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NBA Offseason 2018 |OT| LeBronZo brehs

Where will LeBron be taking his talents next season?

  • Cleveland (Staying at home)

    Votes: 34 13.0%

  • LA (LeBronzo)

    Votes: 116 44.4%

  • Philly (Trusting the Process)

    Votes: 47 18.0%

  • Houston

    Votes: 16 6.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 48 18.4%
  • Total voters
    261
  • Poll closed .
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Steve Winwood

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LeBron is still going to use a bunch of possessions in the regular season. It saves him wear and tear if he's driving in a clear lane. It's so much more work and physical toll to get to the basket and finish over/through bodies with bad spacing.

There's always going to be some tradeoff between shooting and ability to run a PNR among players available on cheapish 1-year deals, but the Lakers picked up some of the absolute worst perimeter shooters in the league. That's a catastrophe with LeBron.
 
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Smurf said:

hahaha

Kristaps will never start at the 5, will he?
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Until he can become a better rebounder or until we get a better rebounder at the 4 then probably not

Also idk if you should place much thought into that Fiz quote, dude has a bigass mouth (though so far he's been saying the right things) and it really seems like something he would try only on a niche possession or two. I mean Kurt Rambis wanted to play KP at SF too but he never did when he was interim HC for us, and Ettore Messina said the same thing regarding KP during Rising Stars but was too much of a wimp to play him at SF in a fucking exhibition match lol.
 
CopperPuppy

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They're signing a bunch of guys who can't score

The only "master plan" I can discern is:

Focus on LeBron developing young core
Fill out roster with bench vets and a Lonzo insurance policy on one year deals
Complete roster rebuild in 2019 with those deals off the books and without having traded your future away
 
Yukiko™

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CopperPuppy said:
They're signing a bunch of guys who can't score

The only "master plan" I can discern is:

Focus on LeBron developing young core
Fill out roster with bench vets and a Lonzo insurance policy on one year deals
Complete roster rebuild in 2019 with those deals off the books and without having traded your future away
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not really a bad plan if you can actually get big names next year
 
Tom Penny

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CopperPuppy said:
They're signing a bunch of guys who can't score

The only "master plan" I can discern is:

Focus on LeBron developing young core
Fill out roster with bench vets and a Lonzo insurance policy on one year deals
Complete roster rebuild in 2019 with those deals off the books and without having traded your future away
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They signed 1 year deals for a reason. At the end of the day they need two more top tier players one way or another.
 
Darkwing-Buck

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Gigglepoo said:
The biggest downside is that you're punting on LeBron's age-34 season. How many more years of greatness does he have left?
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Seems like a year where LeBron is gonna try to change up his game like Jordan did in his mid 30's.

No matter what, Bron see's it as a productive year knowing we won't contend this year so he's looking to experiement by changing the way he plays, develop the young guys, and see how far they can make it.
 
CopperPuppy

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Darkwing-Buck said:
Seems like a year where LeBron is gonna try to change up his game like Jordan did in his mid 30's.

No matter what, Bron see's it as a productive year knowing we won't contend this year so he's looking to experiement by changing the way he plays, develop the young guys, and see how far they can make it.
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Just surprising to see him move away from his consistent win now mentality
 

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bron in 2019/20 could very well have an amazing season because of this season. let's say he plays more off ball, doesn't lead the league in minutes, doesn't play all 82 games, and doesn't make it to the finals

it'd be the lightest load for him in a long while
 
Yukiko™

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phanphare said:
bron in 2019/20 could very well have an amazing season because of this season. let's say he plays more off ball, doesn't lead the league in minutes, doesn't play all 82 games, and doesn't make it to the finals

it'd be the lightest load for him in a long while
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probably why he made it such a point to play the entire season

tbh id like if he had an easier workload this year

It was stressful to watch last season
 
mjp2417

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CopperPuppy said:
They're signing a bunch of guys who can't score

The only "master plan" I can discern is:

Focus on LeBron developing young core
Fill out roster with bench vets and a Lonzo insurance policy on one year deals
Complete roster rebuild in 2019 with those deals off the books and without having traded your future away
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Pretty much. It will be interesting to see if Maginka and Luke can also convince LeBron to limit his minutes, at least for the first season, if everyone has agreed that they're not looking to really contend until 2019-20. If I'm the Lakers I'm treating that like mid-30's Duncan (i.e. 30 mpg max).
 
