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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 4:45 pm    Post subject:

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How does a team win .5 of a championship? 🤔


According to some people around here, a half a championship is one you win in a strike-shortened year or in a Bubble.

It’s nothing new that Laker haters will try everything they can to discredit the teams accomplishments. It’s been going on for years. I get it though. When you’re massively successful it comes with the territory. However…

I’ve seen a lot more people who call themselves Lakers fans and post on Lakers websites doing the same things lately that the haters have been doing for years. It’s a new and frankly perplexing development.


I was teasing.

Many people will try to discredit accomplishments that they wish hadn't happen. People do it against the Lakers, and Lakers fans do it against other teams.

Non-Lakers fans will discredit the Bubble ring.

Lakers fans will discredit the Spurs strike-shortened ring.

And on and on.
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How does a team win .5 of a championship? 🤔


According to some people around here, a half a championship is one you win in a strike-shortened year or in a Bubble.

It’s nothing new that Laker haters will try everything they can to discredit the teams accomplishments. It’s been going on for years. I get it though. When you’re massively successful it comes with the territory. However…

I’ve seen a lot more people who call themselves Lakers fans and post on Lakers websites doing the same things lately that the haters have been doing for years. It’s a new and frankly perplexing development.


I was teasing.

Many people will try to discredit accomplishments that they wish hadn't happen. People do it against the Lakers, and Lakers fans do it against other teams.

Non-Lakers fans will discredit the Bubble ring.

Lakers fans will discredit the Spurs strike-shortened ring.

And on and on.

Gotta admit though there’s a not-so-small part of the fan base that won’t give Lebron credit for anything he does while he’s here. That includes the “bubble chip”.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:06 pm    Post subject:

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Good luck trading for Luka.



Luka will be a Mav for life, Cuban wanted him all along and
there is no way he parts ways with him... next !

If Cuban doesn't get Luka a fellow star or superstar for next season, the Mavs won't improve, and it may then be best for Luka to leave the Mavs next summer.

He's only 22, and he has a chance to end up on the same level as MJ/Kobe/Magic/Bird/LeBron if he wins several championships. It's not like Cuban can force Luka to re-sign with the Mavs.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:27 pm    Post subject:

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Beir32 wrote:
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How does a team win .5 of a championship? 🤔


According to some people around here, a half a championship is one you win in a strike-shortened year or in a Bubble.

It’s nothing new that Laker haters will try everything they can to discredit the teams accomplishments. It’s been going on for years. I get it though. When you’re massively successful it comes with the territory. However…

I’ve seen a lot more people who call themselves Lakers fans and post on Lakers websites doing the same things lately that the haters have been doing for years. It’s a new and frankly perplexing development.


I was teasing.

Many people will try to discredit accomplishments that they wish hadn't happen. People do it against the Lakers, and Lakers fans do it against other teams.

Non-Lakers fans will discredit the Bubble ring.

Lakers fans will discredit the Spurs strike-shortened ring.

And on and on.

Gotta admit though there’s a not-so-small part of the fan base that won’t give Lebron credit for anything he does while he’s here. That includes the “bubble chip”.


Oh, yeah. Lebron pushes buttons. There's always been folks here who decided he's failed before the game even begins. A lot of those folks have fled LG since he won a ring as a Laker; I think that event traumatized them.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:32 pm    Post subject:

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Good luck trading for Luka.



Luka will be a Mav for life, Cuban wanted him all along and
there is no way he parts ways with him... next !

If Cuban doesn't get Luka a fellow star or superstar for next season, the Mavs won't improve, and it may then be best for Luka to leave the Mavs next summer.

He's only 22, and he has a chance to end up on the same level as MJ/Kobe/Magic/Bird/LeBron if he wins several championships. It's not like Cuban can force Luka to re-sign with the Mavs.


I suspect, like most superstars, Luka will reup with the team that drafted him for a max contract. Players usually don't obsess about their legacy in their early 20s.

And honestly, does that really matter? If Dirk had won three rings instead of one, there would probably be people on LG arguing that he should be on the top 10 of all time list, but I doubt Dirk himself would know or care that was going on.

My guess is a lot of the stuff fans obsess about don't matter to players much.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:22 pm    Post subject:

A real championship is better than several theoretical ones so I have to be satisfied that the Lakers got #17 with the AD trade.

However, I would be in denial if I didn’t at least entertain “what if” scenarios considering what the former Laker young pups are doing around the league.
Bryant Zubac
Randle Nance
Ingram
Russell Hart
Ball Clarkson

That is helluva group of draftees. Had we been able to pull off the original plan of adding two Max players to that group the Lakers would have appeared on paper to be better positioned than where they are now...theoretically...
But I’ll take a real championship
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:36 pm    Post subject:

Hanging from Rafters wrote:
A real championship is better than several theoretical ones so I have to be satisfied that the Lakers got #17 with the AD trade.

