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The point is, Lakers should not be carry by anyone, by a single one, by a veteran.

It's not just about Russel Westbrook that always a bad night but he and Lebron is not the only players in the Lakers that needs to step up. Anthony Davis is nowhere to be expected too to give Lakers a boost since already injury-proned even at young age.

Lebron's other teammates should also do their best. If someone is having a worst night, they should try to cover it.

It's proven, the Lakers without LeBron can't win 5 out of 10 games. So, how do you expect his teammates to step up when LeBron doesn't even know what is an off night because he has been carrying them all season long.
Westbrook could've been a good offensive primary option, but his turnovers is holding back from that kind of role.
If AD just keeps healthy even more than half of the season, they might have been in a better position.

Then just remain what it is? No step up from his teammates? Then this team is doomed together with all their players aside from Lebron.

About Westbrook's turnover, if he able to cover those turnovers with a good production, it's good than nothing. Unfortunately, he's not the Westbrook we are seeing before that can give big numbers for his team. His prime days is over but still a good help.

The problem is already there. No more trades will happened from now until the season is over. If Lebron's other teammates won't adjust and step up then they should bid goodbye for the playoffs this year.

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If AD just keeps healthy even more than half of the season, they might have been in a better position.

They should consider trading Anthony Davis in the off-season while he is still valuable. Continous injury will deflate his value. He is a good contributor on Lakers and he always proves that even coming back to an injury. On his last comeback from injury, he is producing good numbers right away. But that was all useless if he will remain injury at most games every season. I'd rather trade him as a priority and Westbrook as second.

Unfortunate to see good young players hitting injuries at their prime. A waste of good talent.

Trading AD will be the best decision to be done by Lakers since in the first place he's injury prone now and this disturb their team rotation because they don't know if when he came back to the line up. I'd rather make westbrook stay because he's always available and we can say that he is still on his prime, maybe for this season he's not clicking due to frustrations he receive but once they get a better rooster next season provably they can make this line up work better.

It will be a good decision if ever there's a team who is willing to accept AD who have a high salary rate, we know that he's still a valuable player and a good asset but he's so vulnerable now and the entire league definitely know that. But yes, we don't know unless they try because maybe there's some lower teams who's willing to sacrifice young players to accept AD.

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Last night, the biggest game was GSW - Bucks I think. Bucks were being favoured by bookmakers by a slight margin. And their doubt got real after GSW defeated their opponent by 122-109. Thompson showed an extraordinary performance compared to his previous ones. He scored 38 points which played a significant role in this victory. And interestingly, Curry wasn't even like in the field. He got only 8 points in around half an hour play-time which was terrible. And for Bucks, Giannis was the best as always by 31 points.

Yes it was the biggest game and yes the Bucks were the favorites at that time, although the Warriors were not that far as the spreads was just -2.5 to get a x2 for their win.
But everything changed when the game started. The favorites was Bucks and it was stretched to a higher spread. Giannis and Middleton tried their best to keep the lead as reachable as possible but it was not enough. Poole and Thompson was just too hot to be stopped and thats why they claimed the win.

The most interesting part is Curry only scored 8 points and yet the Warriors still beat the Bucks. It clearly tells that the Warriors does not only defend on Curry, he can struggle in the playoffs and we can still expect that his team will win because other players will step up for him.

Also, do remember that Green is still not back in the line up, what more if he would be available.

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Quote from: judas on March 13, 2022, 09:26:02 AM

Last night, the biggest game was GSW - Bucks I think. Bucks were being favoured by bookmakers by a slight margin. And their doubt got real after GSW defeated their opponent by 122-109. Thompson showed an extraordinary performance compared to his previous ones. He scored 38 points which played a significant role in this victory. And interestingly, Curry wasn't even like in the field. He got only 8 points in around half an hour play-time which was terrible. And for Bucks, Giannis was the best as always by 31 points.

