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You are correct and regarding the bolded line, I will say that a lot of the onus falls on the younger player. They need to be mentally tough and open to criticism, coaching, etc...
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You are correct and regarding the bolded line, I will say that a lot of the onus falls on the younger player. They need to be mentally tough and open to criticism, coaching, etc...
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You absolutely put together a team to try & win now.... however the Lakers are in a unique position where they could still add another Top tier player this summer, become a real contender & STILL have four nice young cheap pieces.
EJ was 27 when he was traded, Van exel was 26....... At that point L.A knew what they had as players there wasn't much more development they could get out of them. That Lakers team & this current version are in two completely different positions. This current L.A team could possibly have their Kobe & Shaq........ while still having a core of 21-23 year olds to develop still on rookie deals. If we land a big time FA this summer, then sure you go out & trade some of those young guys if it gets you back a superstar who is generally young.
However as of today there is no reason to trade all the young guys for a second tier AS (Think Beal, Middleton, Tobias) just to try & win now.
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Lakers are in a unique position. I don't mean this as shade at all, but normally free agents of LBJ's stature don't come to a team that's been as bad as LAL has been for the last five years.
I guess ultimately this summer will tell a lot as far as what direction the Lakers take things and what they decide to do with their young guys as they creep closer to having to be paid. We'll see.
And I agree, there's no real reason to trade any of their young guys this season. None of the second tier stars are affecting the Lakers bottom line this season, and they'd be dumb to do anything to mess w/their cap space for this upcoming summer.
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The Lakers young core will not get them a young superstar lol
BI aint it
Lonzo aint it
Hart and Kuzma nice but I'd rather keep them instead of trading em away
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I will say that Luke/Magic have done a good job trying to curtail Bron Ball... However it's still pops up way too often for my liking. the judgement is still out, but again Trading 2/3 of our young cheap guys for a guy who isn't tier 1 (AD,Kawhi, KD) just gives us a VERY small chance to be a championship team & will leave us in a rebuild mode three years from now.
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I mean I guess, but if you're trying to win a chip, the young players you have aren't really good anyway and are rarely on the team to begin with if the team is trying to win a chip
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Hield and a late first rounder got the Pels Boogie Cousins.
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Not all trades all equal lol Sixers traded a pick to get Fultz lol
You really think a team will give a star to the Lakers for Kumza and a 1st lol
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Legit how I talked to my ol girl when I ain't feel like arguing and didn't want problems. Like yo I'm just trying to find my keys so I can bounce, and she all like oh what ho house you going to and I'm like..uhmm, work..it's 8am
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BI is probably the one being hurt the most By Bron as i expected (That & a lack of shooting around him at times). Kuz/Hart I figured would actually benefit from Bron because they are guys who generally don't spend a lot of time with the rock trying to create.
Lonzo's skillset as of right now doesn't call for him being in control of the ball fulltime, but i do think Lebron being on the squad is gonna slow down his growth in doing that. Young PG's especially benefit from getting a lot of repetition & opportunity to mess up & become better playmakers.
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Are the Lakers winning a chip this year? If not then why not develop what young talent you do have to see who's a keeper and who's not?
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Kuzma is starting to expand his game. It's prob not much but he's avg like 4 ast last few games but he's trying to create for others more recently compared to last year and beginning of season which is a good look.
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The issue is, are you willing to sacrifice wins to develop young players? LeBron can go into straight coasting mode and let the young guys do their thing but we'd be a 35-40 win team. One of the key points of emphasis the season was developing young players but also showing free agents that we can win this season. Going out there and winning 40 games doesn't exactly help that cause
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We would have been a 40+ win team without him standing health. We aren't winning a chip anyway. I don't think the free agent thing matters in regards to winning w/Lebron since he's going to be the catalyst to why they will or won't join anyway. And the rumors are they don't want to join him. So you're sacrificing development of the young guys for what exactly? Him to get another MVP cause that's all this is ultimately going to amount to and we'll have to trade more of the core anyway. There's a reason Magic came out publicly about his workload. You can't increase the youngsters trade value with Bron ball.
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think LA wants to develop the players but at the same time make the playoffs lol
making the playoffs would definitely help develop the players
but getting there requires a lot of Bron ball sometimes.. BUT
if there can be more games where he closes but also makes plays like the spurs game (kuz scored and made plays , hart made big shots, zo made a shot and assisted) i think they'll be good
making the playoffs would definitely help develop the players
but getting there requires a lot of Bron ball sometimes.. BUT
if there can be more games where he closes but also makes plays like the spurs game (kuz scored and made plays , hart made big shots, zo made a shot and assisted) i think they'll be good
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We won 35 last year w/o Bron. Even if he was coasting we ain't only winning 35-40 games.
You don't need to sacrifice wins. They're winning now and still building a chemistry, you can do both win games and develop them.
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No hate, but have you seen our on-off numbers with and without LeBron? When he's not playing, we play like crap.
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Isn’t that every LeBron team?
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They’re currently talking on The Jump about “what made the Jordan XI Concord so iconic?” Sneakerhead-ness is fully mainstream now...
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Lebron coasting and Lebron being off the floor is 2 different things.
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I dont know, I feel like the young guys have had the ball in their hands quite a bit. The Miami and Cavs games are the only ones where he took over from beginning to end for obvious reasons.
Look at BI's numbers compared to Kawhi and PG in their 3rd years. The numbers are pretty similar as far as usage and they were still able to blossom into stars while winning games.
I'd rather have this than BI going for an inefficient 20 ppg.
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I absolutely hate when y'all in here talking about Bron cuz neither one of the sides actually ******* listen to what being said. The statement shouldn't have devolved into this. I can think someone is great AND ALSO they have flaws. Y'all mfs are weird asl
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Sixers resting Embiid tonight. Guess Drummond will have to wait a little longer to prove Joel doesn’t own him...
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