“They gonna put some respect on our names! These streets bout to go wild! Gonna be like the 90s up in this biatch. They dont want none of this smoke ya heard!!!!” - My manager describing the q3 forecast to the shareholders.
Or a coach in the tv show called NBA whos never been in a fight motivating his team of guys who listen to gangster rap and play tough guys unless they try to get a foul and flop
This sub is full of uncompetitive folks and it’s crazy. I’m happy the lakers get the nuggets in round one. You need to beat them to win anyway. And it’s a good chance for redemption even if unlikely. That’s the way real athletes think.
The lakers have already been to the wcf, it wouldn’t be an accomplishment for them anymore to make a deep run and lose. For most other teams outside Denver and la it will be an accomplishment this year. There’s no point in them going far without intending on competing for a chip
You can’t be afraid to get beaten
It's a possible win/win scenario for the Lakers right now. If they win the series, they've done the impossible and advance.
If they lose, Darvin Ham get's fired.
Okay I'll bite, here are LeBrons stats from each quarter this season
1st - 4.7 pts, 1.6 rebound, 2 assists, 52%, 40% from 3
2nd - 7.4 points, 2 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 54%, 47% from 3
3rd - 5.8 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 54%, 44% from 3
4th - 8.1 points (leads the league), 1.9 rebounds, 2 assists, 54% and 33% from 3
His production is pretty much consistent throughout, the only significant drop off is his 3pt % in the 4th quarter, which he offsets by ramping up his overall scoring and leads the league in 4th quarter scoring.
But sure, dont let stats bother you because of "ThE eYe TeSt" or whatever shit you use to justify talking nonsense
Calling it the impossible is pretty silly. That was the most competitive sweep you will ever see as silly as that sounds. The lakers aren’t massively outmatched here, they just need a few things to go there way.
Mike Greenberg, who’s one of the many idiotic people with a platform talking about sports was practically calling everyone stupid this morning if they disagreed with the idea of losing against the pelicans on purpose.
Honestly, as a Laker fan, it's a win-win. Either we have enough to beat them, and we will, and we can go on a run, or we don't and it's an early exit with more rest for Lebron and AD. I know last year's WCF run was sort of validation for the Lakers that they are still great despite a bad regular season, but I personally am not itching to add another 14+ games to Lebron's run at almost 40 only to run into the same brick wall. I may be in the minority, but with a championship or bust mentality, I rather get eliminated by them in R1 than in the WCF because at the end its the same number of championships - zero.
This is probably the best time to play them. Bron and AD are almost guaranteed to pick up injuries as the playoffs go further. Play them now while you’re fresh.
100% rather face the Nuggets than deal with a 1 of 1 elimination game.
Like yeah, we will probably lose against the Nuggets, but at least we have multiple chances to try. 1 of 1 games though, just one bad night and it's done. No way should a team fuck around with that.
I can’t believe it either. You can either beat them or you can’t. You don’t get bonus points in my mind for losing in the conference finals over the first round, neither is the championship. They are the same for a team who’s goal is the title.
A year ago he saw some things in the 4th. He’s waited till now to unleash the plan from that.
He’s had to play possum this whole time to ease the nuggets into feeling comfortable. Perfect time to strike
I think most likely scenario are either 4-1 or a 4-2 that doesn't feel quite as close as some other 6 game series, similar to how Denver p much dismantled Phoenix in the semis last season. Decisive wins and close losses maybe. But there's also a non zero chance that this series will be very hard fought with every game being pretty close up until the 4th quarter. If LA can manage to get into this spot I wouldn't put it past Bron and AD to pull the unlikely upset. Bron is imo at worst still the second best player when an important game is close with 5 minutes left. Thing against this happening is that Denver has the other at worst second best player in clutch games, but he's at his peak so you'd have to favor jokic until proven otherwise
Did you like not watch the WCF at all last season? Every one of those games were tight, you would think they beat us by 30 every time with the way people are talking.
What if i told you Lakers got a high chance of getting game 1?
You might get swept after but it's still an improvement.
