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Yeah, who the put him on that list of the 75 all time best?
To me the biggest problem was Anthony Davis. A softer player you may never see. Putting his fragility aside, he should have been carrying this team. He just turned 29 years old, for 's sake! With a team full of geezers, he should have been carrying the team in the regular season but he didn't even do this when he could. I've never seen a player of his supposed stature be such a beta. , he wasn't even a beta.
Yeah, who the put him on that list of the 75 all time best?
I think Lebron knew they were screwed and so he sat out these last couple of games rather than suffer the humiliation of being on the floor with AD and the Lakers still sucking ass.
Looking at the potential play in matchups and I'm thinking the Spurs might just find themselves in the playoffs and lose out on the lottery pick.
The only team I don't think they can beat is Minnesota, so assuming they win their first game, I'd almost give favorable odds that the Spurs win both games, assuming Nephew doesn't come back.
Wondering what the average Spurs fan would think of blowing our chances in the lottery and having like the 15th pick? Likely have the 20th to 23rd and the 26th too.
Better to try to trade up and get a potential game changer or take 3 picks in the 1st? What do you do if you're PATFO?
Wait, he's on the list? For real?
Wow, I could give you 100 players in history better than this guy.
Possible indeed.
There were talks on Lakersground and RealGM about whether he's better than Timmy after 2020
Of course AD is better than Tim after 2020.There were talks on Lakersground and RealGM about whether he's better than Timmy after 2020
Now, Tim is only good for warming up our centers.
Minnesota will certainly try to win its last two in hopes of catching Denver. But Denver would need to lose out … including game 82 against the Lakers
AD being overrated and Lebron for being a horrible GM are the main issues, which led to...Westbrook instead of DDR? Horrible. Amazing that the team owners didn't want to make further horrible moves and enable Lebron even more, but probably because they can already tell that he's out the door talking about playing with his son on a team. But what to do? It's not in their nature to lean into a rebuild I wouldn't think, but trading Lebron and AD make the most sense to me.
I've followed this league for 25 years and seen 4 (Jordan, O'Neal, Duncan, James) capable of taking virtually any roster to the playoffs. Holding anyone to that standard is ridiculous.I‘m not talking about the Lakers, I am talking about what he did as a First option on the Pelicans where he played with Jrue Holiday and did literally nothing. And don’t make excuses about injuries when AD is the one who‘s always injured.
Oh but he took the Lakers to the championship as a 2nd option in the BUBBLE. Put a big * behind that since you want to talk about contextNow he can‘t even take them to the play in. GTFOH
He was at worst the co-first option and the cir stances were equal for all teams, which means no asterisk.
He's never pulled the S bag has and just did something else the latter never would, by coming off a significant injury, clearly still hobbled and playing out the string in a lost season instead of hiding from the embarrassment.
And you call yourself a Spurs fan.
derozan to LA was always a respect issue i think. Chicago had assets to do a sign and trade and give him fair money. LA did not. We will never know if Derozan would take vet min to play with lebron, but we can be pretty sure derozan is pissed they didn't even ask.
The story floating around is he wanted a 3rd year and the lakers would only do 2
Well, if you're going by that metric:
Fivethirtyeight RAPTOR Small Forwards
Bottom 5 WAR
Terrence Ross
Darius Bazley
CJ Elleby
Jordan Nwora
Doug McDermott
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LeBron IS management. In the past, he’s taken worse rosters further, but the first crack was when he felt the need to sprit AD from N.O. He knew that he could no longer carry a team to a championship. Now, he can’t even carry one to the play in. It’s not about level of play, it’s about deteriorating health and durability. That’s how Father Time gets you, and why he’s undefeated.
The averge fan would hate it. But at least half the people here would cheer for it.
I think it's really unlikely that the Spurs would keep all three players from their first round picks. And I don't see any team trading the 1 or 2 draft pick this year for later picks in the same draft. The one thing I really hope they don't do is send the Rap's or C's pick out for a future protected pick that winds up conveying as a second rounder later.
I don’t see them keeping all three picks.
Heck, in a different sport, the Eagles just downsized from three to two firsts (punting a year and picking up assets) mainly because it gets complicated to extend everyone on same schedule. And it’s only exacerbated in NBA where you only have so many roster spots … not an issue in NFL.
The roster is already somewhat crowded so they need to make targeted upgrades and clear some logjams. They have plenty of assets - picks, solid players and palatable contracts - to make that happen. Oh, and cap space.
(On a related topic, no idea what OKC is going to do with all of its picks)
Kawhi and Greek Freak both #15 picks.
We can dream, right?
Update: Steve Nash and Brent Barrdawg too.
Bingo. Lakers can't point the finger at roster construction and then act like LeBron isn't at least somewhat to blame since he's helping call the shots.
Magic Johnson recently shared on ESPN that he wanted DeRozan, and DeRozan had called him to tell him he wanted to go to L.A. Magic shared with the Laker's FO and assumed it was a done then, then went on vacation. At that point, LeBron started talking with Westbrook and went above Magic's head to force Russ on the team.
Dude made this bed, and now he gets to sleep in it. Lakers aren't trading Davis, and they ain't moving Westbrook's contract without giving up more draft capital which they don't really have. Dude is a declining player who (I believe) will be the highest paid player in the NBA next year. He's already dropping hints about how he'd like to play with Steph.
LeBron's only other recourse is to force a trade himself, and I wouldn't put it past him. That's been his MO....bleed an organization dry for wins, then bounce when the assets run out.
OKC about to draft an entirely new team around SGA
Agreed on all points.
That's a great point. Maybe trade them for future firsts?
AD is such wuss. I've watched him play in person a few times when he was in NO, and he used to get so much attention from trainers over the course of a game. He gets a lot of owies during games that don't get the attention of the cameras. I'm surprised they don't have his mom sitting on the sideline to kiss every boo-boo during time outs.
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