Who is to blame for this?

troy · Star Player Joined: 30 Jan 2013 Posts: 4975

The season is a failure. Although blame can be spread around, who deserves the MOST blame?

Jeannie Buss - failed to supervise an impact building of the roster. Failed to quelch the AD trade fiasco.

Magic and Pelinka - failed to assemble a quality team. Failed miserably with the AD trade, including destroying team chemistry. Traded Zu and all our good players from the previous season

Lebron James - puts up big numbers, but does nothing to get us the wins. Pouts and throws the young core under the bus. Destroys team chemistry from his diva ways.

Young core - failed to improve significantly. Not consistent.

Vets - poor play and causes problems for Luke

Luke Walton - horrid rotations and cluesless defensive plan. Has lost the team.

Injury bug - dump f'n luck

LKA · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:36 pm Post subject:

Magic.

ringfinger · Retired Number Joined: 08 Oct 2013 Posts: 29418

No one person stands out enough to me to bother with singling out.

Thats just an excuse to feel some hope IMO

JamezAmp · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:37 pm Post subject:

Shaolin's Finest · Star Player Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 1430

Magic and Pelinka are #1

Their arrogance this summer was off putting especially when you see how horrible this team has been constructed

greenfrog · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:42 pm Post subject:

LakerLogic · Franchise Player Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 17886

Magic said he wanted to build the team around Luke.

Strong work.

Great One · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:45 pm Post subject:

the guys who traded DLO, Zu and Let Randle walk. would have been beautiful to see all them and ingram hit their strides together.

Yet they have patience to keep a incompetent coach.
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lakersken80 · Retired Number Joined: 12 Aug 2009 Posts: 38776

Collective failure.

Inspector Gadget · Retired Number Joined: 18 Apr 2016 Posts: 46639

Luke and the vets

E_Wulf420 · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:52 pm Post subject:

We can all say it magic or it was luke or it was LeBron. But we all know LeBron going down with the injury followed by Lonzo really did this team in. The team was playing well before Lebrons injury, January was horrible.

Worst case scenario I think we'd be 6th seed right now without LeBron getting injured, with the emergence of Ingram I think we'd be a dark horse to come out of the west. Sadly injuries are apart of the game.
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E_Wulf420 · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:04 pm Post subject:

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Startrout · Star Player Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 2143

To me it’s a combination of factors and it is silly to blame individuals. Sure, I believe it was the wrong move to not resign Randle and Lopez, but we played well without them for much of the year. We got ourselves a great shooter to put around Lebron, but it hasn’t helped at all. Injuries are why we’re not going to the playoffs and I don’t mean just recent ones, but all the injuries over the course of the year are what did us in more than any other factor IMO.

greenfrog · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:52 pm Post subject:

Lebron injury poured the gasoline. Failed AD trade lit the match.

This team was good at one point (particularly on defense), imperfect roster and all. I actually enjoyed watching them.

Scoffs · Starting Rotation Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 874

Injuries to Lebron, Lonzo, Rondo, Javale (illness), and Hart did us in this season. If even one of the players above didn't get sick or injured, we'd be in the playoffs. Kuz also missed a couple of games.

I'm not sure anything can be learned from this; we lost a lot of defense with Lonzo and Javale out and we lost some offense with Hart's knee problem.

Aside from injuries, turnovers and freethrows have been a problem. Some of that is on Luke and some is on the players. I've noticed we've cut back on the turnovers by limiting the full court outlet passes - finally. It shouldn't have taken the coaches this long to tighten the leash.

Fortysixn2 · Star Player Joined: 22 Jun 2016 Posts: 2849

The only mistake I thought the FO made in the offseason was not bringing Brook back (if he wanted to) and then not signing either Noel or Len.

The real failure this year has been with our vets

Rondo - terribly inconsistent and making a ton of mistakes

McGee/lance/beAsley - none of them has shown any leadership or been “steadying influences”

Our young core hasn’t done that well, but it should have been enough to make the playoffs, even with the injuries. Unfortunately our vets have not shown up by playing D and making smart plays.

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tony · Star Player Joined: 08 May 2010 Posts: 1274

I wonder what the thought process was in signing Rondo, Lance, and Beas

dabask11 · Star Player Joined: 27 Dec 2012 Posts: 1989

DShotMaker1824 · Star Player Joined: 16 Feb 2012 Posts: 8768

The Front Office for signing LeBron. That's why I campaigned "SAY NO TO LEBRON" all of last season. Everyone is now seeing why I said that.
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Chronicle · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:39 pm Post subject:

BigBoi · Star Player Joined: 13 May 2012 Posts: 3115

The front office: Jeanie, Magic, Pelinka, then Lebron.

They assembled this dysfunctional team and compounded it by going after AD publicly destroying team chemistry.

mookielala · Star Player Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 3026

I can't choose just one. They're all part of it.