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Especially given Denver's inability to get a stop when LA drove to the hole. Goading them into a deep jumper was a blessing.
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The only time the Lakers effectively scored the entire 4th quarter in the half court was when they left LeBron open for threes on screens and someone thinks doing exactly that was a strategy of theirs at the end?
They were no doubt going to force him into a trap/pass as they'd been doing all game but KCP just flopped on the play and got lucky he missed. |
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James 15' Fadeaway Jumper (22 PTS) Reaves 16' Fadeaway Jumper (9 PTS) MISS Hachimura 26' 3PT Jump Shot MISS Reaves 24' 3PT Pullup Jump Shot James 1' Running Dunk (24 PTS) Russell 2' Driving Layup (23 PTS) James 1' Driving Layup (26 PTS) MISS James 25' 3PT Pullup Jump Shot Which do you think they shot better with the game in the balance, legs completely gone? At this point, one HAS to assume you completely missed the end of the game.
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Denver was very much forcing LeBron into traps on screens to pass to his teammates all game (which is generally exactly how teams have played LeBron for his entire career and how Malone has played LeBron in the last six playoff games). That very much would have been the plan if he had driven the ball there on the Lakers' final possession as well. No reason to do that though when you can get a wide open three from a 41% 3PT shooter thanks to a botched defensive play. |
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If LeBron drives there, he'll be driving into help where he'll either have to take a tough contested two over Jokic or kick to an open shooter for three that is worse than him. Now a LeBron drive into help is certainly never a bad option given his playmaking ability, but it's not a better option than LeBron taking a wide open three.
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Hong Kong Lebron ran out of the press conference.
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From before the series started.
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And like I said earlier - this is not bad luck as much as it is a reckoning. Ham ****ed off with his rotations all season so a team that should've probably been a 3 seed, 4 at worst, is sitting 8. This is a direct reflection of poor coaching. For the 'regular season doesn't matter' crowd - it damn sure has for the Lakers.
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What is that? Like 7 guys in 2 years or some shit. Just keep somebody. Anybody. For crying out loud. |
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Jokie with 10 straight over Lebron. At one point does he pass James on the all time list greats list? Maybe 1 more title?
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Mike Brown? Mike D'Antoni, Byron Scott and Luke Walton - all garbage coaches. Walton seemed to have some promise but then he went to the Kings and didn't seem to know what the hell he was doing there either. Scott was hired to fail, IMO - they were tanking. But I don't understand why they fired Vogel. That was another GM LeBron move that was just stupid. James didn't like him - he got canned and got replaced by a dude who really drove this season into a mountain. I don't think many coaches actually move the needle much in the NBA. But there are more that make teams worse than there are that make teams better. A guy like Vogel probably made a team as good as their talent says they should be - that's a 3 seed out of the West for this Lakers squad, IMO. Ham took them to the play-in tournament and a 1 and done against the worst matchup in the NBA for them. This is a direct indictment of bad coaching for 60 games from Darvin Ham. But LeBron doesn't dislike him so there won't be any accountability for it.
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He's been choking in the 4th of the Finals since Dirk showed him his big white mamba. It's why he's 4-6 in the Finals and will never be the goat, no matter how many extra pointless stat-pad seasons he racks up due to genetics.
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He's the reason Jackson left and deserves some heat for that (though I'm not sure how many more runs that team had left in it; the 2004 Finals showed a team on fumes). But after trying it 'his' way, he reached out to Jackson and they mended fences. Those 2 titles he won after Jackson came back are a testament to his willingness to grow as a person and player. James, OTOH, "in year 21" is still out there pulling levers and sabotaging his chances behind the scenes. He was still out there pushing for Westbrook and leveraging Vogel out the door. He's cost himself rings by simply trying to impose his will on organizations.
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