Wmc 15/16: We are finally at the END! BYE BYRON!!!

I just don't understand. What's your breaking point?

This isn't just a tanking season, this is a season that is by far the worst I've seen as a Laker fan. I know I've said that each of the last three seasons, but somehow we find a way to dig deeper. Somehow this franchise finds a way to burrow below what we thought rock bottom was. Three years ago it was Mike D'Antoni and his awful system, marginalizing Pau, and of course the abandonment of Dwight Howard. Then it was Byron Scott and injury after injury to an already weak team.

But now? Now the team has more talent than it's had in three years and has been relatively healthy all along besides Kobe being in and out of the lineup... Now what's the excuse? The kids are too young... That's it? Because Porzingis, Okafor, and Towns are getting more minutes and generating more excitement than ours are. Are our players not as talented as those guys? Did our Front Office make a mistake taking D'Angelo instead of Porzingis?

What exactly are we as fans supposed to be doing here? Supporting this team blindly? I feel sorry for fans who are still consistently watching every minute of every game. You don't deserve that. We don't deserve that.

I'm sick of media personalities saying "You Laker fans are so spoiled, that's the problem. You expect too much too soon all the time."

First of all: F*** yes we do. We expect the greatest that we can be every single season. That's WHY so many people are Laker fans. That's WHY the Lakers are so expensive and so well known across the world. We're spoiled? Who's fault is that? All that line of thinking does is tell me the Front Office we have now is ill prepared to live up the legacy of this franchise. If these Buss kids were half of what their father was, they'd have this team in a better position.

Second of all: Being spoiled has made us recognize greatness when we see it. It's also helped us recognize bull**** when we see that and what we're getting is clearly the latter. We're getting at least two tanking seasons in a row. I don't believe D'Antoni's team was meant to tank, but the last two certainly were. We've been sold fool's gold while they're still charging gold prices.

I'm fed up. I hope you guys are too. Byron might be a big part of this, but it's not just him. Mitch and Jim and Jeanie have all signed off on what we're getting. This is pathetic and while I'll come here every day and watch CaChooka's videos before the NBA pulls them, I'm not going to waste a lot of my time and energy on the Lakers. I'm not buying tickets. I'm not watching TWC and giving them any sort of ratings boost. I'm not doing it and I hope you guys follow suit. If you DO go, if you MUST, then I hope you go with paper bags over your heads and signs that tell the world how unhappy you are. You deserve more than what you're getting.

 

What else do you need to make a change?

- Young talent giving up? Check.
- Veteran talent giving up? Check.
- Media personalities making fun of your coach? Check.
- Fans making fun of your coach? Check.
- Worst record in the West? Check.
- Worst record in franchise history? Check.
- Ratings down? Check.
- Young talent calling for change in the locker room? Check.
- Veteran talent giving up on the season? Check.
- Fans booing openly at the stadium? Check.

What else is there? What more do they need? Say something! Do ANYTHING! Radio silence is all we've got.

 

^^ Agreed, being fed manure about it all being the players fault with no call out on the terrible coaching from the talking heads (Worthy, Miller, Horry, etc.) is adding insult to injury. We aren't buying that nonsense.

Even more alarming however was the recent revelations coming out of the FO's camp saying they might bring BS back for another year of this horror show that they are daring to call basketball.

I said last night the boos towards Kelly were very misplaced. They should have been for Boron. Of course they should be for the FO too.

 

I would start one, but that would require me dropping money on this pathetic product. I have an idea. Maybe we could get everyone on this board and LG and Laker Nation to all get a ticket to the same game and just start a Byron Sucks chant like 10 times throughout the night. If we could coordinate that, I would DEFINITELY be down. Just chant Byron sucks for minutes at a time. Even if the front office could somehow look past it, the damage it would do to him in the players eyes would probably force the FO to act.

 

It isn't weird, the fans are fed up with losing, and B0ron, and Kelly is a perfect example of someone who shouldn't be playing and B0ron's awful coaching. Kelly shouldn't be playing unless your team has suffered injury to every other big other than Sacre, yet he's played a bunch more games than Tarik Black has. Maybe Kelly doesn't deserve the boos specifically, but I get the boos completely.

 

I do feel a little bad for Kelly. But that was not a boo of Kelly as much as it was of Byron's substitution patters. People are tired of Byron not playing Randle and Russell. While there are a lot of dumb Laker fans, there are plenty of smart ones that know our ONLY way out of this mess is if those two youngsters get playing time and start learning. I don't think people hate Kelly. That's like booing Sacre. I think it was more of the fans booing that someone, ANYONE was on the court other than Randle.