Why Is It So Hard to Talk Rationally About the Lakers? | Off Guard With Austin Rivers
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- Austin and Pausha talk about Austin’s appearance on ESPN in which he and Kendrick Perkins discussed the struggling L.A. Lakers and why Austin is bullish on the team’s talents despite its slow start, why the Lakers are always talked about in such extreme contexts, and whether D’Angelo Russell can find a role with the team as a starter.
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They are only kinda fine because 10 teams make the playoffs now. Without the playins it would be pretty urgent right now.
Austin Rivers basically telling us how he would play in the Lakers system. So much insight. 🤓 Good chat.
Because it's the Lakers, lol. If they kept Lonzo, we'd be on year 6 on asking why Lonzo is a bust and why the Lakers chose him over Fox/Tatum/Mitchell. If the Lakers had PG/Kawhi, we'd be asking why they couldn't win when they had the break before the bubble.
Rivers should be playing for the Lakers. Like seriously though you can't tell me he's not better than Reddish or guys like Skyler Mays or Windsor. Backup guard. Min contract. Playoff tested. Still young enough to have stuff in the tank. What's to lose ROB!?
Its very simple imo. Lakers content always brings in views so people are always going to make Lakers content when they can, even if it's a little exaggerated
Why do yall have delay. Fucking spotify owns your ass.
Maybe because it’s the third year (or is it the fourth I can’t remember) of this underperformance with essentially the same two core players. So yeah, “it’s a journey”, but it’s been going on for years.
Please. If it was Kawhi/PG on the Lakers, it would be even worse. If the Lakers kept Lonzo/Ingram, we'd be on year 6 asking why the Lakers keep drafting busts.
@@Fieryvortex48 Sure, but the overreaction for the Lakers is because it’s multiple years with two even higher profile players than Kawhi/PG. but yeah, it could be worse.
@@vestanpance99 Higher profile? Kawhi was coming off a championship run and Paul George was coming off a top 5 MVP season when they teamed up. Lebron/AD might be slightly more popular individually, but they're amplified by the Lakers brand, not the other way around.
More people would care about Kawhi/PG on the Lakers than Lebron/AD on the Clippers. That's the truth
BRUCE BROWN
Probably because the media needs to promote the narrative that Lebron is still good to keep people watching
The Lakers do not and have never needed Lebron to be talked about. Go check up on your history
@@Fieryvortex48 were people talking about them this much during the kuzma era 😂 stop lying little bro they do a segment every day about lebron and the team is buns
@@Bobbleheads56 I had to hear Lonzo/D'Lo/Ingram get called busts every other day while players like Marvin Bagley have quietly gone unnoticed after one month. The Lakers are bigger than Lebron. We don't need him to be relevant. Go back to school kid
@@Fieryvortex48 “we” you aint on the team lil bro 😂
@@Bobbleheads56 That's hilarious. You've resorted to pedantic semantics instead of going at my other points.
These guys are literally the same person.
The dude on the left needs to show down and think before he speaks. Guy can't put a single clear sentence together😂
Because of casual fans. That's why. For every tried and true LA Lakers/Basketball fan you have 3 Lakers "fans" that just love Lebron because of some political comment he made or because its fun to troll people in the 'GOAT Debate' sp they root for Lebron because to them Lebron is basketball.
And that's not even including the type of people that just want to root for whatever team has the most titles. Yankees/ Patriots / Lakers "fans" that will taunt you on the internet about "17 championships" even though that person has never sat down and watched a complete basketball game.
Yea austin Rivers not getting another shot at playing in the nba 😂😂
Huhhhh
Bro it’s ok if you don’t watch basketball
More importantly, why is it necessary to always talk about the freaking Lakers even when they're wallowing in mediocrity?
Because the Lakers have and will always be the most popular fanbase in American sports internationally
@Fieryvortex48 and a vast majority of the type of "fans" that the LA Lakers have are probably not watching inside basketball talk podcasts on a Wednesday in fact a lot of them have never watched a full basketball game.
Then you have the LeBron groupies there are too many to count.
I am simply not buying the fact is that because the Lakers are the topic, people are watching this nerdy basketball talk but if the Timberwolves were the topic the number of views would be so significantly lower.🤷♂️
But then again people have told me that the reason they don't allow defense in the league anymore is because if the ball is it going through the hoop every 8 Seconds and the score doesn't end in the 120's, Cleetus will turn it off and go back to Tik Tok. I don't believe Cleetus is watching in the first place.
Fuck. Now I'm going to have some 20 something year old that has never been within 500 miles of California come in and brag about 17 banners as if he suited up for a couple of them or was even alive for even some of them.
@@jamesmiller5331 What are you on about?
@@jamesmiller5331 Been watching since Magic got drafted, bud. Don't talk like you know who I am
A bench scrub Austin rivers with low standards has no place on TV trying to spin his narrative to make laker nation expect low standards he's used in the NBA..
Austin bench stats nba journey who is a ex clipper who was ignored in LA who was inconsistent his whole career talking about a top club he was never invited too..
Austin stats that qualifies him to judge a title team with 17 banners..
23.8 mins
8.5 points
2.0rebounds
Austin reaves is garbage 🤦♂️