WMC 24-25: Free Threw It Away!

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  1. LTLakerFan

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    Welp that 6 deep team has kicked our a** with their key players, especially Mitchell obviously, nonstop hitting shot after shot. Just lights out shooting. While only Reaves was in that same kind of zone from deep all three games and we didn’t have him keep shooting nearly enough. We didn’t think they could keep it up but they sure have.
     
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    yeah, my wmc is that they showed up much better here than in the phx series. i thought we had a shot to beat them because i watched that series. feels like i'm seeing a different team, tbh.
     
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    Malone and the Nuggets are ready to not be overlooked and get credit for having a great team and a multiple time MVP.

    The core of their team has been together quite awhile, and they have improved and added some key pieces. When we needed to go deeper in our bag of tricks, we were exposed as the team that really hasn't been together as long, and they played like they had.

    The amount of time a team has played together absolutely matters. We got away with it for a couple of rounds, but have been exposed for being team remade at the trade deadline. No shame in that. But the team got our hopes up with a couple of rounds of success.
     
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    aside from a handful of good performances from d-lo and vanderbilt's defense in the GS series, all 3 TDL acquisitions were disappointments in the playoffs
     
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    Hachimura?? Or are you not including him in the drop dead deadline?
     
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    i was referring to right around the deadline. i believe they got rui a week or two before
     
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    i thought russell and vando were both positives overall in the first two series, twitter be damned on the latter. beasley was a bust from the get-go for some reason. bamba never got to play, so i don't know how to grade it.

    anyway, they all weren't westbrook, so we came out way ahead.
     
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    Man, as Game 3 got closer to the final buzzer it felt bad for this Laker fan.

    But I never know how bad it really is until the next day. If I feel like I have a hangover yet had not a drop to drink, it was a bad loss.

    It was a bad loss.
     
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    didnt expect wcf either but getting there did give me hope for the chip...oh well, im enjoying reaves growth, Jeannie better not f up his re-signing
     
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    WMC - the nuggets talking s*** the entire series and backing it up.

    That really hurts. Rarely do I see a team talk this much (especially their coach) and actually back it up on the court.

    Usually, championship teams don't talk like this. So I hope the Nuggets do NOT win it all. HEAT winning it would be great.

    Ham got thoroughly out-coached and exposed in this series. I still for the life of me cannot understand that game 1 starting lineup. That really screwed us.

    I also couldn't understand games 2 and 3 starting lineups...like we know what needed to be done and Ham didn't do it.

    I will be pissed off if he chnages the starting lineup in game 4 to what we've been asking for...because that'll show that Ham was just being stubborn in the last 2 games.

    Oh well...we surpassed expectations this year after starting out horribly. We just ran out of gas and our coach got exposed. Also...DLO has been a total disappointment in WCF.
     
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    nuggets were #1 in the west the entire year for a reason. they're a damn good team

    and they're straight up just not missing shots this series. i found this on reddit and interestingly, it's the same reason why the C Bags are also down 3-0. miami is just making everything

    Murray: 45.5% from 3 on 11.1 att per game

    Jokic 45.5% from 3 on 3.6 att per game

    KCP: 45.0% from 3 on 6.6 att per game

    Porter Jr: 47.8% from 3 on 7.6 att per game

    Brown: 40.0% from 3 on 3.3 att per game

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    Martin: 47.6% from 3 on 7.0 att per game

    Vincent: 55.6% from 3 on 6.0 att per game

    Robinson: 53.3% from 3 on 5.0 att per game

    Lowry: 40.0% from 3 on 3.3 att per game

    Strus: 38.9% from 3 on 6.0 att per game
     
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    It's the 2nd reason we've down 3-O , first one is Murray and Jokic are outplaying Bron and AD
     
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    I’d add in that our defense hasn’t been able to stop them. We have a couple of weak links on D, and boy have they been exposed.
     
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    Calling it now. We’re gonna fold early, waving the white flag, getting Lebron and AD out of the game. With the pressure off, DLo is gonna drop 40.
     
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    Magic will stroke out if the Lakers quit early, if it upset him that much that the C Bags did.

    :Magic Shaking Head No:
     
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    Lakers would crush either Boston or Miami: sigh
     
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    Both Phoenix and Minnesota weren't swept.Just one win and season would be big success
     
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    He has lost his card long ago to be someone that the Laker Faithful listen to.
     
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    Yeah. After his quitting with no warning act in the tunnel and then deliberate "sabotage" in the TV appearances prior to and during the most important off season since Jerry West brought in Shaq and traded for Kobe, including yet another negative TV appearance the very day of Vogel's press conference .... all because Rob apparently complained to "someone" in the organization or outside about (probably) how hard it was to get important stuff done while waiting on answers from his part time boss ..... has soured me irretrievably since on Magic the person. Not Magic the player.
     

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