The Start Of Our 5 Young Core

lakersboy · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:40 am Post subject: The Start Of Our 5 Young Core

Thursday's starting lineup has been a long time coming:
Zubac
Kuzma
Ingram
Hart
Lonzo

They've all been doubted and spoken badly of, and that's just by LG posters. Now, they're probably going to starting Thursday against a pretty good Kings squad.

After 2 to 3 years (seasons), can they look like a special unit? Hopefully they'll fit well on both ends. We've seen them as individuals performing well at times, but what should we expect now?

Although they didn't all play extended minutes on the 2017 summer league, they were part of the championship squad. Imo, they should do ok.

Runway8 · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:48 am Post subject:

Glass half full.. we are 2.5 games from 1st place.
Glass half empty.. we are 2 games ahead of the Kings, and they're out of the playoffs. LOL!

OCLakeShow · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:02 am Post subject:

Could have been the greatest Summer League roster ever constructed if Ingram didn't get hurt in Game 1...

Still haunts me

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Lakers will have a loud "home" crowd against a tired Kings team who played last night. Great opportunity for the young guys to step up and have a good game.

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The summer league all-stars squad.

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Luke Walton said Josh Hart would most likely start in LeBron’s place tonight, so that means we could see the all Lakers draft picks starting line up from Summer League two years ago: Ball, Ingram, Hart, Kuzma and Zubac. That’s 3 21-year-olds and 2 23-year-olds.

We’ll definitely see Brandon Ingram on the ball more as a playmaker, with both LeBron and Rondo out.

King Randle · Star Player Joined: 21 Jul 2014 Posts: 7313

I just don’t see us winning tonight. This starting 5 is still very young....there is no true leader in this group imo.

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2017 summer league baby!

danzag · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:21 pm Post subject:

I trust the kids.

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#ItsHappening

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All I ask for is the kids to put up a good fight and that Zubac has a monster game lol

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Im super duper HYPED for ZUUUUUU!! Im gonna guess Zu will finish with the highest plus/minus from the starting five.
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drae · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Nov 2018 Posts: 16144

I hope they don't try and force things, let the game come to them. Don't try and play at an ultra high pace, the Lakers have actually played better when the play slows down because it helps their defense.

On offense they may actually have to run things through Ingram, not Lonzo. When Kuzma went berserk the other night after Lebron got injured, Luke reefed him put in Ingram, and Ingram calmly sank a semi-contested mid range to help establish a lead heading into the end of the 3rd quarter.

I think Ingram will be very important to the Lakers today

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[quote="King Randle"]I just don’t see us winning tonight. This starting 5 is still very young....there is no true leader in this group imo.[/quot

Ditto. Kings/Fox were waiting for tonight. If Ingram or Kuzma doesn’t have monster games this could get ugly

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danzag · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:52 pm Post subject:

We're more than capable of handling Sacramento. They're playing well and their record shows it, but their roster is nothing special.

Contain Fox and Hield and we're good.

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And we may get some Carusgod minutes? The Kings are gonna get Pope'd.
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are we tanking for zion then?
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