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

[kal-el-8]

Okafor or towns/randle/clarkson is still a remote possibility. I'll take that 8 days of the week going forward.

Ran 100 straight SIMS on tankathon. We fell out of the top 5 22 times. Got top 2 16 times (towns or okafor)...3...4..5..The rest.

I'll take anyone of Russell, Okafor, or Towns. 

Prefer Towns the most.

I don't want Johnson.

**** Zona basketball. 

And Mudiay scares me. 

 

[kal-el-8]

Sixers remaining schedule: 10 games

3/27- Clippers

3/29- Cleveland

3/30- Lol Lakers

4/1- Washington

4/4- Charlotte

4/5- Knicks

4/8- Washington

4/11- Chicago

4/13- Milwaukee

4/15- Miami

2-8 is what I see them finishing at. They're too smart to win anymore than 2. 

Final Record: 20-62

Lakers remaining schedule: 12 Games

3/27- Toronto

3/29- Brooklyn

3/30- Philly

4/1- New orleans

4/3- Portland

4/5- Clippers

4/7- Clippers

4/8- Denver

4/10- Minny

4/12- Dallas

4/13- Sacramento

4/15- Sacramento

5-7 tbh. I think they win both against Philly and Minny, beat brooklyn, steal one against sacramento, and Denver.

Final record: 24-58

**** if that happens 

Orlando: 8 games.

4/1- Spurs

4/3-Minny

4/4- Milwaukee

4/8- Chicago

4/10- Toronto

4/11- Knicks

4/13- Miami

4/15- Brooklyn

3-5. Probably beat Minny, knicks, brooklyn.

Final Record: 25-57

At 4, we stay put, and have an 83.8 % chance.

If we somehow get to 5, its roughly a coin flip.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[teamlakers909]

Would you give up both first round picks for Kevin Durant?

 

[bravelude]

lol.

kevin durag.

just jack 3s. ByeRon should ejwct himself n den dayed lose.

 

[grandtheftbike]

dayed

Hmm haven't used this one before, TYBL

 

[sea manup]

 
Would you give up both first round picks for Kevin Durant?

why would we want to rent a superstar when we can sign one in a few years to play alongside our picks?

 

[CP1708]

Would you give up both first round picks for Kevin Durant?

I wouldn't.

 

[jpzx]

Don't EVEN about the foot issues for tall/big men. That's concerning, but join us on planet earth. You roll the dice and give up two first-round picks for a 26-year-old Kevin Durant.

 

[CP1708]

Don't EVEN about the foot issues for tall/big men. That's concerning, but join us on planet earth. You roll the dice and give up two first-round picks for a 26-year-old Kevin Durant.

No.

I don't trade two pieces, that cost pennies on the dollar, for a guy that will be a free agent one year from now, that will cost 100+ million dollars, AND has a foot issue.

Would I like to sign the free agent that is Kevin Durant? Yes, yes I would.

Give away free/cheap talent to do so? No, no I wouldn't.



It's the Melo conundrum. Gutting the Knicks didn't work out when getting Melo, neither would gutting our assets for a one man show taking up 30-40% of our cap. Durant hasn't won yet with Russ and Ibaka by his side, and we wouldn't have a way to get a Russ or Ibaka on the roster with him. So......

 

[bravelude]

why would we want to rent a superstar when we can sign one in a few years to play alongside our picks?

leade hold B,

 

[bravelude]

heard Calipari wanting to come to da NBA. lol i remember the Mike Krewzetski rumor too. lol

 

[rck3sactown]

heard Calipari wanting to come to da NBA. lol i remember the Mike Krewzetski rumor too. lol

OMG 

 

[pmatic]

Don't EVEN about the foot issues for tall/big men. That's concerning, but join us on planet earth. You roll the dice and give up two first-round picks for a 26-year-old Kevin Durant.

 

[jpzx]

^ Comparing Dwight and Durant, like they're completely interchangeable. Love how people use examples like they're definitive and will predict the future.

