2020-21 Players' Transactions: Breaking News , Trades, Free Agents, And Rumors

Man I don't know. Is he knowledgeable and knows his stuff? Is he a good enough media personality as well? Who woulda thunk it how we hated him and his thuggish ways plus always looking mad because he was constipated. Amirite?

But for effort alone .... hell yeah I've always liked Perkins!

 

More of the running joke of:

• Person compliments your team or players on your team
• Followed by “Always liked that guy”

 

He’d be an amazing fit

maybe even better than Kuzma

 

We could have drafted him instead we all liked Randle lol fans and FO

 

I'd rather have Zach than Randle but their numbers per 36 aren't really different.

The danger in signing him is that he's a max player but he's a max player like DLo is a max player.

Good player but overpriced

Unless he still has one more gear.

https://www.basketball-reference.co...=Zach+LaVine&player_id2=lavinza01&idx=players

 

he's a UFA after the 21-22 season

 

Zach is of interest to me.

So is Dinwiddie and Myles Turner.

 

feel like lavine's a hair away from being salary dumped. i agree that if he's not the focal point, things might change, but if he's your best player, you're terrible. i know this will start a holy war again, but i view lavine like ingram in some ways. he's efficient. he puts up numbers. but his team doesn't seem to do well when it's happening. you say: maybe if he's your third-best player...but i say: maybe he can't play in that role.

come to think of it, randle's like that, too. big numbers, decent efficiency--until you ask him to be part of a winning strategy.

 

But at 22 there's a dramatic difference

https://www.basketball-reference.co...gram&y2=2020&player_id2=ingrabr01&idx=players

It's not a holy war because we're not trading Ingram for Zach

Zach is obviously a superior athlete but if this season isn't a fluke from Ingram then they aren't even close as players

Ingram rebounds more, passes better, shooting more efficiently at the same age

Zach has that Kuzma like confidence and bravado that many like. He talks big while Ingram mumbles.

Sometimes you need that from a player... but in terms of efficiency they aren't close at 22.

 

Why aren’t the Lakers taking a look at Evan Turner either?

He would be fine as a option at SF off the bench who is capable of handling the ball.

 

well, i meant now:

https://www.basketball-reference.co...t=Brandon+Ingram&player_id2=ingrabr01&y2=2020

i think assuming continuous upward trajectories in the face of years of contrary evidence is dangerous. and i think lavine and ingram look VERY similar right now.

i actually disagree. i don't think kuz could put up huge scoring numbers as a #1. his ballhandling and pull up game isn't strong enough. that doesn't mean he can't be useful in other roles, though.

and to the original point: if a player thrives in conditions where his team doesn't...what does that mean?

i won't go back into it, but i don't think title or bust is a reasonable stance. we went from doormat to contender. it's over. we won. we weren't going to contend otherwise. the lebron/AD plan is and was the right one, always.

zion being the next lebron has NOTHING to do with what happened before that. nothing. i can't stress this enough. and it's clear that only zion being the next lebron will lead to NO being in a good spot going forward. because ingram as lebron was looking...basically like it did here.