Mentally Russ is not ready to be a roleplayer: he's is unplayable right now against good defenses in the 4th quarter. There has to be a rank...
How about not trading, resigning Caruso, and getting Monk to replace hedgehog. So we basically get back the core championship who were despite the...
State of the Lakers podcast made a good point - the Kings put Harrison Barnes on Westbrook which basically takes away his ability to overpower...
Talent evaluation is not an exact science: see the Lakers trading for Westbrook lol. I don't think guys like Bradley or Johnson would work on...
Yep: to put it more realistically, we need Nunn so we can sit Westbrook. I'm not sure we can trade Nunn/THT for Grant which I've favored anymore...
The Lakers actually have several guys playing well: Exceptional: Bron, Reaves, Monk good rotation players: Melo, Howard, Bradley, Johnson The...
Just kill me: first of all he just dribbled the air out of the ball when the team is down 4 but he still had 8 seconds left. Looks like they were...
If your arms are as thick as they are long, it makes up for the wingspan?
Lebron turned it around the 4th but those 3 bad possessions to end the first half cut a huge lead to two possessions and gave the Kings some...
For the love of the basketball gods, play Reaves and Dwight more. Also, I like small ball as the next guy but you can't play small ball and a...
That was just a brutal f***ing game. Lebon was off but every time the Lakers would make a run: this happened (@Helljumper beat me to it) -Russ...
Raw numbers like provide a very poor picture of basketball - Russ is 48th among qualified PG's in terms of True Shooting percentage which is bad...
Outside of this bizarro version of AD we saw this year: he absolutely dominated Jaren Jackson in the past. If the Laker get that AD back (I mean...
Another way to think about this is what is the opposing team thinking? Forget the awful looking shot but look at what the opposing teams defense...
Take a few weeks off, you earned it (seriously if you have cold, yeah it's probably not covid but why the hell would the team risk everyone...
Agree with this: it depends on what he wants, if he wants to end his career with fond memories like Kidd and Rondo whose legacy was sealed and...
He missed a lot of makeable shots yesterday: Memphis is a tough team on defense but just seemed he missed a lot of shots that were pretty good...
Pretty sure that AD and Lebron were hoping he could take the slack off them after the wear and tear of the Bubble year and year after during the...
You have to start prepping him and the team to start sitting him when AD gets back to finish games. Against teams like Memphis "small ball" is...
Why add to your game when you're getting all these triple-doubles? you're the man.