However, I would be in denial if I didn’t at least entertain “what if” scenarios considering what the former Laker young pups are doing around the league.
Bryant Zubac
Randle Nance
Ingram
Russell Hart
Ball Clarkson

That is helluva group of draftees. Had we been able to pull off the original plan of adding two Max players to that group the Lakers would have appeared on paper to be better positioned than where they are now...theoretically...
But I’ll take a real championship


If we added two Max players at (minimum) $65,000,000.00, who on that list was going to take a pay cut to stay on the Lakers? Those guys you listed earned $128,000,000.00 last year, with some (Lonzo, Hart, Randle) looking for big raises/extensions.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:38 pm    Post subject:

Hanging from Rafters wrote:
A real championship is better than several theoretical ones so I have to be satisfied that the Lakers got #17 with the AD trade.

However, I would be in denial if I didn’t at least entertain “what if” scenarios considering what the former Laker young pups are doing around the league.
Bryant Zubac
Randle Nance
Ingram
Russell Hart
Ball Clarkson

That is helluva group of draftees. Had we been able to pull off the original plan of adding two Max players to that group the Lakers would have appeared on paper to be better positioned than where they are now...theoretically...
But I’ll take a real championship


The theoretical also includes all those guys taking cap friendly deals so that the team could have added two max players and then complementing said max players and then being happy with their diminished roles next to said players. All of that happening is basically impossible--it makes for some nice thought experiments or discussions over some beers, but the ideal situation was never going to materialize.

Like you said, the real championship is worth more than theory. We can second guess all the decisions that led here all we want but at the end of the day they won and we still have Lebron and AD.

I'm sure somewhere on this forum during the Walton era someone probably posted some scenario whereby the Lakers wound up with Lebron and AD and winning a championship and this was brushed off as pipe. Well, they made the pipe dream happen in reality. We all would love for this team to run off 2 or 3 championships in what remains of Lebron's window, but we may have to settle for 1, and that is 1 more than nearly every other team in the NBA. And nearly every one of those other GMs would have made the same deals if you told them they'd get a championship out of it. At the very least Rob has bought himself some job security over a GM who is always collecting young assets, never flipping them and wallowing in the lottery.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:52 pm    Post subject:

It was known that there was a small window to add the two Max players before the draftees exited their rookie deals. While those deals were in place the team had the cap space to add two max of layers without pay cuts. The following years would have been a challenge tho as the rookie deals began to expire, first Randle then DLO and Ingram, Clarkson had already signed a team friendly extension and Randle was restricted

The team had the cap space or was very close.

Not the point tho... Even tho we had the room for two max, perhaps we still would not or maybe so ...won a championship. Compare that to actually winning a real not theoretical championship, I prefer the real one.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:35 pm    Post subject:

Hanging from Rafters wrote:
It was known that there was a small window to add the two Max players before the draftees exited their rookie deals. While those deals were in place the team had the cap space to add two max of layers without pay cuts. The following years would have been a challenge tho as the rookie deals began to expire, first Randle then DLO and Ingram, Clarkson had already signed a team friendly extension and Randle was restricted

The team had the cap space or was very close.

Not the point tho... Even tho we had the room for two max, perhaps we still would not or maybe so ...won a championship. Compare that to actually winning a real not theoretical championship, I prefer the real one.


Give me that ring all day. Laker fans are spoiled. I’ve experienced more joy as a true laker fan than some other fans will ever enjoy.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:04 pm    Post subject:

activeverb wrote:
slavavov wrote:
deal wrote:
nevitt_smrek wrote:
Good luck trading for Luka.



Luka will be a Mav for life, Cuban wanted him all along and
there is no way he parts ways with him... next !

If Cuban doesn't get Luka a fellow star or superstar for next season, the Mavs won't improve, and it may then be best for Luka to leave the Mavs next summer.

He's only 22, and he has a chance to end up on the same level as MJ/Kobe/Magic/Bird/LeBron if he wins several championships. It's not like Cuban can force Luka to re-sign with the Mavs.


I suspect, like most superstars, Luka will reup with the team that drafted him for a max contract. Players usually don't obsess about their legacy in their early 20s.

And honestly, does that really matter? If Dirk had won three rings instead of one, there would probably be people on LG arguing that he should be on the top 10 of all time list, but I doubt Dirk himself would know or care that was going on.

My guess is a lot of the stuff fans obsess about don't matter to players much.



Yep. Luka is Cuban’s new Dirk; lots of pie in the sky here but,
that’s what it is..
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:55 am    Post subject:

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deal wrote:
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Good luck trading for Luka.



Luka will be a Mav for life, Cuban wanted him all along and
there is no way he parts ways with him... next !

If Cuban doesn't get Luka a fellow star or superstar for next season, the Mavs won't improve, and it may then be best for Luka to leave the Mavs next summer.

He's only 22, and he has a chance to end up on the same level as MJ/Kobe/Magic/Bird/LeBron if he wins several championships. It's not like Cuban can force Luka to re-sign with the Mavs.


