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Lakers obviously just added Andre Drummond, Nets added LeMarcus Aldridge after adding Blake Griffin a few weeks ago. Assuming both teams are healthy just looking ahead to a potential Finals matchup how would you guys feel about matching up with them?

To me our best chance would be just dominating them with our front line, which assuming AD is healthy I’d expect that to be the case. Drummond, AD, and Harrell should be able to and must impose their will on Brooklyn’s front line.

The biggest question would be if we’re gonna be able to slow down all of the fire power the Nets have on the perimeter. LeBron and KD would probably cancel each other out IMO, but that still leaves us having to slow down Kyrie and Harden.

Eyebrows were raised when the Nets added Blake Griffin and LeMarcus Aldridge, but you could make the argument both players have more question marks considering their defensive flaws.

Brooklyn obviously has so much firepower offensively not just with their three stars,...

..... just saw on line that Elgin passed away. That is really sad. He was GREAT. I remember a quote once that if Julius Erving was a doctor, Elgin Baylor was a brain surgeon. He and Jerry and Chick came to L.A. and brought us professional basketball.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/elgin-...mer-and-lakers-star-dies-at-86-183922067.html

Enjoy this 2020-2021 Lakers squad and appreciate them. Very low chance we will be able to keep this band together.

Check out this article on big contract/roster decisions awaiting for the Lakers due to the tax penalties. Eric Pincus had a lot to say

https://syndication.bleacherreport....ext-season.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

Sorry for starting a new thread but I did not see one on Davis. There is one for everyone else but the Davis one must have fallen a few pages down.

Anyway, is it obvious to everyone that he is playing injured? At the end of the playoffs I read a comment from Lebron, (I think), that said his feet were completely black and blue and that he was having a hard time playing through the pain.

He did not have time to heal with the shortened off season and I believe he is playing very hobbled. He does not have the explosiveness he has in the past. I was wondering why they are playing him so much and I came to the conclusion that one, he wants to play and two, they want the team to be together at the beginning of the season so all these guys can learn to play together. Perhaps as they start to gel, if Davis is still hurting, they can rest him for awhile then. Perhaps his injuries are slowing healing as we go anyhow and he figures he can just play through it. I believe this is one of...

Something a little creative.

Post a song (preferred, but maybe just list a title) that you associate with a Laker.

I will be adding a few tracks and participating, but I thought this could add a little fun to the serious business of our decision.

It can be linked to them through, lyrics, it could be actually about them or a favorite song that they have mentioned, the music could remind you of there style of play. Maybe think of what is this players MMA/WWE intro theme or his GTA radio station signature song?

Here are a couple of examples.

Dennis Schroder makes me think of his German ancestry so I linked in my mind to Falco (Austrian technically but the song is in German) and song called Der Kommissar.



or maybe some Kraftwerk though some may go for Rammstein. I won't go the David Hasselhoff direction (that seems more a Dirk Nowitzki thing anyhow.



For Montrezl I would go for something that reflects...