NBA season 2019/20
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Lakers without AD and Lebron have torched my Thunder for 3 quarters and only just allowed us a semi respectable 15pt defeat.
Confidence is huge with this Lakers team. I don’t care how good Giannis is. The Lakers are too deep now and will walk through the finals, barring injury. I mean Kuzma and Rondo just went for 50+ combined. Howard had a 14 rebound double double off bench ffs.
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@raznomore said in NBA season 2019/20:
Lakers without AD and Lebron have torched my Thunder for 3 quarters and only just allowed us a semi respectable 15pt defeat.
Confidence is huge with this Lakers team. I don’t care how good Giannis is. The Lakers are too deep now and will walk through the finals, barring injury. I mean Kuzma and Rondo just went for 50+ combined. Howard had a 14 rebound double double off bench ffs.
Crucially LBJ and AD can rest and the team still keeps winning. Lebron hasn't had that luxury for a long time
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Walk through the finals??? No way man. I still have the Clippers favs over them in a 7 game series. So many scoring options, able to ratchet up the defense when it matters.
I wouldn't be getting too excited about Rondo or Kuz or Dwight putting up numbers in a meaningless regular season game. They will all get found out and exploited in a WCF 7 game series. And if LeBron ends up playing PG for that series, they can forget about making the finals.
All that said, still great signs for them, and as you say, huge to be getting some rest. And if they can maintain home court, even get ahead of the Bucks, that'll clearly help.
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@voodoo I am a huge PG fan and the Clippers are my preferred option. But they aren’t the super team I was expecting them to be. Still yet to see the Kawhai from last season show up.
I’m an OKC fan but they were still the best team of December and as meaningless as this game was the Lakers did with bench players.
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@raznomore yep, but if last year showed us anything about Kawhi, it's that he doesn't give a fck about the regular season, and he knows how to peak at the right time.
I have no idea how LA plan to guard Kawhi and PG (though you could say the say re AD), but I think the biggest issue LA have is that they don't/can't trust their outside shooting. Clips just have so much more offense, and I fully expect them to dial up their defense when it matters.
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Take a look at Kawhi's stats last year:
Reg Season: 32mpg, 25.5, 7.6 and 5.1
Playoffs: 39mpg, 30.5, 9.1 and 3.9That's a huge offensive leap, not to mention the extra 7mpg of defense.
With PG also building from the injury layoff, I reckon they're still pretty scary.
But I will be rooting for LeBron!
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The Clippers have the absolute best defensive duo to go at Lebron in a playoff series with Kawhi and PG.
The Clippers have won both games against Lakers this season. Lebron found it pretty tough to get his offense going in either game, whereas Kawhi looked like the clear best player in both games.
It's still hard to split the two teams though, but I'll give the edge to the Clippers in a series. Things can change if some trades get made.
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@canefan I've seen Derrick Rose linked to the Lakers.
Andre Drummond is expected to be traded. The Clippers could really use someone like him, but they might need to give up too much depth to acquire him.
Love is a tough sell for a contender because he's got an incredibly ugly looking contract. Someone will need to be super sure that he can get them over the line to make that trade.
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@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:
Markelle Fultz led the Magic to a one point win over my Lakers in LA. I'm happy for the kid, who had such a bad start to his NBA career, he seems ready to start delivering
Playing more like he did in college without the nerve issues in the shoulder and a lot more freedom. A better environment for him as well.
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Kyrie truly is a dick.
Great to see Fultz back, poor kid was none tough mental space, let alone dealing with the physical.
What about Ja Morant right now, looks amazing and seems to have all the right mental traits. Shooting 50/40/80 which is insane as a rookie.
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How Frank Vogel won over the Lakers and their superstars
How has a retread coach made it work inside the league's most treacherous minefield?
Don't underestimate how hard coaching lebron and the Lakers is. Vogel sounds like an ordinary guy doing an extraordinarily good job
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@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
Kyrie truly is a dick.
Great to see Fultz back, poor kid was none tough mental space, let alone dealing with the physical.
What about Ja Morant right now, looks amazing and seems to have all the right mental traits. Shooting 50/40/80 which is insane as a rookie
Especially given his shooting action is a bit funky. Must watch TV are the Grizzlies.
Jaron Jackson coming on with young shooter Dillon Brooks. Then they’ve got 3 decent vets in big Val, Crowder and Kyle Anderson.
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Been watching a fair bit of NBA over the past few weeks. It is the most interesting season I can remember.
Whether it's the flattened draft odds reducing the appeal of tanking, or the fact that the traditional strugglers have finally found a few good players (eg. Phoenix, Orlando, Sacramento), there really are no bad teams in the whole league.
And making it even better is the fact that there is no Warriors-esque superteam who are almost guaranteed to win the title, so you have a recipe for watchable games every day.
Thankfully Zion is coming back in the coming week, so a normally slow period will get a bit of juice.
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It's a pretty good season.
In the West, the Nuggets and the Jazz have quietly got themselves to 29 wins with little talk. The Lakers, the Clippers, and Harden are taking all the chat in the West.
The East looks like a procession for the Bucks, with a host of teams in a shitfight to make the Conference finals against them.
There's still half a season to go!
