Series Thread: 2) Phoenix Suns vs 7) LA Lakers

[fightinfunbags]

i dont know why Lakers fans/reporters think anyone wants Kuzma. At 13M he just doesnt have much value. Finding a power forward who is meh on defense and can score a little bit is probably the easiest thing to find in the NBA.

The best Kuzma has ever looked is as the best guy on a shitty team and that guy is always going to put up numbers. He’s a very expensive 6th or 7th guy on a good team.

 

[fightinfunbags]

Honestly, I think I'd rather see them keep THT and move Kuzma. I like Kuzma, but at this point, he is what he is...a solid role player. THT has more upside.

He might be the only piece teams value in any potential Lakers trade scenarios.

 

[msgkings322]

wonder if Gilbert and/or Altman is ripped because the Lakers wouldn't play Drummond?

Are you ever going to stop crying about this?

 

[dtgold88]

Also being in the East with no other team that was talented enough to beat them helped too.

Sure...but you could argue they got past some teams as good or better than this Suns team.

 

[dtgold88]

Are you ever going to stop crying about this?

stop laughing about the absurdity of it all? Yeah....but not until the offseason, at least.

 

[dtgold88]

I never had him at #1 even in Cleveland.

Its still Jordan for me. 6-0.

Prime Wade and Prime Davis are easily better than anyone Jordan played with. Bosh is a hall of famer. Love might be a hall of famer (while you might react negatively to that- his numbers shooting/rebounding- are pretty historical). Kyrie will probably be a hall of famer and was awesome in the championship series they won.

I do have LeBron #2 though solidly.

Pippen's pretty good. Not a scorer, sure, but Rodman a HOFer.

 

[msgkings322]

stop laughing about the absurdity of it all? Yeah....but not until the offseason, at least.

Can you do that to yourself and stop moaning about it here? We heard you.

 

[dtgold88]

i never said that- i just said Prime Davis and Wade are better then Pippen.

Notice I didnt say that about prime Bosh or Love.... Kyrie too.

its inarguable that LeBron has had much better teammates throughout his career.

This is fair....but then we note MJ's team won 50 when he left. Lebron's dropped to the cellar when he left the cavs.

 

[dtgold88]

Can you do that to yourself and stop moaning about it here? We heard you.

Can you stop moaning about my moaning?

 

[BrockForBroglio]

Loving LA getting booted. LeBron seems to not be able to carry a team on his back like Jordan. One more example of him NOT being the goat. Such a poser.

 

[msgkings322]

Can you stop moaning about my moaning?

Cause and effect. You're being a bitch, I'm pointing it out. If you stop I will.

 

[msgkings322]

This is fair....but then we note MJ's team won 50 when he left. Lebron's dropped to the cellar when he left the cavs.

Only the Miami teams were comparable. The Cavs and Lakers teams were significantly below the 90s Bulls

 

[Black Adam]

Cause and effect. You're being a bitch, I'm pointing it out. If you stop I will.

There's a Matrix line here somewhere...

#causality

 

[dtgold88]

Cause and effect. You're being a bitch, I'm pointing it out. If you stop I will.

And if I keep going seems that makes you my bitch.

 

[dtgold88]

Only the Miami teams were comparable. The Cavs and Lakers teams were significantly below the 90s Bulls

the 2007 team minus Lebron was significantly lower than the 2021 Pistons.

 

[DJ]

Loving LA getting booted. LeBron seems to not be able to carry a team on his back like Jordan. One more example of him NOT being the goat. Such a poser.

MJ carried them? They won how many games with Pippen when MJ went to play baseball?

 

[DJ]

The Kobe-Shaq Lakers would have beaten MJ's Bulls
.

 

[msgkings322]

And if I keep going seems that makes you my bitch.

Sure, go with that.

 

[msgkings322]

The Kobe-Shaq Lakers would have beaten MJ's Bulls
.

Eh, hard to say. Most cognoscenti think the best (modern) teams include the 1986 Celtics, 1985-87 Lakers, 1996-97 Bulls, 2017-18 Warriors, 2012-13 Heat, 2001 Lakers, maybe the 2003 Spurs...it's impossible to really say who would win if you put them all against each other in a 7 game series.

What we do know is LeBron's Lakers and Cavs teams aren't on that level.

 

[msgkings322]

Magic was being interviewed on a local show and he had some great suggestions for AD for the off-season.

He said that AD needs to get with his trainer, lose a little bit of weight, work on adding strength without adding bulk and that he also needs to hire a physical therapist to help him with his various nagging injuries.

He also said that Kareem was able to play until he was 42 because he got into stretching and yoga long before it became "sexy" to do and that AD should be doing that as well Said it would help with the various strains and pulls that he seems to get every year.

He said that he shouldn't just do it in the off-season either. Those are things he can do in season as well.

Stretching like this?