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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 9:41 pm    Post subject: Offseason Success Plan

Updated Step Plan in a new post below for after draft results.

Step 1 - Draft Okafor or Towns (Preferably Towns for more upside, athleticism, and defense).

Step 2 - Combine picks 27 and 34 to move down in the draft. Hopefully they can get one of the better wing players (Kelly Oubre, Sam Dekker, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Justin Anderson, RJ Hunter). Also, Mitch Kupchak already said that 3 rookies would be too many for the Lakers.

Step 3a - Attempt to sign one of the premier free agents (Marc Gasol, Kevin Love, Lamarcus Aldridge) or 2nd tier of free agents (Greg Monroe, Goran Dragic, Paul Millsap, DeAndre Jordan)

Step 3b - If 3a is not successful, take on David Lee's expiring contract and Warriors 2016 first round draft pick (similar to last year's Jeremy Lin deal). Lakers should have sufficient salary cap to make this move. Warriors should be willing to make this move since they need to free up cap space to resign Draymond Green. UPDATE: It was pointed out that Warriors gave up their 2017 1st round pick already. Alternative is to take on Lee's contract and send back Nick Young's contract with no picks being moved.

Step 4 - Sign a free agent wing player (Draymond Green, DeMarre Carroll, Khris Middleton, Wesley Matthews, Tobias Harris, Danny Green)

Players to fill the bench: Ed Davis, Jae Crowder, Aaron Brooks, Andray Blatche, Al Farouq-Aminu, Thomas Robinson, CJ Watson, Jonas Jerebko, Alexey Shved, Jared Dudley, Kevin Seraphin, Aaron Afflalo (UPDATE: (bleep) Jared Dudley)

Other Considerations: Do not sign Rondo. Fire Scott and hire Thibs.

Edits: It looks like the Lakers currently have $48.8 million locked in for the 2015-16 season. Lakers have a team option on Jordan Hill's $9 million contract which they can exercise. The salary cap is expected to be $66.5 million for the 2015-16 season (was 63.2 million in 2014-15). If Lakers exercise Hill's team option, they will be approximately $26.7 million under the salary cap in 2015-16. Seems like its enough to offer a max deal to a player and sign a 2nd player to $8 million per year.


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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2015 7:13 am    Post subject: Re: Offseason Success Plan

chekmatex4 wrote:
Step 1 - Draft Okafor or Towns (Preferably Towns for more upside, athleticism, and defense).

Step 2 - Combine picks 27 and 34 to move down in the draft. Hopefully they can get one of the better wing players (Kelly Oubre, Sam Dekker, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Justin Anderson, RJ Hunter). Also, Mitch Kupchak already said that 3 rookies would be too many for the Lakers.

Step 3a - Attempt to sign one of the premier free agents (Marc Gasol, Kevin Love, Lamarcus Aldridge) or 2nd tier of free agents (Greg Monroe, Goran Dragic, Paul Millsap, DeAndre Jordan)

Step 3b - If 3a is not successful, take on David Lee's expiring contract and Warriors 2016 first round draft pick (similar to last year's Jeremy Lin deal). Lakers should have sufficient salary cap to make this move. Warriors should be willing to make this move since they need to free up cap space to resign Draymond Green.

Step 4 - Sign a free agent wing player (Draymond Green, DeMarre Carroll, Khris Middleton, Wesley Matthews, Tobias Harris, Danny Green)

Players to fill the bench: Ed Davis, Jae Crowder, Aaron Brooks, Andray Blatche, Al Farouq-Aminu, Thomas Robinson, CJ Watson, Jonas Jerebko, Alexey Shved, Jared Dudley, Kevin Seraphin, Aaron Afflalo


How would the Warriors be able to trade their 2016 First Round pick when they have already traded their 2017 First Round pick to Utah?


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Golden State's 2017 1st round pick to Utah [Denver-Golden State-Utah, 7/10/2013]
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2015 9:02 am    Post subject:

It sounds like Step 3 should actually be to have the salary cap abolished.
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2015 9:35 am    Post subject:

If you do step 3B and take Lee's salary you won't have much to go to step 4. All would be outpriced since you'd have less than 7m to work with. All but Wes (Achilles injury) will command over 8m/year.
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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2015 8:07 am    Post subject: Re: Offseason Success Plan

Bard207 wrote:
How would the Warriors be able to trade their 2016 First Round pick when they have already traded their 2017 First Round pick to Utah?


Good point, the Warriors wouldn't be able to give up a pick until 2019. Instead of a pick maybe have them take on smaller contract like Nick Young's.
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2015 11:49 am    Post subject:

New rumors are that Love will opt out making him a free agent. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:42 am    Post subject:

NBA Draft is 15 days away. Rumors are that Aldridge does not want to go Lakers and Love will opt-in for 1 more year. Just saw a mock draft where Magic take Justise Winslow so maybe we can pry Tobias Harris away. Bucks are supposedly going to match any offer for Middleton.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:26 pm    Post subject:

chekmatex4 wrote:
NBA Draft is 15 days away. Rumors are that Aldridge does not want to go Lakers and Love will opt-in for 1 more year. Just saw a mock draft where Magic take Justise Winslow so maybe we can pry Tobias Harris away. Bucks are supposedly going to match any offer for Middleton.


