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Quote from: OgNasty on April 02, 2022, 07:31:40 PM

That 76ers game was brutal. The shocking thing to me about it wasn't that they scored 144 points and beat the Hornets by 30, but that they did it in such a balanced scoring way. When I first saw the score I thought for sure Embiid would have 50 points as he chases behind LeBron James for the scoring title, but he only had 29, which is actually below his average. That leaves him 0.3 points per game behind LeBron now as the race for scoring champion heats up. I see that Durant, who is currently 0.7 points back from LeBron has nearly 20 points halfway through the second quarter in his game, so it looks like he's still trying to get that title. I think it will come down to LeBron and Giannis in the end and whoever wins the scoring title might just be the one to walk away with the MVP, although Jokic is currently leading the MVP race and nowhere near the scoring title...

I thought that Joel is leading the MVP race, although it may change because they have been losing games in their last 5 while Giannis is closing in.

I think though the race will be a 3 battle between the Giannis, Joel and Jokic. Yes James is playing good, but the Lakers is in no position right now.

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It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win.

Yeah he could still score a lot but he doesn't seem reliable enough to close out games now. Was it 1 made shot in 4 attempts? I don't know what you will make of that but that doesn't really look good to me. Ran out of gas?

Lebron is not known to be a good closer,

He is not on the same level as MJ or Kobe (RIP) when closing games but, regardless of the last shot, only four attempts looks really passive especially when the game is too close.

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he could just give the ball to AD and AD will find a way, his last shot didn't even hit the rim IIRC.

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Yes, he was very consistent and it seems like he was really the missing piece of the team.
When Zion will come back, this team will be a scary team, they would have their own big 3, Ingram, CJ and Zion.

There are actually rumors that he could make a surprise return. Since Ingram and CJ are playing good, adding Zion would make this team even more dangerous.

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That 76ers game was brutal. The shocking thing to me about it wasn't that they scored 144 points and beat the Hornets by 30, but that they did it in such a balanced scoring way. When I first saw the score I thought for sure Embiid would have 50 points as he chases behind LeBron James for the scoring title, but he only had 29, which is actually below his average. That leaves him 0.3 points per game behind LeBron now as the race for scoring champion heats up. I see that Durant, who is currently 0.7 points back from LeBron has nearly 20 points halfway through the second quarter in his game, so it looks like he's still trying to get that title. I think it will come down to LeBron and Giannis in the end and whoever wins the scoring title might just be the one to walk away with the MVP, although Jokic is currently leading the MVP race and nowhere near the scoring title...

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Quote from: Oasisman on April 02, 2022, 05:19:15 PM

I guess the Lakers are so done now.
Even with Davis and Lebron on the team playing they aren't able to win still.
The team really needs to be rebuild and stop recruiting veteran superstars and start to rely with young talents. Spurs won their game and that's one step to the play in, it's better for the Lakers to just miss this coming playoffs
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Their fight for the season is literally over, but I would have preferred having them in the playoffs and it would have been of better advantage to prepare for next season, I like the idea that they should lookout more of these young players in the league and build team around them other than just these old folks.

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Quote from: MK-74 on April 02, 2022, 06:11:54 PM

It's over for the Los Angeles Lakers.
You can see this when you look at the remaining 5 games.
It is very difficult for them to win these games.

LAL vs Denver
Phoenix vs LAL
Golden vs LAL
LAL vs Oklahoma
Denver vs LAL

If they weren't able to beat New Orleans Pelicans even Lebron James and Anthony Davis played with good stats, how come they can match with those teams left for them? Beating Denver Nuggets twice even has a low chance compared to being struck by lightning. There's a Phoenix Suns and Warriors too although they might be able to pass the latter team since Steph Curry is resting.

I even think the lower team OKC can beat them lol.

The Lakers are done now. It's a great run. See you LBJ next season as the number 1 All-Time Scoring list and I hope the Lakers will have a big overhauling attempt in the post-season.

