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I still got Bucks in 7 but it should be a barn-burner one way or the other.
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See If I was the Bucks I’d be almost concerned about trying to get a boat 🚣♀️ race with this group.
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Bucks had #1 offense. If the games are 120Puts> it favours the Nets…
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Anything <120 the Bucks have a shot at winning any game
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Embiid health is huge
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Yeah, if no Embiid Hawks in 6.
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Philly wins 4-1
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Lakers GM Rob Pelinka: “Andre Drummond gives us powerful, anchor-point skills on both ends of the court. We feel extremely fortunate to add a player of his caliber & magnitude to our core group at this stage of our journey to defend the NBA title.”
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I still contend adding Drummond was akin to subtraction by addition. It screwed up our center rotation, which screwed up our entire rotation and just added to the chaos and lineup turmoil caused by LeBron’s and AD’s injuries.
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You know it’s funny because iuf he had come onto the team with James and AD healthy the way ‘Kieff did (albeit with a fraction of the expectations) this would have been a more interesting story. If he signs for Trezz money I’m down
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Will be someone’s future defensive anchor
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Heads and Shoulders the best pick and roll defender in the country
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Likely goes 20-26
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Really nice mechanics on his deep stroke. Translates to the speed of the NBA.
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I understand the desire for teams to get a big man like Joel, AD, Giannis, etc. The fact is that because they are so big it doesn’t take much to get hurt playing the way they do. Same goes for Porzingis even though he doesn’t defend or pass like an elite big.
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Legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has decided to retire after this coming season, according to Stadium’s Jeff Goodman.
Former Duke player and current associate head coach Jon Scheyer is reportedly the leading candidate to take over the job from Krzyzewski.
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Lack of success with one and done plus the NIL decision makes it easy to make.
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The Cutoff for an overall decent to really good 3 pt shooter is 35-38%.
Now for “Wide open 3’s” 6+ft you better be shooting min. 70% on open 3’s.
The Lakers are shooting 22.9% on wide open 3’s.
That’s a HS or D-3 school bereft of shooting. Shouldn’t be an NBA team.
Caruso and Kuz are sub 33% on 3’s. At best.
Schroder is bad as well.
Average to the mean. Never as hot as your hottest streak ditto when you go cold. It evens out.
The Lakers were good at recognizing the problem and sang the right notes about it being a problem.
And like most FO’s they didn’t solve the problem they tried to mask flaws with defensive versatility.
There’s no reason not to have both. Or try the r try. Front office really didn’t try.
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If the role players didn’t show up in Game 5 but show up in Game 6 (which I doubt) that’s about them worrying about their own ass not the Lakers…
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In 5 games, no role player has 12+ pets. None…
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AD LeBron and Dennis Schroder are the only Lakers to score 20+ points…
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You can’t win 4/7 when only 3 guys are showing up offensively don’t care who you play…
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That’s a great point, magicman. Feels like all the guys we brought in to help add scoring punch (Wes, McLemore, Trezz, re-signed KCP and re-signed Kuzma) have brought almost no scoring lately, or aren’t even playing much. Caruso is a defense first glue type of guy so I don’t sweat it much when he scores in single digits but what he hasn’t been doing is attacking the defense. They have all, to a man, allowed the defense to dictate the their individual offense. That has to change like last weel.
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He could live to be 100 or he could die sitting in that chair a week from now…
He’s no longer in the NBA, no longer view him as an enemy.
Have a good retirement Danny!
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This is the unacceptable stuff. Dennis & Drummond need to communicate & then just no box out. We four minutes in. pic.twitter.com/RiCkpNWPGA
— Raj C. (@RajChipalu) June 2, 2021
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A broken clock is right twice a day…I often think now If Drummond is in the right position defensively its through instruction by Players and or coaches or pure luck
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Defense doesnt come naturally for him.
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This has to be communicated. (No blame) but Drummond just watches as Crowder slowly frees him self off a screen that doesn't even make contact. pic.twitter.com/dIoSZSWM3u
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The fact that Andre Drummond sets the pick, then runs directly behind Lebron like they about to do a layup drill, HAS ME IN TEARS
— JP – The Wholesome Truth Teller (@jay_pea619) June 2, 2021
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This happens way too often with him. Way too often.
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Hes a Penguin out of water outside the key on both ends. smh
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Chuck calls Anthony Davis "Street clothes." 😂😬
(via @NBAonTNT) pic.twitter.com/RnU8CaharF
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Love AD but Chuck’s right and he played the position and played it a high level and some might say he’s hating but Chuck is trying to motivate AD…
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Him getting amped up during the TO was corny and orchestrated (I think) nothing organic at all.
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That was so weak…Your professionals and that was pure theatre of the mind stuff.
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Caruso bought into LeBron and Vogel calling him B.J. Armstrong…
Alex, you’re a good player but your jumpshot is not good, you cant finish at the rim and your 1-1 defense is overrated.
Caruso is a good chase down defender but he’s not a lockdown defender and never will be.
Kuzma thinks he’s his generations Toni Kucoc.
Youre not dude. That dude was a big time shot maker not a guy who makes a big shot once in a while.
These guys talked about the ‘Intensity of the playoffs’ only caring about the playoffs.
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When the chips are down they fold like a cheap suit too.
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They make horrible decisions with the ball and can always be counted on to make a costly mistake at the worst possible times. Neither can be counted on to keep momentum going either. In the odd event they manage to hit a timely shot, you can rest assured, a heat-check brick is coming right after.
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Agreed
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When Sasha had to deal with Shannon Brown internal competition won out…
Ariza eventually outplayed Vlad Rad.
Lack of depth also gives guys the ability to become complacent because you’re also not being challenged by competition.
Kuz is gone teams love him Im guessing Rob gets a quality starter back.
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You’re also dealing with the aging superstar thing. When “that dude” is at his peak, or at least kinda close to it, he can mask a lot of other deficiencies. Everybody looked great when Bron was having the best Year 18 season in history. Post-injury this year, not so much. He doesn’t look all the way back by a substantial margin. Throw in a maybe 75% AD this year, and this result isn’t at all surprising, and only goes on to further expose the team’s flaws. Hopefully this pending long layoff let’s the big 2 get back to 100%, reignites their hunger, and the FO FINALLY makes some moves to get anything more than these bums around them.
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I’m 100% with Stan here. That’s the truth. Cold hard truth.
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LeBron seems to like playing with Caruso & THT. So you already know what I’m about say. If he still wants them around then they’ll be here. Kuz? I don’t know…lol
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Oh no doubt I think Bron and Rob and Rich need to have a bottle of Johnnie Walker blue and talk some things out, MS. 😂😂😂😂
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He loved playing with Delly until he didn’t. Caruso is our Dellavedova 😂
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Close. Slimmest of margins here. I just expect Great Offense to better than Great Defense.
Just a hard ask to play Excellent individual defense and team defense to win 4/7 and the Bucks have the Thoroughbreds and sandpaper to get it done.
They to fight against the NBA analytics version of the Japanese Monster Ghidorah, a literal 3 headed monster. I don’t see that being slayed.