LABron James Discussion: The Final Year?

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  1. Weezy

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    1.You just made the list. ;)

    2.Do you seriously think if Morris is actually having an effect that great on this series, actually “shutting down” LeBron, that his a** won’t have 4 fouls by halftime in game 3 in Cleveland in an effort to make sure one of, if not the NBA’s biggest cash cows isn’t eliminated in anything less than 6 or 7 games? He had 2 fouls tonight in the first quarter and that was before the game was decided and the refs could step in to make it interesting if need be.
     
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    We've had Malone, Rodman, Matt Barnes, Gary Payton. And that's all in the 90s/00s.
     
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    He did that just to be an ahole but it’s still pretty impressive.
     
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    Let me try my way, it's worked before.

    Lebron is a souped up Devean George
     
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    Stay woke people. Don’t just look at the games... Watch them! :Lukemindblown:

    Seriously. Weezy is 1000% spot on.
     
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    Kevin Love- 22.6 million- 14.9 points, 9.9 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 0.5 blocks, 39.1 FG%, in 33.3 minutes
    George Hill- 20 million- 9.2 points, 1.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 0.7 steals in 26.3 minutes
    Tristan Thompson- 16.4 million- 5.2 points, 5.1 rebounds, 0.7 assists, 0.1 blocks in 16.4 minutes
    JR Smith- 13.8 million- 9.5 points, 2.4 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.3 steals in 32 minutes
    Jordan Clarkson- 11.6 million- 5.1 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.5 steals, 32.1 FG%, 22.2 3PT%, in 16.6 minutes
    Kyle Korver- 7 million - 10.1 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 0.7 steals, in 25.9 minutes

    LeBron James- 33.3 million- 32.7 points, 9.2 rebounds, 9 assists, 1.4 steals, 1.1 blocks, in 40.9 minutes

    Lazy argument is lazy. Salary =/= production. We should know. The highest paid players on our team weren't our best.
     
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    you guys sure love your gifs
     
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    1. I'm surprised I wasnt already on it. :p

    2. Your anti-jinx narrative holds alot of weight, but when LeBron faced a defense that wasn't just throwing a rookie at him and giving him different looks via schemes, personnel, switches, etc dude got pushed to a game 7 in the Indy series. Now imagine not having home court and playing against a team defense that was rated #1 for nearly the entire regular season in Boston. Maybe it's too extreme to claim that the cbags can sweep them, but I'm actually expecting Bron to go down in this series. The only way I see him advancing to an 8th straight Finals appearance, is if the refs get Boston and key rotation players in foul trouble and if Bron's streaky shooters catch fire for the majority of the series. Boston will force Bron to pass the rock and if Korver, JR and Love ain't hitting, say goodnight to the bad guy... And oddly enough, I ain't talking about those dirty cbags!

    For the record, it pains me to the nth degree to pay Boston any compliments. Dagger to the soul!
     
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    This edit is way better, gotta give my MaxaMillion711 props

     
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    When you have the largest payroll in the league and your team was willing to spend to put talent around you, it wasn’t an excuse anyways. Whether they were as effective as they could be will always be debatable.

    Bottom line? I’m not giving him excuses or an out.
     
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    Well I know you're not. :D

    But this genuinely is the least amount of help he's ever had. Love is his second best player and he's not even playing that well. LeBron has no Kyrie. He has nothing from his bench. There's nothing going on for that team.

    I would be utterly shocked if he stayed with them partly because of this bloated salary. Their only asset is the Brooklyn pick.
     
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    But whose fault is that? If he wasn't such a narcissistic ahole, Kyrie would still be there. LLLLLebron must NOT make all of his teammates better if they don't all want to play with him. How you gonna call the guy who saved your arse a "kid" on national TV, and act shocked he didn't like the game you play any more. Why would he want to stick around while you play "stick em up" and "guessing game" with the Cavs?

    LLLLL himself "Now I have a damn squad"

    These guys all at their peak on other teams are a pretty darn solid combination of players. People like Broussard expected the Cavs to blow the C Bags out. But lose JUST ONE GAME, and instead of 8 straight trip to the Finals, the narrative is "he doesn't have enough help"

    :Kobepuking:

    Sorry, not buying it ONE single bit. And if he doesn't have enough help, it's his own damn fault. Ownership wouldn't make trades to handcuff their future if they were going to end up rebuilding. He wouldn't/couldn't commit, so he wrote his own ticket.

    but he neither deserves sympathy nor will he receive it, because making excuses for him not getting out of the weak East would just be...

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    besides if Laker fans really want him on their team, they should be rooting for a short playoff run and maximum rest time for those old high mileage wheels that can't seem to bother to get back on D.
     
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    Here are some clips from the most reliable Lebron fan out there. :Laugh:

    In this case, to actually see the video interviews, you need to click the links. Of course it's worth it. "But Skeeeeeeuuuuppp!"









    But this one...
    :FishPoint:
     
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    Objection: conjecture.

    There's no evidence Kyrie leaving was because he didn't want to play with LeBron. It's equally possible Kyrie just wanted to spread his wings and be "the man". It's also equally possible that Kyrie was warned by LeBron and his people that he was leaving and that Kyrie should get out while he could if he wanted to.
    Objection: conjecture.

    There's no evidence of this being true. This is the same type of weird argument leveled against Kobe with Shaq, Horry, Pau, and Odom too.
    Objection: conjecture.

    This is all biased from your own opinions. There's no evidence any of this happened.
    That quote is in a completely different context than Kyrie. That quote was after the first game with the young players where the Cavs won. It was after the Cavs dumped a broken down Isaiah Thomas, an old Dwayne Wade, and a s***y Derrick Rose and had a nice game with the youngsters they just got. It had nothing to do with Kyrie Irving.

    Not to mention, Kobe routinely called his teammates soft, demanded a trade, demanded they trade Andrew Bynum, and tried to fight multiple teammates. This characterization of LeBron holds little water when put up against our own favorites.

    Well first of all, why the f*** are you listening to anything Broussard says? That's a waste of your life.

    Second of all, these players sucking in the Playoffs is LeBron's fault? It's his fault Clarkson's average went from 12.6 ppg to 5 in the playoffs? Was it Kobe's fault that nobody came through for him in 2012?

    Not disagreeing. I believe he's fully tanking this franchise with the intent to leave them in the summer. I believe that's why Kyrie left. I believe that's why the Cavs refused to trade their Brooklyn pick. I don't think it's the best thing to do, but I f***ing hate Dan Gilbert because, unlike LeBron James, Dan Gilbert is an actual awful person who made his nut by taking advantage of people during the housing crisis. He deserves a slow, painful death. LeBron leaving him again, strapped to this roster, is going to make a wonderful story.
    Who said anything about sympathy? It's not hard to be objective when looking at his team. I didn't buy the narrative the last couple years with Kyrie and Love, but LeBron has no help in these playoffs. It's a fact. Hate if you want, but it's not difficult to see the truth.
    If Laker fans can feel good rooting for the C Bags, good on them. I never will. My hate is reserved for those green f***s.

    And when LeBron is a Laker next season, I'm going to send you a smiley post every single day. :D
     
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