2019/20 Players' Transactions: Breaking News , Trades, Free Agents, And Rumors

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  1. sirronstuff

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    that has to be one of the most absurd posts I've ever read lol

    You are basically saying athletes are dumb, and their years of mastery of their craft, 1000's of hours of watching film, scheming, diagramming, practicing, etc, all that knowledge could have been obtained by sitting in your LazyBoy chair.

    Well, ok then.

    :Shaqdisappointed:
     
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    The problem is that they are under a microscope that is much more intense than others. Like my comment about Jordan drafting Kwame. He was salivating over the body that dude have and his potential if he could learn how to use it. Every single person in basketball has made mistakes. Heck, Jerry West famously wanted Moncrief over Magic. That would have been one of the worst colossal mistakes in the history of the NBA. People make mistakes, every frigging genius in the world made mistakes getting to the top. Internet armchair quarterbacks sit back and make judgments in a bubble about people that have very little understanding of the real obstacles they faced. And they rarely can accept that people need to be able to make mistakes and learn from them. Nobody here has done anything worthwhile without making mistakes themselves, yet they hold everybody else totally responsible at a level they could never reach themselves. Of course the truth of it is, when someone is NOT much of your concern, it is very easy to do this to them. You can count on the fact that if someone from Boston has any chink in their armor that I can make fun of, I'm not gonna give them one tenth of an inch to wiggle free. But not to my own team or the players on my team.
     
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    Sorry for the format, I’m on my phone.

    This is the list of all the Lakers picks while Logo was GM. There are a few good ones and a lot of head scratchers.

    1 1 James Worthy*§ (42) (from Cleveland)[l] [​IMG] United States SF North Carolina
    1984 1 23 Earl Jones [​IMG] United States C District of Columbia
    1985 1 23 A. C. Green§ [​IMG] United States PF/C Oregon State
    1986 1 23 Ken Barlow [​IMG] United States F Notre Dame
    1988 1 25 David Rivers [​IMG] United States PG Notre Dame
    1989 1 26 Vlade Divac§ [​IMG] Yugoslavia(now [​IMG] Serbia) C KK Partizan(Yugoslavia)
    1990 1 27 Elden Campbell [​IMG] United States PF/C Clemson
    1990 2 51 Tony Smith(from San Antonio)[m] [​IMG] United States G Marquette
    1991 2 52 Anthony Jones [​IMG] United States SG Oral Roberts
    1992 1 15 Anthony Peeler [​IMG] United States SG Missouri
    1992 2 36 Duane Cooper [​IMG] United States G USC
    1993 1 12 George Lynch [​IMG] United States PF North Carolina
    1993 2 37 Nick Van Exel§ [​IMG] United States PG Cincinnati
    1994 1 10 Eddie Jones§ [​IMG] United States SG Temple
    1995 2 37 Frankie King [​IMG] United States PG Western Carolina
    1996 1 24 Derek Fisher [​IMG] United States PG Arkansas–Little Rock
    1997 2 51 DeJuan Wheat [​IMG] United States PG Louisville
    1997 2 54 Paul Rogers(from New York)[n] [​IMG] Australia C Gonzaga
    1998 1 26 Sam Jacobson [​IMG] United States SG/SF Minnesota
    1998 2 31 Ruben Patterson (from Vancouver)[o] [​IMG] United States SF Cincinnati
    1998 2 45 Toby Bailey(traded to Phoenix)[p] [​IMG] United States SG UCLA
    1999 1 23 Devean George [​IMG] United States SF Augsburg
    1999 2 30 John Celestand(from Vancouver)[o] [​IMG] United States SG Villanova
    2000 1 29
     
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    You look through that list and there are a number of solid serviceable pros, but nothing more. Vlade, Derek and Green are his best picks. But Jerry knew how to find pro players, tons of pros on that list. No superstars.
     
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    Kobe was actually same as a draft pick and Logo scooped the NBA on that one.
     
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    Kobe was his greatest accomplishment, and I would argue that 90% of his career reputation for excellence was built off of that single accomplishment.
     
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    That and the Shaq signing; both of which were amazing place setters for a 3 year dynasty.
     
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    Yeah, the greatest player on that list is Worthy. But even there, the better pick would have been Nique. I still occasionally fantasize about Nique on the wing finishing the break after one of Magic's passes.
     
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    ...picked Mike McGee over Larry Nance. Yeah, I'll keep saying that. :)
    ...picked Anthony Peeler with Latrell Sprewell available.
     
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    Definitely choked on that one.
     
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    Devean George over Andrei Kirilenko
     
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    JSM should hate Logo for that.
     
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    Yeah, well the Shaq signing was Jerry Buss telling West to go get him. West discovered Kobe so I give him the credit for that. Shaq was a no brainer. Anyone who thought they could get him, would have been trying.
     
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    Oops I missed Worthy. I think that was a good pick too, and while I still prefer Worthy to Dominique, either way would have been a winner. But I will give him some credit for that because Worthy was a really great pick for the team and has been a continuing good asset for the Lakers to be associated with.

    But honestly, I think many of us could have made that decision, it wasn't much of a reach.
     
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    "You could read that with Braille..."
    - Francis Dale "Chick" Hearn

    :)
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    This sort of choke?

    [​IMG]
     
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    I appreciate you graphically illustrating my subtle pun. :D
     
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    i totally forgot ruben patterson played for the lakers
     
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    How could you forget self glossed, "Kobe stopper"?

    :Laugh:
     
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