Lakers Offensive and Defensive Rtg - Predict their rankings in the league

yuurin98 · Star Player Joined: 28 Aug 2015 Posts: 1164

With all preseason games done, you may have a picture of how the Lakers will fare in the regular season.

Ignore how many games the Lakers will win or lose, about where do you think the Lakers will be in the Offensive Rtg and Defensive Rtg department?

My guess will be
Off 13th
Def 20th
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Chronicle · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 2:13 am Post subject:

Off ~15
Def ~5
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Laker_Dynasty_01 · Star Player Joined: 06 Jun 2001 Posts: 1703

Off 22nd
Def 29th

Not a knock on the players or coaching staff.
Too young, too many newcomers, and will Deng give his best effort all year?

AllorNothing · Franchise Player Joined: 08 Oct 2001 Posts: 18448

Going with the preseason results.

Defensive rating 20st
Offense 16th

FreakofNature · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 2:46 am Post subject:

OFF:12th

DEF: 27th

KindCrippler2000 · Franchise Player Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 15821

If Luke rolls with his preseason rotations? DEF 31st

TooMuchMajicBuss · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 6:06 am Post subject:

Offense 23

Defense 16

Much worse the first half of the season, 15 or better in both for April.

Eindhoven · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 6:07 am Post subject:

I believe we can improve a lot our defense, as that's the main focus. Offensively, I think we'll struggle a bit more, as we have few reliable shooters and will be deploying a new system.

Def: 20th
Off: 25th
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saetarubia · Star Player Joined: 06 Jul 2014 Posts: 6208

Off - 18

Def - 24
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MJST · Retired Number Joined: 06 Jul 2014 Posts: 26288

Offense 18th, Defense 20th.

LakersRGolden · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:44 am Post subject:

Trade Lou:
Offense: 16, Def:19

Don't trade Lou:
Offense:15, Def 25

justsomelakerfan · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Jul 2016 Posts: 10939

Just for fun, I'm going to copy-and-paste some preseason stats someone on the lakers subreddit posted yesterday. For playing the Warriors twice, we come out of this OK:

Scoring: 105.9 (9th in the NBA)
Opponent Scoring: 107.2 (4th worst in the NBA)
Rebounding: 78 (6th worst in the NBA)
FG%: 44.3 (15th in the NBA, right in the middle)
Opponent FG%: 45.1 (8th worst in the NBA)
Free Throw%: 65.9 (Worst in the NBA)
Three Point%: 35.7 (12th in the NBA, huge improvement as they were last in the league last season)
Opponent Three Point%: 35.3 (11th)
Assists: 22.1 (15th in the NBA, huge improvement)
Steals: 9.9 (10th in the NBA)
Blocks 3.8 (6th worst in the NBA)
Turnovers: 17.1 (17th, right in the middle of the pack)
Fouls: 24.5 (7th worst in the NBA)

My guesses for Lakers standings in rtg:

Offense: 18th - not blaming this on youth but roster construction not matching with a pace/space system at all
Defense: 25th - if LAL is above bottom 3 teams on D, Luke gets the Coach of the Year award. Think they're better than BKN, PHI at least.

danzag · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:09 am Post subject:

Off: 14th
Def: 20th

venturalakersfan · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:29 am Post subject:

100
100
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tox · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 17876

Let me look into my crystal ball....

16th
27th

defense · Retired Number Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 39400

Don't even know who's starting. How am I supposed to use the crystal ball to its full potential? Anyway here goes, since winning isn't a priority this season according to the smart guys on the site I'm going to say improved offense and bad defense.

15 offense
27 defense

adkindo · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 3:08 pm Post subject:

Offense - 18th
Defense - 23rd

I think the ceiling is:

Offense - 14th
Defense - 18th

& the floor is:

Offense - 24th
Defense - 26th

fiendishoc · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:04 am Post subject:

Just out of curiosity I took the average of these projections (17th offense, 22nd defense) and found the closest comparable for last season to be somewhere between the the Sac Kings and the Denver Nuggets.

Both of their records happened to be 33 - 49.

yinoma2001 · Retired Number Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 119487

Offense: 20
Defense: 23
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Curious to see opinions now that the Lakers have a couple games under their belts.

Still way to early to make any definitive statements but many of the predictions were not so far off. And overall the team has shown some solid improvement at being competitive every game. Obviously still work to be done but some positive signs IMO.

Currently using basic stats: (likely someone using advanced stats will post and advance the discussion)

Offense- 16th
Own- FG%- 22nd / 3pt% 16th /FT% 11th / TO 27th

Defense- 20th
point differential- 22nd (-6)
OPP- FG% 26th / 3pt% 8th / TO 8th

Reb% ranked- 19th

My overall impression is positive. Certainly need to play smarter, more efficiently and stop turning the ball over. Need to rebound better.

But the team is playing competitive ball. Especially on the defensive end from last year. As they build some chemistry and experience it hopefully will result into some wins as the season progresses.

So far so good for me. Thoughts?

tox · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 17876

^
Offensive rating is 101.6 (ranked #21) and defensive rating is 107.6 (ranked #20)

MIMLaker · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 10:38 am Post subject:

Off 17 - VAST improvement

Def 25 - Improvement, but still needs work.

70sdude · Star Player Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 4567

Off ~21
Def ~28