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poppajons
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 Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 1:20 am Post subject: Lakers will be fine. |
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Lebron and Anthony Davis is on our team. Yes, Lebron is 35 this year but he is still a dominating force to be reckoned with. Anthony Davis is a 26 year old superstar who has never had a running mate like lebron James.
Danny Green is a solid pickup who is a 3 and D guy, he will hustle and play hard. McGee is a good starting center who will be a great defensive anchor alongside AD. KCP is serviceable and has the tools to be a great defender. No Luke and Vogel should enhance that in KCP.
Kuzma IMO will have a breakout year. I think he’s going to really excel as the 3rd guy. 3rd year and I see big things for him. He’s shown tremendous flashes of stardom in his first 2 years and it’s just about tapping that potential just a bit more. I think he’ll do it next year.
Lakers still have cap space to sign some players and address some needs. We will probably be surprised at some quality guys coming for vet mins. Sure, we missed out on some FAs in the beginning, but there are still some quality players...let’s wait and see what happens.
We didn’t get Kawhi but we are still in great shape. There are plenty of teams that would love to be in our shoes. Let’s get excited for next season and more importantly, get excited to put the beat down on pg13, Kawhi and the Clippers! |
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JJLakers
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The biggest disappointment is we could of had a better team.
But of coarse kawhi deliberately screw us over knowing he was going to be a clipper and we would have the better team. I truly hate this guy. I hope he gets injured again for being this bad of a person.
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LakerSD
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Let’s see how smart they are.
They might be fine, but it’s prove it time for the FO. Build a legit roster. |
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singlecamVTEC
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I'm on the fine train as well.
Disappointing Kawhi didn't help the Lakers by making his decision sooner, but I'm not too worried. LBJ/AD is gonna be damn fun to watch this season, I'm hyped regardless. |
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Outspoken
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A 35 year old superstar... Lol not that many star players in their prime want to play with an aging star, that feel they still got it. A young Bron, yes. Old Bron, no. The best thing we can do is develop a star through the draft. We had that in DLO, BI, Zo, take your pick, but we sqaundled it away to invest in an aging superstar that think they still got it. I'm they kept Kuzma though. Don't get me wrong, we may still win with him, but not building towards longevity may hurt us because what if we don't win? Let's say AD re-signs, we still will need to build around him. He's in his prime too. What the Lakers did do, by making that trade to the pelicans, is they helped balance out the NBA. Next season may be fun to watch. I feel bad for Russ Westbrook though.
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Sentient Meat
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| JJLakers wrote: | | The biggest disappointment is we could of had a better team. |
It's like if you had a great idea and could have been a billionaire but sold it to someone else and they became the billionaire instead.
Maybe you made 20 million and you are still fine... but you are still way worse off than the person who took your idea.
Quit contenting yourself with 20 million. Accept we got screwed and try to learn from the mistake.
Acting like there was no mistake will make you more likely to repeat them. |
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mhan00
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| It all depends on if we keep AD. If we do, we are fine. We have every chance to, but it’s absolutely possible we fumble it. And we aren’t off to a great start. We need to load manage the (bleep) out of Lebron and keep him healthy, because if he goes down it could get (bleep) ugly. |
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LaxT
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| It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
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poppajons
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| LaxT wrote: | | It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
I may be in the minority here but PG13 is not a superstar |
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LaxT
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| poppajons wrote: | | LaxT wrote: | | It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
I may be in the minority here but PG13 is not a superstar |
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waterman40
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I think we will be fine, a good playoff level team. We are not a juggernaut, but hopefully we have a few more assets on the way.
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LakerSD
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| poppajons wrote: | | LaxT wrote: | | It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
I may be in the minority here but PG13 is not a superstar |
Nets and Clippers are in better position than Knicks and Lakers respectively, but until they actually win the chip... |
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LakerSD
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| waterman40 wrote: | | I think we will be fine, a good playoff level team. We are not a juggernaut, but hopefully we have a few more assets on the way. |
Looking like a 6 seed. Maybe 3/4 with Bradley, Morris, Iggy and others to strengthen roster. |
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PrairieAve
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| LaxT wrote: | | It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
Every team is 2nd to the Lakers and Celtics.
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KAJtheGOAT
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| poppajons wrote: | | LaxT wrote: | | It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
I may be in the minority here but PG13 is not a superstar |
Count me in as well ... neither PG13 is a superstar yet(no rings yet), nor Clippers are the “first LA team, not even 20% of Lakers fanfare they got. With healthy KL PG yet I don’t forsee them to be a lot better than what they were with CP3 Blake n DJ with better support cast of JJ and all ...
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We need to fire Ryan West TBH- don't care if he's good at his job, eff Jerry West.
This is war.
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UKUGA
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Great > Fine
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Kobesystem
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Depends what our expectations are.
We sold the farm for AD and Lebron coming to LA, was to bring RINGS.....
Next season, just in the west conference alone, there a chance we don't make the playoffs |
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PHILosophize
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we'll be fine for the next couple of years but beyond that this really hurts us
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ElginBaylor
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It was always a gamble, but while I'm pissed off things went the way they did at least the Lakers were at the table. Yeah, we'll be fine. At this point it's up to Vogel to step up and coach the hell out of this team.
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PRLakeShow
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| We won't. We got greedy and paid a hell of a price for it. Should have gone hard after Jimmy, Kyrie, DLO, Kemba, etc. We get one of those, we win 1-2 titles. Instead of trying to build a championship caliber team, we tried to build the best team ever. Greedy (bleep). Now we're the 2nd best team in LA, 3rd best team in CA, and like the 5th best team in the West. Just think about it... In a summer we acquired AD, we end up as losers. Wow. |
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al242
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| Should’ve gone after Russell, we just overpaid for two players with no upside |
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PayasoLoco
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| ElginBaylor wrote: | | It was always a gamble, but while I'm pissed off things went the way they did at least the Lakers were at the table. Yeah, we'll be fine. At this point it's up to Vogel to step up and coach the hell out of this team. |
We were only at the table because uncle dennis was using us as leverage to get what he needs. Another embarrassing moment for this franchise due to Jeanie |
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Starters (So Far)
G KCP
G Green
Point Forward - Lebron
Stretch Forward - Kuzma
Center - AD
Bench (So Far)
McGee
Dudley
THT
Daniels
Caruso RFA
Williams RFA
I would like to add Bradley, Iggy, Jemarrio Jones (if he gets released by the Wiz), and Marcus Morris.
AD, McGee and Dudley would be our centers. Kuzma, Williams and Morris can play the 4. LBJ, Iggy, and Jones can play the 3. Caruso and Bradley distribute while LBJ is resting. KCP, Green, Daniels, THT are guards to space the floor.
Gonna need to see who gets cut before the trade deadline (gonna be someone good) who we can add.
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| poppajons wrote: | | LaxT wrote: | | It will be interesting to see how the two LA teams go from here. Both have two super stars and very limited future assets. Equal challenge for the front offices. The Clippers are no longer "the 2nd LA team". They are neck and neck with the Lakers now. |
I may be in the minority here but PG13 is not a superstar |
Look how he did with Westbrook. You could say KL is better than Westbrook but I don’t think by much. All in all, I don’t think this clipper tandem will fair any better than Blake, cp3 and DA. |
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