Yes it was the biggest game and yes the Bucks were the favorites at that time, although the Warriors were not that far as the spreads was just -2.5 to get a x2 for their win.
But everything changed when the game started. The favorites was Bucks and it was stretched to a higher spread. Giannis and Middleton tried their best to keep the lead as reachable as possible but it was not enough. Poole and Thompson was just too hot to be stopped and thats why they claimed the win.

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Quote from: judas on March 13, 2022, 09:26:02 AM

Last night, the biggest game was GSW - Bucks I think. Bucks were being favoured by bookmakers by a slight margin. And their doubt got real after GSW defeated their opponent by 122-109. Thompson showed an extraordinary performance compared to his previous ones. He scored 38 points which played a significant role in this victory. And interestingly, Curry wasn't even like in the field. He got only 8 points in around half an hour play-time which was terrible. And for Bucks, Giannis was the best as always by 31 points.

Thompson gets better against a better team, and he showed that he is really back and can compete in the playoffs. When Klay gets hot, he is very unstoppable and he just showed to the Bucks what it's like when they will face in the NBA Finals. Grin

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Last night, the biggest game was GSW - Bucks I think. Bucks were being favoured by bookmakers by a slight margin. And their doubt got real after GSW defeated their opponent by 122-109. Thompson showed an extraordinary performance compared to his previous ones. He scored 38 points which played a significant role in this victory. And interestingly, Curry wasn't even like in the field. He got only 8 points in around half an hour play-time which was terrible. And for Bucks, Giannis was the best as always by 31 points.

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I enjoy watching the current GSW unlike before when Durant is with them since they are already too OP and the splash brothers is always limiting there performance to give way on KD performance.

Same here, the original lineup of the Warriors was the Curry, KT, and Green, they are their own big 3 and they didn't start as all-star, they really work their way until they become a good team and also individual players. For me, it was really the coaching staff that made the warriors better, even if there are plenty of changes, they are still a strong team and now that KT is healthy back again, they'll surely be a championship-caliber team again.

There's some hate on Durant before because OKC was really a good team but he choose to join the Warriors to win a championship, the fans did not like it because they make a super team and that makes the NBA not fun to watch. Now, these players have their own team and I'm happy with what I'm witnessing this season because weak teams before are starting to be more competitive and to be honest, I really don't know which team will win in the NBA Finals this season.

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Quote from: Eternad on March 13, 2022, 08:05:17 AM

I enjoy watching the current GSW unlike before when Durant is with them since they are already too OP and the splash brothers is always limiting there performance to give way on KD performance.

Same here, the original lineup of the Warriors was the Curry, KT, and Green, they are their own big 3 and they didn't start as all-star, they really work their way until they become a good team and also individual players. For me, it was really the coaching staff that made the warriors better, even if there are plenty of changes, they are still a strong team and now that KT is healthy back again, they'll surely be a championship-caliber team again.

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This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

He doesn't care about the stats in my opinion, as long as the team wins, even if he doesn't score double digits that fine with him.

Remember that when Durant was in the Warriors uniform, Steph was not taking the limelight. And it was Durant who carry the majority of the load in the regular games. So Steph is used to it, just look at how happy he was seeing Thompson to score the way he did damage to the Bucks.

Yeah, this is what I like about Stephen Curry, He is very down to earth in the court and focus on the win, He will step up on the game if he see that his team mate is not in a good shape to make a score. Actually this is the main reason why the 2 best sharp shooter stay in the same team because they compliment and give way to each other whoever has good shooting accuracy for that particular match. It’s very rare on NBA teams for a 2 same skill player stays in the same team for a long time and play together always as starting 5.

There are a lot of duo team before them, but maybe we haven't seen maybe in history because it's usually a big men plus guard, like Shaq and Kobe, or Malone and John Stockton. But you are right, Steph is just focus and motivated to win the game. He let Klay Thompson and Jordan Poole to be the main point in this game against the Bucks and it's a very good win for them as they are back in a streak and then they stop the Bucks winning streak as well.

