2014-15 Lakers Season Thread (21-61) KAT

This summer, if the chance comes, Love, Rondo, Neither, or Both?

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Bledsoe is >>>>>> Dragic. One of the best two way players in the league.
I think longetivity is always a concern with players.  His knees though.  No matter how you cut it, it's the KNEES you're talking about.  Dragic was literally Nash's disciple.  It would please management's soul perhaps. LOL
 
Yea it really makes no sense to sign a middle/lower-upper tier point guard to max dollars when its not gonna equate to competing for a chip'
If you really think about it the management is doing exactly what they are suppose to do. They knew this was gonna happen before the season even started.

We are saving our money, building young assets amd waiting to strike on a big fish then build around him.

Maybe they arent as clueless as we thought they were. We shall see though....
Only thing that bothers me is our coaching situation. It disgusts me at this point. I wish they could get that right soon. It could be a detrement to our young players development (Randle, Clarkson, etc.)
 
Bledsoe and Jesus himself could be on this team and we'd still be bottom 5 bad. I want the better player.

If they give Dragic 14 mil that's 2 less a year than Bledsoe.
 
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sorry guys, it was an allusion to the dwight for bledsoe + blake talk we had long ago. :lol: sorry if it flew over some heads
 
sorry guys, it was an allusion to the dwight for bledsoe + blake talk we had long ago. :lol: sorry if it flew over some heads

Naw, I caught it, that's why I mentioned P. He loved the responses back then.

Mamba was bringing up a seperate discussion based on Bledsoe is all.
 
Improve? Well I suppose so. LA never saw Gasols importance, but Gasol flourishing in Chicago. Man was disrespected!!!

LA had bigs but never went inside. Now their bigs are walkg vegetables, unless Boozer plays that clock.back head tilt jumper fade in which he bends his knees at precisely 44 degrees lool

Yes....improve his individual stats but not for the lakers.
Kobe will surpass mj in terms of career points scored as he also played 3.5 seasons longer than him.
but with his gigantic 2 years contract he is also to blame for not having enough cap space for the roster.
 
Yes....improve his individual stats but not for the lakers.
Kobe will surpass mj in terms of career points scored as he also played 3.5 seasons longer than him.
but with his gigantic 2 years contract he is also to blame for not having enough cap space for the roster.
I wouldn't say it was all due to his contract, although it would seem so.  Many factors created an unhealthy and disgruntled work environment which lead to bad publicity.  So bad that it deterred guys from wanting to live here and play for LA.  But then, I would have to say that Kobe should also be responsible for the majority of criticism thrown this way.  Those rumors and stories about him didn't seem too far off.

Holding D12 when the ship was sinking didn't seem too smart.  The Nash thing wasn't either.  It was just a bozo move by the front office, but a result of doubling down at the table.

Everything else has been said already.  LA is doing much worst this year with Kobe and a new coach.  They let their talented bigs walk, they could not attract any talent.  But what's funny is the talk of rebuild, and yet they would pay Kobe's pension and his good bye gift this way.  In some ways, it's a mockery of him as a competitor, but the writing was on the wall.  LA had no other choice.  The push-pull between management and Kobe had gotten more evident, and as time will grow, distaste, finger pointing and dirty laundry will be aired.

This was nothing more than a farewell tour.

That disrespect to my main man Gasol though.  The amount of abuse he would take both mentally and physically was too much of a disrespect for him.  Calling the 'fray singer' washed up and old and making 'no pitch' of a brighter future forced him out.

Team is a circus now, a bunch of clowns.  At least that's more entertaining than seeing the team being blown out by 20-30 pts.
 
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Improve? Well I suppose so. LA never saw Gasols importance, but Gasol flourishing in Chicago. Man was disrespected!!!

LA had bigs but never went inside. Now their bigs are walkg vegetables, unless Boozer plays that clock.back head tilt jumper fade in which he bends his knees at precisely 44 degrees lool

Yes....improve his individual stats but not for the lakers.
Kobe will surpass mj in terms of career points scored as he also played 3.5 seasons longer than him.
but with his gigantic 2 years contract he is also to blame for not having enough cap space for the roster.

Again that cap space line is bull. They had enough cap space to sign Melo & keep Pau & Nick Young. When Melo chose elsewhere. They had enough cap space for Isaiah Thomas, Lance Stephenson & another guy at that level, and didn't even make a contract offer. Does it hurt? Yes. It does some. But his contract is not preventing them from being a playoff team. Lakers being patient only for a star is.

And that 3.5 seasons more has equaled Kobe's 24,839 FGA to Jordan's 24,537 FGA. It should take Kobe 3-4 games to pass Jordan. So let's go with 4 games, at 22 shots per game to get passed Jordan. It will have taken Kobe 390 shots more to pass Jordan at 32,292 career points. 390 shots divided by Kobe's career average of 19.6 shots per game (Jordan 22.9 FGA/game) equals 19.8 games in Kobe's career.
 
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Slightly bad feeling about tonight's game.

Let's hope the Kings have enough in the tank to gut out a win.
 
Is Boogie in for tonight?