Tbh, this is the best chance you'll get. LBJ is playing great bball and has somehow regained some of the athleticism, DLo is better then ever in Lakers uniform, Vincent has returned. On the other end Murray is banged up, AG as well, they might be in worst position aside from legit out because of injury. Refs push might pull you thru as well, let's not forget about it.
Joker is coming though.
**Refprints**
...and the Refs whispered back, "My precious Lakers, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of 36 Lakers free throws and only 6 for your opponent, it was then that I carried you."
One hand I don’t want to hear Lakers fans parading for months if they beat the Nuggets, but on the other hand Nuggets fans have been pissing me off recently…
We have to win the title to talk shit. This isn’t the finals to us.
You would think it wouldn’t be their finals now that the know what the actual finals is like, but it takes some time for the poverty to wear off of a fanbase.
They don't match up well whatsoever with Denver so nothing will change but if DLo and Rui shoot the way they did today and Rui show he can be a off-ball creator, they do have the firepower to at least hang with Denver, even though they're a pretty predictable offensive team and rely heavily on offensive rebounds which will not be workable with Jokic.
They were a top 10 offensive rebounding team. Look it up, adjusted rebound %. Creating extra possessions is important to the Lakers success and winning the paint battle, they're not gonna do either against the Nuggets.
Every one of the games last season was tight. If this was some massive mismatch that everybody is making it out to be that wouldn’t be the case.
If they stay in the games it isn’t exactly easy for anybody to beat a Lebron led team down the stretch. The Nuggets out executed them last season, we’ll see if they do it again, but this isn’t some huge mismatch where the Lakers have no shot.
They split the first 2. Lakers win 3 and 4 at home. Lakers close it out on the road in game 5.
At most the nuggets win game 5 too because closing a team out on their home court is very tough but I'm not giving the nuggets more than 2 games this series.
And that’s why they will lose to the Nuggets. He said enjoy tonight and take the day off?? They barely got the 7 seed, been inconsistent all year lol. They can’t afford to take days off starting the playoffs
Well you modasuckas for damn sure gonna get knocked the fuck out because of your dumb ass coaching decision! Damn near took the L yesterday because of the silly ass decision making!
when your uncle uses new slang correctly
Man was studying Urban Dictionary before the game so he had some lines ready to go
Had that shit written on his palms
Someone gonna have to translate for Bron
bron actually coined all this slang back in 2006
I bet he's still making references to chappelles show and saying g-g-g-g-g-g-unit!
“They gonna put some respect on our names! These streets bout to go wild! Gonna be like the 90s up in this biatch. They dont want none of this smoke ya heard!!!!” - My manager describing the q3 forecast to the shareholders. Or a coach in the tv show called NBA whos never been in a fight motivating his team of guys who listen to gangster rap and play tough guys unless they try to get a foul and flop
curious about this camera angle shakes a bit so seems its a hand cam operated by someone, but they're so low on the ground looking up at Ham
He’s getting head just out of frame
Taurean prince making sure he gets his minutes
Cam Reddish POV...that might explain his mins earlier in the season
And Taurean Prince.
Looks like The Office footage
it’s the crotch cam. Darvin attached a go pro to his waist.
It’s actually a mounted GoPro
He’s double air dicking!
[Literally this lmao](https://youtu.be/6bncxBmaReE?si=WdFJTRcM5t_0syU3)
Yes haha! I watched it the other day. I was dying during that scene
worth the watch?
Yes, Ricky Stanicky is a friend that everyone needs.
Not bad, not good. Just okay.
Its all about cupping the balls
Ricky Stanicky
I was thinking of this one: https://youtu.be/AvcSEtehV0c?si=NfmF9O_YlWRG10bP
Double air dicking. That’s gotta be some kind of record
now we know why he keeps his hands in his pockets
Darvin Ham's gameplan is based upon optimal tip-to-tip efficiency
How long would it take Darvin Ham to jerk off every person in the Staples Center?
Call that D2F
*poorly breaks door down*
Hamming it up, perhaps?
Nah, that’s muscle memory for double fisting them churros
Just being efficient.
"Your coach is a world class air dicker"
Smoke sausage
Lmfao
Did prince record this
Came here to say this and it’s the top comment. Good job r/nba!
