AROUND THE NBA THREAD. Sept 2021 edition

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    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Says the guy who has a tattoo of the logo on his leg...
     
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    That's too far gone...they're going to have to remove the leg...it's turning green!
     
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    Old, suck at defense, mediocre shooting.

    KCP and Danny Green were great 3+D options. Now they got Carmelo D and Russ 3's. Gonna be a fun year for haters to watch.
     
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    Will the lakers finish ahead of our Blazers this season?
     
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    Damn, I bet the Blazers wish you weren't vaccinated.
     
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    I'm just glad none of our players will have the experience of being alienated like that.
     
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    If healthy the Lakers will finish first in the West. So what do you think that means the answer to your question is?
     
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    This is how you instate a mandate without explicitly doing so. If players are still not vaccinated after these rules, they're just a-holes at this point. Beal was talking about how the team would provide the resources for the unvaccinated yesterday, ignoring that fact that he's putting all of them at risk.
     
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    Read Anthony Davis is committed to playing more minutes at the center position.

    About time, he was giving LMA vibes for a while.
     
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    Actually I hadn't thought of that comparision yet.... I expect the Lakers to be under their 51 wins and seemingly national consensus as west favorites. Blazers should be over their 44 wins and have more talk as team that with a few lucky breaks can compete in the west. However the Blazers do have some very real risk as well, they certainly aren't a favorite to contend.

    If one of Bron or Davis miss significant time the Lakers will have a losing record, they just aren't deep enough. We saw that last year the Lakers couldn't stand injuries to those guys and barely made the playoffs; then in the summer they lost three good role players in KCP, Kuzma, Harrell for only Russ resulting in even less depth. Their vet min signing are fine, but those guys are not starter/6th man quality as they had on their title team.

    If Dame misses time the Blazers might be able to scrape by with a near .500 record. They still would have five top100 SI players while the Lakers would have only one plus Russ.

    So to answer your question; I say if Bron and Davis play every game without limitations the Lakers would be a few wins better than the Blazers; but I think odds are against that so I'd pick the Blazers to finish better.

    As the season goes on I think the Lakers change their goals to "lets get healthy for the playoffs and make our stand there, even as a low seed". The Blazers will have more to prove in the regular season and more players that can deliver over 82 games.
     
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    I predict the refs will keep it close
     
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    Great breakdown bro. The thing that worries me the most is Nurks health. His backup has a history of injuries as well. I just don’t see us winning more than 41 games this season for a few reasons. Unproven coach, maybe the smallest lineup in the league again. A loss of proven vet savvy scoring scoring off our bench. We can’t be worse on defense, so we’ll see. Should be interesting.
     
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