Loved this part: "MT: Take me back to Draft Day. With Magic Johnson, Rob Pelinka and everybody there in the war room, what was the process by which you ended up with Kuzma? Buss: We’ve kept the process the same. With the input of our scouts, we all work together to orchestrate our big board, and Kuzma was the highest guy on our board when we came up at No. 27. We actually had him much higher than 27th on our board; it just worked out that he fell to us. We were ecstatic when we made the pick. MT: I know you won’t tell me exactly where you had him on the board, but it was significantly higher? Buss: Yes a significant number. Several spots. He was our highest ranked college prospect we’ve gotten outside the lottery (in the past several years). This being the deep draft that it was, you just felt like getting a top-20 pick – at least in our rankings – was going to be a rotational player no matter what." And I loved that Jesse said that Kuzma had been on their radar for year. Years!! I swear if it wasn't for our scouting department being killer, it would have been very hard to take these down years.
http://www.lakersnation.com/lakers-...ulture-is-headed-in-the-right-way/2017/09/08/ “We don't care what OX says ... It’s awesome. We come in and it’s a positive energy every single day […] It’s just a great culture, you can tell that the culture is different than what it was in the past with past teams. We’re definitely going in the right way I think.”
AWE. How nice. Everyone is friends and getting along. I can't wait to watch them get along on the sidelines every game.
Kuz is the quintessential PF of this era. If his shooting in SL translates to the NBA, he would be deadly at the PF position off the bench when Lebron sits. BI is a 3 through and through. And George is a 2, thru and thru.
Better take a look at the playas in that pic again ..... hardly bench warmers including Mr. quintessential himself. (most of em anyway)
Gets Lonzo onto the podcast. Asks first question about the reality show... Dammit. WTF is wrong with you people.
