We would be the favorite to win this year had we traded for Buddy
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:39 am    Post subject:

Buddy Hield scored 3 points against the Dallas Mavericks

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401360343
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:54 am    Post subject:

Better but not favorites. Not with the Lebron injury, then the AD injury. We'd be where Memphis is. A solid 4th seed with HCA in round 1, IMO. Mainly because there would be some chemistry and defensive continuity with having many of the championship team role players in tact and you brought back guys like Bradley, Dwight.

Without the AD of 19-20, there's no way you win or be favored to win a title.

If we're a play in team post WB trade. We're probably a 4th or 5th seed in the same injury riddled circumstances without the WB trade.

Honestly, in hindsight, the best move for the regular season would have been to do very little other than just add some pieces via FA. Then make a trade during the season, for a quality piece that could get you over the top. Hindsight is always 20-20, though.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:06 am    Post subject:

We were 1 of the favorites to win this year. We then showed everyone that is not the case.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:12 am    Post subject:

Even Buddy can't fix this mess. The team construction stinks. It starts at the top.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 9:14 am    Post subject:

JUST-MING wrote:
Buddy Hield scored 3 points against the Dallas Mavericks

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401360343


But he played amazing defense... j/k
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:38 am    Post subject:

Lol at the fools thinking Hield would have done something here. He’d wilt even more under the pressure of LA.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:57 am    Post subject:

Hield is a one dimensional player and still would cost too much. Perhaps being a little cheaper than Russ may have allowed one player to remain, but I doubt favorites. Lakers issues are mostly about the roster makeup + AD health/performance. Russ was too expensive, Hield still cost the team two rotational players to get.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:48 am    Post subject:

No we wouldn't
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:58 am    Post subject:

The saddest part about our off-season and adding Westbrook to this team, is that we could have signed DeRozan for far less and would be significantly better.
Everything anyone has said bad about DeRozan, he's proven them wrong this year. He wanted to play for the Lakers, his home team.

That's the story of the Lakers season this year!

THE END!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:48 am    Post subject:

lakurluv wrote:
The saddest part about our off-season and adding Westbrook to this team, is that we could have signed DeRozan for far less and would be significantly better.
Everything anyone has said bad about DeRozan, he's proven them wrong this year. He wanted to play for the Lakers, his home team.

That's the story of the Lakers season this year!

THE END!!!


It would have required a S&T but I believe they had one. If nothing else, one less player which could have been used to trade for someone else.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:24 pm    Post subject:

I don't know about FAVORED, but if they had done the Held deal and kept Caruso, they probably would not have lost as many games...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:30 pm    Post subject:

lakurluv wrote:
The saddest part about our off-season and adding Westbrook to this team, is that we could have signed DeRozan for far less and would be significantly better.
Everything anyone has said bad about DeRozan, he's proven them wrong this year. He wanted to play for the Lakers, his home team.

That's the story of the Lakers season this year!

THE END!!!

We can’t trade for him without hardcap ourselves. End of story
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:32 pm    Post subject:

Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:43 pm    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
lakurluv wrote:
The saddest part about our off-season and adding Westbrook to this team, is that we could have signed DeRozan for far less and would be significantly better.
Everything anyone has said bad about DeRozan, he's proven them wrong this year. He wanted to play for the Lakers, his home team.

That's the story of the Lakers season this year!

THE END!!!

We can’t trade for him without hardcap ourselves. End of story


Seriously as if any of these fools clammoring for Derozan would have wanted him over Westbrook at the time if they were in Pelinka's shoes and knowing they would be hard-capped. Not to mention Derozan's soft ass being exposed in the playoffs multiple times by Lebron. Too many Monday morning Quarterbacks in here who should be ashamed of themselves
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 7:19 am    Post subject:

Lakers need to keep some of our off season players like KCP & Caruso while bringing on backups (both O & D speaking) for LeBron and AD as we can't win without them or their backup on the court.

When the Lakers have length with talent they are a problem to beat, but the shorty trend is not us. To go small you need any number of outside gunners combined with slashers. We mostly have slashers.

Overpaying for Buddy or Russ, was not high on my list...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:32 am    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:27 am    Post subject:

defense wrote:
We were 1 of the favorites to win this year. We then showed everyone that is not the case.


We were predicted to win something like 45-46 games and that seems to be fairly accurate
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:28 am    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,


Has it ever occur to anyone here that Buddy lost motivation to play in Sac since he was about to be traded.

Not that he actually forgot how to shoot
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:31 am    Post subject:

Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,


Has it ever occur to anyone here that Buddy lost motivation to play in Sac since he was about to be traded.

