could buy some picks but given how lakers mgmt has operated lately with regards to luxury tax id be surprised if they did even for a 2nd'er, probably use Reaves as an example of gaming the system
Don't mind that if the player they went for was productive and wasn't Westbrook. Give me a better impact player , and I would be fine with it.
Those unprotected picks were given up as part of the AD trade. I’m fine with criticizing Pelinka for us being so bad this year that our picks would have actually been decent. But to criticize him for giving away those picks without protection in the first place, when the return was AD? Naw that doesn’t make sense. Imagine if the AD trade fell through and NO ended up trading him to Boston, all because Rob was insistent on some extra protections for the picks we were sending out. We would (rightfully) be calling for his head. The only pick we gave up for Russ was last year’s first (the 22nd overall pick), and honestly nobody picked around that range has shown significant upside yet. We also did get back 2 future seconds coming our way as part of the Russ trade.
right? imagine boston gets AD and keeps tatum. holy s*** would this place be apocalyptic. and that's 100% what was going to happen. i really can't believe how many laker fans don't understand the level of victory that the AD trade was, even if he never plays another game. just gigantic. clips traded more for paul george (who plays even less and produces less when he does), and they're geniuses, but only because a) kawhi played us in FA to keep us from fielding a good supporting cast, and b) kawhi didn't force them to move for russ.
I posted a tweet with some stated facts, not criticism. That is part of a bigger picture though, and we will start to see his giving away picks like candy really have an impact over time.
whose? rob's or lawrence frank's or shawn marks's? the teams with the best players don't have picks; the teams with the s***ty players have all the picks. as others pointed out, those were part of the AD deal, without which we're the knicks.
Would've taken Dudz the player/coach/GM over Ariza the failed starter without question. And regarding Nunn, is that scout on Klutch's payroll?
From Ramona's Insider piece Thank you cheap a** Jeanie and player empowerment Rob. I'm really glad we hired Penberthy to make a player who played 40 games happy. That's after you let Dudz leave who they wanted and was also more competent than the replacements. Why let him go only to hire another one of "their guys"? Maybe Rob was worried Dudz would come for his job (probably could have).
There is going to be spin to every single thing out there for the entire summer. But that does not mean it should be written off or entirely discredited. It's more a matter of figuring out where it's from and if it aligns with previous reporting by other sources and sides. We know that we had interest in Brooks. Penberthy had a Dallas offer that we trumped. We lost St. Jean. We don't know if that bag we gave Penberthy prevented Brooks. And the piece I'm least certain about is Hollins. He seemed done. Maybe he would have taken a lesser role with less travel, but I think he was done with the 82 game grind. BUT Jeanie is cheap. We strung Stan along on three 10 day deals for Christ sake! I think we probably went cheap on our offer to Brooks. Had to overpay AD's boy and the fact that he was a former Laker was mana from heaven (per Rob) and that dried up the funds and any consideration with him. But the piece that I still can't connect is why let Dudz go only to go after Penberthy? Also Penberthy gets a F. He was a shooting coach in NO and our shooters were bad this year. AD... not even going there.
I miss the days when a coaches staff was for coaching and not as player whisperers. This generation is frustrating.
Rob putting our hopes and dreams into the defensive trio of Nunn, Ariza and Bazemore shows the guy doesn't know what he's doing. Bazemore is so-so at best, an average defender, Nunn is the same, really an unproven commodity on that end and Ariza is a shadow of his former self. He hog-tied us and strapped us financially to do so.
