re: AD cost the Lakers

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every team was on the same playing field. Every team got the same amount of rest. Every team dealt with the same BS rules. And here we are a couple years later and the exact same teams that made it to the conference championships in the bubble made it back again. The bubble was insanely hard on players mentally.

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Yeah I don’t buy playing in empty gyms in front of family is harder. I don’t buy not being able to frick your side pieces being harder.


And once again, the comparison isn’t to 2020 Lakers vs other 2020 teams. It’s getting four months of rest, playing 8 warm up games-while the “bad teams” magically fall off your schedule, then crowing a champion essentially after an offseason.

It’s nowhere close to the same thing.

If it were better and harder, do you want the nba to adopt that model of determining a champion again?

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You know how hard it is to hit shots only to the sounds of sneakers on the court and the sights of Lakers fans on zoom around the court? Unreal dog

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I chuckled