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oaktown_dimond
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| why is he still talking about it? probably because he knows he screwed up. should have taken max and stayed with the Lakers. though, i could personally take him or leave him... even back then. |
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RI Laker
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| FY Dwight! |
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Kava
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Lakers fans open up to Dwight.....
WE DON'T SHIVE a GIT!! |
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CabinCreek44
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Dwight who?
He is, was and always will be a clown act. |
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crazylakerfan001
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | The biggest blunder that Jim and Mitch made |
Giving Deng that contract takes the Cake.
But there is a long list of blunders by Jim and to a lesser degree Mitch. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Are these stories also running in Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte? |
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Megaton
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Jordan-esque
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| AFireInside619 wrote: | | Big Game James wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | The biggest blunder that Jim and Mitch made |
Mozgov and Deng say "Hello."  |
The Blunder wasn't trading for D12. The blunder was NOT trading him before the deadline. And the billboard. I loved Magic's reaction to that. |
Yeah, the blunder was letting D12 walk.
The trade for D12 though, I mean this was LG when the trade happened:
http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=148818&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Everyone was 
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| Drifts wrote: | | Kobe said he should be his own Tyson Chandler... but Dwight wanted to be "Hakeem".. the fact that he thought of himself as the Dream was pretty admirable... I give him that. |
Every morning I think of myself as Kobe Bean, ADMIRE ME!
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SDLakersFan
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What's done is done but I will forever hate that guy. You come to the team and expect to be the man without putting in the work. Pau (after helping us win back-2-back titles) became our whipping boy, he wanted Kobe amnestied, had his dad calling out Kobe, it was just a cluster ufkc.
The worst part is he ran away after Kobe's injury. Dude was on IG visiting Kobe at his house and playing with Vanessa's dog but ran to Houston because he didn't want the pressure of carrying the franchise while 24 was on his way out.
The biggest mistake we made was NOT trading him at the deadline even though all the writing was on the wall. Rick Fox asked "do you think he'd act this way if it were Jordan instead of Kobe" and another reporter said "yes, I do". Rick said "then he needs to go, the Lakers must trade him immediately".
| anth2000 wrote: | | OR, better yet, letting both Dwight and Pau walk for ZERO in return. Those were colossal errors by Jim and Mitch. |
I kinda understand not trading Pau. Teams only valued him before and after his Lakers days but if I recall we were getting crap offers for him. But Howard? Yeah no way we should've kept rolling the dice on him staying. |
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Laker_Dynasty_01
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| MJST wrote: | Dwight was the best pick and roll center of the game...
Who decided he no longer wanted to be a pick and roll center when put on a team with Steve Nash, coached by Mike D'Antoni.
There is a level of stupid.... |
There are multiple types of pick and rolls. Dwight was only good at slipping the screen in deep PnRs that started just above the FT line, and double screens w/ a PG who could get in the lane and a shooter who would flare out.
We had Dwight in high ballscreens several feet above the three point line with 38yo Nash. As Kikanga pointed out, Dwight wanted the ball at the rim, not on the ground. Once the defense hedged hard on Nash, he had to throw an immediate bounce pass to Dwight, which isn't good for a lumbering big (unless the play starts inside the 3pt line). Metta and Pau also limited the types of PnRs that could be run, with their lack of shooting.
Bottom line, Dwight was only involved in 3-4 of these per game in any given season of his career - hardly a bread-and-butter play for a team to build around. |
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RG73
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| Kirby Brian wrote: | https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/2012/10/lakers-preview.jpg
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The quote “now this is going to be fun” is so eerily opposite of what actually happened it almost seems like hidden sarcasm looking at it now.
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| danzag wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | My lasting image of the Dwight era -- Steve Nash losing it on Dwight mid game. |
Mine is Dwight getting ejected on his last game and talking a lot at Mitch Kupchak, on his way to the tunnel. |
He quit on us in that game and played like a petulant bum while he was here.
Good riddance.
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Cutheon
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| DancingBarry wrote: | | My lasting image of the Dwight era -- Steve Nash losing it on Dwight mid game. |
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The Lebrons
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | The biggest blunder that Jim and Mitch made |
Ya, he didn't bring that veteran leadership. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Trying to get into our good graces since we are on the brink of forming a super team perhaps? |
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CamReddish
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He wasn't about that life
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1hu2ren3dui4
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| That stay billboard. was a dark time to be a laker fan. |
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kobeandgary
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| kikanga wrote: | Every time Nash gave him a bounce pass out of the pick and roll, a little part of me died. Nash and MDA treated him like Amare.
Meanwhile all Dwight wanted was an oop or a high pass. |
Dwight was struggling to dunk, at times he was having problems getting the ball over the rim, he was injured and it showed. |
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Travis Bickle
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Cutheon wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | My lasting image of the Dwight era -- Steve Nash losing it on Dwight mid game. |
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His hands is almost as bad as Kwame Brown. |
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RestEasyBlackMamba
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:28 am Post subject: |
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He finally got his wish
Sources: Charlotte traded Dwight Howard to Brooklyn for Timofey Mozgov, two second-rounders and cash considerations. |
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Jsthornton7
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| 24ways2die wrote: | He finally got his wish
Sources: Charlotte traded Dwight Howard to Brooklyn for Timofey Mozgov, two second-rounders and cash considerations. |
What is Kupchak’s obsession with Mozgov.
Can we trade him Deng too? |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Jsthornton7 wrote: | | 24ways2die wrote: | He finally got his wish
Sources: Charlotte traded Dwight Howard to Brooklyn for Timofey Mozgov, two second-rounders and cash considerations. |
What is Kupchak’s obsession with Mozgov.
Can we trade him Deng too? |
maybe he just like's Dwight about as much as most Laker fans? Or maybe he saw Dwight on TV lying his butt off, and felt ill? But most likely, this move keeps them out of the tax and becoming a repeater. |
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danzag
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| Cutheon wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | My lasting image of the Dwight era -- Steve Nash losing it on Dwight mid game. |
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Jesus Christ, how dumb is Dwight Howard |
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