Lakers VS Slippers Discussion

LMAO. that's going to trigger the f*** out of clippers fans

lakers dodged a major bullet with PG. so glad they didn't give up the farm to acquire him

 

He's an idiot - he had a chacne to join LeBron in the summer of 2018 and what did he do? He went to a big party and announced he was returniung while being butt buddies with Russ and left us in the dark. Didn't even take a MEETING with us!!!

And less than 2 years later...he wants out and gets traded to the Clippers.

He had his shot to sign with us, and he didn't.

 

and the reason why he didn't even take a meeting with the lakers in FA was because he was butthurt that they didn't give up everything to acquire him at the deadline in 2017

he's a certified moron

 

only thing i'll say in his defense is i think we signaled to his people that we'd take care of our end if he asked out. he did--out of nowhere, really--and we held assets back. one can absolutely argue that we later made better use of those assets (AD), but i feel like once we put that into motion, we should have just followed through.

i'm known as a rob defender around here, but the PG situation was the kind of thing that rob's detractors should (but don't) go after. instead they go after stupid s*** like reddish's player option or whatever. the botched PG situation had reverberations that are still here (they're why we don't have myles turner, slick). these other little things are meh.

anyway, both sides messed up. we should have either just let the PG FA play out or finished the deal when he agitated for it (again, imo, at our behest). PG should have swallowed his pride and just joined us in FA after the fact.

weirdly, his choices in that situation (and those that followed) really helped frame modern player movement, imo. get the cash and then strongarm out is now the rule of the day, and the CBA will have a hard time mitigating that.

one final thought here is that i bet PG watches AD and wishes he'd just done the same. stick to your guns. but he was weak. and again, we should have done more for him, too. i actually love PG's game and wish i could have pulled for him. now he's with morey and embiid, so....f*** off.

edit: re-read and realized i just made the same argument thrice, but i'll let it stand because i'm lazy.

 

Careful guys he’s the Gen Z goat

 

there's also no guarantee lebron comes to LA if PG is already here. and of course, there's no 2020 title without AD

so the lakers could've given up all those assets only for lebron to pass them up and stay in the basement where they had been for the last 4 years. what a nightmare that would've been

 

Nothing related to Twitter is showing up for me today for some reason....

Is anyone else seeing this? Or just me?

 

It's not you, it's me

That's my closing line

To answer your question, I'm seeing them

 

For me now too. Must have been temporary

 

Paul George on time with Clippers: Felt like I was on the 'B team'

Paul George says it felt like he was on the "B team" with the Clippers in comparison to the Lakers in Los Angeles

 

still poor form to do this on the way out the door after you weren't valued enough to be signed for what you wanted

Lots of bad choices and looks in a row

But hey, he's got lots of money to spend in Philly

 

Built different.

 

Couches over courts.
Beds over baskets.

 

still the funniest cope i've ever heard

bunch of clowns

 

lol draymond had to catch himself from saying the clips would have beaten kcp's lakers that year.

i know a huge chunk of our fan base thought that too, but i ask you: if it was in them to drop the nuggets series...why were they a lock to beat us? i'm dubious.

 

I thought that for much of that season until our offense really picked up in the couple of months before the shut down. I think we would have handled them in 5 or 6, largely because their supporting cast was wildly overrated in hindsight:

Beverley - we had him a few years later, OK as your 8th or 9th guy but not a starting point guard
Lou Will - empty calories regular season player. Similar playoff underperformer to DLo, only worse.
Harrell - also an empty calories regular season player. To be fair, he was dealing with a tough personal situation in the bubble.
Morris - always been a frontrunning fake tough guy. Streaky shooter.
Shamet - not good
Jackson - meh
JaMychal Green - Decent player. His primary value was potentially playing the 5, AD would have lit him up.
Zu - good player, but Doc didn't trust him. Harrell always closed for them.

4 years later, only Zu is a solid rotation player. A few are out of the league entirely. The narrative for them was that they added Kawhi and PG to a 48-win team, but they shipped out Galinari and Shai who were big parts of that 48-win.

 

We played the Clippers a few days before the Covid shutdown, I remember Lebron just knocking around Kawai like he wasn't even there, then defending Paul George and Kawai to close the game. I think we could have handled them had they not choked against Denver.

 

The narrative at the time that Kawhi somehow owned LeBron was dumb. It was true that, unlike a lot of stars at the time, Kawhi wasn't afraid of LeBron. But in that 2014 Finals LeBron still put up like 28 ppg on good efficiency lol. Kawhi made him work for it, we saw the insane numbers LeBron put up in the playoffs the next few years in Cleveland. But on the other side of the court, LeBron has always defended Kawhi well when he's actually trying. Kawhi's game is all about creating separation with his strength, and LeBron is maybe the one other wing in the league that can match that strength (Aaron Gordon too probably). He's stonewalled Kawhi at the end of games a few times over the years.

 

Clippers are giving out rings on their opening night at their new dome


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