Not that he actually forgot how to shoot


not sure shooters is our top needs at the moment.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:39 am    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,


Has it ever occur to anyone here that Buddy lost motivation to play in Sac since he was about to be traded.

Not that he actually forgot how to shoot


not sure shooters is our top needs at the moment.


We didn’t have to give up as much for that trade and had other flexibilities.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:41 am    Post subject:

Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,


Has it ever occur to anyone here that Buddy lost motivation to play in Sac since he was about to be traded.

Not that he actually forgot how to shoot


not sure shooters is our top needs at the moment.


We didn’t have to give up as much for that trade and had other flexibilities.


We didn't need to give up anything. Monk, DH & Melo would have been available to fill a potential Buddy role and beyond. And by keeping some assets like Caruso, KCP and Harrell as a back up PF (he's not a C). We just needed to fill the 3&D backup SF roles which Kuz could have facilitated via trade. I think we would have been much better than today.

I'm not on that Buddy train, we just traded a lot for very little in return.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:54 am    Post subject:

deal wrote:
Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,


Has it ever occur to anyone here that Buddy lost motivation to play in Sac since he was about to be traded.

Not that he actually forgot how to shoot


not sure shooters is our top needs at the moment.


We didn’t have to give up as much for that trade and had other flexibilities.


We didn't need to give up anything. Monk, DH & Melo would have been available to fill a potential Buddy the role and beyond. And by keeping some assets like Caruso, KCP and Harrell as a back up PF (he's not a C). We just needed to fill the 3&D backup SF roles which Kuz could have facilitated via trade. I think we would have been much better than today.

I'm not on that Buddy train, we just traded a lot for very little in return.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:06 am    Post subject:

The only reason Buddy was a better deal than Russ was that KCP stayed in LA and AC was likely back. (Who knows on the pick)

But even with Westbrick, we could've still been a much better team starting keeping Caruso. AC said he'd have taken a 2/$20M deal. There's our starting 2 guard. mMLE goes to a bigger wing (Porter Jr?) instead of Nunn. Alone that's a more balanced and potent team. But they wanted to build a big 3 and then just stop spending altogether.

The right move was moving Trez for a bigger wing, bringing back most of last year's team including Dennis and moving forward:

AD, Dwight
Kuz, Melo, Ariza
LeBron, Porter Jr, Reaves
KCP, Caruso, THT
Monk, Dennis, Bradley
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:27 am    Post subject:

2019 wrote:
The only reason Buddy was a better deal than Russ was that KCP stayed in LA and AC was likely back. (Who knows on the pick)

But even with Westbrook, we could've still been a much better team starting keeping Caruso. AC said he'd have taken a 2/$20M deal. There's our starting 2 guard. mMLE goes to a bigger wing (Porter Jr?) instead of Nunn. Alone that's a more balanced and potent team. But they wanted to build a big 3 and then just stop spending altogether.

The right move was moving Trez for a bigger wing, bringing back most of last year's team including Dennis and moving forward:

AD, Dwight
Kuz, Melo, Ariza
LeBron, Porter Jr, Reaves
KCP, Caruso, Bradley
Monk, Dennis, Rondo


RW is a slasher ala THT & LJ's. KCP added 3pt shooting and defense. Our FO, like many others, fell in love with a name, not a fit.

Same said for Buddy; he's has the same output as KCP without KCP's D, yet
we wanted to trade for his name. Buddy was NOT a better fit than KCP and his price tag, ouch.

The FO made off season mistakes they can "try" to defend as they wish, and I know hind sight is 20-20, but they became infatuated with a name,
comparable to what happens to us fans. And here we are...
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:28 am    Post subject:

cthroatgtr wrote:
deal wrote:
Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Nonamehero wrote:
mad55557777 wrote:
Buddy is playing like an overpaid Bmac now,


Has it ever occur to anyone here that Buddy lost motivation to play in Sac since he was about to be traded.

Not that he actually forgot how to shoot


not sure shooters is our top needs at the moment.


We didn’t have to give up as much for that trade and had other flexibilities.


We didn't need to give up anything. Monk, DH & Melo would have been available to fill a potential Buddy the role and beyond. And by keeping some assets like Caruso, KCP and Harrell as a back up PF (he's not a C). We just needed to fill the 3&D backup SF roles which Kuz could have facilitated via trade. I think we would have been much better than today.

I'm not on that Buddy train, we just traded a lot for very little in return.


This


Yep. It's not a matter of Buddy saving this team. All he needed to do is play a role within the offense, to be a threat, and then just hope he's unselfish enough to rotate on defense properly too instead of stat padding. The big deal is what we gave up to go with Westbrook instead; our entire perimeter defense, the ability to rotate and close out, and role players with a willingness to hustle on both ends of the court day in and day out.
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