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

our draft pick may be high enough this year to nab someone like him.

i wonder why so many teams passed on him. i'm guessing they know things we don't?

 

Honestly would just get back Damian Jones to be the backup center: yeah he's not a good rebounder but like Lopez I think you can get him to box out plus his rim protection/lob threat would be great.

IMO the weakness remains a PF who can switch on defense and still be an offensive threat: in other words we need someone like Morris who can actually crack the rotation and be a consistent sniper.

 

i think the stretch 4 concept is something that seems to work better on paper these days. mostly because big guys who can both defend multiple spots and shoot are incredibly rare. everyone thinks you just trot jamychal green out there...but you can't.

but i guess we're talking stretch-5s, which, weirdly, may be a more common phenomenon. maybe because it's easier to be big and shoot a standstill than shoot a standstill and be able to defend 4 spots.

 

I remember 20 years ago tweener was a dreaded label: not big enough to post up but not quick enough to get past guards. Nowadays though if you're a tweener whose willing to defend and able and willing to sit in the corner to shoot or play off the ball you're gold. Contract year Tim Thomas would make a lot of money in the modern NBA.

For the Lakers I wonder if you can salvage another good year or two out of a guy like Rudy Gay as a possibility: he shot pretty well this year

 

Any interest in this guy? How good is he? Does he play defense?

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/cleveland-cavaliers-may-look-trade-153043643.html

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/sextoco01.html

 

Zero.

If you have to coddle a guy like this, steer clear

 

but it helped, he had a great season minus injuries

 

i like sexton like you lt lol

 

I have no opinion though, haven’t been much aware of him, why I was asking.

 

If both Blazers and Lakers lose in the 1st round , it's Dame time !

 

true, cant stand 1 injury prone player, 2 would be worse

 

what you offering?

 

A lot of scenarios discussed about just how much could be up in the air this off season.

 

rival nba execs really like to make dire predictions for the lakers that always end up not being true.

a lebron james "heave" away, huh? no slant on that piece...

yeah, like pretty much every good team doesn't have two max players on its cap sheet. their problem is that their two aren't as good as ours. sorry, rival execs.

they played gasol and trez as much as mcgee and howard (and won as often), and then have played drummond and gasol more than they played howard and mcgee. this is lazy. no wonder other teams suck so much. their execs sound like lazy message boarders.

and that team was substantially better until everyone got hurt. seriously? we're just going to ignore this like the 2003-4 season, aren't we? rival execs...


i just don't see an actual piece of information in the article beyond "other gms hope the lakers fail and try to paint a good situation as a bad one to no avail". gnashing of teeth about the cap while admitting that actually only a few guys are officially under contract. and then that's the problem. sort of like we couldn't possibly trade for AD until we massively overpaid. just disingenuous b*******.

i like the STRONG hedge at the end (paraphrasing): "we're still pretty terrified that they overcome AD's injury and destroy everyone again...even thought they TOTALLY SUCK!"

 

My thoughts...I think there's a good chance we could look very differently next year whether we lose to the Suns or beat the Nets. Rob is an aggressive GM and we shook it up after winning last year. Expecting us to run it back, even not factoring in all our free agents, seems unlikely.

We have four big men who are going to want a bigger role next year. We have a disgruntled starting "PG" who wants far more than we want to offer. And we have two young guards who most teams really like. So yeah...half the roster rotating out again wouldn't surprise me at all.

I'd definitely be in favor of taking another swing at Lowry. If the price is lower, basically if THT is kept out of the offer. The issue as I understand it is that a S&T with DS would hard cap us. Limiting us to minimum signings after. I'm not sure if we could work out our other deals, including the $10m mid level, THEN orchestrate a S&T. Contrary to league beliefs, Rob is well versed with the cap. So I trust he can figure out how to maximize our off season financials.

They mention Knicks as a logic spot for DS based on prior rumors. But I think my dream of a Rose for DS swap might be dead with Rose's series against the Hawks. He's king of the apple right now.

Moving Kuz will be much easier because his salary jumps this off season. That'll greatly help any trades we want to pursue. I don't feel that is mentioned enough in the national media. They all mention we've shopped him and expect us to continue to do so. But the range of options increase 10 fold when he leaps out of that $ bracket. Revisiting Dinwiddie 100% depends on health. I really don't want to help the Nets in any way, shape or form.

Then with Kidd... who cares. Bye. I could be 100% wrong, but I haven't read/seen/heard nearly enough regarding his contributions. Outside looking in, he's along for the ride. I'll gladly give his spot to Handy and bring in Dudz or Rondo, if either retire.

 

my issue wasn't with predictions of change--it was the reasons given at the beginning. like there's some sort of dumpster fire going on right now. there's not. we're in good position. we could bring everyone back and probably be the betting favorite next year. we won't, but we could.

yeah, i'd have to dig into it, but i think there are ways to order moves that would make the hard cap kick in at the very end on a S&T.

by the same token, if rose is a hero there, does ny want to spend big on schroder? does schroder want to be his backup or does rose want to be schroder's backup?

i wonder how aggressively kuz was shopped, tbh. and yes, he's easier to move now that he has a salary locked in and can fetch a reasonable return in that regard.

kidd was pretty useless as a head coach elsewhere, and he seems pretty useless here. hopefully, we can bring in a innovator as an assistant if he leaves.