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

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Hopefully get more bodies the next game or two.

At some point, someday, it would be nice to see Ariza on the floor with AD.

And now....ankle watch. :frown:
 
Not gonna be a popular opinion but Westbrook need to come off the bench so Bron can run the point

Bron
Reaves
Ariza
AD
DH

This the best and most fluid Lakers lineup on both sides of the ball imo and tbqh should be the closing lineup against teams with Bigs who can match up well AD when AD playing the 5.
 
The brass and front office just fumbled it with the construction of this roster mane lol

But AD being half himself and then getting hurt is a variable that you can’t really gameplan for
 
Westbrook the player you can actually defend because he's the player he's always been. Low-IQ, shaky shot and defense but he always created advantage with superior relentlessness and ferocity. He still gives you that but the shortcomings just cannot be masked anymore because of the roster fit and because of his own physical regression. Objectively he actually hasn't been too bad, and you can tell he's trying his best to adjust by playing more off ball & cutting.

The Westbrook TRADE and the subsequent roster moves cannot be defended. And obviously Westbrook is the easiest scapegoat but the decision to bring him in and thinking it was an overall upgrade falls on everybody. Front office /Klutch probably looked at the Heat model and thought we could have our big 3 and get enough value on the margin from cheap/experienced, "1-dimensional" vets - the Shane Battiers and Mike Millers of the world- except the vets we targeted cannot produce close to that level. All this plus the regression from AD that no one saw coming, and we got what we got right now.
 
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