Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

We need to make the playoffs

1) To try to up Westbrook trade value
2) A hard fought 6-7 game series loss can improve optics
3) Increase trade value and improve experience of young guys like THT, Reaves and Johnson.

 

2-3 more months and Deng is FINALLY off the books!

 

Too bad we can’t actually use the 5mil or whatever it is but thank god wr’re finally gonna be done with that mess

 

Do you know your season is really bad when this falls under the category of optimism lol

 

This made me happy to see:

 

Kobe should be there :/

 

he counted toward the tax, though, and his salary was greater than the difference between caruso's chicago offer and ours.

the deng stretch was a bad choice, and it pissed me off at the time. i knew it would have implications like that. he could have been turned into smaller long-term bad contracts, which could have been repurposed in other trades, or we could have just used his expiring in an eventual move. stretch/waive only works if that money is used wisely, and we didn't have to move off him to get lebron, which was our only proper use of cap space.

 

I’ll always drink with a …. errrr …. to a “glass half full”. Even if already snockered.

 

West could be interesting if Green doesn't get back for GS or if CP3 is on ice too long for the Suns. Not saying that opens the door for us, we have enough injury issues of our own to start looking at the urinal next to us. But in context of the West, wonder who could be this year's Phoenix? Grizz?

 

you mean a team that basically gets through the west by default due to injuries? i could see memphis. i would say utah, but their stars' chemistry bothers me.

the 5 and 6 seeds in the west both have an mvp-caliber, player, too.

 

Hoping Austin can get a bit of payback tonight on Lue and Jackson

 

just popping back in here to say i'm still glad we didn't make a move at the deadline. terrence ross wasn't salvaging this train wreck.

 

i need to watch the second half. i thought the first was brutal, so they must have really picked it up to make it a game. starting reaves and johnson is a positive.

 

Here's some optimism...

All the teams behind the blazers (11th seed) keep losing...and the blazers have a tough schedule coming up?

We may be losing, but maybe the current 11-15 teams just continue losing and we don't really lose any ground?

So as long as we stay the 10th seed...and we get AD back healthy in a few weeks...maybe we pull it off?

I mean yes - the Pelicans crushed us. But I think we can take them in ONE game right?

After that, it's Twolves or Clippers...I think Clippers beat the Twolves, so we likely face the Twolves for the 8th seed?

IDK - even though we're losing a bunch of games right now, surely we'll eventually...stop losing? Or does this get worse? lol

 

oh also - the pels have jazz, @nuggets, and @grizzlies next 3 games...could all be L's

 

This thread should be jettisoned to next year. The Lakers have the hardest schedule in the NBA for the remaining 20 games. With that, I am predicting that they will be out of the play in by the 10th game at the latest and that will signal the downfall to NO play in or playoffs for this season. I hope the Lakers can focus on doing some leg work on the next coach and if Lebron wants to sign the extension in August, I hope his stupid a** can be a leader when s*** gets tough and also respect the next coach that comes it so everyone can fall in line.

 

Not that far to go guys.

Season is almost done and we can light a fire to it.