Would the Lakers have beaten the Thunder in a potential 1-8?

[iLLmatic860]

okc is barely keeping up with a mavs w/o healthy luka

Injured or not. Mavs have two superstars who are clutch

That’s a big difference compared to Lakers who relies on 39 year old Bron cuz AD can’t takeover consistently

[whatisacenter]

Prob in 5 games.


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yep, gentleman's sweep.

[TheNG]

Maybe, but who cares?

I will explain to you.
If the answer is yes, it means the Lakers suck because they made a mistake not to lose in the first play in series.
If the answer is no, it means they can't give excuses about how they lost in the 1st round only because it was the Nuggets. So it also means the Lakers suck.

So when you say "maybe" it means you are not sure between "yes" and "no", meaning you practically agree the Lakers suck but just not sure about the specific reason.

[jkvonny]

Sacramento Kings.

Sacramento Kings

Sacramento Kings.......

[KyRo23]

Maybe, but who cares?

I will explain to you.
If the answer is yes, it means the Lakers suck because they made a mistake not to lose in the first play in series.
If the answer is no, it means they can't give excuses about how they lost in the 1st round only because it was the Nuggets. So it also means the Lakers suck.

So when you say "maybe" it means you are not sure between "yes" and "no", meaning you practically agree the Lakers suck but just not sure about the specific reason.

You're not very good at reading people

[meatwad4343]

Same result. Thunder in 5. LeBron is too old and probably isn't even a top 20 player anymore and certainly can't carry a team like he used to. AD has never been a #1 guy and the rest of the role players are over rated and flawed. They finished exactly where they should have. The roster as constructed has a ceiling of play in team and first round fodder.

[Karate Diop]

Probably.

[Harry Garris]

Easily.

Chet is BBQ Chicken for AD.

AD had an incredible series against the Nuggets though and the Lakers lost anyway.

Just because your best player performs well doesn't mean you're going to win a playoff series. There's a lot more to basketball than that. I've watched lots of playoff series where the star put up eye popping numbers and lost.

[jkvonny]

Yes. Should have tanked that 1st play-in

Might have lost to the Kings, who the Lakers were swept by this season

Lakers were 3-1 against OKC this season, they simply did not have the big boys inside to stop AD and Lebron

Can't Beat OKC if Sac beats you in Play in.

Why cant Laker and even non Laker Fans realize. If they lose the first Play-in game. They would be the underdog to Sac

Sac was 4-0 this year vs them.
Sabonis ownes AD. 10-0.



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This.

Agreed. Very possible.

Lakers eliminated altogether.
Kings vs Thunder.
Pels vs Nuggets.

[brutalitops]

How embarrassing

Lebron and AD could combine for 85 every night and the rest of the trash ass roster would still carry them to a sweep

Nuggets played poorly and the lakers only took one game off them

[Tottery]

Probably, but it doesn't matter. They would have lost to Denver eventually. It's not about how deep you get in the playoffs, it's about winning the title.

[slick_watts]

no. why are the thunder getting so underrated on this board?

[Wallace_Wallace]

no. why are the thunder getting so underrated on this board?

It’s obvious, they don’t have someone who’s anointed as the face of the league, and they don’t have someone who’s slick with the microphone during interviews. But besides that, they’re just as good as anyone in the west.

It’s kind of the same with Denver, except for their coach who’s fiery as hell which makes headline every now and then.

[cupcakesnake]

I don’t think anyone in that Thunder/Dallas matchup is beating Denver/Minny/LAL

One of these things is not like the other ones.

C'mon everybody. The Lakers were pretty good but that roster had some serious flaws in the form of really bad perimeter shooting and basically zero perimeter defenders. On a possession by possession level the Lakers were impressive with how hard they played and how well they executed but holes that big get exploited in a 7 game series.

I think LA would have had some nice advantages against OKC: the Lakers are great in short rotation on defense and OKC's offense is designed to put you in a series of short rotations. They're maybe a little bigger than OKC overall (though I think the Lakers size gets pretty overrated). They're probably able to get into the paint and get to the line. But is that enough to compensate for very simple things OKC can do to the Lakers? Get to the basket at will for starts? Completely demolish the Lakers bench lineups?

I don't really see it. I think the Lakers would do better against the Thunder than they did against the Nuggets, but we're still talking about a team that was really really good all season long playing a team that struggled to keep it together on both ends. The Lakers would need a whole lot of magic to make this a good series.

Why are we still talking about them? I don't remember a more over discussed middle of the pack team.

[Jaqua92]

I mean, it took the Mavs shooting 50% at the line for OKC to avoid going down 3-1 against the Mavs with an injured Doncic WITH home court.

They look like an easy second round team imo

[Butterfingers1]

Thunder are tied with the mavericks, who are a better team than the Lakers on both ends, despite being ice cold from 3 the last few games. They win unless you assume major 3 point shooting luck for Lakers

[KokoKaizer]

At this point, I guess Lakers figured out any teams...

[KembaWalker]

Who’s guarding SGA lol. Reaves?

[BelgradeNugget]

No, OKC was 1st in the west for a reason. One of the big boys in the west - Twolves, Dallas, OKC and Denver.

[dakomish23]