I don't know where to start, CP.

Pigeon-holing yourself into a scenario where EVERYTHING that happened with Melo plays out 'exactly the same'

Thinking the Thunder haven't won with Russ/Ibaka on his side like it has anything at all to do with 'that'

Or that you think your only chance to top out at Serge Ibaka is to sign somebody of that quality (which you point out you can't do) and not even think for even a second that Julius Randle could reach a Serge Ibaka-impact (not comparing the two, just simply who will have made more of a stamp when it's all said and done)-- and that's who your team took 7th overall, a cheap/high first round pick, then why do you trust your team with two cheap picks over Durant, whose foot issues you are unequivocally overrating just to prop up what cheap players and cheap assets can do for flexibility and the salary cap. The reason people like cheap assets is so they can be moved easily for a superstar or that you can stumble onto a superstar on a cheap deal.

This is not Derrick Rose we're talking about here, like my god

 

[rck3sactown]

don't do this @JPZx  

 

[CP1708]

^ Comparing Dwight and Durant, like they're completely interchangeable.

I don't know where to start, CP.

Pigeon-holing yourself into a scenario where EVERYTHING that happened with Melo plays out 'exactly the same'

Thinking the Thunder haven't won with Russ/Ibaka on his side like it has anything at all to do with 'that'

Or that you think your only chance to top out at Serge Ibaka is to sign somebody of that quality (which you point out you can't do) and not even think for even a second that Julius Randle could reach a Serge Ibaka-impact (not comparing the two, just simply who will have made more of a stamp when it's all said and done)-- and that's who your team took 7th overall, a cheap/high first round pick, then why do you trust your team with two cheap picks over Durant, whose foot issues you are unequivocally overrating just to prop up what cheap players and cheap assets can do for flexibility and the salary cap. The reason people like cheap assets is so they can be moved easily for a superstar or that you can stumble onto a superstar on a cheap deal.

This is not Derrick Rose we're talking about here, like my god

Remember when Durant was just gonna miss a few weeks.

Then a month or so.

Then he would be back, healthy.

Then he tweaked it, again?

Then it was a few games.

Then it was indefinite

Then he had a "procedure" on it.......


Nash "just" had a stress fracture in his leg.

Dwight "just" had a procedure on his back.

Rose "just" needed a year to rehab his knee and he wold be fine.

Brandon Roy, Greg Oden

****, we already in the hole with Randle, who "just" had a procedure on his foot in high school, then breaks his leg one game in.


Look, we all love Durant. If he wants to be here, then we can sign him as a FREE agent in a years time. I'm not giving away draft picks for him, then paying him almost half my cap, and can't bring in other talent around him.

Period.

 

[pmatic]

You're just asking Durant to leave if he has to team with a hobbling Kobe and Randle for a season while he's in his prime and in the last year of his contract.

 

[kal-el-8]

 

^ Comparing Dwight and Durant, like they're completely interchangeable.

I don't know where to start, CP.

Pigeon-holing yourself into a scenario where EVERYTHING that happened with Melo plays out 'exactly the same'

Thinking the Thunder haven't won with Russ/Ibaka on his side like it has anything at all to do with 'that'

Or that you think your only chance to top out at Serge Ibaka is to sign somebody of that quality (which you point out you can't do) and not even think for even a second that Julius Randle could reach a Serge Ibaka-impact (not comparing the two, just simply who will have made more of a stamp when it's all said and done)-- and that's who your team took 7th overall, a cheap/high first round pick, then why do you trust your team with two cheap picks over Durant, whose foot issues you are unequivocally overrating just to prop up what cheap players and cheap assets can do for flexibility and the salary cap. The reason people like cheap assets is so they can be moved easily for a superstar or that you can stumble onto a superstar on a cheap deal.

This is not Derrick Rose we're talking about here, like my god

Remember when Durant was just gonna miss a few weeks.

Then a month or so.

Then he would be back, healthy.

