Per 36... D'Angelo Russel is putting up

[Dwight Howard]

Nah dumbasses use per 36 to hype a guy beyond what he's doing and then somehow comparing him to Westbrook/Harden when he's nowhere near them.

Randle is averaging 21.4/12.2/3.1 on 60% shooting per 36. Should I make a thread about him? No because it's fukking stupid because neither get more than 30 minutes due to their bad habits/bad defense.

Russell is also averaging 5.4 turnovers per 36, but you didn't want to bring that up, did you?

I got nothing against Russell and hope he does well on the nets, but y'all always trying to relate him back to us. We've moved on, we're fine with what we got and we got a far better defense without him. He's going to be a good piece for the Nets, good for him and them.

Randle not playing 30 mins cause luke is garbage. Has nothing to do with effort or defense cause he displays those things more than anyone on the team. Starting to think he fukked luke's beard or something. Or magic is just dumb as his tweets are idk

 

[Heretic]

Cleveland the Contender has the same record as the rebuilding Lakers.

#TheLand
#Witness

The perks of playing in the East vs. being in West.

 

[Premeditated]

Russell is a 3rd year player, Lonzo is on his 2nd month. Coli hot takes just can't stop, won't stop

Lonzo needs to tweak his shot, besides that he already a better defender, rebounder and passer than Dlo ever was

Russell is not a 1st option on a team trying to become a contender. Anyone can stat-pad on a lottery team with no pressure and low expectations, word to Victor Oladipo.

Lonzo is not even a 5th option on a mediocre squad. it's like 5 on 4

This gotta be the dumbest post . Zo ain't even played 20 games yet​

#WPOAT

he's playing the most minutes on the team and the second most out of rookies, if Dlo was building mansions like Lonzo is, Luke would have been benched him

 

[KOBE]

Randle not playing 30 mins cause luke is garbage. Has nothing to do with effort or defense cause he displays those things more than anyone on the team. Starting to think he fukked luke's beard or something. Or magic is just dumb as his tweets are idk

Luke ain't garbage.

We playing the best defense we have in years and you're mad about some bullshyt involving Randle, for real. I already explained it to you in the lakers thread and I'll say it again, Randle does not play well against starting big men that are actually good and when he plays extended minutes he starts making more mistakes as he gets tired. We had Randle starting for 2 years, it did not work well even though he put up stats that you are in love with. He's doing great in his current role and you're trying to call Luke garbage for maximizing Randle.

 

[Flex Luger]

I seriously don't get that hate for Russell by some Laker fans. Once dude was traded dude didn't say one bad thing about the franchise even though Magic was throwing shots at him all summer. So why act like scorned females?

 

[KOBE]

Clearly you dont either. The whole starting lineup got benched cause it was over. But hating on dude just cause he got traded is wack

I have watched the Nets this year as I like Russell, but I also don't like his fit on our team. I wanted to see how he's doing. The only reason I'm "hating" is because you guys are excessively praising and acting like we made some horrible, irredeemable mistake.

“I want him to get better. He’s like the quarterback that throws two interceptions. Those are tough to overcome,” Atkinson said. “And we talked about it at halftime, so I brought him out, talked about it, and said ‘Improve.’ So we’ve just got to help him.”

That's what Atkinson said about Russell. He also called Whitehead their best PG that night.

There is no reason to act like Russell has it all figured out and is out there dominating. He's not. He's putting up good offensive numbers, but is still careless with the ball and awful defensively.

 

[Kang Deezy]

27, 8,6

He 22.



Just went at Damian Lillard head last night for a W. The nets also have the same record as the cavs.

Lakers are cursed. Let's keep deluding ourselves thinking Lonzo Ball gonna lead us to the promise land tho.

28% from three tho? Ewww

 

[Dwight Howard]

Luke ain't garbage.

We playing the best defense we have in years and you're mad about some bullshyt involving Randle, for real. I already explained it to you in the lakers thread and I'll say it again, Randle does not play well against starting big men that are actually good and when he plays extended minutes he starts making more mistakes as he gets tired. We had Randle starting for 2 years, it did not work well even though he put up stats that you are in love with. He's doing great in his current role and you're trying to call Luke garbage for maximizing Randle.

You said it and I ignored it cause its stupid and you have no data to support your argument. Randle has scored easily on boogir, gortat, gobert, etc...all starting big men so that argument has zero credence.

"We had randle starting for two years and we sucked"...umm no shyt the team was trash. Its retarded how you act like russell and randle were the reasons the lakers were trash. Smh. That team was supposed to be trash they were young.

You have zero data that suggest randle plays worse in extended minutes cause he hasnt played extended minutes.

Its funny you memtion defense cause randle has been the best defender statistically and lineups with him are the best rated defensively.

