #1 seed locked up. What's your guys' counter-argument, that LBJ, AD, Rondo, etc., didn't look refreshed and noticeably sharper than some other teams in bubble playoffs? Heat were another example, and also a team rumored to have spent time practicing together during the lockdowns. Compare that to teams like Raptors and Bucks who had guys locked in their apartments, unable to get into practice facilities alongside their teammates for months.
You guys are so ridiculously biased you're willing to dismiss documented facts as evidence that certain circumstances might have led to an advantage. And btw, I give credit to Lakers and Heat for taking full advantage where others didn't/couldn't. But they did have an advantage.
Compare that to Raptors and Bucks, who aren't in the Lakers conference...
You're saying dismiss documented facts in a post where someone literally posted facts to refute your point. Your rebuttal is "they look sharper" - which isn't a fact, and doesn't even make sense.
How could they not look sharp during the RS (or preseason as you call it), but during the PS they look super sharp due to training that would have happened a long time ago - with RS play between it? That would also mean that the other teams would have had time to practice together by then - because the playoffs take place after the regular season, genius.
Hypothetically, they train during the pandemic. Come in the RS, but aren't looking good (because you say they're not trying or something). Then they look amazing in the playoffs...due to the training they did weeks ago before they played lazy.
Meanwhile, all the teams playing in the bubble, who are even playing at a higher level than the Lakers, are somehow incredibly rusty, despite the fact they're literally playing right up until the playoffs for one month just like the lazy Lakers are. Did you even think this through before making this up?
Maybe they looked better than everyone else because...they were the eventual champions?
Also, the the biggest contender and threat were the LA Clippers...who play in the same city as the LA Lakers - hence the name LA. So, which teams did the Lakers have an advantage again?
