Stephen A. Smith: Lakers will make the Western Conference Finals

[Buggsy Mogues]

Couldn’t even beat Utah.

This Jazz hype outta control. Lotta yall gone be disappointed

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

we got the talent

ingram ball kuz potenial all stars

rondo beasley stephenson kcp good off the bench

lebron superstar


west is great tho

we got to worry about okc hou por den minn san antonio etc

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

Mcgee but they're gonna play a lot of small ball 5 with Bron, Kuz and Beas

Bron tried that same bullshyt in Cleveland...small line-ups, no rim protection, Love at the 5. Their defense the last few years of Bron being there got progressively worse and finally ended up being abysmal.

The West has too many legitimate bigs.

 

[Andreas321]

Here's whats gonna happen this season. A couple months in they are going to realise they have a 1-dimensional team with no consistent shooters. They are going to have an overdramatic meeting much alike last year in Cleveland and Rajon rondo will get the boot (unless lonzo ends up getting traded which is extremely unlikely tbh). They will bring in some shooters, make the 6-7th seed and they will get to the western conference finals with a combination of Lebron's talent, their youth and bullshyt calls from the refs in the clutch.

 

[010101]

screaming.a tryna burn the house down with that hot.take*

 

[qnsfinest]

If they can avoid playing the warriors in the first or 2nd round, then I think they have a chance. Forget about roster changes, I think with the addition of Lebron and Rondo plus all the young players they can beat the rockets, okc or jazz

 

[god shamgod]

It's not a far fetched statement, y'all need to stop gassing houston tho. Last season has nothing to do with 18-19 they added some bums and cp3 another year older

 

[MJ Truth]

I don’t think people really realize how difficult it is to eliminate LeBron from a playoff series unless you have an all time team with all time teamwork and coaching. Oklahoma City ain’t beating a LeBron squad four times. MAYBE Houston does, but with that cancer Melo there now, who knows. Obviously Golden State would be the other WCF team so that’s irrelevant.

Basically I would favor LeBron in a series against anyone except the Warriors and Houston. So it depends on seeding, the WCF would NOT surprise me at all. And that’s not even mentioning if Brandon Ingram or Lonzo Ball or Kyle Kuzma takes a huge All Star leap.

 

[Take_Note]

Utah going

I think the potential is there. Gotta avoid the injury plague and find a bit more offensive consistency to make that jump from the 4-8 seeds in the West to those top couple teams though

 

[G-Zeus]

they just might be a top 5 defensive team..

and that could take them deep in the offs... not sure about wfc.. but yeah.. if they like end up 4/5.. they can go deep.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

They not beating OKC or Houston IMO

lebron not losing to OKC

houston, I can't call it yet

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Its a win win for him. He's a Lakers fan so if they win, he's happy. But he's an even bigger Kobestan so if they lose, he can talk about how Kobe would have won with this team.

He's a fakkit.

this

 

[Lakerman0834]

Y'all don't understand how good this team will be but y'all will find out soon

BI/Ball/Kuz were all gonna make the jump this year. Now with bron its over. Plus we got Hart/SVI/Wagner/Rondo/Lance

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Would 9 straight Conference Finals be a record?

 

[WesCrook]

People act as if the Lakers will have to go through every single contending team in the West once the playoffs start.

They could very well end up in a favorable bracket.