Ska, I'm not even worried on black and white or any of that at this point.
My frustration is with people who have literally, no clue what they are talking about, but keep rattling off thoughts, theories, ideas like they are in the right time zone.
Like, well, Houston did something, so, why can't we?????????
Um, cuz Houston had more than one asset.
Well, Boston didn't tank in 08, look how great that played out for them.
Yes, Boston absolutely tried to land Durant or Oden, but failed. Luckily, Ainge was able to buy a vet in Allen, and a vet in Garnett. They played, what, 5 years in Boston? As opposed to Durant who could be in OKC for over a dozen with any injury luck.
Well, Boston now doesn't have any desirable assets, just a bunch of first rounders, and second rounders, big deal.
They have MORE than what the Rockets had when they got Harden, which led to them landing Dwight.
Well, then we should just not get a top draft pick, and trade ours with Hill, for a good player.
Yes, because one pick is enough to make that deal, or not. And have we, or have we not explained enough that a top pick costs a mere 30 mil (or less) for 5 years, but trading for Harden costs 120+ million. Was that not explained? Is more detail needed?
But we already have Kobe, so just need one more piece.
You getting my stance here man? The ones that don't understand, that don't follow the whole league, that somehow can't remember how the Celtics were build a whopping 6 years ago, seem to think that the Lakers can just magic wand the same results, with less assets, less cap space, and with a completely different CBA????????
Yeah, that frustrates the **** out of me.
I thought I was talking to a fanbase that understands things.
All that garbage that has been spewed is the EXACT equivalent of me saying
"Come on guys, we have to get the #1 pick, look how well it turned out for the 1958 Lakers when they landed Elgin Baylor. Oh, and then in 1960 when they got the #2 pick and got Jerry West to go with Baylor. We can do that AGAIN!!!!!!"
Yeah, because this would be relevant to that 54 year old happening.
The Rockets traded assets for James Harden, we can do that too!!!!!
We traded crap for Pau Gasol, we can do it again!!!!!!!! (Crap being multiple first round draft picks, + cap space + Marc Gasol) but hey.
Oh, but CP can't absolutely GUARANTEE who will be there at the 4th pick, so therefore, we're best off playing to win, getting the 11th pick, trading that pick, for 1 FA that we can sign for 100 million dollars, who will then be alone in 2 years when Kobe retires, and we STILL, won't have any draft picks yet to play with.
Forgive me please, for not reading thru all that trash without my black and white, "I wish I was dead right now" glasses.
I actually expect more out of a collection of Laker fans. The 8-9 of them were sounding like Doo, and as you know, that is not a good thing. Not the trolling part, the lack of NBA understanding part. The clueless, I'll just say whatever and it'll float part.
I guess that's my bad. But you told me to embrace my inner jerk, so I am doing just that.
And if Manup would be so kind as to stop freaking quoting these guys, I wouldn't see their drivel.
Later, I'll start to actually give my rant.
Just kidding, that was it.
For now