I'm gonna be ******* pissed if they beat the Jazz, and then lose to us. :smh:
 
in the tank to gut out a win.
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Again that cap space line is bull. They had enough cap space to sign Melo & keep Pau & Nick Young. When Melo chose elsewhere. They had enough cap space for Isaiah Thomas, Lance Stephenson & another guy at that level, and didn't even make a contract offer. Does it hurt? Yes. It does some. But his contract is not preventing them from being a playoff team. Lakers being patient only for a star is.

And that 3.5 seasons more has equaled Kobe's 24,839 FGA to Jordan's 24,537 FGA. It should take Kobe 3-4 games to pass Jordan. So let's go with 4 games, at 22 shots per game to get passed Jordan. It will have taken Kobe 390 shots more to pass Jordan at 32,292 career points. 390 shots divided by Kobe's career average of 19.6 shots per game (Jordan 22.9 FGA/game) equals 19.8 games in Kobe's career.
I don't know how it works, or if they court players this way.  Do they get everyone's agent in the room and discuss about dividing the payroll?  It seems like a 'bid first' and if plan A don't work, 'bid second' on plan B.  Maybe on paper, it would've worked, but the process of actually locking in might be different.

Guys talk about making sales pitch and discussing how to make it work, so there's got to have been some type of communication going on.  Which again leads us to believe it's the working environment that's preventing people from coming.
 
Tracy McGrady says he can still play but doesn't want limits to his play

By Zach Harper / NBA writer

December 09, 2014 02:03 PM ET


McGrady wants to play still and would play with Kobe. (USATSI)
Tracy McGrady wants to play still and would play with Kobe. (USATSI)

Following his first NBA Finals appearance of his career in 2013, former NBA superstar Tracy McGrady retired from the NBA and took up minor league baseball briefly. With that short career over and that hunger satiated, feelings about McGrady wanting to still play in the NBA still linger. He's been an All-Star, an All-NBA player, a superstar, one of the most marketable players of his era, and an MVP candidate. He was one of the most talented offensive players to ever lace up his sneakers.

McGrady is just 35 years old, but hasn't played much in the past few years due to various knee and back ailments that come from a professional basketball career that was tough on his body. And yet, T-Mac believes he can still play in the NBA. In an excellent long-form piece on Bleacher Report by Les Carpenter, McGrady says he can still play but doesn't want restrictions on the type of player he's allowed to be. He also says he'd love to play next to Kobe Bryant on the Los Angeles Lakers as their second star.


"The thing is, I can still go, man," T-Mac says. He is driving from lunch to his daughter Layla's junior high school volleyball game, but the workout is still on his mind.

"My body is still in shape. I can go. It's about opportunity, though. … I want no limits on who I am and what I can do, not stand in the corner and shoot jump shots," he says. "I want to be involved, that's not saying 10 to 15 shots, I want to be involved. I don't want to stand in the corner and shoot threes. That's not me."

The ideal team, T-Mac says, would be the Lakers. The Lakers are inexperienced. The Lakers need players. He could be the second star the Lakers must have to go with Bryant.

"This Kobe," he says. "I could play with him."
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If only T-Mac could find a team that agrees with him. Even Williams, who fondly remembers the back-to-back NBA scoring titles McGrady had for his Magic a decade ago, sighs softly when asked about the comeback.

"Tracy has milked every bit of basketball talent out of his body," Williams says. "There's nothing left."

It's hard to let go of the idea that our favorite stars can still play in the NBA when their careers have all but passed on. Plenty of fans still want to see guys like McGrady and Allen Iverson make a comeback in the NBA so we can relive how good the players are or have memories of what they used to be right before our eyes. It's tough to come to the realization that our stars of the past can't be stars anymore and that coming back would be a fruitless venture for fans on most occasions.

And yet, the idea of McGrady teaming up with Kobe on a hapless Lakers team that has to 1) protect their top 5 protected pick owed to Phoenix and 2) set Kobe up to keep attacking the all-time scoring list as he's close to passing Michael Jordan for third all-time doesn't seem terrible. Assuming McGrady could be a "second star" in the NBA today is a tough sell. His body and conditioning haven't let him be that for at least six years.

McGrady's conditioning after being away for a year-plus could be detrimental to his body and the ability to stave off injuries. What would the Lakers have to lose though? Either McGrady bumps their Q rating a bit and helps generate more interest on the court for a team that has become a punch line in the NBA or he fizzles out shortly and the Lakers just go back to Wes Johnson and Nick Young as the wings next to Kobe.


http://mweb.cbssports.com/nba/eye-o...still-play-but-doesnt-want-limits-to-his-play


:smh: Lord god no....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Nets Make Deron Williams, Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson Available

The Brooklyn Nets have begun reaching out to teams to let them know that Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson are all available via trade.

Sources say no trade is imminent involving any of the three players.

The Nets are looking to retool their roster after an 8-11 start to the season.

Sources insist that the Nets haven't abandoned their recent "win-now mentality" and aren't merely looking to dump salary. Brooklyn's hope, sources said, is eventually to construct a deal or two that bring back sufficient talent that enables the Nets remain a playoff team.

Via Marc Stein, Ohm Youngmisuk/ESPN

Stay away..... far far away.
 
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I'm reading other boards and they want us to make moves for the nets players...SMH

WE NEED TO GET YOUNGER!!!!

Why mortgage the future again for old players that have nothing left?
 
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