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How Many Regular Season Games Do You Think Kobe Will Play This Year?

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Essential1 said:
Looking through the prospects currently 23 - 34 Draft Express... Haven't factored in team needs, but you can assume that it's close to right.

There's only 2-3 interesting names.

1. Justin Anderson
2. RJ Hunter
3. Timothe Luwawu (wing from France, 3 & D guy)


Rondae Hollis-Jefferson is now out of reach due to a few guys going back to school, and Caris Levert went back :smh:.


Could go one of a few ways.
1. Try to move up and hope we snag Anderson or Rondae Hollis-Jefferson by packaging the 27 & 34.
2. Just sit at 27, if neither is there trade away the pick for a 2016 First Round Pick with Top 18 Protection. I'd hold onto the 2nd, chances are you won't get a better 2nd than 34, so just let that ride.
Then hope Luwawu is there at 34. If not go Dakari Johnson or Robert Upshaw, and then cut Sacre :frown:

It's not worth making a pick for the sake of making a pick. Trade with someone for their 2016 make it lottery protected. And maybe we get lucky and it comes in at 21-22 next year. Also gives us the chance to develop Clarkson, Randle, Hopefully a Top 5 pick to see what we have, and then we can better scout 2016 Draft, and make a more sound pick, instead of having the entire board free basically.


Already know who I want to go after in 2016. One name is obvious, the other matters based on who we draft.


FYI, 37.8% chance of landing in the Top 3, 35.1% chance of being # 1, 17.2% chance of losing the pick.


Last 10 Drafts for the 4th worst team:
2014 - # 5 Dante Exum
2013 - # 5 Alex Len
2012 - # 1 Anthony Davis (tied for 3rd, but lost coin flip, so were 4th seed, but had about a 4% better chance of being in Top 3)
2011 - # 6 Jan Vesely
2010 - # 6 Ekpe Udoh
2009 - # 3 James Harden
2008 - # 5 Kevin Love (traded for # 3 pick O.J. Mayo)
2007 - # 3 Al Horford
2006 - # 5 Shelden Williams
2005 - # 6 Martell Webster
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please let us get a Harden or Anthony Davis (WInslow or Towns) and not a Shelden williams (Okafor) :rofl:
 
Essential1 said:
Looking through the prospects currently 23 - 34 Draft Express... Haven't factored in team needs, but you can assume that it's close to right.

There's only 2-3 interesting names.

1. Justin Anderson
2. RJ Hunter
3. Timothe Luwawu (wing from France, 3 & D guy)


Rondae Hollis-Jefferson is now out of reach due to a few guys going back to school, and Caris Levert went back :smh:.


Could go one of a few ways.
1. Try to move up and hope we snag Anderson or Rondae Hollis-Jefferson by packaging the 27 & 34.
2. Just sit at 27, if neither is there trade away the pick for a 2016 First Round Pick with Top 18 Protection. I'd hold onto the 2nd, chances are you won't get a better 2nd than 34, so just let that ride.
Then hope Luwawu is there at 34. If not go Dakari Johnson or Robert Upshaw, and then cut Sacre :frown:

It's not worth making a pick for the sake of making a pick. Trade with someone for their 2016 make it lottery protected. And maybe we get lucky and it comes in at 21-22 next year. Also gives us the chance to develop Clarkson, Randle, Hopefully a Top 5 pick to see what we have, and then we can better scout 2016 Draft, and make a more sound pick, instead of having the entire board free basically.


Already know who I want to go after in 2016. One name is obvious, the other matters based on who we draft.


FYI, 37.8% chance of landing in the Top 3, 35.1% chance of being # 5, 17.2% chance of losing the pick.


Last 10 Drafts for the 4th worst team:
2014 - # 5 Dante Exum
2013 - # 5 Alex Len
2012 - # 1 Anthony Davis (tied for 3rd, but lost coin flip, so were 4th seed, but had about a 4% better chance of being in Top 3)
2011 - # 6 Jan Vesely
2010 - # 6 Ekpe Udoh
2009 - # 3 James Harden
2008 - # 5 Kevin Love (traded for # 3 pick O.J. Mayo)
2007 - # 3 Al Horford
2006 - # 5 Shelden Williams
2005 - # 6 Martell Webster
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Anthony Brown of Stanford has me going :nerd: with one of the later picks.

22 years old (23 in October), good size (6'7 210 lbs), deadeye shooter (44 and 45% 3PT last two seasons), pretty good rebounder.

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Just based on the odds, and where the picks have landed over the last 10.

It's due for a # 2 pick or a # 4 pick,
 
How would you guys feel about trading the Rockets pick for a 2016 pick? It would at least give the Lakers one pick next year even if they lose their own to the Sixers.
 