Clarkson/Rozier or space ex
Bryant/Young
Harris/Hollis-Jefferson or space ex
Davis/Randle
Okafor/Black

I like the core with Harris and a resigned Ed Davis. Harris is a VERY efficient scorer getting 17pts on only 14 shots and he doesn't have to be a focal point to get his. Put a shot blocker/rebounder like Davis in there for balance. Most importantly, Randle can come in and be the main bench option, they really need to sell Young on looking to him once in a while. Chemistry could take a while, but that's a pretty balanced team by just letting the pieces fall into place. I like that they have an identity as a team with size across the board.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:39 pm    Post subject:

New rumor is that Lakers are trying to get Cousins in a 3 team trade with Magic. If this is similar to the old trade (Cousins to Lakers for Randle and #2 pick) I do not like it.

If the teams are talking, I hope that Lakers get Vucevic instead. My proposed trade would be as follows:

Lakers: Vucevic, #6 Pick
Magic: Cousins
Kings: #2 and #5 pick

Lakers keep their young core together while getting a starting C. They also have a shot at getting Russell, Mudiay, Prizingis, Winslow to build on.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:41 pm    Post subject:

NBA draft just ended and it turned out differently than what I hoped in Steps 1 and 2. Lakers ended up with 2. D'Angelo Russell (PG/SG), 27. Larry Nance Jr (PF), and 34. Anthony Brown (SF).

Picking Russell over Okafor is understandable if the front office saw him as being the better player with more upside.

The Larry Nance Jr pick confuses me. Maybe they try to convert him to a 3&D SF. A tweener PF doesn't seem to fit a need. He was projected to be a late 2nd round pick so hopefully Lakers did their due diligence. Oh, that tweet about Kobe also doesn't look very good.

The Anthony Brown pick was good. He's a 3&D player who should be able to contribute and fills a need at SF. I thought they would go for Robert Upshaw here to address the need at C.

Lakers need to address the need at C in free agency. Robin Lopez and Omer Asik would be good targets after going the All-star targets in Step 3. If they strike-out on the all-stars, the alternative step 3b can also be facilitated by taking on Hibbert's contract and addressing the need at C.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:44 pm    Post subject:

Step 3a - Attempt to sign one of the premier free agents (Marc Gasol, Kevin Love, Lamarcus Aldridge) or 2nd tier of free agents (Greg Monroe, DeAndre Jordan, Brook Lopez, Tyson Chandler)

Step 3b - Trade Nick Young's contract for a non-guaranteed deal to free up additional cap space. Potential targets are Cavs for Haywood's non-guaranteed contract or Magic for Ben Gordon's non-guaranteed contract. Cavs might do this for Young to replace JR Smith's role on the team and Magic might do this to add more 3 point shooting.

Step 3c - If 3a and 3b are not successful, take on David Lee's expiring contract for Nick Young's contract. Lakers should have sufficient salary cap to make this move. Warriors should be willing to make this move since they need to free up cap space to resign Draymond Green. Similar deal can be completed for Roy Hibbert's contract. In both cases, the net increase to Lakers salary cap is about $11 million (leaves about $17 million for other free agents).

Step 4a - Sign a free agent 3&D wing player (Draymond Green, DeMarre Carroll, Khris Middleton, Wesley Matthews, Tobias Harris, Danny Green)

Step 5 - If the need at Center is still not addressed, sign a serviceable Center (Robin Lopez, Omer Asik, Ed Davis).

Note: It's likely that SF or C would have to be addressed through trade if Lakers are successful with Step 3 due to cap limitations.

Players to fill the bench: Jae Crowder, Aaron Brooks, Andray Blatche, Al Farouq-Aminu, Thomas Robinson, CJ Watson, Jonas Jerebko, Alexey Shved, Kevin Seraphin, Aaron Afflalo

Salary Cap
It looks like the Lakers currently have $47.6 million locked in for the 2015-16 season. Lakers have a team option on Jordan Hill's $9 million contract which they can exercise. The salary cap is expected to be $67.1 million for the 2015-16 season (was 63.2 million in 2014-15). If Lakers exercise Hill's team option, they will be approximately $28.5 million under the salary cap in 2015-16. Seems like its enough to offer a max deal to a player and sign a 2nd player to $8 million per year.

PG/SG - 3 man rotation with Kobe, Clarkson, Russell. Brown back-up
SF - Need a starter. Anthony Brown
PF - Randle, Kelly, Nance
C - Need a starter. Black, Sacre

Other Considerations: Do not sign Rondo. Fire Scott and hire Thibs.
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