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1/3 of the season because...? Oh, right. Let's not mention that.


Never said good games shouldn't count but obviously high scoring games that aren't of the norm inflates the averages. Kinda like if Bam Adebayo only played 16 games and he had that 83 point game pad his numbers a bit, right?

Again, regular season doesn't mean s*** anymore. Can Reaves do it in the playoffs? TBD.

 

I am comparing two teams owned by the same person. I was trying to present a situation where THIS GUY, who now owns the Lakers, got the Dodgers and changed them around. So, ergo, THE SAME THING HAS TO HAPPEN FOR THE LAKERS. Again, optimism. If this guy knows who to hire and where to put them, then the right people make the right decisions and things change and get better.

You're right that MLB and the NBA are different, but if THE OWNER with ALL THE MONEY hires the right people for the right teams...such as firing Rob and hiring someone who knows things better, then it is all good in the end. All this has to do is with the Owner. That was all I was focused on. Again with the, I am sorry that wasn't clear. I was doing all that I could to make it clear to you.

 

Caruso left

 

No, you obviously didn't know MLB had no salary cap and tried to think running an MLB team is like the same with the NBA. But I'm not going to go back-and-forth on a rather valueless discussion that doesn't amount to anything.

Just saying, money only solves a % of the problem but being strapped with a bad roster is something that can damage a franchise for the long run in a way that the MLB is not bound by - especially for franchises like the Yankees and Dodgers that can make quick patch moves by spending more.

 

Totally false...

Caruso didn't 'leave' the Lakers. Lakers chose not to match Chicago's offer because they didn't want to pay the luxury tax. They chose THT over Caruso.

 

Players in today's nba have more say than before. Ex LeBron wanted say with Heat. Pat said I run this. As for Lakers we are now doing the same with Luka. We are going after the type of players he thinks works well with his games. Not necessarily the teams system and team building expertise. Some don't blame that on LeBron Davis but the franchise. Back in the day you couldn't tell Phill who to get or how the team should be ran. We traded Shaq. Those were different times.

 

Butler and Kobe were friends but at the same time ok with not playing with him if it meant winning.

 

I'd say that it is a good thing your 2nd best player can get 40 and 50.
Ah now is the playoffs. Pick a line mate, you say something, it gets debunked and then you change to something else.
That's why people aren't taking you seriously around here

He played against the champions Knicks, OKC, Minny 3x, Boston... 3/4 of the teams were at least in the play-in.

Again, please inform yourselves before expressing an opinion. Internet is available

 

Okay, I don't know what is making it seem like I don't follow sports, but thank you for telling me what I am thinking and saying.

I love it when someone knows me better than I know myself.

I am just going to keep babbling now intentionally to annoy you. Because I am just some delusional person that talks about something because I have nothing better to do.

Thanks!



.......................I am reminded why I consider myself too old for the Internet and Social Media now and why I hate having to associate with it sometimes.

 

Okay.
So why be upset over $5 million?
It’s still ridiculous to me to argue that it’s an overpay when we only gave him four instead of five.
I just think there’s going to be unhappy people no matter what the number was going to be.
Would I have preferred it to be less? Of course.
But, I don’t blame Rob for playing it safe in this one, especially when there were other teams willing to pony up much more on a five year deal.

 

That's a terrible comparison and I see all the fanboys liking the comment basically clutching straws when its a non-argument.

Caruso left because we offered him less money than Chicago did.

If we gave Reaves 40m a year there is not a single team that could have matched

 

So, there was a market for someone that people didn't think deserved a bigger contract than he was getting.......

 

Yep record $$ dodgers. Can't do that in the nba.

 

I mean, yeah...it still falls on the organization.

Now I am lost. Do we want to keep our players happy? Or do we just want to plug and play people until we become the Warriors?

 

It's quite obvious that when I said 25/5/5, it's the standard - including playoffs.

You're just not liking it because you don't have full confidence Reaves can achieve that so you'd rather pick out 16 games where he averages 28 points, lmfao.

Such an obscure random selection of stats that you handpicked rather than just refusing to accept that 25/5/5 is what max players are expected to do.

Who doesn't take me seriously around here? A bunch of ya'll are in your 40-50's and there's about 20 active users on here. It's because I don't scream around saying "LET'S GO LAKERS, THIS IS A GREAT MOVE. GREAT JOB!" and offer a contrasting opinion that you guys on here don't agree with but is widely accepted through other NBA fan platforms.

And who said people take you serious? Like five people? Lmfao. Get serious, my guy. There's an entirely different world of basketball fans outside of Lakersball.

Keep using your 16 game sample sizes and ignore that I was obviously referring to 25/5/5 as a general benchmark of what Reaves should be.

"Oh, now it's the playoffs?" You think the Lakers paid out max dollars so Reaves doesn't have to perform in the playoffs. Is that what you're suggesting? What do you think we're talking about here? TITLE CONTENTION.

Save yourself the effort of replying. We are done here.

 

My point though is that another team offered him something and believed in him. The Lakers could have locked him up before that, so that nobody would have signed him and then all would have been fine. But they didn't. Then when someone signed him to something more than was thought to be his value, they moved on.

So in this situation, we learned from WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED, and decided not to repeat it. I see that as the same thing in a way.

 

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i don't move on sample size. I go by when skates are at the highest level on competition. Your ability to rise in those moments consistently. And while I agree a very good player not a franchise type level star player. You hand out contracts like that it will hurt.

 

Maybe he did not

Who said he 5. Have to do the math with his age. If he plays well can sign another large contract. Like I won't be surprised if in the end the 4th year is a player option.

 

If this is the case why people calls young, harden, jah mutant etc sucks? Do you know Austin is making more than Jah morant?