It’s not the culture, it’s the current group running things. The Clippers were one of the worst, if not the worst Professional Sports Franchises for decades while Donny Sterling was running it. Then, Ballmer takes over, hires some smart people to build up a proper team and now they are no longer the laughing stock they once were. You proved my point even further by stating that we couldn’t attract any top tier FAs for years. It wasn’t because we aren’t, or weren’t the Crown Jewel of the NBA. It’s because when Dr. Buss passed on the Lakers to his kids, neither Jimbo nor Jeanie have shown that they learned the most important lesson from their Dad: you hire the best and smartest individuals for the Front Office positions and then get out of the way.
Uncle Fester hired right people and got out the way, I dont see it that way here, feels like most roster moves isn't 100% Rob
I agree with all of these takes, but this FO is so incompetent I don’t trust them to rebuild either. We should rebuild, but when your FO are morons we’ll just be Knicks West, that’s what we were before LeBron signed on, we had good young players but we were mismanaging them as well for the most part. I’ve finally seen the light, nothing will change with the Rambii and Rob in charge, doesn’t matter if we have our 27/29 picks or not, doesn’t matter if we trade AD and LeBron, they’ll make a mediocre team from all of it, we’re rotten from the top. The glory days are gone until a truly competent FO is brought in, or the team is sold, and even then it doesn’t guarantee anything unless it’s the right buyer. https://twitter.com/_jasonlt/status/1590097259064340481?s=46&t=qGbz5dREJcEGUfp3yJApdQ
Maybe. I think we're sitting at 5-5 at the very worst. There's been several games we lost because we can't shoot....all of them, can't defend in the past couple games, cannot generate any 3rd Q offense, AD is gassed by the 3rd, and both stars look like it's game 40 already in terms of spent energy. Those two fix literally all of that and prevent the impending shut down injuries to both Bron and AD, at which point I'm turning the TV off until next season.
btw, don't buy at all that we would gladly eat rozier's deal for 3 more years and wouldn't take hayward's for one more. i think there's a lot of misinfo/incomplete info out there. i'm also not sure indy was going to take russ/2 1sts for turner/hield. i really think they were asking for MORE.
5-5 and not having to shut down Bron/AD due to injuries is not worth the 2 FRPs IMO. And i'm of the mindset that Bron/AD are just not going to give you 70+ games even if they have a better supporting cast
so weird to me that the read on this isn't "small sample and some very bad luck" and is instead that the lakers are SO bad at talent evaluation that they somehow make bad shooters EVEN WORSE. sorry, that's insane. ok, we fielded a bad shooting team. but not this bad. no projection had that. no sane person would have predicted. all the smug talk in the aftermath is pretty annoying. nobody expected us to shoot his bad. not our staunchest haters. it's a fluke.
So an entire preseason and 10 regular season games is a fluke? Can’t agree. For LeBron specifically, yes, I think he will shoot better, but mostly everyone else outside of Nunn and Beverly are pretty much what you could expect based on last season. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, on paper based on last season’s shooting percentages, we were the worst 3 point shooting team in the league coming into the season. You put together that roster on one team, expect poor shooting, averages can’t lie that much. We’ve been horrendous this year as a team, and in some of the games where one player got hot (like Walker one night, maybe Brown Jr or Ryan another I forget), we were still horrible as a team. Like one of those guys may have made 4-6 or 5-8 and the rest of the team shot 20-22%, so we were even worse than our game percentage of 28-30-some percent.
so you name three guys but ignore that literally everyone is shooting below their career average? you seemed to have missed my point entirely. 34% is MUCH different than 29%. the latter is unprecedented. by previous teams or by the players on our team. it's an anomaly. i can't put it more plainly. the difference between our expected value based on previous seasons and what we've done is the same as the difference between our expected value and leading the f***ing league in three point shooting. our title team was a bad shooting team. this team projected like that one, shooting-wise (well, green was supposed to be good and wasn't here, actually). what's happened is nuts.
For Real.. The fact that there's potentially 2 Franchise Players in this Draft & we could end up sending one of them to NO is salt in a festering wound... Nothing against NO, they've kinda become my bandwagon Team, but just sayin'...
If we had our pick secured, I would 100% be SO content just pivoting to monitoring the Tankathon standings. Cheering for the team, savoring the little moments of Reaves showing potential, Lonnie Walker throwing down a highlight dunk, etc, but otherwise not really be too hung up when the team inevitably piled up losses…
