2021-2022 NBA Season

[Retroram52]

There is an old adage in sports that goes: "You usually play like you practice. Cheat in practice, it'll show-up in the games." There are some serious problems emerging with the Lakers: 1) With all of the changes to the roster with supposed experienced, championship-type players, no one appears to want to play team defense. Crappy defense leads to other teams scoring big; 2) Dwight Howard still can't seem to shut his mouth when another player calls him out for doing stupid shit. Everyone is learning Vogel's system in order to play together; 3) Many players are not that good offensively and scoring is down. Stop this standing around and watching AD and Lebron shoot the basketball.

Also, Russell Westbrook, Rajon Rondo, and Avery Bradley have yet to do much of anything. Were not these three brought on board to take the pressure off of LeBron, play defense, and score when the opportunity is available?

Granted only two games are in the books but the Lakers have some major work to do to right this leaking ship and reap the results that were envisioned on paper when Pelinka started down this road awhile back.

 

[thunderc]

The Westbrook deal was not a good one.

Which one?

 

[HurricaneDij39]

This Lakers team is straight up garbage.

They are running no offense whatsoever. Everything is a simple 2 man screen at the start of a possession with 3 guys standing around doing nothing and if that doesn't free anything up, it turns into an Iso with 4 guys standing around doing nothing.

They are totally disjointed on defense. No communication. Lazy effort. Most of them are lost and out of position.

This is beyond "we need time to get to know each other". A lot of this is a structural coaching issue. If this carries on for a couple more games, they should strongly consider firing Vogel.

The excuse he was given with the Pacers was that he had to face LeBron every year before Paul George broke his leg.

No real sense of accountability for him here...

The only difference between Vogel and Mike Brown was that LeBron was able to carry him to a title as his designated fanboy and not Brown.

 

[HurricaneDij39]

Built.Not.Bought

Smart to sit Lowry tonight, because these old geezers won't make it through a full season given their lack of depth...

And why on God's green earth are you still wasting a roster spot on Haslem?

 

[bksballer89]

Built.Not.Bought

Remains the stupidest slogan in the NBA

 

[Robotech]

The Heat are a comedy in this game. Of course I betted on them.

 

[Shanemansj13]

I swear Trae Young is going to test that new rule every single play. He flails, falls and pushes his body against defenders on every shot

 

[CitySushi]

This is why the Warriors kept GP2 over Bradley

 

[Robotech]

This is why the Warriors kept GP2 over Bradley

That's amazing.

 

[bksballer89]

Cavs got the W

 

[DJ]

 

[Shanemansj13]

Finally a complete game. Made up for the Charlotte loss. Rubio has been great this season especially with Garland getting injured

 

[DJ]

Waiting for a table at Olive Garden with the wife and her 3 grandkids, AJ, Elijah and Amiya.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Mobley already establishing his defensive presence. If he doesn’t block a shot he affects it dramatically. Kid looks really good so far and his offensive game of course needs work but it looks good so far

 

[CitySushi]

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[Robotech]

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Kyrie for Ben. Let's do it!

 

[CitySushi]

Vince Carter and Dwight missed out

Dwight should have been on. It’s hard to include Vince when you also have guys like Adrian Dantley and Alex English miss too.

 

[DJ]

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It is gonna end up being Irving for Simmons IMO.

Makes to much sense.

 

[DJ]

Kyrie for Ben. Let's do it!

Said that when Simmons demanded to be traded.

 

[msgkings322]

Remains the stupidest slogan in the NBA

That's an NBA slogan? I thought it was nonsense Cane made up...