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If the answer is Hayes, how good are we? Realistically?
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What does AD getting in foul trouble have to do with Max's minutes?
See because I didn't have AD. So how could I play Max when I needed to play 3 PGs.
Do I think the Lakers are the best team in the West? No.
Do I think the gap between where 1st is and the Lakers are is cut in half if it was a better coach? Yes.
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Its not about THE answer being Hayes. It's about putting your team in position to succeed and be better. And to give your team the best chance to win by knowing how to maximize your personnel so it leads to more wins.
Hayes in the game with AD serves another benefit besides length, height, and size. Hayes in the game allows AD to not to have to guard Nurkic or any other center for that matter and slides AD to PF, where he has the matchup advantage 99.9% of the time and would cause all kinds of problems for the opposition. Ntm, AD from the weakside position with another Big guarding their center makes the Lakers a better rebounding team as well.
Darvin ain't got the brains to understand this, obviously.
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We need a actual BIG and scoring off the bench
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we have a big. action jaxson! the guy who can give you one good game every 40 games!
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This roster isn't going to win anything worth a damn so I'm not gonna pretehd like there's an answer 
Moves clearly have to be made this off season
Moves clearly have to be made this off season
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Pretty subpar games from AD, Rui and Austin.
Pretty terrible games from Prince and Dinwiddie.
Maybe could've played Hayes and Christie more but it's more they guys who did play just have to be better.
Nurk killed the Lakers today... and sure he's bigger than AD, but that doesn't not give him an excuse to play soft whenever someone ramps up the physicality against him.
Pretty terrible games from Prince and Dinwiddie.
Maybe could've played Hayes and Christie more but it's more they guys who did play just have to be better.
Nurk killed the Lakers today... and sure he's bigger than AD, but that doesn't not give him an excuse to play soft whenever someone ramps up the physicality against him.
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This roster isn't going to win anything worth a damn so I'm not gonna pretehd like there's an answer
Moves clearly have to be made this off season
Bingo.
When I declared after the Denver lost I was done this was why.
Only thing I look at now is box scores...and nights we lose 99% of the time we are out rebounded and killed on offensive boards....
Second chances points have been a killer all year.
I'll be back in the offseason.
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realistically what big body big is out there that we could sign? and woukdnt we have to waive somebody to sign him?
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He has a court case to deal with
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Dwight is busy living his best life right now
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i think someone agrees with you
what say you
Korofi
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I think dwight is up for the challenge down low dont you think?
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Who dis ***?
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No I get all that. I've said all that.
But I'm saying, putting AD + Hayes together for x amount of minutes or AD + [some other random big that is light years away from Shaq], how many more wins does that give us on a season?
Surely you don't think that these 'Who? Oh, that guy' bigs are a 20+ W/L difference.
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First off, we don't need anywhere close to a Shaq to be that other big in the starting lineup.
We need a center next to AD, and right now that player is Jaxson cause he's the only center we have. And the sad thing is Ham doesn't know how to develop Hayes. It's sad, really.
I have been saying since the season began (and been saying this since 2020 as well) that LA needs to start a 2-Big lineup with AD at the 4, which is his natural position. Ntm utilize a 2-Big lineup throughout the game the majority of the time which Ham has completely failed to do all season long.
Ham is THE MAIN culprit for the Lakers' disappointing season and for their lack of winning consistency. This idiot hasn't won more than 3 games in a row and has failed to adjust and continues to do the same thing over and over again hoping this will get better. #thedefinitionofinsanityisdoingthesamethingoverandoverexpectingdifferentresults
Had Darvin used 2-Big lineups with consistency since game #1, the Lakers' record right now would be much better than 31-28, I can guarantee you that.
It's too late at this point in the season because there are only 23 games left and if he started using 2-Big lineups with regularity now, good luck finding any sort of rhythm and continuity especially with a team that has like only 2 players with championship experience.. It would be better if Ham did so, but don't expect this team to make any noise should they make the playoffs. It would be too little too late. It's not like this team has a bunch of battle tested vets like Javale, Rondo, Howard, and Danny Green. Instead we have a bunch of unproven vets who aren't hard-nosed and get played off the court when it's tike to out their big boy pants on.
I want the Lakers to miss the playoffs so that Ham gets fired. Bottom line. Ham is the absolute WORST coach in the league today, hands down.
Not until the Lakers bring in a new coach who will know how to make the best use of the roster will this team overcome their mediocrity. Period.
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Have you? When?
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Look it up. Ain't hard to find my big man receipts going back the last 3 years
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4 of those guys couldnt do it under da bright lights
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I don't do sarcasm, sorry*woosh*
And i wont shut up about going 2-Big either til this team wins #18 cause I aleeady know Lakers aint winning no chip as long as they continue using AD at the 5 full time.
Like you said earlier in the year, the "I told y'all I was right from the beginning" is coming.
But if I'm wrong, I'll admit I was wrong. Trust me though, I ain't wrong on this one. Been watching the NBA way too long to not know it. LAKERS WILL NEVER WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP USING A 1-BIG LINEUP especially when that 1-Big aint even a real center LOL. I would put all kinds of money on it too.
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You've mentioned that a time or 12.
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- Waive.
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