***Official 2024-2025 NBA Thread***

[KC_Connection]

Season starts tonight with Knicks and Celtics followed by Lakers and TWolves.

Will history be made early in the 2nd game?

[staylor26]

I love seeing KCC cope

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

If you ignore the fact that LeBron carried their entire defense for all 5 games. Without him out there, they were completely hopeless in that respect. It looked so bad defensively that Redick even desperately had to play the guy for the entire 2nd half of game 4 just to keep it competitive.

LeBron is approaching age 41 and just finished his 22nd year in the league while still averaging 25-7-8. The guy should be a role player at this point and not being asked to be the best player on the court in order for his team to win a playoff series. It’s time to go home to the Cavs and get carried himself for the first time in his career.

Rings don't matter but you desperately want one of those meaningless Karl Malone on the Lakers rings?



You are so transparent and so ****ing pathetic it is unbelievable.

[Sassy Squatch]

The seething over Steph Curry possibly getting #5 should've made that clear

[chiefzilla1501]

Man I hate the way randle plays. But he owned that series. Didn't really help beat the allegations that the strategy was basically to just go after Luka over and over and over

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch

The seething over Steph Curry possibly getting #5 should've made that clear

Oh it did, I just like calling out his bullshit and contradictions.

[Sassy Squatch]

Nico Harrison is still a complete ****ing moron for how he executed the trade, but he got a bit of justification last night and throughout that series. Lazy Luka is a real problem.

[Coogs]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

�� LeBron when asked what the Lakers need to add to the roster this offseason:

“No comment… my guy AD said what he wanted and he was gone the following week” pic.twitter.com/7aVF3gAGNK

— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) May 1, 2025

Time for LeBron to go home to Cleveland.

Oh hell no! I like the Cavs!

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

Hi bitch

Hey now.

I said after the Lakers WON in game 2 that they were going to lose the series, did I not?

It was readily apparent very early on that I missed on this series and didn't even attempt to argue otherwise.

That game 1 loss where they came out flat is just so damn inexcusable for a veteran team with very little depth. You cannot lose that game because you've immediately extended the series longer than you wanted. And you've put yourself in a box where you have to pull that stupid ****ing stunt they pulled in game 4 to try to steal home-court back.

All in the name of winning the first friggen round. When you can reasonably play 8 gays, one of whom is 40, and you have 3 rounds left to go.

It was just so damn bad.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Hey now.

I said after the Lakers WON in game 2 that they were going to lose the series, did I not?

It was readily apparent very early on that I missed on this series and didn't even attempt to argue otherwise.

That game 1 loss where they came out flat is just so damn inexcusable for a veteran team with very little depth. You cannot lose that game because you've immediately extended the series longer than you wanted. And you've put yourself in a box where you have to pull that stupid ****ing stunt they pulled in game 4 to try to steal home-court back.

All in the name of winning the first friggen round. When you can reasonably play 8 gays, one of whom is 40, and you have 3 rounds left to go.

It was just so damn bad.

That’s fair. I’m sorry I called you a bitch.

Bearcat please don’t send me to Detroit

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

Rings don't matter but you desperately want one of those meaningless Karl Malone on the Lakers rings?
.

Correct.

The MJ cult is so hung up on ring culture (because it’s literally all they have at this point, LeBron is literally averaging a near 25 point triple double through his 22nd year in the league), so what better way to expose that ridiculous argument for what it is than LeBron just being carried to a title as a role player?

It’s my dream.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

That’s fair. I’m sorry I called you a bitch.

Bearcat please don’t send me to Detroit

Think we can work a plea deal to send you to Cleveland instead.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch

Nico Harrison is still a complete ****ing moron for how he executed the trade, but he got a bit of justification last night and throughout that series. Lazy Luka is a real problem.

As Lowe said, the idea of actually trading Luka wasn’t as crazy as the way it was done.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by New World Order

Lakers were putrid with Lebron on the floor.

They need to cut bait

Eh.

He was fine. Shooting was fine. Defense was good (mostly). He was active on the glass, though not exactly crashing the boards. He wasn't as active with the ball in his hands but I think that was by design. LeBron wasn't the problem or even A problem. He played well; honestly he mostly played to his own standard that he set over the course of the regular season.

I mean it's really odd to me that people are killing Luka's defense -- LAL scored 95, 94, 104, 113 and 96. They had one genuinely solid game on offense and even in THAT game they shit the bed in the 4th quarter and scored 19 because they ran the starters dry.

Their problem wasn't James. It wasn't Luka's defense. Their problem was that the bench was a ****ing horror show and the design of the offense looked straight of of one of those AAU teams where a guy just has 5 players who are BETTER than everyone else so he lets them dictate the game.

A short roster collapsed when it couldn't and an inexperienced coach demonstrated how inexperienced he was.

And if you want to find a single player to blame (for some odd reason) -- the player is Austin Reaves. He was every bit as bad defensively as Luca but wasn't able to do very much offensively at all. The shot he missed in game 4 was literally as bad a shot as it is possible to miss. And it's why they lost. And that was the story of his series. He finally got tired of being defended and just stopped driving altogether. Rui was easily the 3rd best player on the Lakers and that's just not gonna get it done. Especially when your 5th best player is....man, **** if I know. Reaves was #4 by default. I guess DFS is 5 and he was also bad.

They just sucked. Collectively. As a team, as a staff, and evidently as a front office. They were just ****ing terrible.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Eh.

He was fine. Shooting was fine. Defense was good (mostly). He was active on the glass, though not exactly crashing the boards. He wasn't as active with the ball in his hands but I think that was by design.

I mean it's really odd to me that people are killing Luka's defense -- LAL scored 95, 94, 104, 113 and 96. They had one genuinely solid game on offense and even in THAT game they shit the bed in the 4th quarter and scored 19 because they ran the starters dry.

Their problem wasn't James. It wasn't Luka's defense. Their problem was that the bench was a ****ing horror show and the design of the offense looked straight of of one of those AAU teams where a guy just has 5 players who are BETTER than everyone else so he lets them dictate the game.

A short roster collapsed when it couldn't and an inexperienced coach demonstrated how inexperienced he was.

And if you want to find a single player to blame (for some odd reason) -- the player is Austin Reaves. He was every bit as bad defensively as Luca but wasn't able to do very much offensively at all. The shot he missed in game 4 was literally as bad a shot as it is possible to miss. And it's why they lost. And that was the story of his series. He finally got tired of being defended and just stopped driving altogether. Rui was easily the 3rd best player on the Lakers and that's just not gonna get it done. Especially when your 5th best player is....man, **** if I know. Reaves was #4 by default. I guess DFS is 5 and he was also bad.

They just sucked. Collectively. As a team, as a staff, and evidently as a front office. They were just ****ing terrible.

Reaves struggled badly against their length and physicality the entire series. It was noticeable. He was a fraction of the player in that series that he was in the regular season. It certainly does make me doubt whether he can be an actual #3 on a contender; he wasn’t great the previous postseason either.

[SHOWTIME]

The Lakers were In-N-Out of the playoffs.

— In-N-Out Burger ᶠᵃⁿ (@innoutburger_) May 1, 2025