WMC 24-25: Seasonal Highs And Lows!

Well it’s odd to me personally since some here seem to want to hurry back to the days when we had promising kids to root for with higher draft picks by being out of the playoffs each year, by blowing it up now if “they” are of the opinion we have zero puncher’s chance for a ring. With reasonable health for our key players like every team.

When we do now have again some very good (AR) - very promising other young players to root for while still having on the same team LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

 

Yeah my bad, always forget the point (or lack of) of this thread. I can't hide the topic in Tapatalk, so will try to remember next time. Peace

 

honestly, reaves was like getting a lotto pick. he's probably better than most guys taken in the 5-10 range the past few years, right?

let's hope knecht can also work like one.

 

i canceled league pass the first russ year, which was wise. i'll renew when i'm excited again.

i think it's league-wide, tbh. it was a quiet summer almost everywhere.

 

Yeah that's fair. I don't feel like anyone is as amped up for the start of the season as they usually are.

 

Lakers are going to shock the basketball world.
Look at Bronny,Max and LeBron how they are exited that JJ doesn't have any pockets
P.S they had live DJ music at training

 

Weezy if you're going to come at me as hard as you typically do these days when you assume I'm only talking to you, at least address my exact words rather than go on your negative rants all over again about everything under the sun wrong with the team and the organization. I hadn't even seen or read your post yet and a couple others, when I came back in and was replying really to @ElginTheGreat

I am clearly addressing the "blow it up now crowd" (prematurely in my opinion when there's far better basketball to be watched WHILE AD and LeBron are still here) ..... "and let's get back to acquiring assets and young players we can root for again", while guaranteed missing the playoffs for who knows how long.

"Well it’s odd to me personally since some here seem to want to hurry back to the days when we had promising kids to root for with higher draft picks by being out of the playoffs each year, by blowing it up now if “they” are of the opinion we have zero puncher’s chance for a ring. With reasonable health for our key players like every team.

When we do now have again some very good (AR) - very promising other young players to root for while still having on the same team LeBron James and Anthony Davis."

"You can tell me “I told you so” if we win the title this year, but I’m fairly confident I won’t need to worry about that"

And how entitled as a fan are you if a ring is truly the only thing you give a crap about? When the odds every single year are greatly against it with how many good teams there are.

 

Well that wasn’t ME saying it to you and telling you you’re not a good fan. Just stating I don’t understand not wanting to have the kind of talent those two guys have here as long as they want to be here. Because it could be no guarantees we ever see it again. And I was talking calmly to Elgin about the word apathy, not raging at you. Jeezus stop following the team if it causes you that much grief.

 

i was more dubious at that time than most, and it was for the same reasons--we're still a family business, and that's just not how the successful teams are doing it now.

everybody's mad at rob, but i actually view his hire as one of the few out-of-the-box things we did (hiring a former agent as gm). i know it's been done, but it was unusual for us, and i think it's been a net positive. and i know he was kobe's agent, but i don't view it as a nepotism hire. but hiring magic in a formal capacity was just pure ol' fashioned nepotism, and it was a disaster. i remember complaining a lot about the moves we were making back then, and most of them were really bad. not mozdeng bad, but bad.

the only truly bad thing we've done since magic left the front office was the russ trade, imo. every other mistake is run-of-the-mill stuff every team does all the time. that one was an era-ending move. i came to terms with that almost immediately, and maybe that's why i'm not as frustrated as many others. it was over then. we actually did a good job digging out as far as we did, but there was no actual way to get all the way out in the time frame necessary, imo.

right now, i just want to win some games this year and hope jj proves to be a coach we can roll with for a while. after this year, i expect some sort of reckoning. we'll no longer owe picks, and if we perform as everyone thinks, i believe you'll get your blow-up wish.

 

Wait. What? How did I get in this?

 

It will be interesting to see this same group of guys under a more organized and professional coaching staff. We may be pleasantly surprised. I don’t think that means we have enough to win it all, but I do think the early feedback indicates it will look and feel like a coached team. We’ll see. We previously succeeded in spite of Ham IMHO. The reality I don’t think we know how good this group can be since we’ve had injuries and the Ham experience.

 

why? isn't it good for young players to learn from some of the greatest players in nba history? what if lebron and AD don't actually want to be moved?

 

This a****** blind the last few seasons? s*** already has been a s*** show. Get with the program. We aren't complaining to complain. We are complaining because they haven't done s*** to improve the roster.

 

Ox has a valid point IMO, which leads to the next question...What gives anyone, any confidence, that Rob could build a legit title contender, from the ground up, in the first place?

 

you mean aside from doing it in his first year on the job?

or when he rebuilt the team midseason and went to the conference finals? is that not a title contender?

who's the gm that's built a contender from the ground up? maybe presti? he's also the guy that basically kept ibaka over harden once he built his first contender. pobody's nerfect.

 

The season after the title, that everyone blt***s about him going away from what worked was a definite title contender as well as proved by how well it was doing first part of the season before injuries to LeBron, AD and somewhat also to Gasol derailed it, only to come back hobbled but still ready to beat Phoenix in that series and go from there, until AD got hurt again.