whole second unit never sees the floor together, though. walker reaves brown lebron AD sub schroder, russ, and bryant (for reaves, walker, AD)...
after the indy loss, you could knock me over with a feather if the lakers go 5-2 over their next 7. that game was important and sort of telling....
he's not. he won't get that on his next deal, and it's part of why he doesn't play for us right now. i'll be very surprised if a team offers...
now that he's accepted a bench role, teams will want him at the mini mle, imo.
were people mad about discussing trades? i wasn't. i'm just pushing back on the fury over trades not already happening/imaginary deadlines.
only if "we'll see" is the beginning of "we'll see both of them on the bench because reaves and walker are the starting guards".
totally agree on the bolded. my point is that it's all about the russ trade. we consolidated assets and killed our flexibility. then teams...
this is where i disagree with svtzr. he's right that the tax is big and designed to stop this stuff, but being the lakers is sort of about being...
i think so. the defensive slippage is very real, though. he's still a plus defender due to his size and incredible hoop iq, but it's nowhere...
i think the only consensus from the summer reporting is that, at minimum, indy wanted both picks, unprotected. the question is whether they were...
lebron's prime is over. it was really over last year, but people were too excited about his big scoring nights to realize it. we got a ring out...
he's moved one for schroder (good move, imo) and one for russ (we shouldn't have done that), right? we don't have the space to chase a third...
[IMG] i could see scenarios in which it made sense...
shoulder fracture, so decent chance? though i thought i saw it as week-to-week? anyway, he's injury prone but kawhi is a foundational piece.
i agree. but the vibes are 95/5 negative on ice cream around here.
i mean, we clearly need more than lebron and AD to win. but nobody's offering us what we need for russ. so here we are.
can't it be both? i'm grateful for the title and quick to point out that he's factored heavily into his own diminished chances at winning another...
no, the theory seems to be that we have all those options and are turning them down to antagonize the fans.
thanks; felt like i was taking crazy pills for a bit there. i want us to be better, too, but that's not the path. and it may not be a short one.
i'm really not trying to be a jerk, but i don't see why people are expecting a return from russ. as i said in the other thread, letting him walk...
