Let this be very, very, VERY, clear.
I love Ingram. Excited as hell for his future and what he may turn into.
My countering of his rookie year is merely to show everyone's *** at how they viewed him, vs a different 19 year old.
Another example needed?
Magic traded DLo, Byron hated him, "trust the staff, they know more than you, they see the film, they see the work, they know more than you do!!!!"
Phil is shopping KP "Phil is an idiot!!!!!"
Ainge works out Fultz, isn't impressed, flips him and lands 2 extra picks "Ainge is a fool, what a moron!!!!"
People just spit just to spit around here.
Durant is a sucker for joining GSW, what a clown.....
Bron is cool for joining Miami with Wade and Bosh.....
Knicks are stupid for trading pieces for Melo when they could have waited...
"We should trade pieces for Paul George!!!!!!!"
Like, do y'all listen to yourselves?
I've asked multiple times, what's the end game here for Magic? Lure PG and Bron for 2018? So we can not even win our own division? So Bron can turn 34-35-36 and do what, exactly?
No one can answer. They just want "stars". You guys wanna yell "The Lakers are back!!!!!" and finish in 2nd place in the Pacific Division.
If you believe in somethin one way, why y'all go the other direction for exact same scenarios elsewhere? Anyone?
It sucks because it seems like he's done everything he can do to NOT take Lonzo, but he's going to because he has no better choice.
He failed at being able to get fultz, he failed at trading back to the kings picks, he failed at being able to get KP, he got rid of DLo for too little (I understand the underlying point to it but imo still too little regardless of the market value), hasn't been able to secure PG yet, and now is stuck having to use the #2.
I think he's going to draft Lonzo tonight and front as if he was "thee pick" all along, act like Zo has been his boy from the start and he's the future of the Lakers and going to be a super star... but nah man, if you felt that confident in zo you wouldn't be spending weeks trying to trade the pick to be able to attain anything else BUT Zo.
If nothing else happens before tonight he's going to have to take Zo, but it just bothers me that he's basically doing it as a last resort instead of actually believing in Zo and wanting him from the jump.
Im not sure where you are getting your numbers here. Salary cap was 94.1 last year, and they are setting it at 99 instead of the projected 101-103 that they were potentially thinking for this year so the cap has still gone up, but by 4 mil less than expected. I think they are just trying to increase it at a slower pace given what happened last year with the Warriors. They are still projecting another 5M increase or so for next year.Deals like the Deng and Mozgov (lots of other bad contracts were offered last summer too like Demarre Carroll and Bismack Biyombo) look even worse now that the salary cap has gone down. It's going from $102 mil to $99 mil. Last summer the consensus around the league was these awful deals weren't as bad as they looked because the cap was going to explode up to $110 mil or $120 mil and teams could absorb them easily moving forward. Look how that worked out.
IMO, this makes the Dlo deal look even better now that we were able to dump Mozgov. Still have Deng eating up 20% of our cap next year though.
It sucks because it seems like he's done everything he can do to NOT take Lonzo, but he's going to because he has no better choice.
He failed at being able to get fultz, he failed at trading back to the kings picks, he failed at being able to get KP, he got rid of DLo for too little (I understand the underlying point to it but imo still too little regardless of the market value), hasn't been able to secure PG yet, and now is stuck having to use the #2.
I think he's going to draft Lonzo tonight and front as if he was "thee pick" all along, act like Zo has been his boy from the start and he's the future of the Lakers and going to be a super star... but nah man, if you felt that confident in zo you wouldn't be spending weeks trying to trade the pick to be able to attain anything else BUT Zo.
If nothing else happens before tonight he's going to have to take Zo, but it just bothers me that he's basically doing it as a last resort instead of actually believing in Zo and wanting him from the jump.
Honestly though, as a team you really don't want to tell other teams who the hell you are drafting. If we know fultz is going number one, and we tell everyone ball is going two, then if someone like the knicks really likes jackson and wants to trade KP then we arent even getting a call because they know they will overpay for the 2 vs 3. You lose all leverage if you tell everyone who you are taking unless that team wants ball and it sounds like at this point, there is more interest in jackson than ball.Do y'all even for sure they was trying that hard to trade the pick?
It's been a thousand rumors going around we just gonna believe everything that came out? At the end of day Lonzo is a perfect, especially now that DLo is gone and PG is coming. All that other **** don't matter.
