Jake LaRavia Discussion: Lah-Rave-E-Ya!

Love to see him give us some real punch off the bench. I love his tenacity on defense!
Can someone on the coaching staff have a conversation with Rui and show him tape of Jake and say,”This is the effort you need to give us on this side of the ball.”

 

My wife asked me today if the Lakers are mostly white



got to explain my quota theory to my Asian wife lol

 

at the question and you explaining quota.

 

Just saw that.

Other interesting things in that feed, too.

 

Yes.

 

even if laravia wasn't playing this well, the FO made the right call on DFS. i think part of what made him pop here was the sad fact that we had so few guys who played hard all the time.

and as an aside, i still find it funny that he/his folks believed rob was spreading rumors to tank his value. first of all, you're still out with the injury you had then. second, nobody was going to sign you at a number higher than what you opted out of. we knew that and operated accordingly. sorry your agent misread the lay of the land. the fact that you opted in to make only 9 million more in guaranteed money kind of tells me that you know you're unlikely to get another contract after this one. we can't be in that business right now. houston can. we can't.

meanwhile, laravia is producing at more than double his salary rate and is under contract at that number during a critical period for us. no-brainer.

 

Top 10 in the league

 

LaRavia has been awesome, and if we're looking at it as a 1:1 swap of DFS for LaRavia, I think the early returns on LaRavia have been excellent.

Boggles my mind that the Grizzlies gave him up for nothing, and subsequently, the Kings let him walk for nothing as well lol

11-5-3-1 on 54/47 splits from LaRavia off the bench. Very solid numbers and he's a solid rotation piece for us that we can plug and play

 

He’s been and is going to be going forward Great for us. And he’s going to keep getting better.

 

Reminds me of when we had Caruso. Just a glue guy that makes winning basketball plays. Much needed on this team and compliments our stars well.

 

I am becoming a believer in this team. Man, our front court and backcourt rotations are looking awesome.

Ayton and Jax at center, who would have thought Hayes would be looking this good??!! Starting to think this is a decent one two punch.

Lebron, Rui and Jake as our main 3 forwards, then we got Vando with Thiero waiting in the wings.

Luka, AR and Smart as out first 3 guards, with Knecht and Gabe as our secondary depth.

So, we need to stay relatively healthy because our first 8 guys can contribute at a high level but past that, we need to get lucky.

 

Except Jake can actually score at a higher clip.

 

Looks like it came WAY sooner lol
Instant impact, he's commanding more than 20mpg already and is making his mark in the team. I guess teams will start to look at him more and try to make it more difficult for him but he just seems to make the right reads every time,very complete and smart player

 

Agreed. This is one of those moves that can turn a contender into a champion. I was astounded we were able to sign Jake and even more so that teams were willingly to let him walk. Perfect fit for us. Starting level player that makes you better when he comes in.