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

grittyman said:
THT is the guy that needs to come off the bench.

The Lebron center minutes have been great, team definitely has to lean into those lineups while AD is out.

Rewatched the Xmas game this morning. I know Russ had a bad game, but it was mostly him finishing at the basket. I hate doing the hindsight thing...aka it's only a bad shot when you miss, so I'm not mad at him for taking 15/20 shots in the paint. He definitely has to do a better job of finishing, that was an uncharacteristically bad game from him in that area.

What stood out to me the most on the re-watch is just great Lebron is and how often the Nets targeted Melo on defense. I mean almost every time down they involved him in some kinda ball screen action and it just killed the Laker defense...over and over again. To his credit he's a great floor spacer on offense, and one of the few Lakers that will rebound but ideally he should only be playing limited minutes. I think he was out there for like 40 against the Nets and that's just wild but there really was no other option I guess.
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In a playoff series. It’s very very hard to win when you have someone who is a GLARING hole on defense. They will get picked on repeatedly. Our title team had practically no defensive players in that category. This year we have at least 4 in the rotations that are clear and utter defensive liabilities in a 1 on 1 situation (DJ, Ellington, monk, melo). Ideally our closers will be tht/Russ/ariza/lebron/ad which helps prevent getting picked on. Problem is they can’t play 48 mins.
That’s why I was never super high on melo. Sure for 15 mins a game sharpshooter that’s fine but he’s basically playing nearly starter minutes all year. We have a few more moves to make to help add 2-3 playable players along with the above mentioned 5. Our only hope is come feb we are fully healthy and have added said players. And we have 30 games together to get acquainted. By game 30 we are running at full speed ready to kick *** in the playoffs
 
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Delusionallakerfan said:
In a playoff series. It’s very very hard to win when you have someone who is a GLARING hole on defense. They will get picked on repeatedly. Our title team had practically no defensive players in that category. This year we have at least 4 in the rotations that are clear and utter defensive liabilities in a 1 on 1 situation (DJ, Ellington, monk, melo). Ideally our closers will be tht/Russ/ariza/lebron/ad which helps prevent getting picked on. Problem is they can’t play 48 mins.
That’s why I was never super high on melo. Sure for 15 mins a game sharpshooter that’s fine but he’s basically playing nearly starter minutes all year. We have a few more moves to make to help add 2-3 playable players along with the above mentioned 5. Our only hope is come feb we are fully healthy and have added said players. And we have 30 games together to get acquainted. By game 30 we are running at full speed ready to kick *** in the playoffs
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I gotta give Monk a little credit, he's still not a plus defender but he's definitely defensively now than the beginning of the year...he's at least trying lol.

THT in the closing lineup? I get what you're saying, I just think that the Monk/Lebron two man game is kind of a cheat code. They ran it almost exclusively at the end of the Nets game and got great looks almost every time. If he's the only guy that defenses can pick on maybe the other four can still cover for him.
 
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Same ****** that in real life would never disrespect someone that blatantly for fear of getting their **** pushed in. Speak to others online as you would in person. Clowns
 
it’s not Russ’ fault. It’s lebron rob and Jeanie. You don’t get mad at the 5 year old for spilling his drink you handed him without a top

On a side y’all see that even losers like Karl Anthony towns is clowning Russ and thus the lakers. How low we have stooped
 
Most exciting part of the Russ Westbrook experience is seeing what kind of trade we have him in next year as an expiring contract.
 
pmatic said:
He's too stubborn and the coaching staff is too unimaginative.
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I blame it more on the prior than the latter. Westbrook has had six or seven NBA coaches in his career and none of them have gotten him to alter his game in any way. For the last decade we've thought " What if he learns to move on off ball or cut?" And he never does. The common denominator is Westbrook, I don't think he's had six or seven consecutive terrible coaches.
 
No idiot. We just don’t want you to have the worst TO to assist ratio in the history of western civilization and to have some awareness and IQ to not take shots the defense wants you to take
 
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