LABron James Discussion: Draymond James

Have we seen an up, under, over, and windmill dunk before? I haven't.

 

We just witnessed most embarrassing loss of the decade in Lakers history and meaningless dunk

 

stats looked fine, dunk looked great, but watching that game, he looked like s*** to me overall. looked every bit of 40 on every play but that dunk, lol.

 

Yeah Lebron 40 years old theory , he can't lose for his stans .

Does something crazy : Year 22 , the GOAT , he's 40 !!!

Plays bad : " dude it's normal he's 40 " .

 

yeah, two things can be true: he can be an amazing player at 40 and be completely overpaid at the same time.

 

And only 1 thing remains as the obvious! He is done winning titles and only is going after personal stats

 

Mediocrity

 

Lol..the problem is, that he IS 40!! If he looked like s*** overall, my God the rest of the roster outside of AD..is pure trash!

 

No s*** Sherlock ! When I said I said this team is trash I got called a troll !

 

You are a troll though.

 

Why ? Because I am politically incorrect?

 

This guy just never guards his man, then when opponents drive he is in no man land and his guy gets wide open 3s and then he points finger at a teammate

 

Contrary to popular opinion, I think LeBron needs to be guarding 3s for this reason instead of 4s. When he's guarding the ball he's still decent and can still stonewall guys when he's actually trying. But when he's guarding 4s and primarily being asked to help, rotate, and provide supplemental rim protection, that's when he gets really lazy. Just leaving shooters wide open, just standing there near the rim when guys are driving at him.

 

He guards nobody regardless of who he is suppose to guard

 

This is correct. Cranjis has been saying this for a while, and that the data shows it.

This is also why trading for Kessler (or if Turner became available) makes sense. LeBron at the 3 would be fine on defense bc if his man gets by him, AD + Kessler are there to clean it up. Would be the best rim defense in the league. But LeBron at the 4 on help rim defense is where he's at his worst.

 

For me, it doesn’t really matter where you put LeBron, for the majority of the games because he’s a defensive liability and we are playing four vs five.

 

we're just doing what we can to hide lebron and the white boy on defense



harder than it sounds

 

This is true too a large extent teams pick on AR on switches and then Lebron being lazy aggravates.
But the weird thing is they've clearly shown the defense can be very good with both on them floor for games - Lebron effort/fatigue probably is a big factor here with the high variance.
Other issue is that they need Knechts spacing but his defense is a real problem so you're back into the lack of enough 2 ways guys

Team really needs and doesn't have those energizer bunny types in these games: (the Vando, Anderson Varejao, Rodman) right now. Kessler and Vando likely help a lot

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/Wbp-QyGsMZ8?si=5h3YV6KA0XLHOncO
Comes in at just over the hour marker through 1:13 marker


If that's too long for your attention span, here's some of the bite sized clips