WMC 24-25: Free Threw It Away!

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  1. Weezy

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    Another loss to the Clippers ahahaha, pathetic. Why even have a coach if that’s your last play as well, just send him home and let the players make their own s*** up, that’s what we do anyway. I can’t wait for this season to be over. The only one I really feed bad for is Melo, came here because LeBron asked, hoped for ring, wasted one of his final years.
     
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    I feel bad for Melo as well.
     
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    Have any of you played NBA 2k and tuned the gameplay sliders so that all the shots go in?

    I swear that’s Marcus Morris in the last few minutes in any game against us. Once we weren’t able to pull away with that 5 point lead and it was still close in the last minute, I just knew that Morris was going to score on us and we’d lose.

    I’ve come to expect disappointing losses from this team, but continuously losing to these annoying Clips role players just hurts.
     
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    They’re going to be a monster next year with all that wing size and shooting if Snake and Paula are healthy. Only weakness for them will be playing against the skilled big centers like Jokic, Embiid and Towns.
     
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    I am not commenting much lately, because I gave up on the season completely.
     
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    well, those two are definitely iron men.

    but this is the wmc: two stars allows you to have several mid-salaried players like the ones that kill us every time we play the clippers.
     
  7. LaVarBallsDad

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    We suck.


    Let me mansplain that: we suck.

    Let me spam it again: we suck.

    Yeah, this team needs to be taken apart and thrown away.

    Awful.
     
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    The refs were awful. The replay system is a f***ing joke. Being able to challenge something before the act that's in review is asinine. They need to talk to the NFL about how challenges work. There should be a 2 minute clock TOPS on reviews. The fact that our old team was iced because 20 real minutes passed between the two reviews is nuts.

    RJ did bring up a good point that he wonders if Vogel would have "rushed us to the line of scrimmage" by having us in bound the ball and then calling the timeout if Lue could have still challenged. The fact that no one... players, coaches, refs, or fans really know how this thing works shows just how unclear they've been explaining and accounting for all the nuances.

    Other complaint: I'm sick of the most predictable final play in a one possession game in the league. Bron pounding the ball in the same spot behind the arc and then either taking a shot he's not good at in that setting or getting it to a teammate way too late to do anything else.
     
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    It shouldn’t come down to this obviously but these close head to head losses to the Clippers are costly right now. Last night if we won we would only be a 1/2 game back from them for the 8th spot. Now we are 2 1/2 behind. Better win the next one against them.
     
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    lakers are 7-31 against the clippers in the regular season over the last decade
     
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    Tennants town...
     
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    Thanks to the slimy weasel Stern and “basketball reasons”.
     
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    We play the Clippers again this coming Thursday
     
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    dam we lost to the Clippers again, the Clippers own our a**!
     
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    Yeah, look at all of those Championship Banners they are hanging! Errrr, uhhhhh, ……………
    They can hang a banner for every regular season win they have against us for all I care.
     
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    disgusting playcalling being down one. Have some 3 point shooters maybe Dwight for clean up and a couple of penetrators. I can't imagine down one the call was "go to a well-covered Melo iso for an extra-long 3" I'm assuming Lebron went rogue there with the pass to Melo. No coach would call that. LBJ should have backed his guy down and created some action near the rim, possibly taking a foul, even if he doesn't get an and-one, 2pts wins and if you miss Dwight can clean it up.
     
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    Exactly!
     
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    Two teams below us have much easier schedules. Blazers have the easiest schedule remaining in the league (they're 2.5 games behind us) and Pelicans have the 9th easiest (3.5 behind us). We only have 9 home games left

     
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    This is the most disappointing team in the history of professional sports. (Literally, not even Bill Walton hyperbole).
     
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    All my previous optimism about turning this thing around is gone. The team has given up. Sad to see us this bad.
     

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