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Don't play me boy. You know damn well what I meant.

 

I like this r/lakers post:

 

i just hope some team with a surplus of centers wants a future pick or something. plz.

 

Is he a lob threat? If not, I pass

 

Lol..Ok..I got a hot minute Abeer

Magic set off the AD trade man.Rob signed off on the paperwork. Where in the hell was AD going but here? That's not some feather in his cap. Lebron asked for AD, Magic set that trade in motion, Rob signed the paper work. That's some more anti Magic BS

Nobody ever debunked s*** about Kyrie Irving. How? Shams wrote an very long a** article on the subject. Kyrie himself said ask the GM's why the trade didn't happened.

The owner of the Nets, said " I gave Pelinka permission to speak with Irving's people, and their phone number, he never called them at all" That's in the article. Who refuted that? Rob? Hell no. No you just ran with Stein saying, the owner didn't want to trade Kyrie to the Lakers. That's not what he actually said either. He said that it was a "presumed objective" by the GM, that the owner didn't want that to happen. Nobody said it was an order, or that was actually true, in the first place. Stein is the only person that said that BS. Never confirmed by Shams or Woj.

Turner was on various shows, talking about the Lakers and others that summer. Feeling unappreciated by Indiana in general. We talked about what he said on this board. It's also Im sure, that you can't find one single source, that says that we ever actually offered up anything for Myles Turner. I posted the Pacers comments about that being false too. Now you have amnesia? Nothing has been debunked on anything, I said about those two guys. SHOW ME..since both have been widely debunked...I can't recall this happening. All I recall is you saying that you believe other wise.

Shrug we were the 3rd team down the line. AD was someone they felt, that they could accept for Luka. Where is this great work being put in by Rob. If we didn't have AD, it wouldn't have been a trade. Thank you Magic, and Lebron.

Rob did call up Washington, he got declined twice I believe. Westbrook went to the owner and asked for that trade, after the Buddy Hield deal came up. Its all old news, and rehashed arguments, I know...but it does kill some time.

Now..On another note.I glanced at some of the drafts, Trades and FA signings after we got AD. That s*** is too time consuming, to try and post up some kind of recap. My eyes already hurt. I'll swing back on that track later.

 

Oooh..slow down Lil fella. You do know that I slide through Temecula ,every now and then right? Don't make pull up on you during my next visit!

 

correction: magic offered MORE and DIDN'T get AD. rob got him. magic is thankfully not here to pull more zubac/muscalas and lonzo ball draft picks anymore.

Nobody ever debunked s*** about Kyrie Irving. How? Shams wrote an very long a** article on the subject. Kyrie himself said ask the GM's why the trade didn't happened.

is kyrie irving a center? did the nets say they would have taken russell "albatross" westbrook for him? i missed that.

i recall turner never being a free agent in our price range nor being traded to anyone, literally ever. i'm also mad we don't have jokic, in related matters.

jesus. i just...

when lebron cooked it up, yes. you know i know that? because lebron's dumb a** was CROWING ABOUT IT!! honestly, maybe the westbrook thing was worth lebron getting out of the gm game. he can join magic as great players who are absolute dog s*** general managers.

keep in mind that drafts are (or at least should be **cough**magic**cough**) about scouts not general managers. also, re-thinking drafts is useless unless you have receipts proving you wanted the guy. like, 30 teams passed on jokic. should everyone be fired? presti passed on jokic!! presti traded james harden for...(i challenge you to name it without googling lol)

anyway, you're still at fictitious myles turner. looking forward to the full list after your research.

 

I think Hachimura gets under valued. A former lottery pick that we traded a second rounder for. Everybody talks two way player. He’s the closest thing to it. He guarded Jokic pretty good. Can guard wings. Can shoot. When LeBron doesn’t play he averages about 20 points a game.

low key when LeBron retires I think he will be a fantastic player with Luka that you can build around.

Reaves is more of a guard. Everybody talking wings and we’re trying to get our best one outa here. Other than Lebron.

 

Lol..How do you know Magic offered more? Did you see the offer? Did the Pelicans say that they took less, because Rob the super negotiator came to the table. Post that up for me. I totally missed these things

So now you claim, to have not seen Turner making these comments? Or where the Pacers said, that the Lakers never actully offered anything for Turner? They never said anything about declining an offer. Post that up too plz.

No Kyrie isn't a center, and if we got Kyrie, we would have gotten past Denver without one too. He damn sure wouldn't have choked like Tinkerbell. Now Shams article said, that we offered Westbrook that's it, we never offered anything else period.The Nets countered with Austin and Max. That's called negotiating, obviously the Nets had to send something else back, because Russ alone, made a good clip more than Kyrie. Rob bailed immediately without coming back with anything, because he never wanted to trade for Irving in the first place. It's all in that article.

Not getting a center is only part of my gripe with Rob tho, making poor decisions in general is the main one. Like I 've posted...multiple times. Including today.

s*** LeGM supposedly, has been calling the shots behind the scenes, since he was in Cleveland, before the decision. He put that Miami trio together didn't he? Hell.. his track record is better than Pelinka's IMO. He called that AD move, thanks to that, we now have Luka!

You want to point to this weird power structure of the Lakers, in defense of Rob, but damn all that, Magic was the sole decision maker, in every move he ever made? Even tho Rob was his GM the whole time? FOH with that man.

The last part, well damn if that's the case, what's the point? Now I need to backtrack and figure out, who got traded for what, and then decipher , what asset Rob f***ed off, that kept us from making a similar or better offer? Turner was openly shopped for a couple of years, Capela got traded, Adams, Poeltl, Ibaka, Drummond, Duren..that's a lot of work dude. We could have kept Jaden McDaniels, but we gave up that pick for Shroeder, who we let walk for free in the very next season. There are a whole lot of decisions to re-examine then. Did we bid against ourselves for AD? Magic wasn't here anymore, who cares what he ",supposedly offered anyway? Pops knocked Boston out of the game, he would have done the same thing, with Magic finishing the deal.


Agh..So now Rob is just as good as Presti, or Stephens, or any other GM huh? He's practically, really not far off from Jerry West either right? We will continue to disagree on this Rob subject, completely.

 

There’s this thing called Google where you can find reports of what Magic offered and it was more. But the Slick m.o. is to only believe reports that support his narrative and say Meh to anything proving otherwise.

 

Post it then..you just burned the time to post this BS. Let's see it.

 

Rui keeps getting better every year and just like AR this is “kind of” a “career contract year” for Rui too. To get that significant bump in pay to set him up for a higher level going forward. And “like” AR I do not expect him either to be thinking he can come back this season without further improvement and then expect MORE money than he’s been making.

 

Austin over Rui for sure.

 

I think Rui can be a pretty solid PF in this league for the next 5-6 years. It’s just a shame he plays the same position as Lebron, because having them both starting means we’re a little slow on the perimeter.

I wouldn’t trade Rui unless it made a lot of sense. Like Rui, Knecht 1st for Herb Jones. Solves our 1-3 POA defence.

Otherwise you’re just doing lateral moves.

 

Honestly facts call up Nola they might do something dumb lol

 

Feb. 4th, 2019. Go find it yourself.

 

I have high hopes for my favorite players, but Rui isn't a Lebron replacement. At 40 James is still a better defender and rebounder as a 3 or 4. That's a problem when Lebron retires.

 

Well damn again..just post it. Let's see what you have.

 

Really don't care if you think I'm bluffing. I gave you the date. Again, do it yourself. You're halfway there.