Mavs are a great franchise. If he's the next Lebron, there's going to be a really long lists of FAs wanting to play with him. I don't think the Mavs would have trouble finding multiple superstars to pair up with him. Only way he's leaving Dallas for LA is if he wanted the Hollywood spotlight like Shaq or Lebron but it doesn't look like he's gonna be those types of players.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:26 am    Post subject:

cough cough..its dusty trying to find these old gem threads

Petition to make this thread sticky for the next 2-3 years.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:32 am    Post subject:

If AD turns out to be like Giannis or Jokic it would be all worth it. But reality is we traded away those assets for someone who has no desire to improve his game and his body, just a stats guy, and is fragile as a house built by match sticks. AD is almost 30 by the way, yikes.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:36 am    Post subject:

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Yes I’m comfortable. And the ring was worth it for me. It’s incredible how people think winning a ring is, and overvaluing our good but not championship level great our YUTES were. And no, no one has a “decade long” championship window. Lakers play for rings, remember?

this is my view as well.

Now is the time to see what we can turn AD into.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:42 am    Post subject:

Trading for AD wasn’t the problem, giving up all they did was. We are seeing what boost we get from young athletic players like Gabriel and Johnson. And they were out of the league when we got them, imagine if we had hung onto a couple of guys that we actually drafted. This team needs some youth to save older legs, not over the hill vets.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:20 am    Post subject:

I know it's a radical concept, but both can be true at the same time:
1) Trading for AD was worth it because the outcome was a ring.
2) Lakers are downright terrible at managing assets and developing draft picks. The way they threw away and wasted assets is like a 10 year old playing 2k.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:21 am    Post subject:

I think their rationale was three fold:

1. AD/LBJ could win a championship. Done.
2. AD/LBJ should be good enough with changing all the surrounding pieces to be a championship level team. Nope. Too many injuries.
3. The contracts would line up so that in 2023 or 2024, the team would have 2 max slots to rebuild around AD. Likely.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:24 am    Post subject:

Without the injuries in the 2nd season together the Lakers would have repeated as Champions and this season would be seen as the only bad one out of the 3 that this has gone on.

Just the same as if the Warriors hadn't been injured and Draymond hadn't been suspended and Bogut never got hurt, LeBron wouldn't have 4 titles. Just the same as if KD and Klay never got hurt Kawhi wouldn't have ever won a 2nd Championship.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:30 am    Post subject:

yinoma2001 wrote:
I think their rationale was three fold:

1. AD/LBJ could win a championship. Done.
2. AD/LBJ should be good enough with changing all the surrounding pieces to be a championship level team. Nope. Too many injuries.
3. The contracts would line up so that in 2023 or 2024, the team would have 2 max slots to rebuild around AD. Likely.

lebron and AD played 53 out of the last 160 games together, and if anyone could've predicted this...
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Hanging from Rafters wrote:
A real championship is better than several theoretical ones so I have to be satisfied that the Lakers got #17 with the AD trade.

However, I would be in denial if I didn’t at least entertain “what if” scenarios considering what the former Laker young pups are doing around the league.
Bryant Zubac
Randle Nance
Ingram
Russell Hart
Ball Clarkson

That is helluva group of draftees. Had we been able to pull off the original plan of adding two Max players to that group the Lakers would have appeared on paper to be better positioned than where they are now...theoretically...
But I’ll take a real championship

the group you mentioned is not good enough to win a playoff series against top teams even at their peaks.
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mad55557777 wrote:
Hanging from Rafters wrote:
A real championship is better than several theoretical ones so I have to be satisfied that the Lakers got #17 with the AD trade.

However, I would be in denial if I didn’t at least entertain “what if” scenarios considering what the former Laker young pups are doing around the league.
Bryant Zubac
Randle Nance
Ingram
Russell Hart
Ball Clarkson

That is helluva group of draftees. Had we been able to pull off the original plan of adding two Max players to that group the Lakers would have appeared on paper to be better positioned than where they are now...theoretically...
But I’ll take a real championship

the group you mentioned is not good enough to win a playoff series against top teams even at their peaks.



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:50 am    Post subject:

It will be interesting to see what the Lakers do this Summer...we knew AD was always a play away from injury...we got our ring out of it never the less...but now I'm wondering what might you get for AD in the Summer with 2 years left on his deal...another Team may make the same calculus that if they can keep him healthy they have a shot....for us if we keep AD, really I don't see how you can't have a mind set that you can't really expect to rely on him, you have to hope, so when building a roster i think you have to build a roster that can be decent with AD not playing loooooooong stretches, which means improving D, while hopefully keeping some of the O we found this year
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 3:28 pm    Post subject:

No player we traded for AD is close to his level.
The best one, Ingram, is even more of an injury prone player.

But yes, we're terrible on managing our assets.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:50 am    Post subject:

Pretty crazy that with all of AD's injuries, last 3 seasons, games played:

BI: 174
Zo: 153
AD: 135
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