Remember all those dysfunctional stories in recent years when we were about to enter FA? This is a very positive article that could shed light on a potential historic summer for the Lakers!
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:44 am Post subject:
Inspector Gadget wrote:
adkindo wrote:
or it could be just another addition to Ohm's large portfolio of Lakers puff pieces....just sayin...
Writers aren’t payed to write glorious articles, this is just a example of how things are different this time.
nothing personal....but Ohm has been pretty horrific since he was assigned to the Lakers....many of his articles come off as near propaganda for the Lakers FO. He is as bad in favor of the Lakers as Baxter was against the Lakers.
I know ESPN has some regional issues on where reporters live and who they cover....but they are in desperate need of just an overall NBA reporter rotation. Royce Young has nearly became a public advocate for the Thunder....Ohm often seems to push out front office narrative as reporting.....I literally heard Windhorst say on Zach Lowe's recent podcast that he approached Koby Altman after the Cavs made the Finals this year and told him "to be sure to really enjoy this one.....I feel like you guys did not really get a chance to enjoy the last one"....like why the hell is Windy concerned about how much the Cavs FO enjoys success?!?!
Remember all those dysfunctional stories in recent years when we were about to enter FA? This is a very positive article that could shed light on a potential historic summer for the Lakers!
Yup. Can't believe that was only a little over a year ago. Hated reading those stories every week about all the back stabbing and infighting in the organization. It made us look like fools. I'm on record expressing how much I hated how the purge went down but can't argue the organization is in much better shape now. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
She didn't say anything we didn't already know. Just reconfirmed that the previous FO didn't really have a vision for the team, which I think we all as fans can agree with. Now the players, coaches, GM, President, Owner, are all in line with a single vision. That's the way it's supposed to be.
or it could be just another addition to Ohm's large portfolio of Lakers puff pieces....just sayin...
Well, that was certainly a substance-free puff piece. Jeanie has confidence in the people she hired to run the team. Wow. Who would have expected her to say that? Anyway, I decided a few months ago to stop being annoyed by Jeanie Buss fluff pieces. She seems to think that it accomplishes something. I just care about results.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:05 am Post subject:
Look how quickly our prospects turned around as soon as that moron Jim was gone. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
or it could be just another addition to Ohm's large portfolio of Lakers puff pieces....just sayin...
Writers aren’t payed to write glorious articles, this is just a example of how things are different this time.
writers get paid when they have access. teams love guys who write puff vs. not. Ramona used to be jims mouthpiece. Thats how she came on the scene. Never travelled for any other team or story. The minute jim got bounced she was no longer just a lakers beat writer because people in the org, probably jeanie pushed her out.
The Lakers now head into a summer that their hungry fan base has waited a long time for. Lakers fans are so eagerly anticipating what happens in free agency that many jumped to conclusions after Buss sent out a cryptic tweet that read, "Do not ever underestimate ... Nothing else to say."
With a laugh and a smile, Buss set the record straight on the tweet.
"It was very innocent. I was out to dinner in New York. I was there on NBA business -- league business -- and I only had a few minutes to change, and luckily I packed a pair of leather pants," Buss explained. "And I wouldn't have had time to, like, iron or steam or anything. I put on my leather pants and it's like a whole new outfit, and I was going to just tweet, 'Don't ever underestimate the power of leather pants for traveling because they don't wrinkle.' And I started writing it, and then I realized that just the first sentence was a great tweet even just the way it was."
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:16 am Post subject:
A lot of fans want to place blame of Jeanie or Jim, which I disagree with....the problem was Jeanie and Jim. They were both extremely unprofessional, immature spoiled brats over the years. Remove either one from the equation, and the situation almost had to improve.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:21 am Post subject:
CandyCanes wrote:
Look how quickly our prospects turned around as soon as that moron Jim was gone.
Yep, I firmly believe that Jim was being blacklisted by the players and coaches. After that disastrous strike shortened off season where he let the whole staff, coaches and trainers, walk during the strike, with zero warning. That upset a lot of people, he became known as a selfish rich guy, who had his back before everyone elses. We did NOT get a major good contract anywhere after that. Everyone hated Jim. A fact of life we will all take to our graves, one that his poor dad might see from his grave and have to accept. Bummer.
But the difference is, now we have a guy that people respect and appreciate, and one whom everyone knows will do all he can to assist others. (See what I did there!? ) _________________ Never argue with stupid people! They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience!! - Twain
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:23 am Post subject:
Chronicle wrote:
Sabotage the team when jim is in charge. Confident everything is ok when you're in charge.
Rubbish, bitter grave digger! _________________ Never argue with stupid people! They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience!! - Twain
A lot of fans want to place blame of Jeanie or Jim, which I disagree with....the problem was Jeanie and Jim. They were both extremely unprofessional, immature spoiled brats over the years. Remove either one from the equation, and the situation almost had to improve.
She honored his timeline. He didn't deliver. Jim had a longer leash than any other executive in his position. It was a smart move letting him go. It should've happened before he pissed away our cap space.
From the well-planned negative hit pieces, the coup, to the fluff PR pieces...well, to quote Dennis Miller, I haven't seen choreography this stiff since the Lee Harvey Oswald prison transfer.
In any event, the executions have been accomplished, the deals have been made and we can rally around this year's free agency and get back to winning.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:34 am Post subject:
adkindo wrote:
A lot of fans want to place blame of Jeanie or Jim, which I disagree with....the problem was Jeanie and Jim. They were both extremely unprofessional, immature spoiled brats over the years. Remove either one from the equation, and the situation almost had to improve.
_________________ "We got a new universe coming and he's going to control all our universes. We're going to put our universes together" - Metta World Peace
Sabotage the team when jim is in charge. Confident everything is ok when you're in charge.
That's BS. Jim didn't need anyone to sabotage him, he was an idiot all by himself. No vision for the team. Couldn't even run a proper FA meeting with Aldridge. The MozDeng signings are the worst in NBA history.
Look how quickly our prospects turned around as soon as that moron Jim was gone.
It's amazing how we went from getting nothing(or negative with MozDeng) to possibly getting LeBron James, Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. Two of these wanted to get traded here from playoff teams and the other is possibly leaving a finals team. Crazy ass turnaround.
It's all about leadership. _________________ A banana is killed every time a terrible thread or post is made. Save the bananas. Stop creating terrible posts!
or it could be just another addition to Ohm's large portfolio of Lakers puff pieces....just sayin...
Well, that was certainly a substance-free puff piece. Jeanie has confidence in the people she hired to run the team. Wow. Who would have expected her to say that? Anyway, I decided a few months ago to stop being annoyed by Jeanie Buss fluff pieces. She seems to think that it accomplishes something. I just care about results.
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