Anthony Davis Discussion: Thanks For The Ring AD!!!

In assessing whether too much was given up in the trade package, was there any value given to the fact that Lavar would no longer be around? That is a residual benefit that has to be good for something.

 

@Jaguar No, but there is concern that Lonzo's camp may leak something to try to slow down the trade. No evidence it will happen but Lakers know his camp is more than capable of pulling a stunt like that. Personally I feel that as long as Lonzo doesn't somehow sabotage his own physical, it should be okay.

-Mr. Rambis

 

@karacha Yes big relief! It's tough to say that very often nowadays about the front office!

 

This "getting Rambis' blessing" on deals is really starting to get on my last nerve. Where is the proof that Rambis is in charge of anything on this team? Seriously? The Kurt Rambis and Linda Rambis jokes are fine, but there is no evidence those two dildos have any say on s***.

 

@OX1947 When it comes to bball ops though Jeanie has the final say she generally puts those decisions in the hands of "trusted advisors." Originally that was supposed to be entirely Magic, but since his departure, Kurt has become a powerful voice. He interfaces between upper level management and basketball ops, so Jeanie wanted his opinion before pulling the trigger. This is going to be the theme moving forward...

-Mr. Rambis

 

Go after Kawhi and Butler first. They’re both strong two way players.

We saw Love go from a 26/13 to a spot up shooter, no one wants that from the guy we just traded the farm for. So Kyrie and Kemba are 3rd options and we gotta be clear that the third max player always gets affected by the law of diminishing returns. There is only one ball, so why go for a Kyrie or Kemba when they won’t have the ball in their hands.

This FA class has a lot of good role players:

Beverley
Rondo
Collision
Rubio
Reddick
Brogdon
Ellington
Green
Hood
Seth Curry
Ariza
Gay
J. Green
Aminu
Bogdanovic
Morris
Mirotic
Lopez
McGee
Chandler
Cousins
M Gasol
Deandre

And if we get rid of Wagner/Bonga, we got 35m. There isn’t enough cap space league wide for all of those guys to go the 10m+ route, pickup someone like Brogdon for 15-18m and then split the rest of the 17-20m on 3 of the better ones. Maybe Green, Lopez and Ariza. And try to sign 2 or 3 more for vet mins, like Rondo/Gay/McGee.

 

Here's PROOF we have on who runs the Lakers. Jeanie is the owner. Rob Pelinka is the General Manager. Rob Pelinka being a former agent is a cap master. In 2 years, he executed the elimination of 2 toxic contracts and freed up enough money to get Lebron James and kept enough salary to trade for AD and enough to have the ability to acquire another max guy. Those are facts and they are a click away from finding them on the internet. Magic helped in closing the deal on Lebron because Magic is only good at being Magic. Everything else, he is a disaster but we all knew that.

So, now, can we please stop talking about Kurt Rambis and Linda and Chaz and all these mystical puppet masters that supposedly run the Lakers decision making? They don't control s*** according to the evidence we see in the places that matter. Listening to media people make s*** up is not evidence. None of the idiots who know everything knew anything. And anyone who "game out first with AD going to LA" were likely just shooting guesses out their rear ends and it just happened to come true. Anyone could have done that.

 

Clear where? What clear? Who are the multiple beat reporters saying anything? What does Linda know about basketball operations? What does Kurt Rambis know about player personnel? The only people running s*** in LA right now not named Jeanie or Rob is Klutch. That's about it.

 

Totally get your line of thinking. I wouldn’t mind it playing out that way either. I just think when Lebron comes off the books, it’ll be time to look for a new star with that freed up cap space.

 

So the same guy everyone complains about when it comes to Laker talk, now you take what he says on this as legit? Do the Lakers have Kurt Rambis in their media guide as their consultant now? Anyone have the current media guide? Will we get one in the new year?

 

We just willingly traded our #2 pick, while insisting that we keep our #27 pick from the same draft. I wouldn’t get too worked up about future picks. Focus on getting rings now.

 

Cook, draft picks got us AD. Also, draft picks need to be fully committed to. And that commitment means 3 to 4 years, if you are lucky. These kids are 19, they take time, and the Lakers really never gave it a chance. Had they just rolled with Dlo, randle, BI, lonzo and hart, maybe in 3 years they would have been the new GSW minus the shooting. However, the Lakers, Lakers fans never wanted it. We want already made stars and titles now. And that's where we are going now.

 

Kurt has a lot more power than most of you likely are comfortable with. If I had to make a comparison, while it isn't exact, he's essentially slid into Magic's role as far as authority goes, just without the title (for optics reasons). Based on what I've seen, he's not great at creating a welcoming corporate culture, unfortunately.

That being said, if you are a fan of the AD trade, he could have killed it but gave the final "okay" - so there's that.

-Mr. Rambis

 

Alright. You win. I'm a Kurt Rambis fan again.