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venturalakersfan Retired Number
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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2019 wrote: | venturalakersfan wrote: | Vancouver Fan wrote: | Oh how soon we forget when all ya'll were ecstatic when Jeanie took over. This situation was easy to predict years ago. |
It was and many predicted correctly. Yet some still support the spoiled Buss kids. |
Can I be honest? In the past, I had found you to be pretty nauseating with your negative outlooks and takes but in the end, you're proven pretty damn correct on how this whole thing would end up. |
At the time another poster pointed out how often situations like this don’t work out with the second generation. My own Chicago Bears are a good example of that. But as with the Lakers I still remain a fan of them. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023. |
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lakeshowtacular Starting Rotation
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danzag wrote: | yinoma2001 wrote: | Lakers have as many wins as documentaries/TV shows this summer. |
And Jeanie is reportedly producing a COMEDY about a basketball front office. |
...or is it "Starring In" a COMEDY about a bball front office.
Except there's nothing funny about this, unless you are a Laker Hater, then it's hilarious. Personally, these games make me confused as to what the heck they are thinking in the front office. Unless we get an J West, Ainge, or an Ujiri type we are going to be stuck with these confusing, ill-fitting rosters for years to come. _________________ Magic*Kobe*LBJ*AD*Cap |
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laker4life Star Player
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Kobetan Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Jeanie 'Ham is our biggest off season signing and Russ is our best player' Buss |
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hydrohead Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:56 am Post subject: |
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Jim made that timeline and hung himself on it. Jeanine is not THAT stupid. _________________ Darvin |
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danzag Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:59 am Post subject: |
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Worst owner in the league. |
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KindCrippler2000 Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:14 am Post subject: |
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Bring back Jim and Mitch. |
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SPO200 Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Dr Buss was a genius, his children not so much. It's astonishing that an organization like the Lakers, whose brand is worldwide recognized as the most historical and succesfull NBA organization is managed like an amateur organization from a little town where the FO is composed of the owner's inner circle. |
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yinoma2001 Retired Number
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Dr Buss would have fired Jeanie if she was running the Lakers like this. _________________ From 2-10 to the Western Conference Finals |
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sonic the laker Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:39 am Post subject: |
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venturalakersfan wrote: | Vancouver Fan wrote: | Oh how soon we forget when all ya'll were ecstatic when Jeanie took over. This situation was easy to predict years ago. |
It was and many predicted correctly. Yet some still support the spoiled Buss kids. |
Personally, I think this has less to do with spoiled management, and more to do with a spoiled fandom. Why do some people believe that the Lakers are somehow due never-ending great basketball? Perpetual title contention? A FO that never makes mistakes? If people have these unrealistic expectations, that's not ownership's fault. It's not the GM's fault. It's not the coach's, or player's, fault.
Without going into the weeds of the decision to sign LeBron, trade for AD, and all the subsequent moves, the Lakers were able to win a title in 2020...17 overall. During that time were the Lakers always great? Or, even good? Did the ownership/management always make the best decisions? No. There are teams out here that have NEVER sniffed an NBA Finals, much less a championship. Through the life of a team, there will be up's and down's. But, you got Lakers fans out here acting like its the end of the world.
