This team is one DeMarcus Cousins or LaMarcus Aldridge away
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:29 pm    Post subject:

To get any of these players we'd have to give up one of DLO/Ingram. No thanks.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:57 pm    Post subject:

No way. We just need seasoning. Think how good we will be after 40 games.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:00 pm    Post subject:

We're just a LeBron away...
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:04 pm    Post subject: Re: This team is one DeMarcus Cousins or LaMarcus Aldridge away

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this Laker team is one DeMarcus Cousins or LaMarcus Aldridge away from being a top 4 seed in the west, and yes, this is not some homer's talk either. this team is stacked everywhere, we have scoring punch and defense from most position as well as off the bench. the only thing we're missing is a proven low post scorer that can attract double team. i can only dream Cousins will imploding by trade dealdine and AL secretly demanding a trade.


too soon. I'd expect the lakers to keep this core more or less until the end of 2017-18. At that point if they punt their cap space next year and with Lou,Swaggy and Nick young expiring they should have $35 mil in cap space which will be enough to extend Randle and get a max player. Depending on how much Randle commands you may have to stretch Mosgov or Deng at that point, but Deng looks done to me anyway.

At that point

Cousins and Harden are unrestricted FA's and Paul George has an early termination option.

DLO
Ingram
George
Randle
Mosgov (or Zubac by then?)

Clarkson - 6th

looks like a very solid team in 3 years that can make a 2nd round playoff push. If DLO or Ingram reach allstar level...maybe further, if they reach superstar level, maybe the whole thing.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:45 pm    Post subject:

I think we have enough players who like the ball in their hands. Don't really want cousins ruining the chemistry with his temperamental moodiness nor lma who is on the wrong side of 30.

Our squad looks pretty decent so far just need to work on our defense. But we've got depth for days. True collective team effort. Ingram gonna be good. Can't wait.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:56 pm    Post subject:

I think it's way too early to tell what the one thing this team needs is. It was one game. Just about everyone played well and contributed and they got a close win at home over a team that has very little defensive presence and is projected to be a fringe playoff team at best.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:02 pm    Post subject:

slavavov wrote:
I wouldn't touch Cousins with a 10-foot pole. He's the best center in the league, but he's also a knucklehead who can ruin team chemistry. Let's allow these young guys to develop, maybe it will happen a little faster than thought.


I disagree he is the best Center. I would take Anthony Davis and Karl Anthony Towns over Cousins from both talent and neither are near the attitude problem that Cousins can be. I am not trying to diminish Cousin's talents, but just disagreeing that he is the best in the league.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:08 pm    Post subject:

I think this core is a solid defensive SG that shoots lights out from being great in a couple years. Klay is the prototype. I like Buddy Hield(defense is suspect though). JC is perfect off the bench as we saw last night. As for the anchor down low, I would be happy with a Nerlens Noel type. Someone to run, block shots and clean the glass. Hustle pts and energy. We have enough offense going forward if we get a deadly shooter imo
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:11 pm    Post subject:

Correction, we're a Zubac away. hope we see him on the court with the other youngsters soon.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:17 pm    Post subject:

Add Klay and Rudy Gorbet and then we will racking up 50+ wins
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:19 pm    Post subject:

GoldenThroat wrote:


http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=179631


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:45 pm    Post subject:

Go After Anthony Davis. He makes us instant contenders for forever and fits into our team.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 8:35 pm    Post subject:

BigJosh951 wrote:
GoldenThroat wrote:


http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=179631




What a turnaround lol.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:37 pm    Post subject:

What concerns me with this is that i think if we overachieve it will be because we dont have an "alpha", they are sharing the ball and trusting each other to make the right play. If we were to add a demarcus cousins how could we integrate him without losing that? Would a star player buy into this concept when playing with a team full of youngins, its easier if your durant going to gsw and being told to share the ball with curry, klay, green, iggy...
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:11 pm    Post subject:

I think AD and then Towns,and Westbrook..... followed by PG-13 and Cousins up next...

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:19 pm    Post subject: Re: This team is one DeMarcus Cousins or LaMarcus Aldridge away

SGV-Laker fan wrote:
this Laker team is one DeMarcus Cousins or LaMarcus Aldridge away from being a top 4 seed in the west, and yes, this is not some homer's talk either. this team is stacked everywhere, we have scoring punch and defense from most position as well as off the bench. the only thing we're missing is a proven low post scorer that can attract double team. i can only dream Cousins will imploding by trade dealdine and AL secretly demanding a trade.


Cousins is a head case and would poison this young's team chemistry, Aldridge has had his best days. Leave things as they are and see how they develop, then as you move up add pieces.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:25 pm    Post subject:

Karl Anthony Towns would be a great fit for this team. Too bad that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:40 pm    Post subject:

ThePALakersFan wrote:
What concerns me with this is that i think if we overachieve it will be because we dont have an "alpha", they are sharing the ball and trusting each other to make the right play. If we were to add a demarcus cousins how could we integrate him without losing that? Would a star player buy into this concept when playing with a team full of youngins, its easier if your durant going to gsw and being told to share the ball with curry, klay, green, iggy...


Durant took 18 shots in the Warriors opening game, so it's not like they don't know who the stars of the team are.

Anyway, if you get a star, he'll expect to be the star of the team. But it's all a pointless theoretical discussion at this point. We aren't going to sign a star imminently. And by the time we're ready for that, our conceptions of some of the players on this team might change 180 degrees, pro and con.

For all we know, three weeks from now the idea that we were afraid to disrupt the younguns by getting a star might seem ridiculous.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:40 pm    Post subject:

Yay, we're to the part where people start pining for that old fashioned post man that all, oops, none of the contenders are building around.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:54 pm    Post subject:

We need to sign an impact star FA big before our rookie contract runs out.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 1:31 am    Post subject:

Hopefully Ingram can be a reasonable facsimile of the guy but I think Durant would have been absolutely perfect.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 1:59 am    Post subject:

Andrew Evenstar wrote:
Go After Anthony Davis. He makes us instant contenders for forever and fits into our team.


This

Davis, Ingram and Russell would be a dream
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:04 am    Post subject:

AD or Towns in the future would be great. Not interested in Boogie.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:27 am    Post subject:

I think none of them are the future.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:54 am    Post subject:

Boogie is the most feasible he will be sick of Sacramento. They are like the clippers over there in NorCal at this point

Davis won't come here because Chris Paul will go back to NO to play with Davis when he is a free agent after this season

BG will go to OKC to play with Russell Westbrook when he is a free agent
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