damn it, another year another missed opportunity to draft a franchise player...
Getting Murray back up to speed and giving him rhythm heading into the play-in might be important to them. Or else he’s going to be rusty as and might hurt the team. I think he will get over it quick though since he’s so compe ive.
damn it, another year another missed opportunity to draft a franchise player...
Could be 2027, if N.O. opts for the 2025 FRP. You can only trade your FRP every other year.
I think there is still a slight chance it would go to Memphis if the Lakers pick ends up being higher than 10, but that seems unlikely at this point. Either way, the Lakers don't get to keep it.
Mission accomplished, Spurs, now it's time to rest for the play-in (you can't call it tanking because they've already accomplished their play-in goal and, anyway, I hate tanking).
If the Spurs lose their last three games, they'll finish no worse than 9th in lottery position (with an extremely outside chance at 8th).
If they win some games they could finish as low as 12th in lottery position -- that's a three position swing. To quantify it, the 9th team has a 20.2% chance at a top 4 pick; the 12th team has a 7.2% chance. That's an actual 13% increase in your chances from 12th to 9th position (or as Zeus might say, an almost 200% increase).
Right now, they're in the sweet spot. They need to stay there.
When people mention McD as hurting the team, people forget Eubanks was a starter for nearly a quarter of the season. He was a huge net negative. Probably the worst center in mankind
What? Drew has been starting for Portland for weeks now, and they're just a perfectly ordinary--
Knew about that part, thought it was being referenced that there was a scenario where the Lakers kept their pick. Good news all around tbh
So if we make the playoffs we would be playing Suns or Grizz in first round right?
I would rather the play the Suns, the Grizz would whack us lol
It would be the first in the West, so Phoenix, since the winner of the 7-8 spots Play In game will play the second in the West. Basically, we play NO, if we win we play the loser of MIN/LAC for a chance to play Phoenix, and the winner of the MIN/LAC game goes to Memphis.
Suns in the first
Any idea yet who we would play in the play in? I'm guessing it's too early to say.
Pelicans.
Pelicans for sure, and then the loser of Clippers vs Minnesota (could be Denver or Utah too).
We'll play the Pels, it's just the 9th and 10th who needs to be determined.
FiveThirtyEight Raptor Centers, minimum 1071 minutes (their default)
Bottom 5 WAR
47) Isaiah Stewart
48) Richaun Holmes
50) Chimezie Metu
51) Drew Eubanks
52) Marcus Morris, Sr.
That felt good to type.
Wow, Lakers lost seven games in a row. Seven. No fight in them at all.
They’re legit terrible. I’m sure that LeBron thought he would be the exception, but Father Time is undefeated.
Probably true, but, LeBron's play is not the real problem with the Lakers. He is playing at an unprecedented level for his age and position.
They have an ill-fitting roster for these times in the NBA. Management is the problem there.
They’d both whack us tbh.
This. I will give LeBron credit that he has done about all that can expected of him at his age. They had him playing center at times, for god's sake. And he still has a chance at the scoring le.
Their problems really fall on Davis not being able to stay healthy (nothing new), Westbrook being a terrible fit and not knowing what to do when he doesn't have the ball in his hands to chase trip-dubs, and their role players either being washed-up vets or cast-offs from other teams. Oh, and Vogel doesn't seem to have much of a gameplan other than "go out there and give the ball to LeBron" and it shows.
Lebron’s playing great offensively for his age obviously but his late game stat-padding combined with playing on such a bad team makes his #’s look better than they really are.
But more importantly, he’s one of the worst defenders in the league at this point of his career and gives virtually zero effort on that end anymore. And the lakers playing him at the C position with Davis out was beyond stupid. It was basically a layup line out there.
But yea, he’s on a bad team (that he built) and their best player can’t stay healthy. And Westbrook looked like an absolute scrub for 75% of the season. But it’s clear they gave up a while ago. 7 straight losses in must-win games..? Yea that’s trash. Zero heart in that team. Mentally they’re in Cancun
Last edited by BatManu20; 04-06-2022 at 01:29 PM.
Indeed, James is clearly not their main issue. They're whining that they couldn't line up their best players on the floor long enough... but injuries happen to a lot of teams and they find a way. Cleveland lost a bunch of players and still competed...I mean 7 ing losses in a row while you play to survive.
It's clearly about competing but this roster isn't that good past their "big 3" and they just dont seem to have any fight nor accountability in them.
Hoping we lose to Minny tomorrow tbh. Don’t wanna pass New Orleans in the standings in case we miss the playoffs. They still have to play Memphis and GSW.
Also want Minnesota to win out so they can potentially pass Chicago and Toronto in the standings which would push our pick from the Raps from 20 to 18.
This roster clearly lacks defense specialists and blue collars who will make up for James (and 47M man Westbrook) not giving a on defense anymore, which should be expected for every star in their late years.... There's no cohesion in that team and when no one wants to make the effort for the other... You get that Lake show...
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