Scholarship table
The Lakers are 24 mins away from being eliminated from the playoffs.
And in crunch time with the season on the line Lebron is absent, because of a sore ankle. The man built a crappy team, didn't adapt his game to the team he created, and when the season was on the line...sat.
Didn't he want Westbrook instead of DeRozan?
I'm a LeBron fan ... but he really orchestrated a shyte-show here.
I don't think the Lakers can really do much moving forward unless they trade Davis? Could they cut Westbrook and get out of his contract? He's clearly not tradeable.
Peddle hiz ass, aina?
They’ll hang onto it for one more season and hope to god AD stays healthy.
Wait till next year. If AD or anyone isn't healthy, Lebron will manufacture ways to play only 30-40 games and save himself for 2023-2024 playing in Cleveland or NYC or somewhere.
Did Wades hijack your account to get in another cheap shot at LeBron? If what you say is true, why didn't he do that this year? Instead, he is out on the floor more minutes per game than every single player in the NBA except for Siakim & Van Vleet. And that is your is your rational for saying he will dog it next year. Sad. He is also not only on the floor, but he is putting up MVP-type numbers. Yup. Sounds like a quitter to me. I don't even know if QAnon could come up with a sillier concept.
Why didn't he do it this year? After he made moves to get Westbrook and reshape the team? They were in playoff contention all through Feb and March. Of course he wouldn't bail then. And everyone else near him in MPG leads has played 10+ games more than him. He's not even top 50 in the league in minutes played. And save me the MVP talk. His advanced stats...VORP, Win Shares, etc... are all well behind anyone else in the MVP discussion. He's put up empty stats on a bad team.Look at 2018-2019 season. There was no significant injury. Just Lebron deciding to take off plenty of games on a bad team going nowhere while he waiting for the offseason to get AD.Plays 40 min a game and scores 38/39 in 2 games against the Pelicans. But sits out games against good teams like the Nuggets, Suns, Mavs, and Jazz with the season literally on the line due to his "sore ankle"...ok. Keep carrying his water
Pretty pathetic reply.
It 's difficult for me to understand why Lebron wanted to team up with Westbrook. I and others here predicted it would be a disaster because it's a terrible fit. It's even worse than I imagined because Westbrook doesn’t play any defense. I can't figure out why that's the case with his athleticism. Anyway, I know the guy is a 1st ballot hall of famer but I honestly think he's a liability right now even with some good stats.
That was never going to work. Westbrook is an amazing player, but he is a playmaker. He needs the ball in his hands. Lebron always will dominate the ball. Pound it into the ground for 15 seconds then either shoot, or pass at the end of the shot clock...meaning he scores, gets an assist, or they miss/TO. His game design means he will always get his offensive stats. He doesn't work with players that do best with the ball in their hands (e.g. Westbrook/Davis). But Westbrook is an extreme case. Westbrook's game is predicated on him being a playmaker, which means he has no value paired up with Lebron on the court at the same time. In my opinion, Lebron drags the team down as much as Westbrook does. Swap Steph Curry and Lebron, and the Lakers (with Steph are in the playoffs), and Lebron with the warriors would have been a sub .500 team (until Klay came back...Klay is a type of player that would pair well with Lebron). I think much of the problem is Lebron doesn't understand the type of player he needs next to him.