Jake LaRavia, Lakers Agree To Two-Year, $12M Deal

Laratvia better not be starting over Lebron. That's crazy talk.

 

LeBron is gone…Lawrence will start with Knecht being useless

 

too early to make that call on Liveraci

 

LeMiserabia will be the GOAT

 

Looking for big things from Jake

Hopefully the Lakers shooting woes don't affect him

Maybe he doesn't know about it

Shhh, let's not tell him

Wait, I just did

 

Let’s face it, it’s over for the 40% shooting from 3

 

get a tan already!

 

Pelton: I suppose people are talking about the Lakers signing Jake LaRavia, but not enough in terms of the deal's upside. LaRavia led all players with at least 90 attempts (a bar he barely cleared) by shooting 46% on above-the-break 3s, per The F5 newsletter. It's unclear how many of those shots LaRavia will get in a Lakers offense in which Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Austin Reaves all like to operate from the middle of the court, but it's an indicator of overall shooting quality. LaRavia hit 46% of attempts from the corners his first two seasons, per Basketball-Reference.com, before dropping to 38% last season. And he'll get plenty of those looks from the Lakers' creators.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ency-superlatives-best-worst-underrated-moves

 

Hopefully he defeats the George McCloud curse.

 

For sure

 

I don't understand "we didn't need".
What do you mean we don't need a player who can shoot 3-pointers and defend?

 

LA is a place, where shooters come to die, i hope Luka can reverse this curse. As for JL, we'll see i guess. I just thought, that our first signing and top priority should be a center, not another white kid with potential.

 

Well the first part explains some of your angst since you didn't know Rob knew he had the starting level center, but that last part??? If he'd been a non household name player of color you wouldn't have tagged that on? Stereotype much on "something" there about white players? Despite how many great ones have come through the league is it ALWAYS plodding slow white guy? This is why I urged you to watch the extensive footage on him to see he's NOT non-athletic and look at his particular bag of skills on offense and defense, and mix with that the comments on how he played the game from Memphis fans which sounded Caruso-esque, which you can see some of in the tape.