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Runway8
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 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Doesn't hurt as much when you never really see him as part of the rotation. I think he would have battled Kuzma for some SF time, or Hart for some guard time. I just hope Brewer is not the new Price taking away valuable minutes that should go to the kids.
Brook
Randle
Ingram
Lonzo
KCP
Zubac
Nance
Kuzma / Nwaba
Clarkson
Hart / Nwaba |
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Jellojigglin
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Great player not his fault he landed in the middle of a Lebron James rebuild year.
LAKERS Next year
C
Brook Lopez (Rich Paul Free agent TBD)
Ivica Zubac
Thomas Bryant
PF
Julius Randle (Rich Paul Free agent TBD)
Kyle Kuzma
Larry Nance Jr.
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Lebron James
Brandon Ingram
Corey Brewer
PG
John Wall
Alex Caruso
Lonzo Ball
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KCP
(Rich Paul free agent to be named later)
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ringfinger
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Staccatos wrote: | | For how little Nwaba was making for what he can contribute, it doesn't make sense to me that waiving him was the only option available. |
They could have waived Ingram I suppose. |
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DanielKetch
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| Runway8 wrote: | Doesn't hurt as much when you never really see him as part of the rotation. I think he would have battled Kuzma for some SF time, or Hart for some guard time. I just hope Brewer is not the new Price taking away valuable minutes that should go to the kids.
Brook
Randle
Ingram
Lonzo
KCP
Zubac
Nance
Kuzma / Nwaba
Clarkson
Hart / Nwaba |
Good thing Byron is no longer our coach. |
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Runway8
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| DanielKetch wrote: | | Runway8 wrote: | Doesn't hurt as much when you never really see him as part of the rotation. I think he would have battled Kuzma for some SF time, or Hart for some guard time. I just hope Brewer is not the new Price taking away valuable minutes that should go to the kids.
Brook
Randle
Ingram
Lonzo
KCP
Zubac
Nance
Kuzma / Nwaba
Clarkson
Hart / Nwaba |
Good thing Byron is no longer our coach. |
Still, I wasn't a big fan of the less than 24 minutes per person 10-11 man rotation that Luke was doing earlier in the year. The top 4 players of every team in the league played 33+ minutes. I think too much was attributed to the second unit for the early success, so he coached and substituted around his second unit. When in fact, it simply boiled down to Nick and Lou shooting out of their minds. When players got injured, I thought he would become more traditional, and just use 9 guys, and be like the rest of the league where the top 4 players get the majority of the minutes. But nope, he simply plugged in Huertes or Calderon and continued giving minutes away to scrubs all in the name of having two groups of players.
If Magic and Pelinka are micro managers, this is the one aspect I would like to see them get involved in. |
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Annihilator
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Chronicle wrote: | | Very much doubt that he clears waivers tho |
If he does we have to ask ourselves what we see that no one else in the NBA sees. |
Teams need cap space to absorb his contract if they claim him off of waivers. How many teams have the $1,300,000 in cap space that they would use for a player like Nwaba?
According to http://www.spotrac.com/nba/cap/, teams with cap space:
1. Chicago Bulls
2. Phoenix Suns
3. Brooklyn Nets
4. Dallas Mavericks
5. Atlanta Hawks
6. Philadelphia 76ers
7. Orlando Magic
8. Denver Nuggets
9. Sacramento Kings
10. Indiana Pacers
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TomSeaver
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
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dubaholic1
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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I really liked Nwaba. Was rooting for this guy. I'm bummed.
Rather have him than friggin' Deng.
Boooooo  Hooooo |
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AFireInside619
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| TomSeaver wrote: | | He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
While I can't fully agree with you... This made me laugh...
