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Yeah. That’s weird. I’ve gotta think someone screwed up the feed.

 

you are so right about that.

 

Sacramentos going to be asking teams. You gotta take on Lavigne or Malik Monk. To get a Lewis.

They’ll try to offset Derozan also. It’s all about getting off the money. Lewis will help teams. But he’ll have a lot of suiters. He has potential.

Kings will operate as

1. Lavigne

2. Derozan

3. Monk


Lavignes checked out. In this AAU culture if you don’t know what you’re doing the players will check out and not play for you. They’ll bail.

How they do it is play like s*** Lavigne had 8 points two games within 10 days.

I think it’s a player thing. They all want Christie out. That’s how I read it.

Monk looks miserable. What a difference having Mike Brown to having Doug Christie. That’s like when players be calling the agents like what the f*** are they doing here?

 

OKC can put a package together for Lewis. They have the most to offer.

 

I've seen it on multiple broadcasts, or I'd have thought the same thing. This is definitely on purpose, and it's just weird.

 

What do they actually do?

A shoulder for Jeanie to lean on?

I would think they will be shown the door after the season

 

fair, though tbh, that had a lot to do with this:

i don't necessarily want fewer cooks...i want better ones. and a clear power structure. that was the magic/rob problem, i think. both thought they had control. we kept the right one amongst those two choices.

see my posts about the clips in the other thread, lol. lue fits right in with their undoing being focusing on one-upping us instead of just getting better.

i think this is why it was a key to have all the cap space this summer--not necessarily to use it but to use it as a threat in some instances. like if we really want keon ellis, it's a very legit bargaining chip that he's a UFA this summer, and we have enough money to just sign him and probably keep everyone else we like.

it's also why having a roster spot and enough room under the first apron to sign a buyout is leverage: you want all the firsts? ok, we'll just wait for thybulle to be bought out.

 

100% this

Quality over quantity

 

I think we’ll have a few teams blow things up by January. When they’re in a 8-20 hole. That’s bleak and time to reset.

Kings probably don’t trade with us though. Neither would Indy. Maybe the pelicans do? Washington and the Nets would. If Clippers blow it up - which they won’t, I’d try for DJJ.

 

i'll keep saying that we need to keep our eye on fallout/3rd team opportunities. boston got their ring because a team that wasn't going to trade with them sent the guy needed to a team that didn't need him. the kings are almost certain to do this, right? we need to be making in-roads on some back-door deals to nab ellis or whomever shakes loose in such a situation. we fooled ainge into taking jhs; we can do this!

 

Yes, we should try to facilitate a 3rd team to make it work

 

Yeah. We need an organizational structure with a clear guy at the top. It was definitely a part of the Magic/Rob thing. Expectations and individual roles need to be clearly defined and kept in line too.

If I came to you and asked you to help me get something back on track and told you I understood that you had other business arrangements and wouldn't be around all the time and that's fine; you would probably be upset with me if I turned around and criticized you and your work ethic for not being around everyday. To my understanding, that's some of what was at play with the whole Magic fiasco (I will again note, I was against bringing in him as the leader and thought he should have remained as a guy to help with pitches etc).

The internal wars were just too much and its a miracle we were able to still have the success we have had until this point.

Beyond that, fortunately the Clippers are the Clippers. They had a real shot at relevancy but instead couldn't get over their envy of us and its all falling apart for them again. Good times.

I agree that we should be in great shape this summer. I do feel like we will make a move if its there though. Particularly with our great start.

Edited - my butchering of the paragraph but I think @abeer3 understood the gist of it.

 

I never thought, as has become the way perception of what was going on between them evolved following Magic’s choice of “backstabbing” comments for his fury, that early on Rob was emailing Jeanie, snake like, trying to convince her HE was better suited to run the show rather than working under Magic as she had set it up. Rob knew how volatile Johnson could be behind the scenes to risk THAT getting back to him.

First impressions at that time we read about here and which did always make sense to me …. is that Pelinka had a ton of work to do to start digging out of the hole created by Jim and Mitch with the MozDeng fiasco. Kobe knew him intimately and sold him to Jeanie as being whip smart with the team/player transactions and basketball …. and a “grinder” type of worker to get things done. So he was doing all that but Magic of course had final say on everything as his boss. Who was often not there or timely getting back with important needed answers and approvals that Rob needed to do his job. Due to Magic’s whole other portfolio of businesses he also had to attend to. In frustration finally Rob finally started emailing Jeanie about it and someone in the organization alerted Johnson. Who DID go ballistic. Or Jeanie herself had a talk with him to see if his outside focus …. was in fact becoming a problem. That’s always made more sense than Rob trying so early on to orchestrate a coup, wanting Magic’s job TOO with all that he already had on his plate.

 

yes. but if i'd traded zubac for muscala, i'd just take the L and walk, lol. iow, are you the boss or the consultant? if you took the job as a consultant but assumed boss duties, it's on you. if you took the job as boss and treated like a consultancy, that's also a problem.

anyway, the common denominator here to me, in all things, is jeanie, not rob. she's the one who has input from rambii and tim harris and created a situation where rob and magic didn't know who did what.

 

lue will end up being the scapegoat, but not sure what the clips were thinking when they assembled a team of senior citizens to surround 36 year old harden and 34 year old kawhi (who is injured again shockingly)

 

She is which is what lead me and @VladeD714 to questioning everything way back when. I don't think she is a bad owner and we have had success under her. But her management style drives me absolutely nuts. lol

 

That team never made sense to me and I still can't believe how much they were being hyped before the season began. I do think Beal was a good buy low risk to take, but there was no reason to think the Clippers were anything more than a play in team at best.

 

If that idiot Kawhi Leonard had just come to the Lakers, he would have stacked rings and had less weight on that body and the Lakers would have steam rolled the C Bags in 2022. All for some greedy piece of s*** greedy family member.

 

Agree. I'm excited about what the future holds. That's kind of how I live my life. The past is the past. What's done is done. You try to make the best decision in front of you with all the data you have & live with it. If you're right about 80 percent of the time, you're doing okay, LOL. Basketball is life to me in many ways.

My point? Just enjoy the journey. I'm excited about new leadership, and I'm excited about the possible basketball minds he can deliver; you know what I want now? I'd like for him to start upgrading that assistant coaching staff for JJ. Brooks & McMillian? We can do better than that, IMO.

On topic, let the star chasing begin next summer, lol.

 

This summer should definitely be an interesting one. I definitely expect us to add to the staff. Complaints about shooting coaches and things like that should be a thing of the past. I also want to see what we do on the medical side of things.

I feel like someone big will move next summer but its hard to pin down who.