ScottHallWithAPick said:
Who would sell their 2016 1st round for a 2015 #27 pick though unless it was Top 26 protected lol?
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I don't know, let's say a team like the Bulls want to draft another young kid to go with their #22 pick. Swap #27 for their 2016 pick. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
PMatic said:
How would you guys feel about trading the Rockets pick for a 2016 pick? It would at least give the Lakers one pick next year even if they lose their own to the Sixers.
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Would be for it if a guy we don't really like.


ScottHallWithAPick said:
Who would sell their 2016 1st round for a 2015 #27 pick though unless it was Top 26 protected lol?
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Not a stretch though... If a team sees a guy they want and are nowhere near that pick? May make a deal.

Probably could get a Top 18-19 protected
 
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Essential1 said:
PMatic said:
How would you guys feel about trading the Rockets pick for a 2016 pick? It would at least give the Lakers one pick next year even if they lose their own to the Sixers.
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Would be for it if a guy we don't really like.


ScottHallWithAPick said:
Who would sell their 2016 1st round for a 2015 #27 pick though unless it was Top 26 protected lol?
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Not a stretch though... If a team sees a guy they want and are nowhere near that pick? May make a deal.

Probably could get a Top 18-19 protected
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Oh ok yeah I can see that.
 
Seems so strange that we have almost 4x more chance to drop to 5 than pick where our record says we should pick. This system is weird
 
PMatic said:
How would you guys feel about trading the Rockets pick for a 2016 pick? It would at least give the Lakers one pick next year even if they lose their own to the Sixers.
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I rather they not.

We have a chance to place a top 5 pick alongside Randle and Clarkson. On top of that, we could add a 4th youngster, before we even get to the Tarrik Black/Ryan Kelly part of the equation.

I want that young core on the floor working together asap, showing whatever they can to prove there is hope for them in the future.

2016, we will have cap, LOTS of it, since Kobe is out. So we can buy whatever we need at that time.

My thinking is, if/when we offer to players next year (Durant) it does us no good to say oh hey, we also got the 24th pick this year, he'll be pretty good someday, when we have a chance to PROVE that the 27th pick this year might be as good as what Jordan Clarkson was. That would hold more weight with a FA than just drafting the player.


If we sold someone, hey, we just drafted Jordan Clarkson, come play with him, vs seeing him play this first year, it would stand out more, imo to those players.


I won't angry or mad if they sell the pick for next year, I understand they might want to save it for later, maybe hope to bump up a few slots, but I prefer they use it this year, and pair it with the 2nd rounder to move up a few notches and get another piece that can help show they have some up and coming youth building.
 
Kobe's coming back in 2016 B...question is now for how much.
 
Also, Lets be honest about Durant. We aren't getting him. Period. He's either staying In OKC or bolting to Washington.


Best chance we got at grabbing any one is Westbrook.
 
Mamba MVP said:
Kobe's coming back in 2016 B...question is now for how much.
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Let's say he plays 60-70 games next year and puts up 18-7-7 or something like that. With the salary cap exploding, I'd be ok with bringing him back for 10 mill

What's the consensus on Boozer. Productive off the bench and good locker room guy. For 3-4 mill would you bring him back?
 
Lizaker4Lizife said:
Mamba MVP said:
Kobe's coming back in 2016 B...question is now for how much.
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Let's say he plays 60-70 games next year and puts up 18-7-7 or something like that. With the salary cap exploding, I'd be ok with bringing him back for 10 mill

What's the consensus on Boozer. Productive off the bench and good locker room guy. For 3-4 mill would you bring him back?
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He gonna average 7 and 7, for the first time in his entire career, now, at 37? I mean.....?

And Boozer consensus is, uh, he sucks. Please don't ask for him to come back unless it's as a ball boy. Even then, 50/50
 
Mamba MVP said:
Kobe's coming back in 2016 B...question is now for how much.
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CP1708 said:
He gonna average 7 and 7, for the first time in his entire career, now, at 37? I mean.....?

And Boozer consensus is, uh, he sucks. Please don't ask for him to come back unless it's as a ball boy. Even then, 50/50
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Less shooting , less ball dominating , more focus/energy on assists and rebounding , Kobe can evolve his game if he's healthy

Booz may suck in many areas, but 12 and 7 off the bench in 24 minutes shooting 50% is really good for 3-5 mill
 
Lizaker4Lizife said:
Less shooting , less ball dominating , more focus/energy on assists and rebounding , Kobe can evolve his game if he's healthy

Booz may suck in many areas, but 12 and 7 off the bench in 24 minutes shooting 50% is really good for 3-5 mill
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HOL DAT plan B
 
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as much as i love kobe and everything he's done for this franchise, i hope he retires. the lakers need to turn the page on that chapter.
 
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