Then he tweaked it, again?

Then it was a few games.

Then it was indefinite

Then he had a "procedure" on it.......


Nash "just" had a stress fracture in his leg.

Dwight "just" had a procedure on his back.

Rose "just" needed a year to rehab his knee and he wold be fine.

Brandon Roy, Greg Oden

****, we already in the hole with Randle, who "just" had a procedure on his foot in high school, then breaks his leg one game in.


Look, we all love Durant. If he wants to be here, then we can sign him as a FREE agent in a years time. I'm not giving away draft picks for him, then paying him almost half my cap, and can't bring in other talent around him.

Period.

Kirby "just" tore his achilles. (alot of laker fans thought he'd come back at least 80% of himself, dude didn't look right at all)

Then proceeded to break his knee, and tear his labrum

Nash "just" had a stress fracture in his leg.
Then proceeded to not be able to play more then 20 more games.

Dwight "just" had a procedure on his back.
Hasn't looked the same since, messed his knee up this year.

Rose "just" needed a year to rehab his knee and he wold be fine.
Tears knee up 3 more times.

Can't look past injuries at all @JPZx  this could get ugly for durant. 

 

[jpzx]

Everything you've said with Durant

You

Know

When

You

Spaced

It

All

Out

So

It

Looks

More

Grave

Happened this year. Nash was old. Dwight has dealt with these injuries for a long time. The fact that you want to sign him when you don't have to give up anything actually shows you're not that concerned, because if you really believed that then you actually shouldn't want to sign him at all for the money he's going to cost.

 

[MVP]

What gramps said. I'd be lying though if I said I wouldn't consider it for Russ just for selfish reasons.

 

[CP1708]

Everything you've said with Durant

You

Know

When

You

Spaced

It

All

Out

So

It

Looks

More

Grave

Happened this year. Nash was old. Dwight has dealt with these injuries for a long time. The fact that you want to sign him when you don't have to give up anything actually shows you're not that concerned, because if you really believed that then you actually shouldn't want to sign him at all for the money he's going to cost.

Dude, no.

I would sign him, to ADD onto the young core I would be building underneath. If his foot fails, I have guys that can step up and develop.

If I trade them away, and his foot goes, I have NOTHING. How are you not grasping this?


You don't trade pieces away for a guy you can get a year later. You don't, do it. We did, with Dwight, and it bit us in the end. We STILL owe picks for that guy, and he's been gone for 2 ******* years.

You don't trade picks for Kevin Durant, sorry.

 

[jpzx]

You're not signing him directly out of FA, so throw that scenario out.

You're just askin g Durant to leave if he has to team with a hobbling Kobe and Randle for a season while he's in his prime and in the last year of his contract.

Which is exactly why you have no chance of signing him unless you get him there first and try to get him to fall in love with the area/lifestyle, OR do the trade & give yourself six months to a year of time to put another superstar with him rather than having nothing to show for him when he's up for free agency. It's the best 'flier' I've ever seen, and you need to take it if it was hypothetically there. Durant's issues haven't been so prolonged that you wouldn't jump at this deal.

 

[kal-el-8]

Why would he not sign here though?

Like i know all signs point to the Wizards, but why do u say that?

 

[jpzx]

Why do you think Carmelo didn't sign there?

 

[pmatic]

You're just asking Durant to leave if he has to team with a hobbling Kobe and Randle for a season while he's in his prime and in the last year of his contract.

Which is exactly why you have no chance of signing him unless you get him there first and try to get him to fall in love with the area/lifestyle, OR give yourself six months to a year of time to put another superstar with him rather than having nothing to show for him when he's up for free agency. It's the best 'flier' I've ever seen, and you need to take it if it was hypothetically there. Durant's issues haven't been so prolonged that you wouldn't jump at this deal.

Or you can just wait a season and hope to hell Randle, Top 5 Pick, Clarkson, LA can entice him to sign (I don't think it's happening but for the sake of this argument we'll entertain it).