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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:29 am Post subject: NBA.com: Which non-playoff team has brightest future for next season? (The answer is Lakers) |
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It's unanimous from these four writers at NBA.com. I took a quick paragraph from each writer's comments. Click on link for the rest.
Which non-playoff team has brightest future for next season?
| Quote: | | Steve Aschburner: Got to go with the Lakers, both for the talent they already have on board and the free agents they’re positioned to woo this summer. |
| Quote: | | Tas Melas: The Lakers. Their young core of Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart, and Julius Randle have been playing well beyond their years. For such a young bunch to rank 12th defensively is very impressive (as my man John Schuhmann details with some stats below). |
| Quote: | | Shaun Powell: It's the Lakers, and by a landslide if they enjoy the offseason of their dreams. They're just set up to rebound better than the other teams, with money to spend, a dollop of young stars on rookie contracts |
| Quote: | | John Schuhmann: The Lakers. They already have four good young players on rookie contracts on their roster. Brandon Ingram showed some serious improvement with his offensive game in his second year, Kyle Kuzma is an all-around talent, and while Lonzo Ball can't shoot, he's been the rare rookie guard who makes an impact defensively. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Got real excited seeing experts rave about the teams position heading into the off season 
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Sentient Meat
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| Nice to see non Lakers fans are paying attention |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| Sentient Meat wrote: | | Nice to see non Lakers fans are paying attention |
Eventually the national media and other teams’ fans will wake up to the Lakers young core. It’s popular to hate on the Lakers and ridicule them when looking at the standings and box scores, but anyone who is paying attention (rather than lazy narrative or hot take) will be able to see that Lonzo, Ingram, Kuzma, Randle and Hart are going to bring a lot of pain to opponent fanbases.
The Lakers are coming.
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Part of it is that there's a chance the Lakers become really great again this summer via FA and media folks want to say that they were in early on the Lakers resurgence.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Let’s get this damn season over with. No more injuries and then let’s go! |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Nate Duncan wasn't asked for his opinion? |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| greenfrog wrote: | | Nate Duncan wasn't asked for his opinion? |
He's not a writer with NBA.com.
http://www.nba.com/personalities/
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danzag
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| We're coming back! |
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TheBlackMamba
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Part of it is that there's a chance the Lakers become really great again this summer via FA and media folks want to say that they were in early on the Lakers resurgence. |
But I think it's also just hard to ignore that great January/February stretch we had, led by the youngsters, where we looked like a legit playoff team. Players have hot streaks that come and go, but teams just don't win like that over a 2-month period unless there's actually something of substance there. It's kind of similar to when the Sixers turned a corner with Embiid in the middle of last season, where you could actually start to see the skeleton of a contender. |
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Part of it is that there's a chance the Lakers become really great again this summer via FA and media folks want to say that they were in early on the Lakers resurgence. |
Yeah and a good Lakers team makes their jobs easy. They don't get clicks when they're writing about the Blazers as a 3 seed or how the Jazz have had an unreal record for the last 2 months. They get easy clicks when the Lakers are on top. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Super encouraging! Thanks for posting OP. |
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