How important is it to you that the team wins Pre Season games?

32 · Retired Number Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Posts: 73071

Just curious. How important is it to you that the team wins Pre Season games?

A. Very important
B. Fairly important
C. Not very important
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yinoma2001 · Retired Number Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 119487

Not much. But the point of it is to experiment with lineups, etc.

Why are we doing hockey platoon swaps? Why not mix/match Clarkson/Lou, Lou/DLO for example?
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yuurin98 · Star Player Joined: 28 Aug 2015 Posts: 1164

Not very important to win.
Very important to let them mesh together.

venturalakersfan · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:33 am Post subject:

I don't care if they go winless as long as we see progress.
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KBH · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Sep 2008 Posts: 12171

I don't care about wins and losses at all. Steady improvement and increased chemistry are much more important.

ringfinger · Retired Number Joined: 08 Oct 2013 Posts: 29418

Don't care about wins. No one should.

The real question should be -- how important is playing well in the preseason?

To me, it's important.

LoyalLakerfan44 · Star Player Joined: 09 Jun 2010 Posts: 3219

You don't want to lose all of the pre season games, however it doesn't matter if you come out with a losing record. Pre season is the time to, get in shape, experiment, and take a good look at the players trying to make the team.
I've seen many top pre season winners end up last when the season starts.

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Karmaloop · Star Player Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 2387

Minimal. At this point, you're looking to see the comfort level of our young players and how they play as a team. Is there a lot of ball watching, or stagnant offense? Are they active defensively?

sonic the laker · Star Player Joined: 06 Oct 2013 Posts: 2071

Not important one bit. But, as has been previously stated, more interested in how well the team is playing overall, and seeing improvement going forward.

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Nightwalker · Star Player Joined: 09 May 2013 Posts: 2739

I don't care about W/L records in pre season games I care about how team plays as unit and team.

lewis · Star Player Joined: 23 Oct 2013 Posts: 1165

just for them to gain some confidence since there are so many young players

Chronicle · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:42 am Post subject:

I want the Lakers to win every game

And it is important to establish a winning identity
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kwase · Star Player Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 3069

Well when the genius decision was made to hire Mike Brown I believe we went 0-8 and it ended up being pretty indicative of how that season went.

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SuperboyReformed · Star Player Joined: 07 Oct 2012 Posts: 4083

not important at all. historically, it hasn't ever meant much as far as a reflection on the regular season, or even being able to tell who is good or not. the best thing to come out of preseason is kobe's dunk on ben wallace.

kaoss128 · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:03 pm Post subject:

Not at all. Too many factors in who plays how many minutes to worry about winning.

venturalakersfan · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:05 pm Post subject:

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venturalakersfan · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:31 pm Post subject:

I want to see the best players in a position to succeed, we saw that with Sacre and Kelly last night. If Upshaw is better than Sacre, then we will see him playing and not Bob. Kelly is a 8-9 player at this point.
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Fruscas · Star Player Joined: 12 Mar 2013 Posts: 5130

When you play good basketball you tend to win games, so, yeah..it would be nice to see good offense and defense and win. Not expecting it thus far

oldschool32 · Franchise Player Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 20032

This will be the first preseason I've ever placed any importance on preseason games. I'd like to see some semblance of their systems working. I've noticed that they have looked pretty disjointed the last few preseasons, so I'd like to see them looking a little more cohesive, and in turn picking up some wins. Usually I don't take much stock in preseason games, as I'm usually looking at other particular details, but I'd like to see the young guys playing well and feeling like they should get after it every time they are on the court.
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Reflexx · Franchise Player Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 11163

Not important in the slightest. We have so many new players. What matters is that they look like a team.

If we find combinations that prove to work, then Byron's job is to throw in another lineup that he's unsure about to see if that works.

With that said, the players should try to win. But we shouldn't only stick with lineups that we know give us the best chance to win because we need to find out information right now.

frijolero01 · Franchise Player Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 13324

0 (bleep) given.