He had a not great game yesterday but I still liked his looking for teammates, especially the lob to Dwight. Better game than Danny Green who has been much more disappointing to me. Danny made one freaking shot yesterday and did nothing else. That's not acceptable for your $15 million offseason signing. Kuz had two solid games in a row before that and I like that he's evolving from his scorer off the bench only role. He's moving the ball and trying to be more of a team player and he's succeeding lately. If he can improve and contribute in these upcoming playoffs it would be huge. He's still valuable as our one guy can create for himself besides AD and Lebron. Also the trade deadline has passed and he's on a great contract. Next year will he get moved? Maybe so. But that's next year. For now, just get better.
Well your guys have it going this year that’s for sure. I’m just hoping you guys don’t match our unbeaten record.
We treat Kuzma like he's a young blossoming talent. He'll never be better than Marcus Morris. I really think not trading him for veteran talent was a big mistake.
Kuz, Green and maybe something else supposedly was offered, but they reportedly wanted I believe Kuz, Cook, Cousins and at least one pick maybe more. Of course it wasn't Kuz for Morris in a vacuum KB because of salaries.
yeah, he could stink it up the rest of the season, and i won't think the rumored knicks deal was a good one for us.
See ... social media type folks are picking up on this s*** with him where he is just not Lakers and basketball centric focussed like the great ones are. After he picked Kobe's brain and wanted to be Mamba like. Ingram you won't find distracted to that degree, but Lonzo is / was too. Makes sense as they were drawn to one another and hung out. DLO and Clarkson were the same way when they were in L.A. And it's why I said the other day when these things pop up I hope someone makes sure he sees them. Though it's very likely he does anyway. It would be different if he was having a great and consistent 3rd year in the league now .... as we need him to toward helping win a ring.
So ... thinking further along here with Kuz's needed under performing wimp shaming on line ..... he needs to get serious about performing. He's safe through the season so that's no longer an excuse for being distracted or whatever. Chance of a lifetime to win an NBA ring. Step the eff up. If he does step his game up can you imagine how big of a boost that would be toward us winning a ring? You put this kind of opportunity in front of Kobe Bryant at that age and he would devour it. In the gym constantly preparing for it. Singled minded and focussed. Shake yourself KYLE. Option 1 ......for social media savvy people is sending stuff like the Vanity Fair appearance smack above to him at least once on twitter that is starting to be posted by insiders about his lack of Lakers focus, and Lakers nation is thinking it. .... He sees it probably and gets pissed and deletes it and you from his followers. I'm guessing this is how it would go. Option 2 ..... Because that likely happens something like the insider Vanity Fair smack above also gets sent to the big NBA media folks with comments that Lakersnation is starting to get upset with his lack of focus and doing whatever needs to be done in the gym to get his **** together. Plant that seed. You know they'd try to find any drama here. But if any of them ran with it nationally it would sure light a fire under his a**.
He’s not a Laker. Get this b**** out of here. DLO, Zo, JC, now Kuz. L.A. got into their heads. Meanwhile our competitors young players are balling hard. I’m done with that youth movement and he’s the last piece from it.
Danny Green seems more concerned about “The Green Room” than his shot. Some players can’t handle the distractions of building their brand instead of just playing. Hopefully it’s different come playoff time.
Kuzma is taking cues from Dennis Rodman with the gender fluidity so it seems. Unfortunately he doesn't play like Dennis Rodman.
So there is absolutely nobody out there in these people's minds whose opinion matters (to themselves anyways)? This cynical line of thinking generally drives me crazy.
It's just stupid generic stuff , not so clever people post on social networks . It has the same value as a girl posting the same sentence on IG as she's showing her a** .
He’s looking yoked and husky and tough. Battle ready. On line shaming about lack of focus needs to happen if he doesn’t start shooting better and contribute more as he should by year 3 now in this push for a ring. #moretimeinthegymworkingonweaknesses
Vogel also needs to find more PT for him - he usually plays better when he's playing 30+mpg. I think the bigger issue is that Kuz only plays well with LeBron - and not with AD (when LeBron is off the floor). And another issue for Kuz - Dwight is playing better than him and with more energy on both ends. We thought we'd see the AD/LeBron/Kuz lineup a lot but because of how well the centers have played (mainly dwight), it's made Kuz's situation a bit awkward.