Playing randle 21 minutes is flat out stupid.

 

[Dwight Howard]

I have watched the Nets this year as I like Russell, but I also don't like his fit on our team. I wanted to see how he's doing. The only reason I'm "hating" is because you guys are excessively praising and acting like we made some horrible, irredeemable mistake.

“I want him to get better. He’s like the quarterback that throws two interceptions. Those are tough to overcome,” Atkinson said. “And we talked about it at halftime, so I brought him out, talked about it, and said ‘Improve.’ So we’ve just got to help him.”

That's what Atkinson said about Russell. He also called Whitehead their best PG that night.

There is no reason to act like Russell has it all figured out and is out there dominating. He's not. He's putting up good offensive numbers, but is still careless with the ball and awful defensively.

You dont think dlo a good fit cause he got traded plain and simple.

 

[Sccit]

HE ENDED THE GAME WELL .. DUNO IF U WATCHED THE GAME BUT HE WAS PURE GARBAGE UNTIL THE LAST 5 MINUTES. 4-14 TO THAT POINT THEN HE FINALLY STEPPED IT UP N HIT SOME BIG SHOTS TO CLOSE...WHICH WAS IMPRESSIVE, BUT HE REMAINS AS STREAKY AS THEY COME.

HE ALSO MISSED 2 HUGE CLUTCH FREE THROWS IN THE FINAL SECONDS..JUS LUCKY THAT BLAZERS WAS TERRIBLE ON OFFENSE.

BUT WHEN HE'S HOT, HE CAN DEF SCORE IN BUNCHES. JUST DONT BE SURPRISED IF HE GO 4-16 WIT 7 TURNOVERS IN THE NEX 1.

 

[High quality poster]

I have watched the Nets this year as I like Russell, but I also don't like his fit on our team. I wanted to see how he's doing. The only reason I'm "hating" is because you guys are excessively praising and acting like we made some horrible, irredeemable mistake.

“I want him to get better. He’s like the quarterback that throws two interceptions. Those are tough to overcome,” Atkinson said. “And we talked about it at halftime, so I brought him out, talked about it, and said ‘Improve.’ So we’ve just got to help him.”

That's what Atkinson said about Russell. He also called Whitehead their best PG that night.

There is no reason to act like Russell has it all figured out and is out there dominating. He's not. He's putting up good offensive numbers, but is still careless with the ball and awful defensively.

He's averaging the same amount of steals as Lonzo tho would you call Lonzo awful as well?

No one said Rus had it figured that's the whole point. He doesn't have it figured out yet and he's putting up numbers in a place where the front office believes in him.

Based on nothing at all magic Johnson traded him and publicly stated that they needed a guy like Lonzo... without Lonzo even playing 1 game lol.

Let's not even get into the fact that they should've took Tatum... I just don't get it. What's the next move if the Lakers can't get a big name and Lonzo doesn't pan out?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

He looks the same player he was in LA, except he's got the ball in his hands more. A 6th man role would suit him best.

 

[No Homo]

He needs to be locked in a room and watch how he played at the end of the game last night

 

[Premeditated]

28% from three tho? Ewww

I think thats the result of 2 or 3 games where he went 0/7 or 0 for something. His average is usually around 35-36%

as for the 'Lonzo shots will start falling' crowd
here's from another board

I've been searching forever and haven't been able to find it, but I remember reading a piece on Chip Engelland where he said something along the lines of, you don't want to be dogmatic about shooting form - lots of great shooters have unorthodox form - but there are certain fundamentals that you need in order to have consistent success from night to night.

Just right off the bat, you want to keep your elbow in, which brings the ball over the top, and now it's just a matter of whether it's short or long. But with Lonzo, it's coming in all over the place. Not only that, but you can see on his floater, which isn't so much about mechanics as basic touch and hand-eye coordination, that he's really lacking in those areas as he lays bricks on those, too.

I don't know ... I'm definitely more of a pessimist, but I don't see how anyone can drop platitudes about this. Dude is off to one of the worst shooting starts in the entire history of the NBA, compounded with third-grade shooting mechanics that should have been addressed years ago. (Like Dell Curry made Steph do when he was a kid, even though he was making shots, because Dad knew bad form would hurt him long term.) And now it's just going to weigh on him mentally with each bad game.

It's too bad given that, otherwise, he's got a really nice game.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Lonzo is not even a 5th option on a mediocre squad. it's like 5 on 4

he's playing the most minutes on the team and the second most out of rookies, if Dlo was building mansions like Lonzo is, Luke would have been benched him

If Dlo played D like Zo im sure he would be out there too. Dlo only cares about offense thats why his ass got bench so often making simple mistakes on D