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what did you do?
I know this will fade before long, but I'm bored watching the season kickoff and have been banned from r/nba.
Second quarter, Denver has cracked down on Lakers pretty hard. Very poor matchup for LA - Davis is nowhere in the same universe as Jokic. I'm afraid the Lakers filled the roster with a flashy offseason but it's guys like Jaxson Hayes and Christian Wood. I don't think this is really a serious team.
what did you do?
The Nuggets' bench doesn't seem as solid as it was last year and last year it seemed a little short.
It really is Jokic by himself and then everyone else right now. Anthony Davis is arguably the best defensive big in the game and he can barely bother Jokic.
Looking forward to the Jokic-Wembanyama matchup and see what the rookie can do against Jokic on the defensive end.
last year their bench was basically Bruce Brown and Jeff Green, both of whom are gone
Denver is a bit of a glass cannon. If a couple key players aren't hitting they struggle. They only won 53 games last year but should reengage and get this one back. It all depends on Jokic.
Wow Jokic vs Wemby. Not yet
Is Anthony Davis actually a good defender?
Lakes depend too much on HGH LeBron. He looks like the de-aged Robert De Niro in The Irishman.
yes, quite good
their playoff run last year was spurred by their suffocating defense and he is by far their most impactful defender
Taurean Prince having himself a game
Their playoff run wasn't that impressive.
they were a play-in team that made it to the conference finals and knocked off the defending champs. it was pretty good
Lakers match up with their regular starters vs. the Spurs? Likely as they're supposedly the better team.
Anthony Davis - Zach Collins
Taurean Prince - Wembanyama (?)
LeBron James - Keldon Johnson
D'Angelo Russell - Devin Vassell
Austin Reaves - Jeremy Sochan
I guess Reaves and James swap their coverage? Or James guards Wemby? Prince is ony 6'6".
The West last year was incredibly ty. They died a pathetic death against the only team in the West that was any good.
Same in the East. Most of the teams were so crappy the 8th seed made it to the Finals. Incredibly bad league last year.
lakers would probably start vanderbilt over prince and have him on wemby. or try vanderbilt on collins and AD on wemby, who knows. lakers best "success" against the nuggets last year came when they had hachimura try to check jokic and let davis roam more
Lakers were closing in then the refs stepped in and let the Nuggets murder drivers and basket interfere
AD and Reaves took turns getting mugged on one possession and led to a gordon alley-oop on the other end
but now lakers just fallin apart, independent of the officiating
However the execution works out, the Spurs are an instant matchup problem for teams.
Denver replaced Bruce Brown with... Peyton Watson.
yeah you kinda have to have 2 legit bigs out there, one of whom is mobile enough to hang in perimeter. think wolves are one. cavs another. remains to be seen what defensive archetype will be most successful at checking wemby
For the Lakers, assuming the Spurs are effective with their lineup, I don't know what they do. Their bigs suck beyond the starters. Jaxson Hayes ain't gonna do it.
This game was never much in doubt, always sensed the Nuggs would kick it up a half gear and finish the Lakers off.
Denver looks to have a very weak bench. Jokic may suffer wear-and-tear carrying this crew. They're missing another couple of impact players.
LAL, man, they still depend so effing much on LeBron. Anthony Davis has to be the weakest, most pointless 'superstar' in the last fifty years. At some point the line was that they won the offseason and even then I had no idea how. Hayes and Red are bad. Gabe Vincent isn't going to move the needle. Christian Wood is almost unplayable. Only Hachimura and he's iffy.
Can easily see the Lakers miss the play-in completely.
Someone floated Austin Reaves in a package for Kyrie Irving and that... kind of makes sense.
All the “lakers are contenders” talk.
Their fans hype up every signing they have. Said player ends up sucking and then fans want them off the team, rinse and repeat.
We're watching the last years of players like Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry.
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