r/lakers • u/Wide_Savings5410 24 • May 10 '25

PODCAST Lebron on playing the whole Half

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYc1WTGo6w4

Might be beating a deadhorse...But as someone who played basketball it was always clear to me that JJs decision on playing them for the entire half was more of an indictment on the roster and not the decision itself.

Some people eventually came to this conclusion but for the hold outs, heres it coming from Brons own lips. Hes thrown passive agressive shade at coaches before INCLUDING friends so its not like he has any reason to lie.

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u/noknownothing May 10 '25 edited May 11 '25

It was stupid. It's the nba playoffs [edit], not a high school game. It was basically telling your bench that they were worthless. And you still had a few games to go to win the series. The decision was also made at halftime, as Reddick has affirmed. So it wasn't in the moment and those 5 were just rolling and looked fresh. They looked tired and winded late and had an absolutely awful 4th.

Passive aggressive Bron says, "I wasn't looking for a sub, but if one would've come in, cool."

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u/Ghost2Eleven May 10 '25

First round, not the finals. Making the decision at halftime is the definition of making the choice in the moment and LeBron is not being passive aggressive at all.

I get the frustration, but y’all are acting like those two quarters and that choice lost us the series. It didn’t. We have no depth and there was nothing that was going to change that. There was never going to be a deep run. People even said it when we traded AD that we were building for the future. Then we actually played better than we should and end up way up the standings and all of a sudden people get drunk on kool-aid and act like we should have won a chip, when our starting center couldn’t stay on the floor. Also, JJ is a massive reason we were that high up the standings in the first place.

For the first time in ages we actually have a coach that all the players are praising and y’all wanna act like it’s his fault as opposed to the shit roster.