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10-01-2020, 02:58 PM | #496 | |
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Hell, I live in Los Angeles and have always rooted for the Lakers in the past but for whatever reason, I'm just not excited about NBA basketball right now, especially during football season and now, the new MLB playoff format. Also, this team doesn't really feel like the Lakers because there's so little homegrown talent. I mean, LeBron and AD are phenomenal players but it's just not the same as watching a Kobe led team or Showtime of the 80's. |
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10-01-2020, 03:10 PM | #497 | |
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And as you've noted, baseball is up. Golf is up. What's being weaponized isn't the ratings in a vacuum - it's the glib response to them. Even the context you provided can, at best, explain SOME of the decline. At some point there should be SOME kind of reckoning here, but there just isn't. There's always a justification. Call it collateral damage to a vital mission from the NBA and it's players (or even a completely unavoidable one if you want to), but to say just say there's no damage from it at all is folly. Yes, this messaging IS tiring the hell out of a lot of people. The haughty manner in which it is being delivered doubly so. |
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10-01-2020, 03:15 PM | #498 | |
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I just don't like this team. I've never cared for Kuzma and he's the only real 'Laker product' on the roster. Beyond him it's what, Caruso? There's absolutely no sweat equity in this team for me. I haven't 'earned' this. And hell, I've spent 15 years absolutely loathing LeBron James. That's just not a switch that flips. That said, you saw what was happening with the 'baby Lakers' - fans were tuning out. The Die-hards that knew who the Lakers had in the D-League were enjoying the growing process, but the casual Laker fan? They need to see results. I'm betting this year's Lakers squad did as well in the ratings (or better) than the 'homegrown' squad from 2 years ago. We may not like the team, but I'm betting we're outliers. Could be wrong there, though. |
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10-01-2020, 03:15 PM | #499 |
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If this was Lakers vs Celtics or Bucks I think you would see better ratings.
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10-01-2020, 03:29 PM | #500 | |
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10-01-2020, 03:49 PM | #501 |
The man you could post like.
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Rivers to coach the 76ers
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10-01-2020, 03:53 PM | #502 | |
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I don't dislike LeBron or AD but it just doesn't "feel" right to me. At least the Heat had Dwayne Wade and Udonis Haslem while the Lakers have... Kyle Kuzma? I can't speak for other Lakers fans but the COVID delay aside, winning the NBA crown this year will feel empty, for lack of a better word, which fuels my disinterest, I guess. |
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10-01-2020, 04:01 PM | #503 | |
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They had to get rid of a guy who was genuinely developing here in D'Angelo Russell to get rid of the awful Mozgov deal and everyone was just marking time before they could use the stretch provision on Deng. The Lonzo experiment was so clearly doomed to fail from the beginning. Magic was a mess and so interested in being a celebrity without being an actual asset that it even made HIM look bad. And frankly, anyone that's ever read Pearlman's Showtime book could've seen THAT coming. Jimmy Bus just made that such a hard team to like. Ingram came in and was something of a breath of fresh air...so of course he had to go. Likewise Josh Hart who was a guy we saw develop in college and become a REAL easy guy to root for. And in 2 years when LeBron is finally gone and the roster is Davis + cap space, they'll just do it all over again. By then I'll have probably grown to 'accept' Davis because I really do like the guy, but that's all they'll have. No picks to speak of, no young players w/ long-term upside. Just another free agent recruiting period in the hopes of getting another star that someone else developed to come to LA for the glitz of the town. Hurray. I'm just not sure if/when/how I'll ever really come to embrace this team again. They sure don't seem to have a plan for it because in the end, I'm the outlier. The Lakers don't need guys like me to care in order to be profitable. For most fans, the destination IS the journey. For me that's just dull. |
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10-01-2020, 04:11 PM | #504 |
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NHL Stanley Cup ratings were apparently way down too which lends credence to the idea that it is a timing/bubble/COVID-19 thing, not a political thing.
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10-01-2020, 04:13 PM | #505 |
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10-01-2020, 04:15 PM | #506 | |
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And unlike you, I can't even watch regular season Lakers games because Spectrum has the monopoly on their broadcasts, so without subscribing to their cable unit, the only time I can see them is when the local blackout is occasionally lifted when their games air on TNT and ESPN, which isn't all that often. I even switched to Spectrum's Choice Plan, which is internet-based and not cable, and I still don't get Lakers games (or Dodgers, for that matter, which is the dumbest shit of all time). |
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10-01-2020, 04:55 PM | #507 |
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And just to add to the point from earlier:
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10-01-2020, 05:02 PM | #508 |
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The Sixers hired Doc Rivers is this could be a good thing in the future. Otherwise **** Lebron James and the CCP Lakers.
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10-01-2020, 05:03 PM | #509 |
Like I woke up in Wonderland..
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10-01-2020, 05:06 PM | #510 |
PLAY GOOD FOOTBALL
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LOTS of people who cut cable stream the game online. Just like people on here who stream NFL games. The viewership is much higher than what traditional TV providers will tell you
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