Long time lurker since Club Lakers I always thoroughly enjoy reading everyone's comments and I have learnt a lot. Jumping on here an all things Lakers on the daily before and after work is my obsession.
I have been following the Lakers for quite awhile now; It was always hard to watch NBA in Australia growing up. I always use to pick the Lakers on the PS2 NBA Live games in about 2001. It wasn't until about 2009 until I really started following them when I purchased NBA 2k10 which I played religiously. I then started to watch Kobe highlights on YouTube: historic games, dunks, buzzer beaters whatever I could think of. At the time he was hitting buzzer beater after buzzer beater. I remember it being on the news, the headline would be: Kobe Bryant with another Buzzer beater and I'm thinking of boy! Right there was when I fell in Love with Kobe and the Lakers. I started watching streams in about 2010 the playoffs, I have memories of Artest hitting the buzzer beater against...
Ok, we have basically our roster set, waiting for that 14th player.
In any case, our core rotation can be designed already.
Here's what I expect at this point:
Dlo (21) | Gabe (27)
Reaves (32) | Dlo (6) | Max (10)
LeBron (24) | Prince (12) | Reddish (10)
Vando (16) | Rui (24) | AD (4) | Prince (4)
AD (26) | Hayes (16) | LeBron (6)
I don't know how to get AD at the 4 but maybe it will eat Vando's minutes.
We have insane depth when we play Prince, Hayes and Vando 16min, Max and Reddish 10 while no player over 32...Then we still have the 2 rookies, 3 two ways and 1 or 2 extra players we will add.
Maybe there's a DNP here and there for Max/Reddish, even Vando. We are that deep. And then they have spikes of usage when anyone goes down.
I'm not West but I've seen enough. He's probably going to want a PO on year three and then we can extend him with LeBron off the books. How many GMs are watching him in SL just with what he's shown so far, getting better and more comfortable every game ..... and knowing they passed on him in the 2nd round. Cost controlled and our scouts and FO are geniuses.
