Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 26. (Read 918195 times)

Imagine you hit your career high but all you remember from that game is losing against a scrub team. Sports can be unfair sometimes.
But yeah, he had no help whatsoever and without their main second option it's no wonder Jokic took so many shots (38).
Too bad he was also short 2 assist from a triple double. I wonder if there was ever a performance with 56 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists, I honestly doubt it.

No worries, you are not alone. I am a Jokic fan but that's it. I don't like this Denver Nuggets roster too and everything is obviously in the shoulder of the Joker now.
Just after the Wizards game, I saw how cruel it is for him. Take him out of there, the score might be 150-75 as Poole was sizzling hot with his threes. 56 points was all Jokic and if you watch the whole game, that's because there's no other option for offense. MPJ is not shooting well, DeAndre Jordan missed a layup, and then a dunk although he was fouled. Christian Braun, I was expecting this guy to always be there when Jokic needs him but he just did his average of 14 points.
It's sad to see the Nuggets turning to this kind of team after letting go of so many great roleplayers. It will not be easy to turn it back to that as the salary cap is being sucked by 3 players.

Unfortunately Jokers effort doesn't get paid off since despite of amazing numbers he put up Nuggets still lose to Wizards which is in lowest ranking in the east. That's pretty bad lose for them. Imagine we see them relying only on Jokic performance and he didn't get enough help for his teammates so result ended up not good to them.

For sure they can do more better and I guess there's something need to fix so that same situation will not happen to them.

I think their next game is against with Hawks if I'm not wrong, so let see if they can recover then take a win against this team.

Unfortunately, I took a L on the Nuggets here, I already have a gut feeling that they might not cover their line, worst lost but that's how it is. I know that the Joker can carry the Nuggets on his back, and there could be someone that is going to help him in this game.

Unfortunately, the Wizards show themselves in this game, Jordan Poole has an amazing game.

Let's just hope though that the Nuggets can come back from this big lost. I mean the Wizards is the worst team and they've just lost to them. Porter Jr can only score 11 points, ouch that's bad assuming that he should be the second option for them as Murray is out. WB had almost triple double, but then again, it's the question on offense on him and he just scored 7 points.

56 points for the joker tonight. A new personal high for him on what was a great night for him. Unfortunately the team took home a loss to the Wizards, which is embarrassing.

I'm sorry for this one, but I guess I need to make a bit of a rant about the Denver Nuggets right now.
Don't criticize me for this one, but I'll just share my frustration with the team and their recent moves.

Letting Bruce Brown and Jeff Green go, changing their GM that doesn't even know how to make good decisions for the team, letting go of KCP just because they can't afford him and it's because of signing MPJ to a max contract, signing a player to a 4-year $32,000,000 contract that doesn't even play and averaging only 1.2 PPG currently in Zeke Nnaji. These moves from the whole team just makes them even worse.

From one of the best teams in the league 2 years ago to now a play-in team. Their bench is one of the worst right now. They're at the top in terms of offense when Jokic plays, but without him, they're one of the worst. That's how the team is reliant on one team. I shared this because just a few minutes ago, they lost to the Wizards that's currently on a 16-game losing streak before that win against them. I know that Murray didn't play, but how can you lose to the worst teams in the league currently? Jokic single-handedly carried the team with 56 points but that wasn't enough. I know there are some Nuggets fans here, but when you see their current roster, they aren't even a playoff contender. They have one of the best starting 5 yes, but their bench is just one of the worst currently.

Again, don't criticize me for this one. I'm just sharing my feelings about them because it's just frustrating that they're one of the best teams 2 years ago, but now they even lost to the worst team.

Looks like we are going to see two upsets for tonight,

The Wizards playing at home against the Nuggets, it seems that the Nuggets didn't get a good start and so they are trailing in the 3rd quarter.

Same with the Knicks against the Detroit Pistons.

And it looks like there are bets for the Nuggets to cover their spread as well with the Knicks but I'm doubtful specially the Nuggets as the game is already in the 3rd quarter unless they suddenly scored 40 points and then win by double digit.

Yeah, but at the start of his career and midway, he has some moments that he could have won the game in the FT specially during his Miami days. That's why I believed that it was D Wade who is really the leader of that time that time and not Lebron himself. And then they get Allen to help them.


Again, hard to compare them, MJ went 6-6 in the finals. Kobe goes back to back without any superstar, well you can call Pau Gasol a superstar if you want, but the team was build differently and it was Kobe who really took the shots in crucial or at least involved like when he pass to Ron Artest for that 3, or to Pau.

What do you mean not clutch? I mean he had plenty of buzzer beaters in his time and he has won enough to be considered good enough, hasn't he? He won 2 titles with Miami, he won one with Cavs and then he won the bubble title at Lakers, so he has four titles, so we know that he can finish the job.

