Jordan Clarkson Discussion

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  1. lakersyunowin

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    They say a picture is worth a thousand words. At least three of those words should be "F*** you Byron"
     
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    I swear if we lose this kid to free agency...
     
  3. RasAlgethi

    RasAlgethi Moderator Staff Member

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    I feel for the guys. I don't deserve a coach that's actually a net negative.
     
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    He's a restricted free agent so there's zero shot of that happening.
     
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    Wow. Reading these Bresnahan Tweets is sad.

    "Jordan Clarkson is not happy with his game. 'I missed shots today because I was playing selfish...taking shots that I don't usually take.'"

    Damn. Jordan Clarkson is NOT the problem.
     
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    He also said "nobody was moving the ball." So while he's being too hard on himself, at least he knows it's not just him.
     
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    I think they had 6 assists through three quarters. The ball definitely wasn't moving.
     
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    Every single one of the players tonight was being selfish. Every one of them and they're feeding off of Byron/Kobe/Lou to get to that end.
     
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    Man, I wish we had evidence that Byron loses locker rooms and kills players morale. Oh, wait; same thing happened in Cleveland.
     
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    That is just sad man. Feel for Jordan. This is a young man who's improved expenentially his gifts two years in the league. Had a bad game today. Probably his first of the year, but he's clearly the team's best player. Also think it's silly that people think he's platued. Given how much he's improved already there is no reason to think he can't continue to do so.
     
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    He's killing our team, killing it. The youth are losing confidence and putting this on themselves, the vets are becoming frustrated, this is THE darkest time ever as a Lakers fan, and we suffered through Brown and 'Antoni. How can the FO not see he needs to go right now when they did it with Brown and this is WORSE? HOW?
     
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    ... and in New Jersey and New Orleans. I told you this will happen the moment we signed this guy. He is who he is and his track record was pretty telling.
     
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    I was on the "Praying we don't sign Byron." bandwagon, but was able to except it because we were coming off of D'Antoni AND Mike Brown. As it turns out, we should have let D'Antoni play out his contract. He would have been good for D"Angelo to be honest.
     
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    Was cooking early, this guy has so many speeds he can switch to at will. Hope the ankle is okay.
     
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    Really wished he was out there to end the game with Russ and Randle instead of Lou. Hope the ankle is just a minor sprain.
     
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    Yeah tough to see Jordan go down. Was in attack mode, showed some nice change of direction to get the defender on his heels, and even after the injury made a couple of nice drives to get to the paint area and finish.
     
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    I don't think it was that bad, considering he played after hurting it, at least I hope not. Before that he was playing great, getting to the rim at will.
     
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    He was a little gimpy before he got taken out so it was clearly bugging him, but hopefully it's nothing too serious. It looked like a pretty typical tweak so he shouldn't really miss much time but it'll hamper him a bit.

    I love Jordan's energy offensively. Now I want to see that translate defensively. He's not a bad defender, but he's not a good one right now either. Monta Ellis really does seem like a solid comparison so far to his game. I'd love to see him getting tutoring from Cooper on defensive footwork.
     
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    This picture is crazy, shows how young our young guys are, and JC is the oldest of the main trio by a few years.

     
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    Hopefully not. Or.....equally hopefully.....maybe it was nastier than we know......BUT he has some of the Mamba's pain blanking capabilities as it moves in for the kill.

    :Magic Brows:

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    Holy s*** I came back to this post because I just noticed in this photo and remember his blown tendon in his small finger as well. I had only searched for pics with the splint from when he broke his index finder of his freaking shooting hand and continued to shoot reasonably well. :Kobeheadbob: But that pinkie too, he just wasn't going to drop out of that season's quest for the playoffs and a ring. And that is the result he was living with afterwards in games. On his shooting hand. To this day I don't know.... did he ever get some pig tendon or artificial fix for it??
     
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