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We ain't competing for championships for at least 6-8 years minimum.
So only focus right now should be development and adding positive role models to the team to help groom the youngings and make them I to consummate pros.
Get rid of Nick and Lou and preach team ball, and we'll have a team we can be proud to root for again in 3 years.
Jesus, is this dude like 7' 3". Makes Ingram look like he is 6'5"
Zubac is no more than 7'1 in that pic if Ingram is 6'9. I can eyeball work.
I'm gonna try my best to dial down the hype this year but man...this team is gonna be scary good. I'll just offer this nugget for people saying we should trade for westbrook. The laker front office is copying the warriors, they wanna be the warriors...it's blatant. There's no westbrook on the warriors and there never could be. There's no way they trade any of the core for him. This team has the potential to be almost as good as the new warriors.
Well the Wolves are the closer that us for sure, they have the better talent and structure. They're the next young squad up and GS's quartet isn't even close to falling off until 2021 at the earliest, so that timeline is about accurate.
Zubac is no more than 7'1 in that pic if Ingram is 6'9. I can eyeball work.
I'm gonna try my best to dial down the hype this year but man...this team is gonna be scary good. I'll just offer this nugget for people saying we should trade for westbrook. The laker front office is copying the warriors, they wanna be the warriors...it's blatant. There's no westbrook on the warriors and there never could be. There's no way they trade any of the core for him. This team has the potential to be almost as good as the new warriors.
Ingram more so than D'Lo I'm expecting him to be an All Star, just because of the position and the multiple facets of the game he affects. It'll be much harder for D'Lo to reach that level especially with the plethora of great guards still in the West (esp at PG). Say it takes 4 years for them (fair projection) to reach near that level. At the same time you have the chores of the aforementioned Wolves and even the Jazz that are further ahead in development in that process. Lakers are still a 2nd rd exit even with 2 all star caliber players. When GS finally falls off that'll be the moment hopefully they can take the next step to true contender status. I mean if we're going by the GS model it took 4 years from when Steph was drafted to even make the playoffs.
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Does this look realistic or is this wishful thinking?
If you want to point to where the Warriors became serious about contending you'd have to point to 2011, when Jerry West came on board and they started making really smart decisions. We already have smart decision makers on our end, so we escape that hurdle. It's simply a matter of player growth, which as you said, four years is a fair projection for them. Supplemented with capable role players, a Lakers team four years out should be a contender for the title, if not sooner.