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Quote from: Oasisman on April 02, 2022, 05:19:15 PM

I guess the Lakers are so done now.
Even with Davis and Lebron on the team playing they aren't able to win still.
The team really needs to be rebuild and stop recruiting veteran superstars and start to rely with young talents. Spurs won their game and that's one step to the play in, it's better for the Lakers to just miss this coming playoffs
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Yes they are not on their best shape now as their team morale lower down so I guess they will not gonna make it this season as blaming game is now happening to them, so I guess this is not their best season so far and it indicates that even though how talented your rooster is it will not guarantee that you will win the championship. I think their coaching staff didn't succeed on how their rooster work well and this is important thing that they need to fix up next season.

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It's over for the Los Angeles Lakers.
You can see this when you look at the remaining 5 games.
It is very difficult for them to win these games.

LAL vs Denver
Phoenix vs LAL
Golden vs LAL
LAL vs Oklahoma
Denver vs LAL

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I guess the Lakers are so done now.
Even with Davis and Lebron on the team playing they aren't able to win still.
The team really needs to be rebuild and stop recruiting veteran superstars and start to rely with young talents. Spurs won their game and that's one step to the play in, it's better for the Lakers to just miss this coming playoffs
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Quote from: freedomgo on April 02, 2022, 02:36:47 PM

There's no point to win some games because they have no chance to have a spot even if AD can play now and get to play at the play-in tournament, they cannot even defeat the Pelicans what more in their next 3 games as they will face with Nuggets, Suns and Warriors respectively. I also think that they already gave up up and accepted that there are no hopes with them this season.

That's one big heavy reality that they have to accept. It's true that there's lesser hope for them to catch in but they still have to play those remaining games.
They have to show their fans that despite with that situation, they should still give their full with those games that they're about to play. Well, too bad that when everybody thought that it's an explosive team that shall be moved to the finals, we just did expected too much.

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Quote from: Pulsar77 on April 02, 2022, 03:00:55 PM

Los Angeles Lakers are in a deep trouble now. They got their fifth consecutive loss last night and it was against New Orleans Pelicans by 111-114 home. They were already out of the playoff zone and now things are even a little worse for them. There are only five games left for them and the doubts about them have raised a lot. Lebron was back by this game and performed in the best way he could. He got 38 points and was the most scoring player too. But all his effort was for nothing at the end.

You must realise now that the only reason why LeBron is still playing is to chase the scoring record.

It's obviously great for him, but it's not helping the team. He is a big reason why the team chemistry is so bad as everything is amplified when you have James on your team.

Also, it is probably wise for the Lakers to rest him for the next season - but that is probably not going to happen given that LeBron is the scoring leader right now and looking to surpass Abdul-Jabbar.

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It is really horrible to see LA Lakers in this kind of a situation. But it was already obvious much time ago that they were going to have serious problems in even the regular season. They still weren't able to play properly as a team and were depending on Lebron James at an incredibly high rate. And this has brought things to the current point. They have the same amount of wins with Spurs though and can still enter the playoff zone. But it is not going to be easy. They lost four weeks in a row and Spurs have been in a much better condition these days.

Actually not that horrible since it was already expected in the half-period of the season. Lakers fans should not expect anything from now on. There are still more seasons for a comeback although Lebron James is now hitting the retirement age and might not be the best player as always for the franchise.

The better plan would be, to make a whole roster revamp from coaching staff to players and surround Lebron with good role players to help him. Lakers need Lebron and that's already proven. I don't know why others think that Lebron is stat-padding. How can you stat-padding at that age and still give 30+ points per game? That was greatness.

They got another loss last night by the way. And their chance for the playoffs is even lower now. But I agree with you that even their fans haven't kept their hopes up for this season. Because Lakers still couldn't build a team just as Lebron James wanted. And now, this is like a punishment for that. And yes, Lebron is doing an incredible work even at this age. He had another 30+ points game and he is giving his everything for his team. But he is not excited about any success with this team at all.

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Quote from: Pulsar77 on April 02, 2022, 03:00:55 PM

Los Angeles Lakers are in a deep trouble now. They got their fifth consecutive loss last night and it was against New Orleans Pelicans by 111-114 home. They were already out of the playoff zone and now things are even a little worse for them. There are only five games left for them and the doubts about them have raised a lot. Lebron was back by this game and performed in the best way he could. He got 38 points and was the most scoring player too. But all his effort was for nothing at the end.

