The problem is that this season will be dangerous for Kobe.
1. To win games with a horrible roster, he will naturally over do the minutes and effort on both ends. If he doesn't they will probably lose more than if Kobe takes over the game. This will wear him down.
2. Injuries that would normally be fixed in the off season will be done now during the season. The reason is that if the team isn't doing well, or doing horribly bad, the nation will point to Kobe as the face of the franchise and howl with laughter. One way to deflect this is to miss bunches of games to deflect the issue. In the past Kobe would play through all injuries unless he couldn't walk. Not this upcoming season.
3. If he criticizes the FO or the coach if things don't go well, he looks bad and he tanks the team morale and publicity. So it's not like he can try to force change through the eager media when things are so bad.
Anyhow, thanks FO for creating another historically bad Laker roster. _________________ "At the end of the day, you are what your record says that you are." --Mitch Kupchak
Ouch, that video is painful to watch. _________________ "I was laying myself on the line by saying, if this doesn't work in three to four years, if we're not back on the top then I will step down because that means I have failed,"
Jim Buss (2013)
Lol at the FO for trying to sign Nowitzki to a max contract. Talk about your hail marys. _________________ Nick Young would love to shoot Byron in the back, but there's a good chance he misses.
So when did Jimmy Buss' timeline start for the "in 3 or 4 years" he'll quit business?
Did that start in 2012 or 2013? We know 2014 was _at least_ year 1. Maybe it was year 2 and I'm praying maybe it was year 3?
He made the statement to the LA Times in April of this year 2014. _________________ Nobody in the NBA can touch the Laker brand, which, like the uniform color, is pure gold.
Fake it till you make it. That is all the organization is about right now. The front office is trying to win over the shallow, young, immatur Laker fan. Any Laker fan who worked a day in their life is going to see through this. No great player is going to want to play on a bare roster. So what does management do, they make a bare roster and say, "we are the Lakers".
I make about 100K a year and I know what it means to have to plan and budget. I have made a lot less in the past and really understood what planning and budgeting meant. THis multi billion dollar organization has no idea what planning and budgeting means on their multi billion dollar level. Why did they offer Dirk a max contract? Dirk was not in any plan they ever let leak to the public, so why the max contract offer? It was to appease the shallow/young aspect of the Laker fan demographic.
Why are they taking so long in hiring a coach? Management is acting like they are going through this rigorous, delicate process but are they really? Given their recent failures, I dont think so. THey are faking it for the public.
I will put it like this, I never thought we had a chance to get Melo or Lebron. In 2 years I dont think we will have a chance to get Love or Durant. No one actually knows though and that is what Management is using to pull the wool over the eyes of Laker fans. "We came really close on Melo". Did we? I dont think so but when you are in "fake it til you make it" mode, that is definitely the narrative you want to push.
This is a bad team, healthy Kobe or not. I hope management is not so delusional that they actually try to win. The wise thing to do is try but stink. It looks like the only way this team will add assets is through the draft, so do that. I hope we have the worst record in the league. And to all the shallow/delusional laker fans who live on bumper sticker arguments like, "we only play for championships", I hope you realize how immature that is.
If we are going to be bad, then give it 100% and be terrible. If we are going to be great, give it 100%. But this "fake it til you make it" approach is setting the franchise back years and killing the legacy of the Lakers.
Fake it till you make it. That is all the organization is about right now. The front office is trying to win over the shallow, young, immatur Laker fan. Any Laker fan who worked a day in their life is going to see through this. No great player is going to want to play on a bare roster. So what does management do, they make a bare roster and say, "we are the Lakers".
I make about 100K a year and I know what it means to have to plan and budget. I have made a lot less in the past and really understood what planning and budgeting meant. THis multi billion dollar organization has no idea what planning and budgeting means on their multi billion dollar level. Why did they offer Dirk a max contract? Dirk was not in any plan they ever let leak to the public, so why the max contract offer? It was to appease the shallow/young aspect of the Laker fan demographic.
Why are they taking so long in hiring a coach? Management is acting like they are going through this rigorous, delicate process but are they really? Given their recent failures, I dont think so. THey are faking it for the public.
I will put it like this, I never thought we had a chance to get Melo or Lebron. In 2 years I dont think we will have a chance to get Love or Durant. No one actually knows though and that is what Management is using to pull the wool over the eyes of Laker fans. "We came really close on Melo". Did we? I dont think so but when you are in "fake it til you make it" mode, that is definitely the narrative you want to push.
This is a bad team, healthy Kobe or not. I hope management is not so delusional that they actually try to win. The wise thing to do is try but stink. It looks like the only way this team will add assets is through the draft, so do that. I hope we have the worst record in the league. And to all the shallow/delusional laker fans who live on bumper sticker arguments like, "we only play for championships", I hope you realize how immature that is.
If we are going to be bad, then give it 100% and be terrible. If we are going to be great, give it 100%. But this "fake it til you make it" approach is setting the franchise back years and killing the legacy of the Lakers.
The problem is our FO is led by Jim Buss who is clueless. His daily mantra is probably "we are the Lakers. we are the Lakers".
Unfortunately, our FO is delusional because he has been drinking that Kool Aid of we will be fine, etc. It is obvious when he made that statement of 4 years or I will resign.
My gosh that was idiotic. There is no need to make that statement. If he was educated, he would try to articulate the difficulties that this organization faces because of CBA and other thing, etc. He should have tried to sound intelligent.
Instead, he gives the press the sound bite of "3 years or i am going to resign". 3 years is just around the corner. Kobe will be gone and we will have nothing. You are hoping that Randle is a bonafide star is taking a huge risk.
I am simply amazed of what comes out that guy's mouth.
Now Mitch sounds just as bad on the Summer league game when he commented that we are not going to get a coach until September.
Are the Lakers as currently constructed better than those Playoff teams? Hard to argue otherwise.
If the Lakers aren't a top 8 team in the West they'd be a lottery team, except for one simple foley - a lottery team without a lottery pick because they'd have to be top 5 worst in the NBA.
9) Pelicans
10) Wolves (depending if Love still there)
11) Lakers
12) Suns
Seems Lakers, especially with their direction of bidding on Carlos Boozer, will likely beat out teams like Denver, Utah, Sacramento, ending up somewhere in 10th-12th rank in the West which likely guarantees both no playoffs and also no lottery pick with the weak East.
Lakers get their Pick back from the Suns if they finish with the 5th worst record in the League.
Yeah but getting the 5th worst record was never realistic with Kobe on the team. The FO is just trying to do it's best field a competitive squad while protecting their future interest.
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