WMC 24-25: Seasonal Highs And Lows!

How and who the f*** looked up that obscure fact?

 

I met metta at fryman hiking trail 3 days ago

 

Awesome. C’mon man tell us more!! Am betting he was a cool dude and appreciated you being a smart Lakers fan and rapped with you awhile?

 

I feel like I'm getting slapped by Will Smith after every Laker game I watch

 

Even if AD and role players were healthy and we had him most of the year, I don't think this team would have worked out on the court. There are on and off court issues that goes back 2+ years and pointing to the Russ trade, poor coaching by Vogel and injuries is just a copout.

The team philosophy was all wrong if their intention was to build a championship team. They heavily focused on being Lebron centric on and off the court and paid a massive price.


You go as far as your superstars take you, at the end of the day. Starting from Dec. 2020 AD and Lebron have not been top 5 level NBA players. This year Lebron is out of top 10 IMO.


They did not deliver top 5 level play in the 2020-2021 season and lot of excuses given such as fatigue, short offseason, etc. These two set the tone for the organization with bad habits on the court and the franchise made a habit of giving a litany of excuses. Well its no surprise it carried into the 2021-2022 season and only got worse when they needed to win. What did you expect? The bad habits and poor team philosphy carried into this year.


There are other issues like subpar coaching, poor 3 point shooting, lack of footspeed and athleticism. We had those same issues in 2019-2020 too but we had a large amount of success because AD + Lebron excellent play on the court (AND UNDERAPPRECIATED ROLE PLAYERS WHO FIT QUITE WELL. THOSE ROLE PLAYERS INDIVIDUALLY HAD MANY SHORTCOMINGS BUT THEY WORKED WELL)


At least Kobe empowered the likes of Randle, Clarkson, Russell, Nance on his way out. We had hope for those guys.


This team routinely blows games against teams with lesser talent. Earlier in the year they were losing by double digits and were routinely down 20+ often and being non competitive (especially at home).

This Lebron stat stuffing legacy chasing self promoting nonsense does not benefit the franchise one bit. Our franchise has lost the plot and needs to re-focus on BEING A TITLE CONTENDER from Ownership, FO, Coach to players on the court. Fans like myself are quite turned off because this team in not competing, lacks heart, lacks desire and unwatchable.

 

They are not even being competitive and losing in worse ways than the 2013-2018 Laker teams. Yikes

 

The on court results are worse than the lean 2013-2018 years. At least that team competed even if they were not as talented.

 

Fair enough: I think KCP's numbers are a bit down but maybe that's because he's in the wrong role. I also forgot about Bradley, Dwight, Ariza, and Baze

Second attempt at this rerank trade value IMO (performance, age, contract, fit, etc.)

1) Caruso
2) Kuzma

Big Drop off
3) Monk
4) Trez
5) KCP

Big Drop off
6) Reaves (again contract/age)
7) Stan
8) Westbrook
9) Dwight (would rather have Dwight than Westbrook but hey)
10) Wenyen

Big Drop off
11) Bradley
12) Baze
13) Ariza


Looks horrible in terms of in and outs and that's reflected in the stats/season record

 

Damn, Windy kept the receipts.

 

kind of a weird article. it's not really unified or centered on a point. just laker doom porn. whatever, windhorst. sorry lebron left you.

 

I barely know two of those players.

Cake. Walk. For SA

 

Frank going back to not playing AR. Fire his a**, for all I care. Dumb lineups once again.

 

Absolutely horrendous lineups and you can check the game thread. Folks were calling these lineups trash right when they saw them on the court

 

anyone with a brain knew the season was not going to go well after the Westbrook trade, but the reality exceeded the most apocalyptical expectations.

 

Andre Ingram szn upon us

 

Pelinka to team: "You could say this room has the greatest basketball talent assembled on a team in recent history. You could say that. But without the proper mindset as a team, that amounts to jack s---, and we know that."

James to the media: "It was exciting helping put this team together this summer. Understanding what I felt and we all felt was going to make us a title-contending team. ... I watch enough basketball to know what I need to do to help the ball club depending on the acquisitions we make per year. So I'm very cerebral about what I need to do for our team to be as great as we can be and to be the counterpart to what Russ brings to the table. ... I always figure it out."


reads like a comedy sketch at this point

 

Impressive collapse.