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kevin61
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope they get him back, he added a lot for an end of the bench guy. If no one picks him up the Lakers should jump on it. |
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AFireInside619
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| I like Nwaba's heart, and it'll be nice to get him back, but I don't remember this much concern about losing Black. Nwaba has only been with us for a few months, while Black was here for three seasons. Now that guy has heart, plus he brought a lot to the Lakers community. Should Black have been cut? 100 percent, but I just wanted to show him some love as we move into Lakers 2.0. |
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numero-ocho
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| AFireInside619 wrote: | | TomSeaver wrote: | | He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
While I can't fully agree with you... This made me laugh...
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I can't fully disagree with him either.
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kevin61
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Black was making six mil and is replaceable ( an upgrade in my view ) by Bryant who is making less than a mil. Black played with the team for two years and we'd seen who he was. I think Nwaba did much more and for much less money. |
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AFireInside619
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| kevin61 wrote: | | Black was making six mil and is replaceable ( an upgrade in my view ) by Bryant who is making less than a mil. Black played with the team for two years and we'd seen who he was. I think Nwaba did much more and for much less money. |
I see your point. |
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pio2u
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| numero-ocho wrote: | | AFireInside619 wrote: | | TomSeaver wrote: | | He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
While I can't fully agree with you... This made me laugh...
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I can't fully disagree with him either. |
No doubt (on all accounts) |
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golakersgo121
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| AFireInside619 wrote: | | kevin61 wrote: | | Black was making six mil and is replaceable ( an upgrade in my view ) by Bryant who is making less than a mil. Black played with the team for two years and we'd seen who he was. I think Nwaba did much more and for much less money. |
I see your point. |
It doesn't make David a full time NBA player though. Very nice kid, don't get me wrong but don't ask him to shoot if his life is on the line
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kevin61
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Chronicle wrote: | | Very much doubt that he clears waivers tho |
If he does we have to ask ourselves what we see that no one else in the NBA sees. |
And of course we hear from the less than insightful sideline critic always ready to see the glass half empty. |
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kevin61
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| golakersgo121 wrote: | | AFireInside619 wrote: | | kevin61 wrote: | | Black was making six mil and is replaceable ( an upgrade in my view ) by Bryant who is making less than a mil. Black played with the team for two years and we'd seen who he was. I think Nwaba did much more and for much less money. |
I see your point. |
It doesn't make David a full time NBA player though. Very nice kid, don't get me wrong but don't ask him to shoot if his life is on the line |
I think this view is all wrong. Would it be better if he had a consistent outside shot ? Yes it would. But he doesn't play outside himself and consistently shoots at a high percentage. I can't recall a game he played when I thought his lack of shooting acumen cost the team. I can however, remember many games were he impacted the game with his other skills. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| TomSeaver wrote: | | He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
Check the nba reddit thread. There's fans from pretty much every team saying they want to get nwaba
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The Logo
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope they can bring him back, but my bet is that he gets picked up by some rebuilding team like Atlanta. Never showed a jump shot, but he proved to be a good defender that could also backcut to get easy baskets and was a decent passer. |
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#StayInYoLane
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| TomSeaver wrote: | | He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
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ch3cky0selff00
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Chronicle wrote: | | TomSeaver wrote: | | He'll get through waivers. You guys always overrate the scrubs on this team |
Check the nba reddit thread. There's fans from pretty much every team saying they want to get nwaba |
because that's what fans on forums do lol.
Let someone get waived right now who's not a Laker and see if their name doesn't pop up on here lol. |
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Tanlentueux
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| VANEXELtoJONES wrote: | | Clippers will pick him up. |
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lakersfever714
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Did we have to sign KCP in order to meet the minimum salary requirement? I don't understand this deal. KCP is not necessarily better than Nwaba. We just gave a guy $18M when no other team (except the Nets because they'll take anyone) wanted him. We could have just gone into this season with what we've already got.
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Wino
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Chronicle wrote: | | Wino wrote: | | Chronicle wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | Was it that necessary to waive him? is it literally to give KCP 18m instead of 17.3m? |
Yeah.
Opinion of KCP off to a good start |
So, now you don't like KCP because the Lakers FO waived Nwaba to make room for him? |
It was spur of the moment. I take it back |
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