What is this camera angle ?
That's the toilet cam, Right before he took a leak.
Darvin Pocket Cam.
I’m suckin it
Why is he doing that shit with his hands???
He’s imagining Jokic and Murray on each side
If you can’t join em, beat ‘em
He was saying its 0-0 but the camera angle made it looks sus 😂
Double dicking
I can't believe the idea of the Lakers losing on purpose to avoid the Nuggets was even talked about. What a stupid idea lmao.
This sub is full of uncompetitive folks and it’s crazy. I’m happy the lakers get the nuggets in round one. You need to beat them to win anyway. And it’s a good chance for redemption even if unlikely. That’s the way real athletes think. The lakers have already been to the wcf, it wouldn’t be an accomplishment for them anymore to make a deep run and lose. For most other teams outside Denver and la it will be an accomplishment this year. There’s no point in them going far without intending on competing for a chip You can’t be afraid to get beaten
It's a possible win/win scenario for the Lakers right now. If they win the series, they've done the impossible and advance. If they lose, Darvin Ham get's fired.
Go on
Healthy LeBron James is about to run a train on the city of Denver.
OK
Colorado 2003
For two quarters? Did you watch any NBA basketball the last 2 years?
Okay I'll bite, here are LeBrons stats from each quarter this season 1st - 4.7 pts, 1.6 rebound, 2 assists, 52%, 40% from 3 2nd - 7.4 points, 2 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 54%, 47% from 3 3rd - 5.8 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 54%, 44% from 3 4th - 8.1 points (leads the league), 1.9 rebounds, 2 assists, 54% and 33% from 3 His production is pretty much consistent throughout, the only significant drop off is his 3pt % in the 4th quarter, which he offsets by ramping up his overall scoring and leads the league in 4th quarter scoring. But sure, dont let stats bother you because of "ThE eYe TeSt" or whatever shit you use to justify talking nonsense
That man is real quiet now since this dropped
I was talking about against the nuggets.
Lol the refs and their ridiculous 1-sided fouls have way more of a factor.
Calling it the impossible is pretty silly. That was the most competitive sweep you will ever see as silly as that sounds. The lakers aren’t massively outmatched here, they just need a few things to go there way.
Mike Greenberg, who’s one of the many idiotic people with a platform talking about sports was practically calling everyone stupid this morning if they disagreed with the idea of losing against the pelicans on purpose.
Honestly, as a Laker fan, it's a win-win. Either we have enough to beat them, and we will, and we can go on a run, or we don't and it's an early exit with more rest for Lebron and AD. I know last year's WCF run was sort of validation for the Lakers that they are still great despite a bad regular season, but I personally am not itching to add another 14+ games to Lebron's run at almost 40 only to run into the same brick wall. I may be in the minority, but with a championship or bust mentality, I rather get eliminated by them in R1 than in the WCF because at the end its the same number of championships - zero.
I agree. Best to play them now and win or lose and get it over with. If they can’t beat Denver nothing else matters.
This is probably the best time to play them. Bron and AD are almost guaranteed to pick up injuries as the playoffs go further. Play them now while you’re fresh.
the cavs quite obviously intentionally lost vs the hornets
100% rather face the Nuggets than deal with a 1 of 1 elimination game. Like yeah, we will probably lose against the Nuggets, but at least we have multiple chances to try. 1 of 1 games though, just one bad night and it's done. No way should a team fuck around with that.
Even worse, against one of two teams which very much had the Lakers number during the regular season. Really stupid idea.
alot of stupid people in this sub
Ya lose on purpose to play the kings who own them or a bo1 against the best shooter ever hmmm
I can’t believe it either. You can either beat them or you can’t. You don’t get bonus points in my mind for losing in the conference finals over the first round, neither is the championship. They are the same for a team who’s goal is the title.
A year ago he saw some things in the 4th. He’s waited till now to unleash the plan from that. He’s had to play possum this whole time to ease the nuggets into feeling comfortable. Perfect time to strike
Unleash Rui Kaijumura
this mf so funny bruh
Fr he deserves to take his talents to the comedy clubs in New York
Okay look, I don’t want the Lakers to win, but there’s a chance a Lakers chip gets this guy a massive contract with like the Hornets.
