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Jesus that was a brutal non-answer

 

He should have said..f*** the Clippers. What else was he supposed to say? I hope he plays well?

 

right. i'm talking about the last two years, where he sucked and his team missed the playoffs.

"...i know they got rid of john and reggie..."

 

"I don't follow what they do" but let me tell you about their other mid-season moves lol

 

Lol..He got here last season. We have sucked without AD and Lebron playing, ever since James signed.

 

AD was completely done with Russ.

 

We have also sucked worse with AD playing and James out.

We need both of them and depth

 

Yes we do..Hopefully we will catch a break on the health front. We have a good amount of young talent to support them.

 

he should be more appreciative...chi in the east has better shot at playoffs than here, dont want to ruin his playoffs streak

 

Winning those two games would be helping to accomplish both.

 

meh. he said the same thing about the clippers last season. that's just who he is

 

This is delusional. He was viewed as a negative - he was bought out. Any contract(s) would have worked, they only wanted the pick. We would have had at least as good a roster, and most likely better, if we never got Russ.

 

Nonsense..47 million dollar contracts don't grow on trees. Utah isn't interesting in winning, they just wanted to get rid of contracts and get a pick. Win for everyone involved, including Westbrook, he went to a better team and stayed in LA to boot.

 

Yes, they would have taken any expiring or non-negative contracts. If Lakers never acquired Russ, they would have had other contracts to trade. That is the point. Russ was meaningless. To say "if you like the roster we have now, it wouldn't have been possible to put together without Westbrook" is flat out false.

Westbrook's contact in fact made the deal much harder, because not only was he a massive negative, it is harder to trade a $47 million contract than 2 $24 million contracts, 3 $16 million contracts, etc.

It's also not a "win" for us in the bigger picture, we had to give up a hugely valuable FRP in the process of getting rid of him. The reason it's a win is bc we got to unload him and got better assets...which we could have done in the first place if we never acquired him.

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Minnesota basically gave up D'Angelo for peanuts and didn't even offer him an extension.

If we didn't trade for Westbrook, I don't know who we would have had, that anybody else wanted. The guys we traded for him with, were absolutely terrible in the playoffs. We shopped Kuz and KCP all that season with no takers, even Washington declined that trade twice. Revisionist history.

 

I find it strange how obsessed the Lakers fan base is with Russ. I was one of his biggest defenders on here and I couldn’t care less anymore, he isn’t on our team. The guy is gone, let it go.

It’s also strange how everyone is trying to paint weird pictures of how his team hated him. When he got traded Lonnie, Bev and Troy Brown all said he was one of the best teammates they’ve had. AD came out and said he and Russ are brothers since he has been in the league. And now everyone hates him according to the media - no idea why they paint him in the negative light.

As for advanced stats, they’re important up to a point. But they also don’t get things totally right, they painted Kobe as a much worse player than he was and I believe they don’t pick up on the multiplier effect Russ has on role players. Anyways, that’s the last I’ll speak on that subject.

 

Man.. Lebron and AD have played 28 , 21 and 25 games together over the last 3 seasons. They are the ones that ruined our seasons..by not being available. If they don't show up for these last 23 games, they ruined this one too.

Yeah F the Clippers for real though. Russ went all Judas, and crossed over to the Darkside, he will be hated even more around here if they are successful.

 

i don't care about this either. whether it's true or not is immaterial. he made us worse on the court; i don't care if he was invited to people's family birthday parties or whatever.

slick used his traditional counting stats (except turnovers) to support the (completely delusional) case for his efficacy over the past two years. i pointed at stats that account for that AND team success that suggest he was a meh-to-bad nba player this year and a very bad nba player last year.

you don't get the animosity for russ after he's gone; i don't get the defense of russ after he's gone. if people here were talking about another net-negative, past-his-prime vet playing for a nemesis franchise, i'm not sure there would be any pushback. nobody defended people questioning whether blake griffin was a meaningful addition to the C Bags.