It's Official, Bronny James is a Bonafide Scrub

[QUOTE=Real Men Wear Green;14947393]Bronny James has done nothing to show he's a better player than the 5ppg season tells us he is. Yeah he's athletic. So are all the youtubers making dunk videos. What makes him even as good as Mac McClung? If being athletic was enough the NBA would get flooded with guys that are not quite good enough to make the Olympics in track. That's not all there is to it. He has to develop a whole NBA skillset. It's possible but guys that need that much work and aren't big don't normally get guaranteed deals.

And he's this way with his dad giving him every possible advantage growing up in terms of the best coaches to develop his skills.[/QUOTE]

It’s not easy to block the person you are guarding. It’s his functional athleticism.

And yes he needs to refine his skillset. I don’t think he worked hard enough @gobert.

-Smak

[QUOTE=iamgine;14947338]How many 55th pick in history was better than Bronny? I'm not sure there's many.[/QUOTE]

How is that even measured tho? lol

[QUOTE=ILLsmak;14947451]It’s not easy to block the person you are guarding. It’s his functional athleticism.

And yes he needs to refine his skillset. I don’t think he worked hard enough @gobert.

-Smak[/QUOTE]
If he didn't work hard enough that's a horrible sign and no excuse at all. I wouldn't accuse him of that but I don't know what his work ethic is really like. Regardless you never see a pg size player in the NBA without a skillset. That's a ridiculous thing for a guard to lack.

[QUOTE=Real Men Wear Green;14947463]If he didn't work hard enough that's a horrible sign and no excuse at all. I wouldn't accuse him of that but I don't know what his work ethic is really like. Regardless you never see a pg size player in the NBA without a skillset. That's a ridiculous thing for a guard to lack.[/QUOTE]

His d is good, check some vids. He is very smart at how he approaches it. He needs to become a knock down shooter and if he can drive, too, he will be set.

He likely was in the gym and has a brain for it, but like i said he needs to be on some thousands of js a day routine. It’s tough, but it’s necessary. With his current skills, a jumper would be enough to be a rotation player or starter depending on his j. He is lacking a skill set to match his body. He is not super trash like he can’t dribble or anything.

I’m not saying he is gonna work hard enough to do it, but i am saying he is physically able to make it. He has to strap his nuts on and get to real work. Again, i’d take bronny’s body to ball with even tho he’s short.

-Smak

Oh man. Son just put up a goose egg. At home. [img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fguesstheemoji-answers.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2Fguess-the-emoji-up-047.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=83bdd98b5b653c74a43e8fc5378796ce884050d7bba0eb4edeab3b11a8239685&ipo=images[/img]


And a four year contract.

[QUOTE=ILLsmak;14947464]His d is good, check some vids. He is very smart at how he approaches it. He needs to become a knock down shooter and if he can drive, too, he will be set.

He likely was in the gym and has a brain for it, but like i said he needs to be on some thousands of js a day routine. It’s tough, but it’s necessary. With his current skills, a jumper would be enough to be a rotation player or starter depending on his j. He is lacking a skill set to match his body. He is not super trash like he can’t dribble or anything.

I’m not saying he is gonna work hard enough to do it, but i am saying he is physically able to make it. He has to strap his nuts on and get to real work. Again, i’d take bronny’s body to ball with even tho he’s short.

-Smak[/QUOTE]

I know he can defend his position. The problem is that a defensive specialist point guard with no offense is not valued. "Poor man's Patrick Beverly" doesn't belong in the NBA. The kind of development he needs is supposed to happen before a guy gets to the NBA. Whatever though if the Lakers want to use a roster spot like that it's their business.

[QUOTE=Full Court;14947466]Oh man. Son just put up a goose egg. At home. [img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fguesstheemoji-answers.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2Fguess-the-emoji-up-047.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=83bdd98b5b653c74a43e8fc5378796ce884050d7bba0eb4edeab3b11a8239685&ipo=images[/img]


And a four year contract.[/QUOTE]

Son knows better than to shoot if daddy’s playing. Haha

-Smak

[QUOTE=ILLsmak;14947471]Son knows better than to shoot if daddy’s playing. Haha

-Smak[/QUOTE]

Well, that's another criticism I have of him. He's not showing much of anything off ball. He spent most of his offensive playing time just standing in the corner. Don't know if it's poor coaching or what....but not a good look.

No wonder no one wanted to join the lakers, what a shitshow..

Why on earth did they sign this scrub for 4 years?? Letiny is washed and Davis has a mangina..

[QUOTE=Full Court;14947472]Well, that's another criticism I have of him. He's not showing much of anything off ball. He spent most of his offensive playing time just standing in the corner. Don't know if it's poor coaching or what....but not a good look.[/QUOTE]

Two funniest YT takes were that he's like NBA 2k AI and that he's exactly how you'd expect LeBron to teach someone to play haha.

I dunno what he's doing, but I do think Bron is probably ****ing him up. In reality, he would have done better off on another team, I think. There were other teams that were slightly interested, and maybe they were intrigued about maybe getting Bron later, but this is def gonna be a shitshow. He'll get G leeg reps.

He's big bodied, he's got a good wingspan, and he can hop, so I mean... it's all there. He definitely plays like he's scared a lot, and I imagine playing with his dad makes him even worse.

I wouldn't be surprised if he did find his rhythm in the G league after awhile tho. Then lose it again when he's playing with Bron. Just doesn't seem like a winning situation.

-Smak

He could be the dumbest player I’ve ever seen.
He has no built up moves and courses of action for scenarios and on court setups.

He can’t shoot at all but doesn’t move to the level of the ball. He doesn’t cut, ever. He doesn’t communicate, ever.

In his first preseason game, he actually did something I’ve never seen. He made a swing pass that not only did his man not see, his man’s defender saw the entire way. And of course Nikeil Alexander Walker stole it and ran it back.

He actually threw a pass that only the defense could see. And it was a swing pass. One man away.

Anybody saying he can develop into a playmaker is kidding themselves. He struggles with everything. His brain hasn’t latched onto a single winning tendency or skill. He does nothing consistently.

Him having 4 TOV in 13 minutes and only taking one shot, a 3, is amazingly bad. He’s unaggressively turning it over once every 3 minutes. Playing a timid style and gives the ball up 4 times a quarter. It’s insanity he has a guaranteed deal.

I could go on long rant about the Lakers franchise and LeBron’s ego and lack of self-awareness but I’ll leave it here for now.

I'm not a Bronny expert but I don't see anything that qualifies him to be on the roster other than his last name. He's undersized, he's not a freak athlete, he's not a good shooter you name it. The father-son thing is a great story, so maybe the Lakers are thinking that the story will sell a lot tickets or Lebron's influence on the GM is just simply huge. I don't really understand what's going on but the Lakers will be absolutely irrelevant this season.

In my opinion Lebron should have taken less money and joined a contender team for his last couple of seasons. Maybe he could have won an extra ring or two and get closer to MJ's record. Instead he still wants to be the star on the team which will neither help him nor the Lakers.

Right now I see his ceiling as a diet coke Pat Bev, but he hasn't shown the latters knack for being an irritant which was part of his makeup.6'2 and can't really shoot at the NBA level with no real PG skills is a hard sell in 2024, athletic or not.

Is this gonna be the worst case of nepotism, ever?

[QUOTE=bullettooth;14947693]Is this gonna be the worst case of nepotism, ever?[/QUOTE]
No, just the most public. Coaches and GMs hand their sons and and brothers jobs in their organization all the time, this is just the first time and Giannis has had his brother eating space in Milwaukee for years.