Feeling bad for the king. They're part of the bottom five.

Most of the comments that I've read are that they should have not taken WB. But let's see the pride as he says that they can make it to 5-0. And we're going to see if they will win against Nuggets by tomorrow as a sign of the promised '5-0'.

Hopefully that they will really do as most of us are fans here and we want them to be part of the playoffs.

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I think Lakers main problem is that they bringed Westbrook with such a high salary and spilled more wins then he gaved. He dosent give anything good to Lakers and if Lakers want to do something next season they need to get rid of him and bring some fresh new players

We can clearly see now that Westbrook is a failed experiment. They thought "strengthening" their starting line up would be good while trading most of their supporting cast. Who do you see as a trade potential for him? There were rumors of WB and Lillard before bit I don't think it would make much of a difference.

Let's look clearly at the Lakers' situation this season. When Russell Westbrook is playing good, the Lakers' winning rate is above 85%.

Where did that come from? What does "good" mean in terms of score and assist? How many times he's been "good" in all the games he played so far?

My "failed experiment" comment includes everything from the management decision to the coaching staff and player. I'm under the impression that Westbrook was brought in to help the team when players like Lebron and AD are out injured. That's obviously not what's happening.

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Los Angeles Lakers are in a deep trouble now. They got their fifth consecutive loss last night and it was against New Orleans Pelicans by 111-114 home. They were already out of the playoff zone and now things are even a little worse for them. There are only five games left for them and the doubts about them have raised a lot. Lebron was back by this game and performed in the best way he could. He got 38 points and was the most scoring player too. But all his effort was for nothing at the end.

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LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

Interesting to see Davis back in the line up and it was a very close game. Nevertheless, they still choke in the closing minutes, so it seems that the Lakers might be looking for next season now. Yes, James played great again, no question about that, but as others said, he is not a closer, he want to take the ball, but I think it's better if he could give it up to Davis.

He played great but all are wasted because he could not sink the last shot which was supposed to be the winning shot. if Lakers wants to win, they need to be consistent form the start until the end of the game, and they need to make sure that the last shot should be a high percentage shot or is coming from a clutch player.

There's no point to win some games because they have no chance to have a spot even if AD can play now and get to play at the play-in tournament, they cannot even defeat the Pelicans what more in their next 3 games as they will face with Nuggets, Suns and Warriors respectively. I also think that they already gave up up and accepted that there are no hopes with them this season.

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That was too bad, but their problem is really their defense.

I think they are still not out in the play-in tournament, they still have more games waiting and they just need to win them all.
Now that Davis is back, I think the Lakers chance will increase but I don't want to expect so much as I don't want to get disappointed.

With Davis yes they can win game/s but if for the future of the franchise it's much better not to push the players and let things to

happen, having an early exit will secure the players from possible injuries. though we really don't know if how the coaching staff will handle

those remaining games, if they wanted to continue chasing for the play-in they needed to work hard and win games.

Still possible and like you, I will not expect too much just go with the flow.

Davis and Lebron already delivered a championship to the Lakers, I don't understand why they trade a bunch of players for Westbrook. Now, they are playing the price of their greediness, they want to build a super team but look what happen to the team.

I think with the way that they showed last season, they felt that they have to rebuild, Kuzma and KCP performance and then they expect too much on Montrezl Harrell acquisition. To be fair with Westbrook, he is doing great with the Wizards, but not sure what happen to him in the Lakers uniform as it seems he was really off with Lebron and there was no chemistry with the team in the beginning. So it was doom to fail.

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The struggle was justifiable, Nets were a good team but missing Durant for many games really bring their ranking to go down, IIRC, they were able to stay at the top 1 this season. But look at the situation now, Durant and Irving is already playing, they are now a solid team.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving just have to maintain healthy. One of them got injured, that will be the end of the road for them. That's the problem with Brooklyn Nets as they have no strong backups. Injuries are really unexpected even though these players are doing their best not to get injured.

