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

[Los Angeles]

Pelinka needs to hit on a trade like dallas did last year w gafford/washington

 

[grittyman]

I really wonder how long people are going to do this thing or is it going to be like the Caruso thing where it gets brought up forever…

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Pelinka needs to hit on a trade like dallas did last year w gafford/washington

He already did that when he traded Russ...

 

[pdino]

The story around Austin is weird. When he first made this jump it was a great surprise, Lakers got a big steal but now that he's not a superstar people take him for granted.

Makes no sense. No. He's never gonna be a superstar, might not ever make a allstar team but to get 18, 6 and 5 outta your undrafted player (who recently took a paycut) is GREAT.

He's on a great contract. AR getting paid 13 million, DLo 18.7mil, Rui 17 mil, gabe vincent 11 mil for comparisons. When your salary is capped, AR's one of the best bang-for-your-buck players. Unfortunately, Lakers still got some overpays that cancel out the good value contract

 

[pmatic]

Get a scoring threat guard pls.

 

[tupac003]

Not surprised

 

[CP1708]

Get a scoring threat guard pls.

You just traded one away.

 

[grittyman]

Don’t care how many shots and points he puts up on a bad team lmao … DLo is still not a winning basketball player.

Enjoy the projects

 

[pmatic]

Damn, hope it's not serious.

 

[Los Angeles]

Pistons can use gabe vincent

 

[grittyman]

DLo might be the only Laker player I think that I’ve talked bad about, but even then when I was being serious it was at least reasonable criticism about his game. I do find it kinda funny how people trash guys like Gabe for example and then want to include him in trades for better players

Even though it shouldn’t really matter all that much what fans say on social media I do think that it does to a certain extent.

 

[tay1]

That's not a Laker thing. You should see how people talk when their parlays are messed up.

 

[grittyman]

Don’t follow gambling, and no one is saying this is exclusive to Lakers twitter but as one of the biggest fan bases in all of sports I think the volume of the noise will reflect that.

And it’s not really about the complaints, but for example to say “hey Gabe useless as dog poop… we should trade him and Vando for Brandon Ingram” is just silly

 

[moonman818]

Patrick Beverley didn’t do anything for us, and D Lo is a bed wetter.

Did we trash guys like Lonnie and Malik? I really don’t remember

 

[oh you mad]

dont like pat bev but

But then its funny how our trade machines screenshots were like Westbrook + Nunn for Kyrie

 

[tay1]

Patrick Beverley didn’t do anything for us, and D Lo is a bed wetter.

Did we trash guys like Lonnie and Malik? I really don’t remember

We liked Malik. Felt like we all knew he was leaving.

 

[lovehateself]

Patrick Beverley didn’t do anything for us, and D Lo is a bed wetter.

Did we trash guys like Lonnie and Malik? I really don’t remember

We liked Malik. Felt like we all knew he was leaving.

speak for yourself b

this malik was a bum

Spoiler

but yes, malik monk was leaving for sure, we could only offer x % higher than the vet min for another season before offerring him a bigger deal
he showed out and got paid now much deserved for him

 

[tay1]

Oh I forgot all about Beasley. Yeah we hated him.

 

[Lizakers]

Trade Gabe and sign Lonnie

No brainer

 

[grittyman]

Again it’s just silly… player isn’t performing well for your favorite team so you go to his social media page to trash him. That’s not really going to make the guy play better

Overall I think we have the best fanbase in the league but there’s some that are doing a little too much… or maybe I’m just old school and don’t get this weird social media generation

 

[grittyman]

Did we trash guys like Lonnie and Malik? I really don’t remember

Lebron and AD get trashed at times you think those two dudes were safe?

 

[darthska]

PattyBev thinking that NBA GMs and scouts rely on social media to form their opinions is pretty freaking hilarious.

- "We really want to trade this person for 2 FRPs, but let's check-in with Twitter first."
- *checks Twitter*
- "Actually, never mind. Twitter hates him. Just 1 FRP. We're not stupid."

 

[SORIANOTRON]

If you play good here, we'll love you

If you are trash or inconsistent we will let you hear it.

Pretty standard Laker fandom

We don't sugar coat **** either.

 

[grittyman]

In general I got no problem with the fan stuff… but the trade machine stuff is hilarious though.

Don’t think Pat literally meant GM’s are checking @AnthonyIrwinLA replies to gauge trade ideas but that fan reactions can influence a player’s reputation around the league. A lot of overreacting at times… a guy goes through a slump - he’s trash, or one of the worst players to ever put on a Lakers uniform and if a guy goes through a hot phase he’s untouchable in trade talks, the team is better off trading LeBron and building around him, etc.

What I kinda interpreted from that P Bev post was fans say things online (and in person), media picks up on them and amplifies those messages and it spreads around the league which can influence how guys are viewed. To what degree I have no idea.

 

[grittyman]