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phanphare said:
bron in 2019/20 could very well have an amazing season because of this season. let's say he plays more off ball, doesn't lead the league in minutes, doesn't play all 82 games, and doesn't make it to the finals

it'd be the lightest load for him in a long while
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lebron has always been the main ball handler and carried teams
lebron has never had a serious injury

coincidence? no. edeadman's monkey paw curse will strike, i've seen the future brehs.
 
AtticusFincher

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-Kawhi's people hid him from the Spurs when they came to NY.
-Wants to play with Clippers to avoid playing second fiddle to LeGM but Clippers have zero assets.

Just started listening to the full podcast but it sounds like Kawhi's uncle is doing plenty of fuckery.
 
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Jarate

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Marvin bagley struggling again in Summer league against NBA level bigs is worrying if you are the Kings

Justin Jackson seems to have taken a small step forward from last year. Always a good sign when a 2nd year player comes into g-league and dominates
 
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Gigglepoo

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Tall4Life said:
I'm honestly surprised that he isn't attacked more for his behavior this past year
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I don't think there's much to say. Because he doesn't speak and we're not getting much info from the Spurs, it's been the same basic story for almost a year. There's little in the way of new information to push this into the news cycle or make another argument for why he's wrong. Right now, it sounds like Kawhi wasn't happy with how his injury was diagnosed. That's not much of a story. We could say "He should play!" or "He should wait until he's healthy" but that's the end of the conversation.
 

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Servbot24 said:
Kawhi's Uncle is one of the shadiest guys in the league
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Kawhi's sports agency, Impact Sports, is plain ass shady and Joesph Sutton is a bonafide scrub.

Imagine representing Kawhi Leonard, two time DPOY, in a professional basketball related capacity and still being a salty enough about LeBron's decision to take his talents to South Beach that you publically call him a professional stat padder in 2017. It's one of the few reasons why I could imagine Kawhi actively choosing the Clippers over the Lakers because Sutton really hates LeBron that much.
 
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BronsonLee said:
Then on the next possession LeBron dunks on Lonzo because he's on the other team
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EDeadman94

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Only watched Game 1 and he played well. I read that he struggled in Game 2 and now I guess Game 3 too.

Since your watching the game how's Giles?

EDeadman94 https://theundefeated.com/features/sacramento-kings-harry-giles-could-do-big-things-next-nba-season/
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I'm so happy for Giles and the fact that he's out there doing what he loves. He has shown flashes but his fundamentals aren't great and his shot selection has been a little head scratching. He still has a ways to go, so hopefully some time in the g-League will help iron out the basics for him (he needs to become a better screener, his positioning on the block isn't great, and he wastes space on Off. & Def. by standing around too often). He still has the ability to be a solid piece in SAC, but he's definitely not ready to be major contributor in the NBA—the knee injury might still be hindering him from a psychological standpoint.

Sidenote: I'm not worried at all for Bagley. He's playing the 4 and WCS is playing the 5. Bagley is going to benefit a lot with Skal and WCS eating a majority of the Center minutes.
 
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So anyone think Kawhi was faking his injury (or severity of his injury) at this point?


Man idk what to think. This story changes all the fucking time.
 
mjp2417

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So anyone think Kawhi was faking his injury (or severity of his injury) at this point?


Man idk what to think. This story changes all the fucking time.
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Not really, no. I would be highly skeptical of a local beat writer reporting news that (a) is clearly coming from the Spurs front office (b) is designed to raise Kawhi's trade value (since this would imply that Kawhi has a clean bill of health) and (c) doesn't actually make any sense. Kawhi wouldn't need to fake an injury and sit out a year in his prime just to ask for a trade; he could just say I'm unhappy here and don't plan on re-signing next year so you should trade me now, just like Paul George did last year.
 
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