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He actually has stated throughout this run that the stoppage hurt his rest because he uses the end of the season to ramp up for the playoffs and instead he hit a full stop but go off skippy https://twitter.com/realskipbayless/status/1315474839025586178
I wish I still had the tweets and vids of people picking Portland over the lakers, I really do. Especially after they lost game 1. “Hottest team in the bubble”, “who gonna guard dame,” “lakers offense is too static” etc etc we heard all of that
Even more people picked the rockets. Those takes are even easier to find, once again, especially after g1. “Pj tucker gonna lock ad down”, “who gonna guard James and Russ”, “too much shooting lakers offense won’t keep up”, “rockets have the best defense in the bubble so far”.
Idk what bron + ad were supposed to do about the clippers choking away a 3-1 lead. They were up 18 at the end of the 3Q of g5 and they, led by their star players, shit the bed 3 consecutive games. Bron was waiting for them in the wcf. Maybe Denver was just the better team.
Then when Denver won we had to hear the silly “lakers have the best 2 players but Denver has the next 7” and even after proving they could defend elite guards in the first round we once again got “who’s gonna guard Jamal Murray”. People picking Denver in 6!
I’m not gonna go on cuz this thread is already long. My point is, all these people that are saying lebron/lakers had a cakewalk are the same people that were questioning the lakers and hyping up their opponents ALLLL year. Immediately when lebron/lakers win, the script is flipped
And so quickly too. Watching these national media figures is so pointless. What could be good analysis is covered by click mining and constant debate format.
This is definitely true for all teams, not just the lakers. I’m a laker fan tho so I’m gonna focus on the laker stuff. And I saw constantly through this year people disrespecting this team’s credentials and then turning around when they win and saying their competition was easy
They played and dominated the teams in front of them, that’s what you do. So yeah I’m annoyed with the media and the people that flipped their opinion on this team as soon as they won. It’s all good though.
For the people that made it to the end of this thread (maybe nobody) here’s a gem. This is their projection after free agency last year. All the teams are basically set by this point. 3% chance of winning the finals is what the oddsmakers said. 6 teams above them. Night y’all :)
