Official 2016 Free Agency Thread

We need more guards! And wings! We already have a plethora of bigs.

 

That's on the money. And I am assuming that C bag championship tattoo he got (without the ring) was a deal breaker for Luke. I watched Terry score on the Lakers and used to curse that MF'n jet. I feel he would be completely out of rocket fuel and I would be cursing his short threes and 50 year old dad d (when guarding nba calibre guards).

He would be the lockeroom lawyer from hell, and brings nothing to the table. Let the Nets or the Queens pick him up.

 

i think given that jc can play either guard spot, the lakers are in pretty good shape there. it would take a couple of significant injuries to really notice that the 4th/5th guards aren't very good.

to me, roster depth isn't the problem; there's just no stars on the team as of yet. that's the killer.

 

i wasn't very optimistic last year. i expected about 30 wins. i got less. i expect about 30 wins this year. the main reason for optimism is that i think the lakers finally got out of their bad coach rut. but in terms of winning/competing, i think we're looking at something similar to the recent past.

anyway, yes, once the losing starts, we'll all be roasting everyone, and the vets will be the easy targets because it's less psychologically threatening to say calderon sucks, than, say, clarkson sucks.

but i'm with real, calderon is still a viable nba backup last i saw. lou williams is still a pretty high quality bench scorer, and both clarkson and russell can play basketball at a high (albeit inconsistent) level. huertas shouldn't have to see the floor much.

if we're thin (literally, too?) anywhere, it's at sf. deng is good but old, ingram is going to take a while to adjust, and i'm not sold on anthony brown as an nba player.

 

i really mean old in terms of mileage. he's played a ton of nba minutes for a 31 year old.

and by "thin" i mean that we don't have a lot of capable guys (let's say less than three) who can play that spot.

at pg, i think there are three: russell, calderon, and clarkson
at sg, i think there are also three: clarkson, williams, and russell
at sf, i only see two (deng and ingram), as i think of anthony brown like i think of huertas: let's not have them in the game if at all possible.
at pf, i think there are three: randle, nance, and yi
at c, i think there are at least three: mozgov, yi, black, and maybe zoobs

i suppose, depending upon your opinion of black and/or zoobs, one could argue we're "thin" at center, too.

 

If we're running a small ball lineup, I can see Clarkson playing some SF and Deng playing some PF.

Pretty sure Golden State will run Durant at the 4 as well.

They'll definitely run some:
Curry
Klay
Iggy
Durant
Green

I think we can run for a really athletic, small ball group.
Russell
Clarkson
Ingram
Nance
Randle

 

very few teams play an undersized 1/2/3 simultaneously. carlisle deploys it in dallas when things aren't going well, but even "smallball" typically just means "no center". most teams playing small still play bigger wings.

 

Deng will probably get some minutes at the 4 As well but I like your lineup.

 

IMO were not thin at all at any position, but like you've said before abeer... We're missing that star. Hopefully we can lure in Cousins at the deadline.

 

lance stephenson THINKS he is...there's a gulf between scrubdom and stardom littered with the bloated bodies of people who think they are.

russell and ingram have a chance, but they're not even close right now. at all. this is why the lakers won't win a lot. just truth. you don't dig out of the hole they're in after a couple years.