Yeah, there’s a lot of solid duo in the past but I only see few duo that has a same main role in the team like Thompson and Curry as splash brothers. The only duo that I know that has this kind of same role was on Spurs Duncan and Robinson which is known for twin tower. Besides that most of duo are compose small and big player just like what you said. I enjoy watching the current GSW unlike before when Durant is with them since they are already too OP and the splash brothers is always limiting there performance to give way on KD performance.

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Quote from: Jating on March 13, 2022, 07:26:19 AM

Good game by Klay and after the game he is very emotional because he has somewhat on a slump since coming back from the injuries.

Klay got his best game so far since his comeback, I'm happy for him, now that the playoffs are coming, it's the time that we need Klay more to be consistent and produce this kind of performance in the game. Beating the Bucks is a huge one, they are the defending champion so I can say that the Warriors really have a shot to win in the NBA Finals this season.

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Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

Just like Lebron, maybe he is trying for another way to help his team because not all the time his way of playing works especially in the NBA playoffs where the games are more intense and tricky. With their current lead in the western conference, it's a good idea to try for another way to win other than his usual thing. That's why I wonder when I looked who was the star player for their win today, it was Klay rather than Steph.

They are just on the second place, behind the Suns and tied with the Grizzlies. So there's a long way to go before they can secure the top position and I think they will remain in the second place.

But the win against a top team and Steph not scoring as usual is a big scary to think.What if we have 3 players scoring 30+ points in a game? Good game by Klay and after the game he is very emotional because he has somewhat on a slump since coming back from the injuries.

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Quote from: TravelMug on March 13, 2022, 03:15:35 AM

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

Just like Lebron, maybe he is trying for another way to help his team because not all the time his way of playing works especially in the NBA playoffs where the games are more intense and tricky. With their current lead in the western conference, it's a good idea to try for another way to win other than his usual thing. That's why I wonder when I looked who was the star player for their win today, it was Klay rather than Steph.

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This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

He doesn't care about the stats in my opinion, as long as the team wins, even if he doesn't score double digits that fine with him.

Remember that when Durant was in the Warriors uniform, Steph was not taking the limelight. And it was Durant who carry the majority of the load in the regular games. So Steph is used to it, just look at how happy he was seeing Thompson to score the way he did damage to the Bucks.

Yeah, this is what I like about Stephen Curry, He is very down to earth in the court and focus on the win, He will step up on the game if he see that his team mate is not in a good shape to make a score. Actually this is the main reason why the 2 best sharp shooter stay in the same team because they compliment and give way to each other whoever has good shooting accuracy for that particular match. It’s very rare on NBA teams for a 2 same skill player stays in the same team for a long time and play together always as starting 5.

There are a lot of duo team before them, but maybe we haven't seen maybe in history because it's usually a big men plus guard, like Shaq and Kobe, or Malone and John Stockton. But you are right, Steph is just focus and motivated to win the game. He let Klay Thompson and Jordan Poole to be the main point in this game against the Bucks and it's a very good win for them as they are back in a streak and then they stop the Bucks winning streak as well.

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This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

He doesn't care about the stats in my opinion, as long as the team wins, even if he doesn't score double digits that fine with him.

Remember that when Durant was in the Warriors uniform, Steph was not taking the limelight. And it was Durant who carry the majority of the load in the regular games. So Steph is used to it, just look at how happy he was seeing Thompson to score the way he did damage to the Bucks.

Yeah, this is what I like about Stephen Curry, He is very down to earth in the court and focus on the win, He will step up on the game if he see that his team mate is not in a good shape to make a score. Actually this is the main reason why the 2 best sharp shooter stay in the same team because they compliment and give way to each other whoever has good shooting accuracy for that particular match. It’s very rare on NBA teams for a 2 same skill player stays in the same team for a long time and play together always as starting 5.

