WMC 24-25: Seasonal Highs And Lows!

Good company

 

this is what i mean, they brought in mostly offensive players and the offense still ranks at bottom portion just like last yr

 

i wouldn't say nunn was brought in to replace caruso. nunn isn't even close to being as good a defender as caruso (or KCP)

anyone waiting for nunn and 36 year old trevor ariza to come save this team is in for disappointment

 

The loss of Caruso is such a kick in the nuts: he's right in his prime, he good at what this team is lacking, and he works absolutely great with Lebron.
He also paired well the only other young player the Lakers had THT

k9 sucks, Nunn is hurt and doesn't bring what Caruso would bring. And guess what he fits in well when Ariza comes back as well.

 

Freakin jackholes played like the 96 Bulls last night only to look like the Clippers since their existence today and lose to the Kings. Great.

 

So tired of scrubs lighting us up.

 

yeah, part of it is teams getting up for us, but part of it is our awful team defense. everyone hates our offense, but the clippers are even worse. one of the very worst offenses in the league. and they put up 119 in regulation without sweating.

still can't believe that people mocked some of us on the forum who were concerned that we lost three 35+mpg rotation players who defended and how that would impact the defense this year.

well, it has HAD AN IMPACT. vogel (or any coach) can't just wave a defense wand when half the team is thoroughly disinterested in playing defense, including its stars and other veteran guys who are supposed to be leaders. what do you do? sit them and only play guys who will defend? can you sit lebron? i think he's catching crap from our player/gms for sitting dj! can you sit melo? you're stuck.

 

It used to be that we would be good enough to overcome a scrub lighting is up, missed FT's, or any other negative and still win in our championship runs.

Point? This team can't do that. Just seems like they don't have "it". Whatever that is. Just disappointing.

 

AD and Russ are in their basketball primes ...that's CAP.

 

If KCP and Caruso were the key to everything then Vogel is a fraud. Caruso only played 20 mins a game. Top perimeter players lit us up last year too, including Westbrook twice. Folks got amnesia around here, with this idea that those two were out there locking people down one on one. That didn't happen, the team defense was a bit better on the rotations, and I get that, the guys had played together for a couple of seasons. We played the same slow it down, hold the ball until late in the shot clock, don't crash the boards, game without AD or both him and Lebron. It helped keep the scores down, but they struggled to score, so the offense was always all on AD and James. Vogel just gets out coached down the stretch in too many games IMO. Including this last one.

 

vogel is a defensive coach and he has nothing to work with this season. the FO got rid of all the defensive-minded guys and brought in a bunch of old shooters who don't play D

 

To be fair with “no” picks they brought in Reaves who is helping in the now also and Brown who can maybe help in the now and also shoots some. Obviously surprised with Austin this early. Let’s hope with Huff too who’s starting to turn some heads with his play. And Stan Johnson hopefully too and probably before that latter two but good they are 2-way contracts.

Not being that magnanimous, yeah no defending wings with size besides up in years Ariza and same with the guards.

 

Like who? Kuzma couldn't guard a parked car. He still can't in Washington now. Melo is a push for Kuz. Trez was a defensive liability but he could score. Those two weren't defensive minded players. We complained all season about Dennis and his lackadaisical effort on both ends of the court. Russ isn't some huge drop off from Schroeder defensively IMO. It comes back to Caruso who again only played 20 minutes a game. And KCP...who I will point out, has never made an All Defensive team, and was decent one on one, he had his issues with guys that could score too. Howard is a defensive player, everybody wanted him back. Vogel hasn't played him enough. James was a big part of the perimeter defense too, he hasn't played in half of the games. I think the Vogel doesn't have the players he need stuff, is an excuse for him being rather mediocre this season. Again... I still believe that 12 new players and some missing a lot, or all the season is the biggest problem. Frank could be doing a better job, of coaching what he does have though.

 

These guys will beat us by 30 lol