There is a big jab at him that he hasn't won as much as some of the other greats, Kobe had five, MJ had six, so we can say that Lebron could be a little behind, with all the finals he has been to, he failed to win a few more, but at the same time I am pretty sure we can all agree that his teammates were usually much worse, except maybe his Miami time. I have to say, he is shooting a good amount of threes too, like he literally chalked up a midcourt logo three to try to win the game, which he failed, but he at least didn't penetrate like you suggested.

I don't think that he developed his passing, when he entered the league he was touted as a great passer, and again, he was being compared to Magic Johnson early in his career. But ball handling wise, yeah he could have developed that through many years, but he doesn't have the footwork of Kobe. And we all know that he is not clutch as he misses crucial FT in dying seconds, so he passes and then if the players that he passes the ball missed the shot, then expect Lebron to put a finger on him.

Many games tonight, I like the Boston vs Memphis, we gonna see Ja against the defending champion so expect some trash talking here. Heat and the Suns could be interesting, as Heat is coming from that big win against the Lakers while the Suns lost their last game.

Backing that statement, when extra passed happened and the recieving player is not ready to take that shot the blame still being seen against that player, instead of taking the last shot since you are the best player and you have that responsibility, just like what you said that's the difference when you put the name of MJ and Kobe they both will take that full responsibility if they have that chance.

Unlike with LeBron, he's good numbers or stats wise but in he's more on passing the ball if possible..

LeBron may climb to the top of the list because he’s still playing and putting up great numbers, but we all know he’s not a clutch player like Kobe or Jordan, who were never afraid to take the last shot. LeBron’s game is more focused on driving inside, which makes him so predictable.

Since he developed his passing and ball-handling skills, he often opts to pass the ball. However, sometimes those passes feel forced, as if they weren’t part of the original game plan. It’s just how he plays, but it’s a noticeable difference compared to Kobe and Jordan's killer mentality.

Exactly, and that's why there are arguments against him in clutch games, even in the Olympics, when he gets tired, he settled for long outside shot. Good thing is that Curry went on God mode in the Olympics and save the US team.

I also remember one game when KCP was still with the Lakers, and James passed on KCP but KCP didn't take the shot and you can see in the reaction that James somewhat put a blame on KCP instead of him taking the last shot.

In that game where LeBron managed to bring it to overtime, he was just lucky. When he passed the ball, it was tapped by the defender, but luckily, it bounced back to him. It was almost a turnover. From that possession alone, they could have easily lost the game.

I’ve noticed that when he gets tired at the end of big games he seems to run out of gas and start settling for long open jumpers. He usually doesn’t play defense during these times either. His coaches could probably do a little better job managing his time on the floor, but in cases like tonight when it goes into overtime there isn’t much that can be done.

Even when he was younger, LeBron was not really known as a clutch player. If he got fouled, he’d often miss the free throws. And when it came to the last shot, his options were usually to take a three-pointer or pass the ball to a teammate, just to put the blame on them.  

No offense to his fans, I’m not a LeBron hater, but that’s just my personal observation from following his game for a very long time.

Well, he had a decent outing but the final shot in overtime was a bit over the top. They had almost 8 seconds to score, being down by 2 points, and Lebron takes a logo 3 with 4sec on the clock?
I guess it was an age thing. He maybe thought "make the 3 and win or brick it and the game is over, I don't wanna play double overtime."  And the shot was the definition of a brick.
There was so much time, they could have easily drive to the basket or get a much easier shot to send it in double OT, but guess Lebron really had his mind set. 

Now the Lakers are on a 3-game losing streak and only won 3 out of their last 10 games, and when you're in the Western Conference like they are right now, that 3-game losing streak can put you to the most bottom part of the standings. They are now 10th in the standings with only 1 game behind the young Spurs team.

Many are criticizing Darvin Ham because of how he coached the Lakers, but the Lakers right now especially JJ Redick is being criticized by Laker fans as well because of how they performed in the last 10 games. I mean excluding the loss against the Hawks, how can you got dominated by both the Timberwolves and the Heat especially with the Heat where they lost by 42 points. I believe this is one of the worst losses of Lebron James in his NBA history. it's good that he shot 6-11 from 3pt field already after missing more than 20+, but still, you can't remove the fact that they're struggling. I even saw a post that says, "JJ Redick is almost the same as Darvin Ham" which for me is irrelevant knowing that he just coached the team.

If you're a Laker fan, you're hoping that your team would bounce back in their next games. The game against the Hawks is indeed a tough loss for them, but they will go back to the drawing boards after this one and adjust if there's any need.

The numbers Lebron and AD put up were decent tonight, they’ve got their range back, however they Lakers really didn’t deserve to win the game, even though they had more than a decent chance to do so, they were very awful communicating defensively and were very sloppy on the ball down the stretch. They Hawks kept getting offensive rebounds which led to scoring opportunities after missing their shots multiple times.

Seems like LeBron James has snapped out of his long range drought. He shot 6-11 from three point range tonight against the Atlanta Hawks. The Lakers still ended up losing the game by two points, but you can’t blame LeBron who got 39 points and was efficient as it gets with the ball. Tough loss for the Lakers…