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Quote from: TravelMug on March 13, 2022, 03:15:35 AM

Quote from: danherbias07 on March 13, 2022, 01:31:40 AM

This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

He doesn't care about the stats in my opinion, as long as the team wins, even if he doesn't score double digits that fine with him.

Remember that when Durant was in the Warriors uniform, Steph was not taking the limelight. And it was Durant who carry the majority of the load in the regular games. So Steph is used to it, just look at how happy he was seeing Thompson to score the way he did damage to the Bucks.

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Quote from: TravelMug on March 13, 2022, 03:15:35 AM

Quote from: danherbias07 on March 13, 2022, 01:31:40 AM

This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

I like that idea where Steph is now adjusting and willing to sacrifice his stats to provide a good win for the team.

Look how Poole and Thompson doing the damage, Steph is just keep on moving around to attract the defense and let
his other teammates to do the damage.

A good characteristic of a real star, no need to push if there's someone who can also provide the offenses, let see if
how they will continue rotating and what adjustment to create more good plays.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on March 13, 2022, 01:31:40 AM

This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Maybe he is just showing off one side of his basketball skills? He is not known to be a playmaker, of course he is more of a shooter, but with Klay taking the shots outside, maybe Steph just think of becoming the point guard in this game. For sure if this is a close one, the complexion will be very different as he needs to score and help Klay. Let's watch Draymond next game, they need his presence in the middle and the energy he can bring to the team.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on March 13, 2022, 01:31:40 AM

This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

Exactly, he did the distribution of the ball here, and let Klay and Poole take the scoring load for him. But he hit a 3 in the 4th to really seal the win because the lead balloon to 21 points if I'm not mistaken with that huge 3 of him.

They will be loaded again, Green, Otto Porter, Payton and Iggy and even Wiseman will be back in their line up.

And with this win, they are not tied with Memphis at the 2nd spot in the West.

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This is just the 2nd time this season Steph Curry ended up in a single digit in points. The last time was against the Miami Heat on January 3.
1/3/2022 - 9 points, 10 assists, 3 rebounds.
3/13/2022 - 8 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds - Today.
But he didn't shoot much so that's okay. 3/7 FG 2/4 3pt
He didn't force it and just became the playmaker or used his threat to give his teammates an open space. That's unselfish of him and the Warriors are lucky he would sacrifice his stats for the win.
Draymond will be back next game, it will be a different Warriors again.

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Nobody talking about LeBron James putting up 50 points for the second time in a week? This one was a pretty efficient shooting game as he went 18 of 25 from the field in the win. Unfortunately, he had to carry the team himself because Westbrook only got 5 points on 2 of 11 shots from the field. You hate to see it. I really hope Russ gets things figured out before the season ends and it looks like they could use AD back as soon as possible if they want to make the post season. Good win tonight though over Kuz and company.

I feel bad for LeBron, he plays great despite his age but the rest of the team is pretty weak. A 50-point performance is a huge success, and LeBron does it all the time. But as long as Westbrook plays, I think he is hurting the team, he needs to leave the team as soon as possible.
He must be aware that it doesn't do much

Yeah lebron will be lebron the rest of the team is weak AF. Melo is nice for 15 minutes off the bench but if Reaves and Monk play as much as they do they are in trouble the rest of the way. And russ well this actually might be his last stop. He looks clumsy out there.

when we say Lebron James what comes up to our mind is that a man or a player who have a good record and have a skills also to carry his team to a victory but we must know that he is a human he can feel tired also and all he needs right now is a player that a good and can carry his team too so that lebron has an assistant.

If that is your argument then should be Lebron in the discussion for the GOAT? Kobe played with injured shoulder play with his left hand, tear his ACL but continue to play. If Lebron feels tired at this point of his career then he shouldn't expect to win any rings. What is happening is that since there is no one to help him out, he is doing it alone by himself. Westbrook and Melo are non factor in my opinion. It's good that they have Malik Monk, but no other wingman is helping as well.

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