The YOuth movement right now has Boston, Philadelphia, and Minnesota ahead of us in terms of talent. We need probably PG and Demarcus to build on our youth movement.
Simmons is great, but their future is tied to Embiid... and as much as I love his game, he has played a total of 42 games and is already in his fourth season. If he can right his health issues they are going to be tough, but that's a HUGE if.
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:12 am Post subject:
AllorNothing wrote:
KingKobe20 wrote:
epak wrote:
If we get PG next year, bleep the process.
Add Demarcus Cousins
The YOuth movement right now has Boston, Philadelphia, and Minnesota ahead of us in terms of talent. We need probably PG and Demarcus to build on our youth movement.
Sure the future of these teams look good.
But going back to your point if we somehow land two max superstars this offseason we'll be ahead of them imo.
An I hate to play the glamour location card but it's gonna definitely be a huge factor moving forward if we plan on signing more after Boogie and PG the following offseason.
Which I know makes me sound like a spoiled Laker fan but it's the truth.
Of course pending if PG and Boogie actually sign with us this offseason.
Would definitely be an easier sell to other free agents, much more ammunition than what Mitch had to work with in the past lol.
Who wouldn't want to play with these two superstars in Los Angeles as a Laker?
Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 18577 Location: L.A County, 26 miles away from Staples Center
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:18 am Post subject:
epak wrote:
Boston has all star vets in Kyrie and Horford. Would have been Gordon too. Their kids are brown, Tatum and smart?
Thats a good young core for sure.
if we somehow get PG and Boogie.
Will have Lonzo, Paul George, BI , Kuzma, and Boogie.
Rivalry Renewed
But of course all of this is pending and I'm not out of touch to realize its just a possibility.
and some Celtics fans feel Anthony Davis is a strong possibility for them. But if they get AD you can take away Tatum, Brown and their first round pick _________________ "Tryin' to get that Kobe number, One Over Jordan"
-Kanye
Give me Embiid and Simmons over PG13, Ingram, Ball, etc. _________________ If Brandon Knight were to come out, I would take him number 1 in the draft. - Magic Johnson Mar 27, 2011
For all of you out there questioning Jimmer Fredette of BYU, he is the real deal. - Magic Johnson Mar 20, 2011
Even though their stars were amazing and Embiid scored a million points, we only lost by 6 points. Yes, they were unstoppable at times, but that could have been our game. Ingram can and will take many more steps before we realize how good he actually will become. Kuzma is playing like Diet Paul George. Lonzo might become something someday. Don't worry guys. I have a feeling we will figure it out.
Joined: 26 May 2016 Posts: 7825 Location: Long Beach
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:42 am Post subject:
AFireInside619 wrote:
Even though their stars were amazing and Embiid scored a million points, we only lost by 6 points. Yes, they were unstoppable at times, but that could have been our game. Ingram can and will take many more steps before we realize how good he actually will become. Kuzma is playing like Diet Paul George. Lonzo might become something someday. Don't worry guys. I have a feeling we will figure it out.
Love how those guys fight out there.. They don't quit, I'm actually proud of them even in some of their loses. Hopefully Ingram and Kuz spend the entirety of their careers together.
Hard for me to imagine we lose this game if D'Angelo Russell is on our squad still
Lonzo
DLO
Ingram
Kuzma
Randle
would've beaten the sixers today, even if they were having career nights. Yeah I know, DLO isn't on the team, move on blah blah blah. W/e point is, we've drafted good players too
The loss today is on Luke. He embarrassed Randle by letting him get destroyed out there
Because Lopez and Bogut were doing such good jobs slowing him down? Not really sure how that's on Luke.
Hard for me to imagine we lose this game if D'Angelo Russell is on our squad still
Lonzo
DLO
Ingram
Kuzma
Randle
would've beaten the sixers today, even if they were having career nights. Yeah I know, DLO isn't on the team, move on blah blah blah. W/e point is, we've drafted good players too
The loss today is on Luke. He embarrassed Randle by letting him get destroyed out there
We got the kuzma pick by getting rid of DLo. You can't assume kuzma would've been there one pick later.
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 11197 Location: The Other Perspective
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:21 am Post subject:
SocalDevin wrote:
AFireInside619 wrote:
Even though their stars were amazing and Embiid scored a million points, we only lost by 6 points. Yes, they were unstoppable at times, but that could have been our game. Ingram can and will take many more steps before we realize how good he actually will become. Kuzma is playing like Diet Paul George. Lonzo might become something someday. Don't worry guys. I have a feeling we will figure it out.
Love how those guys fight out there.. They don't quit, I'm actually proud of them even in some of their loses. Hopefully Ingram and Kuz spend the entirety of their careers together.
The guys in there definitely fought. The one guy that did kind of quit, sadly, was Zo. _________________ "Chick lived and breathed Lakers basketball…but he was also fair and objective and called every game the way it was played."
-from Chick: His Unpublished Memoirs and the Memories of Those Who Knew Him
Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 8488 Location: The (real) short corner
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:23 am Post subject:
Quote:
Go back and download yesterday's Mason & Ireland when they interviewed Kuzma. Kuz said that three teams were interested in him. The Lakers, The Nets, and The Spurs. With this evidence coming from the mouth of Kuzma himself, the chances of him being there at #28 doesn't look very good.
And then you have the actual GM of the Nets saying "who knows who would have drafted Kyle"?
Quote:
Regardless of his early-season accomplishments, Nets general manager Sean Marks doesn't give any second thoughts to trading the pick that turned into Kuzma.
"No," Marks told The New York Post's Brian Lewis. "The pick was part of the deal. Who knows who would’ve drafted Kyle? Kudos to the Lakers for that.
This is one of those things that I don't think people are ever going to agree on.
Simmons is great, but their future is tied to Embiid... and as much as I love his game, he has played a total of 42 games and is already in his fourth season. If he can right his health issues they are going to be tough, but that's a HUGE if.
That’s exactly how I feel about Embiid. If he’s healthy, he will be a HOF player and will be on the list of GOAT conversation. However, I believe Simmons can carry his own team. So Philly is way ahead of us because they already have a couple of franchise changer type of players.
Even though their stars were amazing and Embiid scored a million points, we only lost by 6 points. Yes, they were unstoppable at times, but that could have been our game. Ingram can and will take many more steps before we realize how good he actually will become. Kuzma is playing like Diet Paul George. Lonzo might become something someday. Don't worry guys. I have a feeling we will figure it out.
Love how those guys fight out there.. They don't quit, I'm actually proud of them even in some of their loses. Hopefully Ingram and Kuz spend the entirety of their careers together.
The guys in there definitely fought. The one guy that did kind of quit, sadly, was Zo.
Well maybe just maybe he does not have that in him. He certainly has the talent, we saw a lot of glimpses but to me he’s shook sometimes. Hopefully I am wrong. I saw Kobe having a pair for hoisting those 3 airballs and zero fcuks given, Zo would probably pass it after one airball. Some players are strong mentally and some players are like Lebron.
Hard for me to imagine we lose this game if D'Angelo Russell is on our squad still
Lonzo
DLO
Ingram
Kuzma
Randle
would've beaten the sixers today, even if they were having career nights. Yeah I know, DLO isn't on the team, move on blah blah blah. W/e point is, we've drafted good players too
The loss today is on Luke. He embarrassed Randle by letting him get destroyed out there
We got the kuzma pick by getting rid of DLo. You can't assume kuzma would've been there one pick later.
Oh lord, this crap again? _________________ From 2-10 to the Western Conference Finals
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