Nets even at the 7th spot are now the Favorites to win the Eastern Conference with the same odds for the Milwaukee Bucks. The next one is Philadelphia Sixers with an odds of @5 to win the ECF Title.

It's really interesting if you look at the odds for the Eastern Conference, the Nets is struggling and not even in the top 4 and yet they are the favorite as per sports bookies, this could be a trap.

There were scary moments in their last game when Durant twist his ankle as he drive and replay shows he step into someone's foot. Good thing is that he was able to continue and play. Just imagine if that injury is worst than he have thought, for sure it will be the end of their championship dreams again.

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Quote from: el kaka22 on April 01, 2022, 04:11:21 PM

Aaaaand Lakers are officially out of the play-in as well. Not even a bad thing for them, it is obvious that they are horrible so who cares if they make it to play-in or not. However, this should show them that Lakers became like Miami or more importantly like Cavs. They could still have a future if they get rid of the extra weight right now, sure keep lebron if you want to because he is a good player and still going for the scoring leader position at his age.

But, I would get rid of AD and WB for whatever the cost is. I mean they are good players that other teams may use, but they are so horrible for Lakers that it didn't work out. I do not know if they can find a buyer for such a huge salary for WB, but they really need to change something for next season obviously.

I definitely agree about that! Although they can still comeback big next season, hopefully that time not a super team again full of clowns. The Lakers future is still a bright sunny day but yes they indeed need to dispose their excess baggage who's not really needed in the team and they can still do it especially that they still have LeBron James who's leading the team and is the biggest contributor despite of his age now, not everyone can do that! In the league now, LeBron and CP3 are the ones who are still on their best even if they're not getting any younger anymore.

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But, I would get rid of AD and WB for whatever the cost is. I mean they are good players that other teams may use, but they are so horrible for Lakers that it didn't work out. I do not know if they can find a buyer for such a huge salary for WB, but they really need to change something for next season obviously.

They better figure that out and get the both of them out of the team, WB won't be a big deal because there is always a team in the league who is willing to accept him and give the big man role to him as it is his specialty. AD on the other hand, the fact that he is an injury prone makes the Lakers in a bad situation so they don't have that much choice but to get rid of him also.

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Quote from: agustina2 on April 02, 2022, 12:51:10 PM

Quote from: Ziskinberg on April 02, 2022, 08:38:09 AM

The struggle was justifiable, Nets were a good team but missing Durant for many games really bring their ranking to go down, IIRC, they were able to stay at the top 1 this season. But look at the situation now, Durant and Irving is already playing, they are now a solid team.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving just have to maintain healthy. One of them got injured, that will be the end of the road for them. That's the problem with Brooklyn Nets as they have no strong backups. Injuries are really unexpected even though these players are doing their best not to get injured.

Nets even at the 7th spot are now the Favorites to win the Eastern Conference with the same odds for the Milwaukee Bucks. The next one is Philadelphia Sixers with an odds of @5 to win the ECF Title.

Nets are still in the 8th spot, Cavs are 2 wins away from them and with how Cavs are performing, they

are not willing to give that spot yet, though it's very possible that position from the east will be a change before the playoff
Nets needs to work it out and avoid having any serious injuries, especially Kyrie and Durant. They are both needed to
lift the entire Brooklyn, the leaderships of both stars influence the most.

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Quote from: Ziskinberg on April 02, 2022, 08:38:09 AM

The struggle was justifiable, Nets were a good team but missing Durant for many games really bring their ranking to go down, IIRC, they were able to stay at the top 1 this season. But look at the situation now, Durant and Irving is already playing, they are now a solid team.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving just have to maintain healthy. One of them got injured, that will be the end of the road for them. That's the problem with Brooklyn Nets as they have no strong backups. Injuries are really unexpected even though these players are doing their best not to get injured.

Nets even at the 7th spot are now the Favorites to win the Eastern Conference with the same odds for the Milwaukee Bucks. The next one is Philadelphia Sixers with an odds of @5 to win the ECF Title.

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