Official Wmc Thread: Um Those Too Many W's! Fix The Tank!

same ish, different year.

 

This might be the lowest day of my Laker fandom. Losing to the C Bags in '08 was tough, but I knew we'd get them the next time. Kobe going down 2 season ago with the achilles was tough, but I knew he'd be back. This time, there were 2 or 3 bright spots this season, Randle's development, getting to see Kobe's 2nd to last season, and Byron Scott. Now Randle is out, Kobe will kill himself to get us 30 wins, and if these injuries don't stop, Scott has no chance to make a real impact this season, he will look bad no matter what.

 

It's depressing no doubt. Nowhere near as sad or scary as the day Magic called it quits though. This one doesn't even rate for me compared to that. We didn't think Magic would have long to live. Thankfully things turned out fine in the end. And in this case Randle should be fine physically so it was less intense to me than Kobe's Achilles which was bound to diminish his career. This may not have a truly adverse effect on Randle beyond just the lost time for development. Losing a whole year is awful. But yeah, I'm down personally about it because he really was the shining bright hope of this season - watching him blossom hopefully under the tutelage of Kobe and Byron. It's terrible for us as fans and for Julius. But hopefully he'll be back at totally full strength next year as James Worthy was after this injury. It just cast a pall on this entire season whereas we were all pretty upbeat about in the pre-season.

 

Magic's announcement goes down as one of the saddest moments really in all of sports. Obviously it's easy to look back now and say it was sad, but at the moment it was a death sentence. Nobody knew if he'd live let alone play ball again. Just Earth shattering stuff.

Randle's injury might not be the same, but the organization is in almost a worse spot. As a personal story it's really not that bad, but collectively with the rest of our terrible luck... it just feels strange how things have gone for us. It really does feel like a curse and I think that's where the fan base is right now. What can we do we change this? It's not just the old guys getting hurt, but the young ones too. The ones who are supposed to be bulletproof.

No, this doesn't measure up to Kobe's Achilles or Magic's announcement, but as an organization on a downward slope I was hoping we'd stopped the skid. Turns out there's still further to go to rock bottom.

 

^^ Yeah, sadly it does feel like we're cursed or snake bitten. It started with the Mike Brown hire (our own FO's fault), then the nixed Pau trade (Stern's fault), then the Nash injury which was freaky, then the D' Antoni hire while sticking a knife in Phil's back, then Kobe's achilles, then Coward bailing, then all of last season, and now our big hope Randle. It does totally suck and it's like pouring salt on our wounds for our top 10 pick to break his leg this way. The timing is awful because I feel like we finally got over the suckitude of our last two coaches and now we get hit with another round of injuries to knock out any kind of enthusiasm. Guess we just have to get over it. I hope that Swaggy P can come back with some fire and add a much needed spark to the bench and that Lin and Davis can play up to their potential. That and maybe we fill out the roster with a couple adds to help us out.

 

I don't think we have to tank to get our top 5 pick back. We suck. And if Kobe has to push himself to carry us, he's gonna get hurt, and if that happens, we are the worst team in the West.

 

I don't see it that way really. Last season sure, but this season I think we're even worse than the Jazz and Kings, and possibly than the C Bags, and Magic. Only the Sixers are for sure worse, the Bucks, maybe.