Pacman & Enable break down how LA Thieves can overcome current CDL struggles LA Thieves \/ Reverse SweepWith LA Thieves being one of the notable teams to struggle at the recent CDL Stage 1 Major, Reverse Sweep\u2019s Enable and Pacman explain what the team\u2019s issues are and how they can be fixed moving forward. LA Thieves have certainly come back to earth a bit after their hot 4-0 start in the CDL 2021 season. A one-sided 3-0 defeat to Dallas Empire in the final match of Super Week cost them the top spot in Group B, followed by a stunning upset sweep at the hands of cross-town rivals LA Guerrillas in the first round of the Major. While they did take care of business against the struggling Toronto Ultra in the Losers Bracket, a subsequent 3-1 loss to OpTic Chicago saw them finish tied for 5th\/6th \u2013 a decidedly lower final placement than what many would have predicted for the CDL\u2019s newest team. https:\/\/twitter.com\/CODLeague\/status\/1367583989498806275 Why LA Thieves are struggling in CDL 2021 According to 100T member Enable, his org\u2019s CoD squad is a bit \u201chit or miss\u201d at the moment: \u201cThey\u2019re streaky; sometimes they\u2019re like \u2018wow, this is exactly how you need to play, do this every time,\u2019 and then they have a lot of times where they\u2019re just ego-challenging everything and not making smart decisions.\u201d Enable\u2019s Reverse Sweep co-host Pacman, however, had a less generous way of describing LAT\u2019s recent performances: \u201cThat\u2019s a really nice way to say that. LA Thieves kinda suck for what they should be, and you\u2019re not going to look at their roster and tell me this is acceptable.\u201d The question then becomes: how can this team\u2019s super-talented and stacked squad begin to live up to expectations? While the answer may not be so simple and cut-and-dry, there are some things they can do to help rectify their current situation. \u201cThe whole team needs to just buy into that way of thinking, having that playstyle,\u201d Enable said, referring to Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat\u2019s \u201cgreatness or nothing\u201d attitude. \u201cBecause if you don\u2019t, not only are you going to get games like you got in the Major, but it\u2019s going to create some tension with Austin.\u201d Should Kenny switch to an SMG role? As for Pacman, he believes that at least part of the solution could lie in a shuffle of roles within the roster. One player that both analysts focused on was Kenny, who starred as an SMG slayer in his rookie year with Team Kaliber before transitioning to a more assault rifle role in recent years. \u201cKenny is disgusting, but I think he should be running a sub [SMG],\u201d he said. \u201cWhen he came onto the scene, he won back-to-back tournaments as an SMG. When you look at the other top teams, Atlanta has Simp and aBeZy, Dallas has Shotzzy and Huke, OpTic has Scump and Envoy \u2013 Kenny is right up there, he has the potential to be one of those guys, if not better than all of those guys. And I feel like you\u2019re taking away from that potential you could have.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not saying make a team change or any drastic things like that, but I just think you should try it and see how it works.\u201d Right now, it\u2019s very much a \u2018time will tell\u2019 situation for the Thieves, who will look to turn their season around quickly when Stage 2 kicks off on March 18. Which group they\u2019ll be placed in and who they\u2019ll have to face remains to be seen \u2013 the Stage 2 Group Selection takes place on March 12 at 10AM PT \/ 1PM ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pacman & Enable break down how LA Thieves can overcome current CDL struggles LA Thieves \/ Reverse SweepWith LA Thieves being one of the notable teams to struggle at the recent CDL Stage 1 Major, Reverse Sweep\u2019s Enable and Pacman explain what the team\u2019s issues are and how they can be fixed moving forward. LA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}