2014-15 Official Lakers Season Thread, Vol: We Love Each Other

[noblekane]

wow @ lin


really wanted isiah...


lin is an upgrade over marshall tho thats for sure.

Is he really?

We gonna have 50 turnovers agame with kobe n lin on the floor

 

[tay1]

If melo is staying in new york **** helping the knicks. Trade pau to okc.

Also we aint getting **** in a sign and trade best would be a second rounder

They gonna need all the help against the rockets

Trading Pau to OKC wouldn't help OKC?

 

[SORIANOTRON]

sure he comes with TO's

but you gain legit scoring and better D in lin.

Lin can score in the NBA.

 

[senorroboto2k5]

Lin can score in the NBA.

Depends on the system.

 

[lovehateself]

and whether he has the ball....

 

[grandtheftbike]

chill with the Bazemore Baemore slander. he's a wanted man

Samesies /rck

I meant with his og team

Apology accepted

 

[daddyrabbit251]

You're more likely to get a great asset from a sign and trade with Phil and Jeanie than any where else

 

[noblekane]

Trading Pau to OKC wouldn't help OKC?

Yea but who cares melo aint signing there

 

[noblekane]

and whether he has the ball....

Which he wont if kobe is healthy

 

[ValarMorghulis]

Nick Young back.....

 

[jiffyl00b]

Nick young to remain a Laker. I'm not making this up.

cleansneaks beat me to it

Not like this was breaking news anyway

 

[essential1]

4 year deal for Nick Young

 

[percy.]

4 year deal

 

[tuna629]

Holy **** 4 years of Swaggy P :x

 

[noblekane]

We be better off without melo they said...

Smh

 

[jab step]

But you wanted MDA gone tho....


And those young guys that haven't lived up to hype as starters, form a fairly solid/decent bench. If we can have Marshall, X, Baze, Kelly, and Sacre, Clarkson/Kane as a bench,

And maybe fill in the starters with Lin, Lance, Randle and (hopefully) 2015 first round pick (ours or Houston, whichever)


And have a ton of cap space, wouldn't someone slot in that pretty decently?


And I'm not even sayin Lin is the keeper, maybe it's Clarkson, or Kane. Maybe one of them is our new Beverley/Parsons late round find. Maybe it's Kelly, who looked really good last year.


And if I read that tweet right, we only owe out are 2017 pick, so we still have a couple picks to play with goin forward, be it trade fodder, or replacements for the young ones we have that fail.

Bottom line, we aren't dealing with aging 33 year olds anymore that make 6-8 million. We got younger, cheaper, fresher leg guys to work with, coach up, and hopefully elevate 1-2 of em, then buy up the missing 1-2 pieces around Randle and maybe Lance.

Is that not better than 97 million for Melo, and fewer assets underneath? *shrugs* I'd say this path, so far, seems better.

Let's see what Pau nets us, and go from there. Maybe we get a couple more assets in the next day or so.

I don't see how that's an enticing environment for potential free agents in the future. All the guys you listed are role players. The only guys I liked from last year are Kelly (who will be back), Bazemore, and even Young (for very cheap, which won't happen). But all those guys are role players. 

Why exactly would free agents want to come, unless Kobe looks like Kobe of old? 

Here, a better question. What would GM CP's plan be to build up the lakers. Break it down by year and players you want and how you'd get them. 

 

[mrdieselfuel09]

Mitch gone off that liquor

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

 

[lovehateself]

 

[senorroboto2k5]

NOT FREAKING OUT TILL I SEE THE $ AMOUNT
NOT FREAKING OUT TILL I SEE THE $ AMOUNT
NOT FREA

 

[percy.]

21.5 million

 

[junglejim]

sure he comes with TO's

but you gain legit scoring and better D in lin.

Lin can score in the NBA.

 

[kal-el-8]

Holy **** 4 years of Swaggy P

 

[Maximus Meridius]

4 year deal for Nick Young

Ah hell nah



4 years of this clown *** dude. Then we get Jeremy Lin's soft ***. Can't wait for next year.



Who coming out the draft next year CP?

 

[rck3sactown]

Free agent Nick Young has re-signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on a four-year, $21.5 million deal, league source tells RealGM.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 11, 2014