Official Whine, Moan, Complain Thread 19/20-CLOSED "WE CHAMPS!"

Cause our mgmt still relies on our history as their sales pitch rather than what they have planned for the future

 

^ plus hollywood, babes, sunshine and crap like that. Let's hope things will change with Luke...

 

The real starters should be:

Lou
Ingram
Nance
Black
Zubac

 

I feel like none of our vets are building blocks for the future. We need to let them expire or move for expirings, future draft picks, or young talent with potential.

Lou is expressionless, so he isn't emoticon worthy . Either way, at his age, and with our direction, it's obvious he isn't a big difference maker. You definitely flip him for an asset. No brainer. He's our best trade chip that we are most likely willing to part with.

Nick is Nick. Great he's having a great year, but at his core, he'll never change.

Deng. Great idea in theory, but it hasn't worked like they thought. 4 years of this?

Mozgov. When he got the Laker contract offer, he was like..... Just praying he passed his physical. Nice guy, decent effort, but not a building block for the future.

These guys? Roster filler. None of these guys have any game left unfortunately.

 

Talent-wise, this team is nowhere near as bad as they've been playing since the 10-10 start (outside of a few nice games). Are they a .500 team like they showed those first 20 games? No way. They were clearly overachieving and it seems maybe caught a few good team off-guard. Are they lose by 50 to the Mavs bad though? No freaking way! "They're just not good enough" is false IMO.

You can blame youth, injuries, and that awesome article pointing out the legit reasons why they've struggled defensively. Those are all valid. But last night may have pulled back the curtain to something else.

Something else is going on. What is it? IDK. Has Luke lost the team? I doubt it, but maybe. They seem to really like him and respect him. I don't think they're tuning him out. His schemes and philosophies seem ok. There's no mojo, confidence, passion, or heart. There's no more "I love basketball!" They look like they're going through the motions with apathy. Have they just accepted their fate as losers and given up? Is the NBA just a big joke to some of these young guys? Are they really just spoiled millenials content to get $millions, so they don't put their heart and soul into the game? Someone accurately vented about the lack of pride in the purple and gold and what it means to be a Laker in the gameday chat. There doesn't seem to be any of that, but why?

Is the entire organization in turnoil with these reports about Jeanie auditioning for new management? Maybe the young players feel like this organization is a freaking joke, so what's there to play for? I know in the business world, instability trickles down to productivity. Maybe the Jim/Jeanie b.s. is getting worse and worse behind the scenes as the season progresses and the players know/feel it, but we don't, so we're on the outside looking in like; "wtf is draining these kids' mojo?"

 

I think we should blame it on the KKK

Spoiler: Yes, you should click it.

 

There really isn't a presence on the team anyone can really rally around. There isn't a true leader on the floor...yet.

D'Angelo is too immature, Randle's inconsistent effort is detrimental...that leaves BI.

It took him about halfway through his season at Duke to really become the player that shot him up draft rankings. Coach K really had to dig into him to get it going, but he got there.

BI has been slow to adapt to the NBA level, but he's starting to turn a corner a bit, and I think he'll emerge as the alpha.

 

I've said this over the off season (maybe not here but with my buddies for sure), we have a bright young coach, a bunch of young talents, a handful of vets, what we need now is for the front office to get their crap together. Jeanie and Jim need to figure their s*** out or they need to both go. The constant pissing match between the two publicly trickles down and will affect the team somehow.

 

Can't listen to this right now. What does the complete title say? He wants to what? I'm sure Kobe wants to know too as he glances at LB when he's not making big dollar business deals ....

 

Oh my lord....... I don't even recognize him.

"My sharpshooting from outside."

 

Why did espnla replace the Thompson and Trudell shownwith Stephen A Smith? It's two hours of him yelling his opinions. It's just him too so there's no discussion going on. And when he does take phone calls, he'll usually interrupt the caller anyways.

Luckily T&T are still on for an hour, and there's Mason and Ireland in the afternoon.