Trade Down To Obtain Player And Retain A To Top Pick?

Great analysis.

 

Sign Ellis, clark comes off the bench for either guard, young can backup the 2&3... I really like this team now. I really think its a fair trade between us and sac, then that clears further space for sac to trade for lawson, possibly farried.

 

To me, this is the way the Lakers should be thinking.. Not just "hey, we get a good draft pick & a good FA & then build from there"
If you took the lineup you proposed... Then packaged Young with the 27 & 34... Lakers could pick up a couple solid veterans & still have $$ to fill out the roster... We have assets to get really creative & rebuild this team quickly.. It's just finding the right partners.

 

It's still tempting to think about trading down to teams like Sactown for Cousins or Detroit for Monroe, etc. Pick up a solid player from them + their pick that should still land us a solid SF like Winslow or Hezonja.. Then use the 27+34+Young to get a couple more solid assets.. We still have money on the books & a solid team.. All just speculation, but there are many options out there with the assets we have right now.

Not sure we want all Rooks & Sophomores on this team.. Need to get creative to bring in some experience too.

 

NO with the 2nd pick ..... Okafor is going to be too good. My "eye test" has confirmed. Where's LGL when you need him? Oh bleep me, I didn't just say that. However he did go on and on and on and on and on about Clarkson from seeing him in Summer League. Great call.... props where due. Plus Jahlil is a much finer citizen. Boogie and Byron might kill each other if they don't see eye to eye. Which is not a stretch to think of as happening with Byron being a hard a**.

 

All Good LTL... I'm just doing some "what ifs" to kill time between now & the Draft...
I'm totally stoked about the prospect of Jahlil as a Laker too. Just contemplating the possibilities with the draft picks & assets we have..

Also, my "eye test" tells me that Winslow is a winner & deserves to go higher than the 6-8 that he's projected at.. We won't get him, but I'd be thrilled if we did.

 

I haven't been a fan of Lawson as a person since a few years back when he did some random "interview" for a YouTube channel before playing us and used a bunch of slang you'd normally hear from rappers while talking trash about how the lakers are done because Kobe is old and washed up. Lawson the player, however? The last complaint I'd have about him is that he peaked. We're talking about a guy that realized he needed to become more of a pure PG and worked on his game over the summer, resulting in him being 1 of the only PG's in the league that averaged over 10 APG for a stretch last season before the Nuggets imploded. I see Lawson the player as a guy who will work hard and modify his game however he needs to if it means winning.

Also I definitely wouldn't say their pick is the only asset to be interested in. Nurkic looks like he could be a very good player. He has the type of toughness that's becoming all too rare from bigs in the league these days. On a good team with leaders with a winning mentality he's a much needed enforcer type. Not just another Thugget.

 

With all the talk about the front office prioritizing character, and our failed experiment with Dwight, I'm with @therealdeal and I cringe at the entire Nuggets roster. Only consummate professionals moving forward please. I'm starting to dislike the idea of getting Cousins too. And hell no to Rondo.

 

I proposed this in the other thread but would you guys do 2nd pick for 3rd pick + Embiid?

 

^ I wouldn't go that far, but I'd put him somewhere between Greg Oden and Brandon Roy.