Lakers looking absolutely LOST without Lonzo

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Look the team is ass with or without Zo and that's coming from a Laker fan. Yeah the games were closer but at the end of the day the team was still losing. Let's not act like they weren't getting blowed out with Zo too. Stop painting dude as some savior lol. What's the excuse gone be when he comes back and they still losing? The team just isn't that good at the moment.

They were not getting blown tf out like this and losing 8 games straight with Zo...

Thats a fact. We weren't last in the West with Zo.

Zo was coming on and everybody was playing decent before the injuries. Stop acting as if Zo didn't create or wasn't creating a culture change because that was one of the main reasons they brought him here. He wasn't here to drop 20-30+ a game and if anybody saw how he played in college knew that. He was hear to help make these nikkas into winners... And with all the close losses (only 1 since he has been out) he was giving people hope of that despite it still being an L... It was an L with them playing the right way and making games exciting

Being the fukking savior is exactly why he was here... It wasn't gonna happen overnight but I would think you nikkas would get tired of the tanking type basketball shyt we saw last night and the past few weeks
 

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It was a couple weeks ago but didn't Dunc'd On or one of those other analytic nerds say that line ups with Lonzo in them are actually worse than without :jbhmm:
 

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Zo comes back and has a team low -24 +-. Honestly dont give a fukk about that stat but we just plain suck:francis:
Had nothing to do with Zo, he played well for his first game back. He was doing his normal shyt trying to get cats the balls and get steals/make plays when they did dumb shyt

Other nikkas on the team were not trying on D and were not doing shyt. Especially with the rebounds and turnovers. Main reason is them getting killed on the glass and giving up 2nd and 3rd shots.


If nikkas don't want to play they need to get tf off the team. It's really that simple
 

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y'all still trash with or without lonzo :russ:

why ain't y'all bumping my brandon ingram is not a good bball player no more :mjgrin:

what happened to 20ppg that magic said he would avg :mjgrin:


Ranked 30th out of the 30 teams in the NBA :mjgrin:

Too bad y'all ain't getting rewarded with a pick :mjgrin:
 
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So Lonzo is good enough to make a bum squad, less bummy?

Guys, I know you've drunk the Lavar Ball Kool-Aid, and believe most of everything he says, but you shouldn't be using words like 'culture changer', unless someone has made a team into threat, or at least a winning squad. I get it, but it is like saying makeup made a buttaface into not as much of a buttaface. A buttaface is still a buttaface.

What is happening is, you guys are trying to make the narrative fit, so even though the Lakers sucked with Lonzo, you're going to magnify whatever positives there are. Do you not realize, you can do that with almost ANY half-decent NBA player? Just downplay the negatives and overstate the significance of the positives, and Eric Bledsoe can be made to sound like an MVP candidate. You're totally missing the forest for the trees. Lonzo isn't some super-dominant rookie. He isn't even leading this team to last spot in the playoffs. He is better for this team in the same way that a terribly sore throat is better than having throat cancer.

Sure, one is preferable over the other, but they both suck.

Once again, had it NOT been for Lavar Ball, the amount of attention on Lonzo probably wouldn't even be half where it is. He'd be an ok rookie, on a weak squad, compiling meaningless stats. He ain't the only rookie doing that, but those rookies don't have a father telling they world he's the greatest thing ever - so we're not paying attention.
 

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So Lonzo is good enough to make a bum squad, less bummy?

Guys, I know you've drunk the Lavar Ball Kool-Aid, and believe most of everything he says, but you shouldn't be using words like 'culture changer', unless someone has made a team into threat, or at least a winning squad. I get it, but it is like saying makeup made a buttaface into not as much of a buttaface. A buttaface is still a buttaface.

What is happening is, you guys are trying to make the narrative fit, so even though the Lakers sucked with Lonzo, you're going to magnify whatever positives there are. Do you not realize, you can do that with almost ANY half-decent NBA player? Just downplay the negatives and overstate the significance of the positives, and Eric Bledsoe can be made to sound like an MVP candidate. You're totally missing the forest for the trees. Lonzo isn't some super-dominant rookie. He isn't even leading this team to last spot in the playoffs. He is better for this team in the same way that a terribly sore throat is better than having throat cancer.

Sure, one is preferable over the other, but they both suck.

Once again, had it NOT been for Lavar Ball, the amount of attention on Lonzo probably wouldn't even be half where it is. He'd be an ok rookie, on a weak squad, compiling meaningless stats. He ain't the only rookie doing that, but those rookies don't have a father telling they world he's the greatest thing ever - so we're not paying attention.


Truth....
 

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So Lonzo is good enough to make a bum squad, less bummy?

Guys, I know you've drunk the Lavar Ball Kool-Aid, and believe most of everything he says, but you shouldn't be using words like 'culture changer', unless someone has made a team into threat, or at least a winning squad. I get it, but it is like saying makeup made a buttaface into not as much of a buttaface. A buttaface is still a buttaface.

What is happening is, you guys are trying to make the narrative fit, so even though the Lakers sucked with Lonzo, you're going to magnify whatever positives there are. Do you not realize, you can do that with almost ANY half-decent NBA player? Just downplay the negatives and overstate the significance of the positives, and Eric Bledsoe can be made to sound like an MVP candidate. You're totally missing the forest for the trees. Lonzo isn't some super-dominant rookie. He isn't even leading this team to last spot in the playoffs. He is better for this team in the same way that a terribly sore throat is better than having throat cancer.

Sure, one is preferable over the other, but they both suck.

Once again, had it NOT been for Lavar Ball, the amount of attention on Lonzo probably wouldn't even be half where it is. He'd be an ok rookie, on a weak squad, compiling meaningless stats. He ain't the only rookie doing that, but those rookies don't have a father telling they world he's the greatest thing ever - so we're not paying attention.
People like Lonzo keep the heat off Malik Monk looking like trash:salute:
 
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