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2022-2023 NBA Season Thread

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Yeah, he's a great player but more combo guard than pure PG.

Right now, I see him as a mini-Westbrook if Westbrook could shoot. Hopefully, he takes that next step that Westbrook never did. If he does, he'll get that team to the finals.
 

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Right now, I see him as a mini-Westbrook if Westbrook could shoot. Hopefully, he takes that next step that Westbrook never did. If he does, he'll get that team to the finals.
I was thinking about Russ after I typed Ja’s 7 apg stat.

Yeah, it’s very possible to get dimes and not make your team better.

It seems like those two things are mutually exclusive .

Alas….lol
 

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Right now, I see him as a mini-Westbrook if Westbrook could shoot. Hopefully, he takes that next step that Westbrook never did. If he does, he'll get that team to the finals.
Ja just doesn't make the guys around him better.....weird that they have a better record without him.
 

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Ja just doesn't make the guys around him better.....weird that they have a better record without him.
You guys play the Spurs again tonight?

Good way to creep back up the standings.

…..and they are taking advantage.
 

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You guys play the Spurs again tonight?

Good way to creep back up the standings.

…..and they are taking advantage.
Yep.

We needed to go at least 5-2 or 6-1 over this 7 game stretch of games and are doing what we need to do.

Win some damn games.
 

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Ham has a nice flow going with most of the players on the roster. James and AD with Walker and Beverley (when he isn't suspended) and Schroeder and Reaves alot more now has become a nice starting five/six. Bringing Westbrook off the bench and running the second team of Brown, Ryan, Bryant, Jones, Gabriel, Christie, J-A, and Nunn is working well too. Not a bad strategy and it is beginning to make the Lakers a more consistent unit that is playing pretty good basketball that they have not played in a while. Kudos for first-year Coach Ham for working his way through alot of ego-related bullshit and FO chaos to get most of the roster to buy-in and playing well.
 

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“He actually has a fractured scapula… that they had him play with last game… that’s why he couldn’t move his arm up in the last game,” she wrote. She later added: “I’m gonna stop here and not get into prior things” before continuing on a subsequent story. “I’m over them not protecting players. Just was talking with a young player’s mom, and she was saying the same thing…” she concluded

 

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-->I don't get some of these younger guys today. If an all time great and Hall of Famer is saying something about you...you'd do well to at least listen. At least if you want to be an all time great yourself, you should.<--

Doesn't necessarily mean they are always or that you're required to agree,

Also, as Russell Westbrook has shown throughout his career, it's possible to put up some pretty ridiculous numbers and still not add much when it comes to winning. Right now, that seems to be where Ja is.

Exactly. Here are a couple example of how to properly handle constructive criticism from an all time great.

A couple of seasons ago Chuck & Shaq called out Embiid's lack of effort. He thanked them and it' no longer a problem. Before last season Draymond criticized the effort of Nikola Jokic on the defensive end. Last season he had his best defensive season.

Then there's thin-skinned kids like Ben Simmons & Ja.
 

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Thunder reminding Houston tonight that the Wembenbanarama sweepstakes aren’t over.
 

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Thunder reminding Houston tonight that the Wembenbanarama sweepstakes aren’t over.
You've got it both ways this year...when they win you can get excited about the young talent starting to gel, when they lose it's to get Wembamthankyouma'am
 
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