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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:38 pm Post subject:
Clippers are ridiculously deep.
PG: Beverly, Jackson
SG: George, Williams, Shamet
SF: Kawhi,
PF: M. Morris, J. Green
C: Zubac, Harrell, Noah _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
Joined: 15 Sep 2012 Posts: 29281 Location: La La Land
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:38 pm Post subject:
Westbrook might not be available for start of playoffs. OKC will win games if he doesn't play _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
I give lakers less than 5% chance to win . These are my reasons( apart from the fact that this covid has killed us the most)
1) there is no crowd involved. players shooting crazy and our shooting sucks. we don't have enough shooting to stay with others.
2) No advantage being No 1 seed.
3) we are too old as a team and this playoffs with just 1 day gap going to kill us.
4) In a league that is going in the direction of 3 point shooting and free throw shooting, we have neither. If opponents shoot 40% from 3, we need to shoot 60% from 2 to stay with them.
5) we have so many match up problems.
6) We can't win a single game if lebron or AD has an off day.
7) we don't have players that can draw fouls or flop ( except Caruso).
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Westbrook might not be available for start of playoffs. OKC will win games if he doesn't play
I have Houston winning because I think they have too much shooting for OKC. However, it would not shock me if OKC won. This will not be easy for Houston.
I’m assuming CP3 will avoid injury and I expect SGA to show out.
It’s going 6 or 7. If it goes 7...pressure on Harden and MDA.
Kyle Kuzma was asked if playing the red-hot Blazers in the 1st Round would be the worst-case scenario of all the possible 8th seeds and said it would help test the Lakers: "I don’t think it’s worst-case scenario because we’re war ready. We’re ready to play anybody."
I give lakers less than 5% chance to win . These are my reasons( apart from the fact that this covid has killed us the most)
1) there is no crowd involved. players shooting crazy and our shooting sucks. we don't have enough shooting to stay with others.
2) No advantage being No 1 seed.
3) we are too old as a team and this playoffs with just 1 day gap going to kill us.
4) In a league that is going in the direction of 3 point shooting and free throw shooting, we have neither. If opponents shoot 40% from 3, we need to shoot 60% from 2 to stay with them.
5) we have so many match up problems.
6) We can't win a single game if lebron or AD has an off day.
7) we don't have players that can draw fouls or flop ( except Caruso).
Check my sig.
I’m dead. 🤣 _________________ “You have to dance beautifully in the box that you are comfortable dancing in.” - Kobe Bryant
To be honest, the team that I fear the most right now are the Suns. If they enter in the playoffs they will be extramotivated and they may cause us more problems than the Blazers who do not have any defense and CJ is injured.
The best case scenario would be a Memphis-Spurs play-in of course.
I'm not scared of Portlandia.
Guess what the Lakers are gonna do in the crunch?
LeBron handles. Gets Dame to switch onto him.
Punish him like he did Lou Will.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say Harden probably doesn't want to play CP3 in the first round. Without Westbrook it would essentially be a blood match between the two former teammates. OKC took 2 of 3 this year, Houston only winning in October.
Harden and the Rockets publicly wanted GS at their peak. They failed but wanted the smoke. I don't think Harden is sweating having to play CP3. He already beat him in the playoffs anyway.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Harden probably doesn't want to play CP3 in the first round. Without Westbrook it would essentially be a blood match between the two former teammates. OKC took 2 of 3 this year, Houston only winning in October.
Harden and the Rockets publicly wanted GS at their peak. They failed but wanted the smoke. I don't think Harden is sweating having to play CP3. He already beat him in the playoffs anyway.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Harden probably doesn't want to play CP3 in the first round. Without Westbrook it would essentially be a blood match between the two former teammates. OKC took 2 of 3 this year, Houston only winning in October.
Harden and the Rockets publicly wanted GS at their peak. They failed but wanted the smoke. I don't think Harden is sweating having to play CP3. He already beat him in the playoffs anyway.
I don't think Houston fears anyone.
Me either. With that being said, I don't think we are talented enough and Harden seems to get down on himself when things go bad. Dude needs a sports shrink or something. Maybe call up whoever Artest used.
I think Memphis' pre-bubble play (along with the other teams' pre-bubble play) say they do deserve to get in.
Same. 60+ games more than earned it. They put a young team in the bubble and gave them a brutal schedule to try and get Zion in.
If Blazers lose tonight, are they still guaranteed a play-in game? (Assuming Memphis and Phoenix win their games).
The league certainly shafted the Grizzlies with this odd manipulation of the standings by creating a play-in scenario.
Was interesting that there was so little criticism of the format. As it obviously was an attempt to get rid of those pesky Grizz. If I’m a Grizzlies fan I would be upset when they miss the playoffs due to the the strategy.
As a fan it will make for a more entertaining series for the Lakers but the dismissing of the hard work and results of the Grizzlies season up to that point is kind of ridiculous. It seems to be working just as they planned though.
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