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

[darthska]

Contrast our roster with Houston’s? Why are they 15 games over .500 and we’re 21-17 with two top 10 players including the “goat”?

Is Udoka that good of a coach?

**** is crazy

It's not a difficult concept.
They're way more athletic, and there's more consistency over there than there is over here.

 

[Lizakers]

jalen green, 2nd pick
Jabari smith, 3rd pick
Reed Sheppard, 3rd pick
Amen Thompson, 4th pick
Sengun, 16th pick
Tari Eason, 17th pick
Whitemore, 18th pick

All drafted within the last 4 years.

Udoka is a good coach. They hit homers with Eason, Thompson and sengun. green is taking the leap this month. Jabari isn’t a superstar but he’s a great role player & can stretch the floor.

Reed Sheppard was the 3rd pick this year and barely plays because they don’t have enough minutes. Bro went to the G league for one game and damn near dropped 50

Whitmore is another stupid athletic player who can’t get minutes on their squad. They have a lot of depth. Impressive team building post Harden trade.

Lol scratch all that I just realized you made that post as a way to hate on Lebron. Smh I shouldn’t have responded.

Not hating Lebron, hating our roster construction. I put goat in quotes because he’s called that by some and others don’t think he is

I get they have high draft picks and athletic players, but they are all inexperienced yet they are winning NBA games with all these young players. We have experience and can’t win

 

[sohi 23]

Not hating Lebron, hating our roster construction. I put goat in quotes because he’s called that by some and others don’t think he is

I get they have high draft picks and athletic players, but they are all inexperienced yet they are winning NBA games with all these young players. We have experience and can’t win

Your simple answer is a 82 game season is a grind and these teams have young legs + depth + good players. It’s no coincidence the younger teams with the most depth have the best records.

League is way different than it was 5,10,15 years ago. You can’t coast thru the season and expect to win games. You can’t lose focus up double digits because you’ll lose the game. We simply don’t have the horses.

Lakers fr got like 5-6 players I’d trust playing 30+ minutes in a playoff game. These other teams have way more depth.

Lebron, ad, dfs, reaves, Christie, Rui and that’s basically it.

I will say that in the playoffs it’s a whole different story. The vets are more likely to win than these younger teams because the vets have another level to hit while the young teams don’t.

 

[tupac003]

So....

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

pmatic is it this simple or you think Lakers can win a chip chucking up 40 threes a game with AD at center 95% of the time like we been doin the last 2-3 years?

 

[pmatic]

pmatic is it this simple or you think Lakers can win a chip chucking up 40 threes a game with AD at center 95% of the time like we been doin the last 2-3 years?

Had a three year window and the last two years went up in smoke over injuries and self-sabotage.