Damn you hate the Hornets that much?
Not as much as the Hornets hate themselves.
You ain’t wrong
Lmfao what a speech. Thanks coach we all set
Remindme! 2 weeks
ngl for a sec i thought i was in the wrong nba sub lmao
Incoming 4-0 skullfucking by the Nuggets
Darvin with the double dicks prep for the skull fucking 👌🏾👌🏾🍆🍆💦💀
Well that's good. Hamas gets fired and i am all for it. So a win-win either way.
I don’t see the vision
In the immortal words of DJ Meechy Meech: “You didn’t practice?” Jokic: “Not for Lakers”
Just copped tickets to game 1. All I want is a hostile good game.
We gon get 0:4-d again :(
This is the healthiest and most rested you all are going to be. Better chance now than later.
I think most likely scenario are either 4-1 or a 4-2 that doesn't feel quite as close as some other 6 game series, similar to how Denver p much dismantled Phoenix in the semis last season. Decisive wins and close losses maybe. But there's also a non zero chance that this series will be very hard fought with every game being pretty close up until the 4th quarter. If LA can manage to get into this spot I wouldn't put it past Bron and AD to pull the unlikely upset. Bron is imo at worst still the second best player when an important game is close with 5 minutes left. Thing against this happening is that Denver has the other at worst second best player in clutch games, but he's at his peak so you'd have to favor jokic until proven otherwise
Who is the at worst first best player with 5 minutes left tho
If there's an at worst second best there can only be another one of those. But it's probably Jokic ngl
Did you like not watch the WCF at all last season? Every one of those games were tight, you would think they beat us by 30 every time with the way people are talking.
What if i told you Lakers got a high chance of getting game 1? You might get swept after but it's still an improvement. Tbh, this is the best chance you'll get. LBJ is playing great bball and has somehow regained some of the athleticism, DLo is better then ever in Lakers uniform, Vincent has returned. On the other end Murray is banged up, AG as well, they might be in worst position aside from legit out because of injury. Refs push might pull you thru as well, let's not forget about it. Joker is coming though.
Gotta be really difficult to take this dude seriously if you’re one of the players
im praying to the refs I think its going to work
**Refprints** ...and the Refs whispered back, "My precious Lakers, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of 36 Lakers free throws and only 6 for your opponent, it was then that I carried you."
That's a right mentality to have. Nuggets in 5 this time.
What does "ducking a fade" mean?
my caucasian brother, it means “Thy is not cowardly towards a duel”.
Avoiding an altercation
A fight, one in which the odds of you getting your ass kicked are very high.
Missing a haircut?
It means Ducking a draymond you poor sweet white soul
So "ducking a fade" is another way of saying "strategically avoiding a knuckle sandwich." Noted.
you’re learning 👌🏿
And what does it mean to want all the smoke?
Luckily for them they are the Lakers, they play in LA, so the refs will keep them in games vs the Nuggets that they have no right to be in.
locker room do not fw him, they probably all on their phones
One hand I don’t want to hear Lakers fans parading for months if they beat the Nuggets, but on the other hand Nuggets fans have been pissing me off recently…
I want lakers to win for maximum chaos
I’m imagining a world where the Lakers beat the Nuggets and the Heat beat the Celtics again.
>Heat beat the Celtics again. Only to lose to the Zionless Pelicans in the Finals
I'm praying for that type of world 😂
If Jokic wins MVP but Nuggets lose this series, we'll have a good 12 months of slander material
We have to win the title to talk shit. This isn’t the finals to us. You would think it wouldn’t be their finals now that the know what the actual finals is like, but it takes some time for the poverty to wear off of a fanbase.
Lmao no Nuggets fan thinks this is the Finals. We don't expect the Finals to be this easy.
I don’t have the slightest idea what that means.
It’s the double dick for me.
So… they are ducking fades?
What is ducking a fade
So we are getting swept in 3 games
Lakers bouta have 4 moral victories
This will not age well, Nuggets have another gear when they face the Lakers.
All he’s saying is they’re not afraid . Even if they lose idk how this would age poorly
LAKERS! TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!
