2024-25 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

Nets: Sharpe, Cams, DFS, wouldn't mind DS back but i don't see that path.
Tor: Brown, Poet, Olynyk, and they have a zillion young 6-5 to 6-9 G/Fs you find one like as a throw in and develop him.
Wiz: Valanciunas, maybe Bey if he gets healthy
Jazz: Kessler

 

I think we need to try to find at least one player this way. I also like Mitchell from Toronto and NAW from Minnesota. We need another two-way guard type to put with Reaves.

 

NAW is why we shouldn't give up on max, imo. he looked as bad or worse at the same stage.

nets are who i'm watching. we've worked with them in the past, they have guys we could use, and they don't want to win.

 

Good to know, regarding Max. Sharpe would give them that big bulky center, if that is what they are looking for. Probaly more reasonable to get him, compared to Kessler, who might be over kill. I'm not crazy about getting Dennis back, but he does check mark the box as a defender. replacing Dlo with Dennis sevearly weakens out three-point shooting though. I'm sure you are referring to Cam Johnson, since they probably want to keep the other Cam. Johnson is a fantastic shooter. I guess he would be an upgrade over Rui in terms of shooting and consistency.

 

Flipping Gabe for Schroeder and then Dlo for Bruce Brown would help the Laker solidify the defensive issues, actually increase depth, and allow more lineup combos
Works contract wise but hard to imagine the Lakers giving up 1st rounder for these guys and I don't know what TO or the Nets would want from the Lakers to make a move.

Same issue for this team: legit championship caliber top 3, Rui is solid playoff rotation player, got one good prospect in Knect, a good regular season player in Dlo and drops like a rock after that. So basically you can only trust 4 players right now against good teams. When they had a 5th guy in Schroeder same core got to the WCF. You get a 6th guy you get a title team. They need more bodies and quality rather than a home run hit.

*The big caveat with all this is if Vando comes back healthy and can hit shots like he did last year then makes things a lot easier

 

Shroeder and Brown are too many non shooters.

 

I think this is the right blueprint. Trade DLo for an athletic two-way guy, and then trade Gabe for someone that can handle the ball more than him. Another big is certainly a need, but not as important as obtaining the two-way guard/wing and then replacing DLo’s ball handling.

 

We will hate Bruce Brown here…I don’t mind DS returning but he and DLo would be a volatile group

 

Yeah. There was literally zero need to bring up his family to make that point.

 

Unless you want to give up Rui or Va do which I doubt anyone wants to do you have to lose Dlo and Gabe to get back Brown. Salary match is real close

I mean the evidence suggest a Reaves led backcourt with DS the Lakers are a WCF finel team. Flip Brown to the Lakers two years ago and they have title 18 pretty easily.

With Vando, Brown, and DA you have 3 different size good defensive players. Basically you're flipping out Gabe, Dlo, Max for DS, Brown, and more Knecht/Vando. That's a no brainer I just don't know if TO or the Nets find anything attractive on the Lakers to want

 

Sure they could. Now they and other teams with a good player we covet have Knecht to add to Reaves (either/or) to ask to be included if we want the deal. I expect JJ would vote no on both.

 

Yeah I won’t watch this team without our homegrown quotas

 

The two of them could co-exist. Just need to wedge a good 3 and D player between them. Rusell or Rui are not that guy. Vando is not looking like that guy, because of his durability issues. Ideally, there would be a better shooter at this spot anyway though. I thought Max could be that guy, but maybe not until 2-3 years down the line. Need to find somebody here that could 3 and D. IDK if we are looking for a 3 and D wing or point guard though.

 

you mean like caruso?

anyway, isn't bruce brown out indefinitely with a knee injury right now?

 

Yeah @abeer3 lol probably didn’t watch 90% of the season they let go of Caruso but there was a bigger reason for that, I don’t like the ball being shot at the side of the backboard

 

We are one of the worst teams in the league in three-pointer made and attempted. We are one of the best in two-pointer made and attempted. I keep hearing that we are targeting a center. I could warm up to a twin-towers line up if: We have at least TWO high volume shooters at two of the other wing positions. One of them could be Knecht, but we then have to replace Knecht with another shooter off the bench.