Brandon Ingram Discussion: He Is Who We Thought He Could Be

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  1. LTLakerFan

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    Oh WOW. I was hoping for this. If Ben Simmons can grow to 7' (allegedly) in a season then BI should be able to hit close to that too. You know what they say about young men with ridiculously long arms. :Magic Brows:
     
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    Did he ever get with Kobe? Inquiring minds (well mine anyway) need to know.
     
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    Normally I'm pretty suspicious about people claiming they've grow 2 inches of when I saw it came from Mike Trudell I tend to believe it because of his connections
     
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    When you got to Mike Trudell I cringed for a moment and was afraid I was going to hear maybe it was fake news or something to bring me down from hearing BI grew 2 inches.

    :JuliusPumped 1:

    And for some reason Mike gets not a little amount of bad review on here. I like him a lot whatever that's worth. But you had me at the "because of his connections" when you were saying maybe this is great new intel.

    Brandon with 2 more inches, his added strength and major upgrade with his shot (I expect) and his moves and his handles .... (because he works in similar fashion 24/7 to Kobe with his laser focus on basketball) ..... look the hell out.

    :Brandontea:
     
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    "He's too tall to really be any good."

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    He grew 2 INCHES IN THE FREAKING OFFSEASON???

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    What? It's Magic!
     
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    Any actual news about this actually happening, the Kobe workout? It's almost training camp!
     
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    Beyond excited if this 6'11 thing is true. I love long players. Can't wait to see how he and Lonzo work together.

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    like dis:

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    Look at that touch with Lonzo's fingers when he passes that up there perfectly.

    :More:
     
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    Trudell's getting happy there. If that's true, nearly 7' tall, who's gonna stop him with Lonzo feeding him and BI's ability to slither like a snake? He just needs to develop that shot so he draws a defender(s). Once he does that and paths to the hoop open up his FG% should increase by leaps and bounds. And that's just if he needs to go iso (Lonzo should be able to get it to him inside plenty).

    Develop that new smooth stroke until you are knocking them done like clockwork BI. Then we basically got KD AND LBJ :p See how Golden State likes them apples.

    Yikes 6'6" @ PG, KAT @ SG, 6'11" @ SF, that has defensive potential, good luck passing in those lanes.
     
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    What happened to Paul George?

    :KobeConfused:
     
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    When did we get KAT ?
     
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    I was kind of looking at the team now rather than some hypothetical future line up. And while I'm about 50/50 PG's here next season OKC is a good gig so I'm not counting that egg 'till it hatches. If not, or another suitable star doesn't come to sign with LBJ, KCP is an awesome defender. Either way, put PG in at the 2 and the back court is stupid-long.

    btw, be careful, saying "What happened to Paul George?" Probably constitutes tampering to Simon/Pritchard.


    whoops super busy multi-tasking here at work, meant KCP just had a convo with a client about Towns and mixed them up. Probably subliminal wishful-thinking more than anything.
     
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    I like where you were heading with that, but gonna need the Salary Cap to go up a lot more before we can dream of him.
     
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    No no I know KCP can only stay if they give up on George or Westbrook. Can't predict the future though, what if none of those pan out? Or did you mean KAT? Either way cap needs to go up to get 2 FAs and anyone else.
     
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    Not surprising, it seemed like he was destined to be just under 7'0. He is going to be so good.
     
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    But good lord that's had me intrigued all day, could you imagine a 6'6" 6'9" 6'11" back court? All can shoot, pass and guard. Switching off on D no problem. Other teams have to send all their bigs outside to guard, mismatch from hell. LBJ and (Lord willing) Lopez (somehow) to complete the backcourt and how do you match up? Let's hope Lonzo matures as fast as he can.
     
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    I believe it. In the one summer league game he played in, he looked huge. I thought it was weight but the increase in height would explain a lot more.
     
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