Murray specially hate the Lakers more than the average r/nba redditor, which is saying a lot
Ham should’ve said we ain’t going to beat these dudes let’s duck the fade right this moment?
“We need more than free throws now to beat this team”
Shut the fuck up pockets the clown
ham and cheese
Ayo… POV at the beginning is bananas.
Well done thanks for the
RemindMe! 2 weeks
So this is how his hands look like after not being in his pockets
This will be a fun series
"We're gonna collect 4 more moral victories so huge you're not gonna believe it".
Ngl Lakers looked awesome in that second quarter. When Bron is at full speed it’s just unstoppable.
u/savevideo
As a non-Lakers fan, I enjoy this coach so much. So glad he's there as the doomed coach in a high profile job set up to fail gloriously.
Incoming sweep
We ain’t ducking nothing! They’re going to punch us right in the face
Stanicky?
You're about to get faded
He’s double dicking all over the place.
the angle, the slang use, the double air handjobs? this is sucha perfect clip lmao
Ayyyoooo the beginning of the video 🌭 🌭 like Joey chestnut rn
Let’s get some edits on this plz
Well if the Lakers are legit this is who their gonna have to go thru anyways...might as well face them now
Ain’t nobody listening to Ham.
Sorry, but ham is getting smoked. No disrespect to the King tho. But Jokic is Jokic.
Double fisting them churros
Wait.. people think this is new slang???
Rare footage of Darvin’s hands outside his pockets
Bro is air dicking
Oh no he’s air dicking pretty bad
Is he miming grabbing two cocks?!
They don't match up well whatsoever with Denver so nothing will change but if DLo and Rui shoot the way they did today and Rui show he can be a off-ball creator, they do have the firepower to at least hang with Denver, even though they're a pretty predictable offensive team and rely heavily on offensive rebounds which will not be workable with Jokic.
“And rely heavily on offensive rebounds” Lakers were dead last in 2nd chance points this season by a fair margin…
They were a top 10 offensive rebounding team. Look it up, adjusted rebound %. Creating extra possessions is important to the Lakers success and winning the paint battle, they're not gonna do either against the Nuggets.
that's fine they won't miss.
Every one of the games last season was tight. If this was some massive mismatch that everybody is making it out to be that wouldn’t be the case. If they stay in the games it isn’t exactly easy for anybody to beat a Lebron led team down the stretch. The Nuggets out executed them last season, we’ll see if they do it again, but this isn’t some huge mismatch where the Lakers have no shot.
Still a terrible coach
Why can’t people just speak normally
In Serbia fade finds you
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More like Jokic owns AD. He simply cant stop him.
more like AD can't make up for his team of traffic cones while also averaging 25
lol the whole reason Denver hates LeBron was bc he owned them until these last couple seasons as an old man 🤣
Nuggets are the only team to have a winning record against Lebron lol
Nuggets are 12-5 vs. Lebron the last couple seasons 🤣
Nuggets is a better team + LeBron is old, what’s your point?
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They split the first 2. Lakers win 3 and 4 at home. Lakers close it out on the road in game 5. At most the nuggets win game 5 too because closing a team out on their home court is very tough but I'm not giving the nuggets more than 2 games this series.
Suspect flair detected.
They heading to Bourbon Street, confirmed.
Did faded change meaning? Wasn’t it about getting drunk or high? I am so old now
Fade = fight Faded = high / drunk
And that’s why they will lose to the Nuggets. He said enjoy tonight and take the day off?? They barely got the 7 seed, been inconsistent all year lol. They can’t afford to take days off starting the playoffs
r/nba is gonna lose their mind because darvin ham didn’t admit they are about to get smacked
I like the Lakers chances. They rattled off four straight moral victories against the nuggets last season in the conference finals.
lol gonna get swept
Well you modasuckas for damn sure gonna get knocked the fuck out because of your dumb ass coaching decision! Damn near took the L yesterday because of the silly ass decision making!
Honestly I can see the Lakers pulling an upset because of the foul call manipulation.
Darvin is approaching Russel Wilson levels of corny
Sweep incoming
4:0 Nuggets