I get it that no one likes watching bad basketball. And, yeah, people are going to vent. Cool. But, there's a difference between venting/critique, and just being gross with unwarranted verbal personal attacks on the front office. People need to grow up. _________________ ZOOM!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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nevitt_smrek Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 9:32 am Post subject: |
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Is she the one sending those lame tweets after the game? That should be her only role with the team. "Tough one" " Game" "Final Count". _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0 |
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venturalakersfan Retired Number
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 9:39 am Post subject: |
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hydrohead wrote: |
Jim made that timeline and hung himself on it. Jeanine is not THAT stupid. |
You would get a lot of arguments about that. What semi-intelligent person issues hit pieces on her own franchise just to make her brother look bad? Then when she takes over the author of those hit pieces gets a spot with the organization. As the face of the franchise I doubt that anyone is impressed with what they see. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023. |
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lakersfever714 Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Kobetan wrote: | Jeanie 'Ham is our biggest off season signing and Russ is our best player' Buss |
Jeanie "we could still win a championship with Lebron and AD" Bust |
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ThePageDude Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:44 am Post subject: |
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sonic the laker wrote: | venturalakersfan wrote: | Vancouver Fan wrote: | Oh how soon we forget when all ya'll were ecstatic when Jeanie took over. This situation was easy to predict years ago. |
It was and many predicted correctly. Yet some still support the spoiled Buss kids. |
Personally, I think this has less to do with spoiled management, and more to do with a spoiled fandom. Why do some people believe that the Lakers are somehow due never-ending great basketball? Perpetual title contention? A FO that never makes mistakes? If people have these unrealistic expectations, that's not ownership's fault. It's not the GM's fault. It's not the coach's, or player's, fault.
Without going into the weeds of the decision to sign LeBron, trade for AD, and all the subsequent moves, the Lakers were able to win a title in 2020...17 overall. During that time were the Lakers always great? Or, even good? Did the ownership/management always make the best decisions? No. There are teams out here that have NEVER sniffed an NBA Finals, much less a championship. Through the life of a team, there will be up's and down's. But, you got Lakers fans out here acting like its the end of the world.
I get it that no one likes watching bad basketball. And, yeah, people are going to vent. Cool. But, there's a difference between venting/critique, and just being gross with unwarranted verbal personal attacks on the front office. People need to grow up. |
Fans pour their emotions, their hearts (not to mention their dollars and time) into their team. It's probably the second largest investment of their emotional capital, second only to their family/partners/pets.
Moreover, this depreciation of their emotional capital is not due to some overall factor that affects everyone - like inflation affects the whole economy, it's due to the sustained subpar performance of the team's ownership/management.
So I don't begrudge it if people vent, they're hurting because the team they've grown up with and loved is deteriorating rapidly. |
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Jeanie was bad at this even when Mitch and Jim were running the team. Making their self imposed deadlines public was the stupidest thing she could have done at the time. And she is making stupid decisions today. She’s unfit to run the team |
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SGV-Laker fan Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:07 am Post subject: |
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The lakers would be in a much better place if Jeannie buss can just let Jim and Mitch ride this through. I get it, Jim and Mitch is not a flashy front office, they don’t make moves that grabs national attention, but they were improving this team slow and steady with draft picks. But Jeannie with Phil Jackson in her ear sabotage what Jim and Mitch had establish for what? A COVID asterisk title while ruined teams future for the next decade.
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Laker's Fan Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:33 am Post subject: |
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venturalakersfan wrote: | hydrohead wrote: |
Jim made that timeline and hung himself on it. Jeanine is not THAT stupid. |
You would get a lot of arguments about that. What semi-intelligent person issues hit pieces on her own franchise just to make her brother look bad? Then when she takes over the author of those hit pieces gets a spot with the organization. As the face of the franchise I doubt that anyone is impressed with what they see. |
I presume Jeanie is both intelligent and talented. She just got Peter principled, rising to a level beyond her competence through nepotism. Now she’s doing everything she can to shield herself from accountability for her performance and she’s running out of scapegoats.
It is fair to mention she faces a particularly difficult set of circumstances, holding her position through a trust that contain multiple siblings that have their own agendas, not having meaningful NBA wealth outside the team, and running the biggest brand in the sport. Some of those failings are her father’s, who made a very poor succession plan (including putting Jim and Jeanie together to run the franchise). But it’s been a decade now. They need an actual solution. _________________ Austin Reaves keeps his game tight, like Kobe Bryant on game night. |
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Bron2AD Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Her father who she idolizes would tell her how moronic she is for hiring pelinka and giving him extension |
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Kobetan Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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lakersfever714 wrote: | Kobetan wrote: | Jeanie 'Ham is our biggest off season signing and Russ is our best player' Buss |
Jeanie "we could still win a championship with Lebron and AD" Bust |
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Cutheon Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Laker's Fan wrote: | venturalakersfan wrote: | hydrohead wrote: |
Jim made that timeline and hung himself on it. Jeanine is not THAT stupid. |
You would get a lot of arguments about that. What semi-intelligent person issues hit pieces on her own franchise just to make her brother look bad? Then when she takes over the author of those hit pieces gets a spot with the organization. As the face of the franchise I doubt that anyone is impressed with what they see. |
I presume Jeanie is both intelligent and talented. She just got Peter principled, rising to a level beyond her competence through nepotism. Now she’s doing everything she can to shield herself from accountability for her performance and she’s running out of scapegoats.
