**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

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I think we're going to be a good shooting team.
Hart, Kuz, Ingram are all improved shooters already and they're only going to get better.

Mix in a little Svi and Mo from time to time on the wing and I think we'll be fine.
I know Zo' is recovering from his knee surgery but hopefully he will be working extra hard on his 3 point shooting too because he's going to have a **** ton of open shots next to Bron :lol
 


Honestly, I hate the "death lineup" with Lebron at center, it gimmicky. I hate that we're trying to copy the Warriors. The thing that makes the death line-up effective is defense. Not only can they shoot (except Draymond) but they can defend and switch everything. Draymond is the engine that drives the Warriors. We don't have a Draymond-type player to anchor a small-ball line-up. Draymond can switch onto guards, and wings but also defend bigs like AD and Embiid, no one on our roster can do that.

My fear is that we'll send out a line-up of Ball,Hart,Ingram, Kuzma and Bron and gets scored on consistently.
 
Honestly, I hate the "death lineup" with Lebron at center, it gimmicky. I hate that we're trying to copy the Warriors. The thing that makes the death line-up effective is defense. Not only can they shoot (except Draymond) but they can defend and switch everything. Draymond is the engine that drives the Warriors. We don't have a Draymond-type player to anchor a small-ball line-up. Draymond can switch onto guards, and wings but also defend bigs like AD and Embiid, no one on our roster can do that.

My fear is that we'll send out a line-up of Ball,Hart,Ingram, Kuzma and Bron and gets scored on consistently.

There is NOTHING that we have done this off-season that is copying the Warriors, nothing :lol
They have made it very clear they are going about this a totally different way.
Signing Rondo, Lance, Javale, and Beasley is not copying the warriors or being Gimmicky.
 
Honestly, I hate the "death lineup" with Lebron at center, it gimmicky. I hate that we're trying to copy the Warriors. The thing that makes the death line-up effective is defense. Not only can they shoot (except Draymond) but they can defend and switch everything. Draymond is the engine that drives the Warriors. We don't have a Draymond-type player to anchor a small-ball line-up. Draymond can switch onto guards, and wings but also defend bigs like AD and Embiid, no one on our roster can do that.

My fear is that we'll send out a line-up of Ball,Hart,Ingram, Kuzma and Bron and gets scored on consistently.

I look at it like the only bigs in the NBA that can hurt Lebron when he plays the 5 are Boogie, Unibrow, Embiid, LMA, Marc Gasol, Dwight, Capela, Drummond... and I can't really think of any other players who would really hurt Lebron down low. Like KAT & Jokic would score on a Bron but how would they look trying to guard LeBron on the other side?

The main thing is the Lakers don't want to wear Bron's body down, so I assume he'll only close games/halfs at the 5 and won't ever play extended minutes there.
 
The Lakers All-Time Greats Death Lineup over all :rofl:

C: Shaq
PF: Kareem
SF: LeBron
SG: Kobe
PG: Magic
 
Zo
KCP
Ingram
LeBron
McGee

Rondo
Hart
Kuzma
LeBron
Zu

These two teams are virtually even. Should crush the regular season with this depth/balance
 
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