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Lakers paying almost $130 million for 12th-place team

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LooN3y:

--- Quote from: M Dogg on January 22, 2013, 08:52:30 PM ---Thing is that the Lakers have missed the playoffs just 5 times since 1960. Think of that, the Celtics have missed the playoffs 13 times since then, 15 times since, and the Heat 8 times in their existence. The Lakers are the most consistent franchise in the NBA. One bad season is a drop in the bucket.

Here is the thing, the Lakers need to destroy and rebuild. I say their priority must be to do everything in their power to keep Dwight Howard. Hell I say trade for Kevin Love while he is cheap and coming off injury. Get young talent around Howard now, forget making the playoffs this season and start to rebuild a younger team. But let the record show that when it comes to rebounding and building a competitive team, no one has a history like the Lakers, no one.

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keep dwight and feed him "in the post"? this guys is one of the worst offensive star bigmen ive seen in, particularly forever.

and he complains about not getting enough touches? and he doesnt want to run the Pick and roll? ridiculous.

theres alot of problems on this team and ego managing is one, another is having a system when it doesnt fit the roster, and all in which leads to basically no team chemistry and the loss of effort on defense.

nash isn't that great of a post feeder, he never played with a post player, but dwight isnt a back to the basket post player, so the fact taht nash has to post feed a guy taht isnt even good in a post is already an idiotic move right there.

since dwight has no post game, nash is forced to try to beat guys off the dribble and draw a double team, which is particularly hard at his age, but when he does he get it to him in the post, he does the turn around jump hook and completely misses the rim,

dwight needs to dive with nash when he drives and beat his man off the dribble and get that lob or that baby assists and get those garbage points, WHICH WAS WHAT I WAS THINKING HE WAS GOING TO DO THE MINUTE WE GOT HIM.

pau is the best post up bigman on this team, no question about that, please dont bring up pau getting punked in the post this year, because that was what? once or twice a game? if any post ups for him at all? mike dantoni in all his wisdom would rather have pau shoot 3 pointers all day.

all of course the DNP's of jamison and meeks, ridiculous, u need to give these guys some repetitiveness to build chemistry and confidence.

and of course, mike dantoni doesnt want to post up, when we have pau, ron, kobe, jamison, who work pretty damn good off the post. and yea having dwight score couple off the post is good, but that shouldnt be dwights bread and butter, because we all knew before he left orlando, i mean shit well before he left orlando that he had no post game, and it shows now.


its been a joke since we left the triangle, why leave a system that which the roster was built for and make players pick up a new system?


it obviously didnt work

Remedy360:
I'm on record several times saying the Lakers would be fine, but shit's looking bad for them. The D'antoni hiring is looking worse and worse. Granted, they've brought in a lot of new guys, new system, etc, but time is ticking. Kobe is having one of the best years of his career, the guys around him need to step up the intensity. And LOL @ Gasol being reduced to a role player.

LooN3y:

--- Quote from: Remedy360 on January 23, 2013, 01:06:33 AM ---I'm on record several times saying the Lakers would be fine, but shit's looking bad for them. The D'antoni hiring is looking worse and worse. Granted, they've brought in a lot of new guys, new system, etc, but time is ticking. Kobe is having one of the best years of his career, the guys around him need to step up the intensity. And LOL @ Gasol being reduced to a role player.

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2 consecutive coaching hires would do that.


especially when the 1st coach just had no idea how to run the offense nor had the respect of the star players and when the 2nd coach force feeds his system to a roster that isnt qualified to run that system, in which both have been playing the senior star players to the ground.



we have kobe, gasol, dwight, jamison, ron, hill (used to) and he doesnt want to run any post ups?

shits ridiculous. and jim buss is on that hating phil jackson crack

Mietek23:
I think Howard will leave Lakers in the summer - it's obvious he don't want to be there. They should trade him and get something in exchange while they still can..

DeeezNuuuts83:

--- Quote from: Remedy360 on January 23, 2013, 01:06:33 AM ---I'm on record several times saying the Lakers would be fine, but shit's looking bad for them. The D'antoni hiring is looking worse and worse. Granted, they've brought in a lot of new guys, new system, etc, but time is ticking.

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His system is just better utilized when you have a team of smaller guys running it... which isn't the scenario but he's forcing that style upon them anyway.

My friends who are Clippers fans and Lakers haters have been having a field day with this... except for last night when the Clips AND the Celts got beat the way they did haha.  There was a lot of silence on Facebook last night.

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