It is fair to mention she faces a particularly difficult set of circumstances, holding her position through a trust that contain multiple siblings that have their own agendas, not having meaningful NBA wealth outside the team, and running the biggest brand in the sport. Some of those failings are her father’s, who made a very poor succession plan (including putting Jim and Jeanie together to run the franchise). But it’s been a decade now. They need an actual solution. |
I don't. |
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SGV-Laker fan Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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“Don’t worry laker fans, we still have the KD and Harden plan in a few years”. Jeannie buss said. |
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danzag Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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SGV-Laker fan wrote: | “Don’t worry laker fans, we still have the KD and Harden plan in a few years”. Jeannie buss said. |
I have no doubt this will happen. |
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Black Sheep Starting Rotation
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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SGV-Laker fan wrote: | The lakers would be in a much better place if Jeannie buss can just let Jim and Mitch ride this through. I get it, Jim and Mitch is not a flashy front office, they don’t make moves that grabs national attention, but they were improving this team slow and steady with draft picks. But Jeannie with Phil Jackson in her ear sabotage what Jim and Mitch had establish for what? A COVID asterisk title while ruined teams future for the next decade. |
Truth.
I remember all the assets we had. Patience is a virtue. |
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Hanging from Rafters Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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sonic the laker wrote: | venturalakersfan wrote: | Vancouver Fan wrote: | Oh how soon we forget when all ya'll were ecstatic when Jeanie took over. This situation was easy to predict years ago. |
It was and many predicted correctly. Yet some still support the spoiled Buss kids. |
Personally, I think this has less to do with spoiled management, and more to do with a spoiled fandom. Why do some people believe that the Lakers are somehow due never-ending great basketball? Perpetual title contention? A FO that never makes mistakes? If people have these unrealistic expectations, that's not ownership's fault. It's not the GM's fault. It's not the coach's, or player's, fault.
Without going into the weeds of the decision to sign LeBron, trade for AD, and all the subsequent moves, the Lakers were able to win a title in 2020...17 overall. During that time were the Lakers always great? Or, even good? Did the ownership/management always make the best decisions? No. There are teams out here that have NEVER sniffed an NBA Finals, much less a championship. Through the life of a team, there will be up's and down's. But, you got Lakers fans out here acting like its the end of the world.
I get it that no one likes watching bad basketball. And, yeah, people are going to vent. Cool. But, there's a difference between venting/critique, and just being gross with unwarranted verbal personal attacks on the front office. People need to grow up. |
In general your take makes sense and can be considered valid...but looking at the specific context of the Lakers it doesn't. We can look directly at the decisions made as the ineptitude that is complained about. Let's start with the 4 year extension of a GM that put the roster together last year...eight 6'4" or shorter players with no one between 6'4" and 6;8" with six former over the hill Lakers...issing the post season with an expanded 10 team per conference format. There's more _________________ “When it looks as if it is a realistic possibility, I want to focus on winning a ship like it’s a goal that can’t be denied. I didn’t see that this off season.” |
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kwase Star Player
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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The saddest part to all of this is all she had to do was sit on her hands and do nothing. How freaking difficult is that! Instead she extends lebron and Pelinka. Who does that?!?! Our rebuild could begin next year with 2 max slots and AD as trade-bait. Now we're stuck with this garbage for another 3 years, and trust me folks, lebron will not go away quietly. He will want another extension after this. |
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