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what he didn't say is that the lakers refuse to take on money for any reason, which is the strawman that the apocalypse cassandras are clinging to in order to...be mad again at the deadline (before it's over, of course!) for no reason.

i want the world's best FO, too. but not trading for de'andre hunter isn't what proves we don't. getting insanely angry about it doesn't change that we had no angle here.

last year, probably days or hours after the last blasts of "omg we won't do anything" s*** from the twitterati, rob traded for DFS, the most prized 3 and d guy on the market. later, he traded for luka doncic. none of this enough, of course, as one must always be meaninglessly churning at the margins. are the other 26 teams that didn't make a trade yesterday just spinning their wheels? should they all be fired for their marginal failures?

i just don't get the consistent fury about regular, defensible choices of action or inaction--all lacking a TON of information. why choose to be mad about stuff we make up?

 

The deadline hasn't arrived, so I'll wait and see what happens. However I remain steadfast that if we get bounced in the 1st rd again, pink slips are in order. Losing 4 straight playoffs series, without major injuries, that's coming up short, and that performance needs to be addressed.

I wasn't particularly enamored with Ellis or Hunter anyway, so I'm not stressing over those "misses". We'll see what shakes out over the next few days.

 

sorry. agree. just like we can't be mad about stuff the FO didn't say.

the knicks' bench sucks, too. if mcbride and shamet were our backup guards, people would be absolutely SCREAMING about our margin failures.

i just think gm worship/hatred is mostly stupid. these guys are almost all equally smart and working under the same rules. the idea that some are special is silly to me.

and everyone else wants the FO that got luka and lebron. oh, right, anyone was going to do that. convenient argument.

there was no path for us to get ellis and a pick back. and any gm will deal with the (very, very real) laker tax.

i wish sacramento was not in our division and a historical rival. i wish we could capitalize on their stupidity. but we couldn't. cleveland could. this time. we got luka.

what's the rational argument? seriously. every single time a trade happens, it's the twitter guys with the "lakers y u no win trades" crap. meanwhile, we sort of constantly win trades.

if you don't want me to respond, don't post the stuff. i'm not sure what you're expecting, tbh. you post guys being mad about laker imperfections, i post reasons not to be so upset about it.

 

Totally fine; get it. I actually think I’m trying to help, but I’m apparently not.