Austin Reaves Discussion: Foundation Piece Or Trade Piece?

Huge in the fourth!
We don’t need to worry about Austin.
People shoveled dirt on his grave way too soon.

 

No. f*** that. He didn't deserve the demotion any more than any of the other morons.

Simply put, Pimple is clueless. The fact that AR "worked" with the second unit (even though most of his minutes were shared with Bron lol) .. isn't an indication that
he should be on the bench.

Annoys the hell out of me.

Fire Bacon Pimple Goblin Moron.

 

Go choke on your pimple with your re-alingment. AR is to blame for a team that doesn't grab rebounds of defends. Useless waste of human DNA.


EDIT: and before anyone jumps in with d****** comments... consider yourself in the position.

This "non-demotion" like Pimple put it, impacts a lot of things for a player -- All-Star votes, contract, selection to things like team USA and so on.

Manu, Shmanu... it cost him. So I can not see how this would sit well with AR, after that same Pimple Goblin Moron had him on the bench in favor of Beverlies and I don't even...

In 2 years, when his contract is up... do you think it won't make any impact that his d****** "coach" benched him because of his own idiocy?

 

That's a new one

I'm getting the notion you don't like our head coach .

Good game by Austin, keep it up!

 

Good game from Austin. Accepted his role and played well.

 

well, the other thing that hurt reaves's all star chances was him not playing well to start the season. i like the move and was one of the people suggesting it. he can always return to the starting lineup if things change, but cam seized his opportunity to be the placeholder, and austin still played big minutes and closed the game. win all around.

 

Nailed it. He looked much fresher for the 4th and played his usual mins anyways. And with Gabe still out we need his ball handling with the bench.

 

Well there you go, want to improve his cognitive function... just give the man a nice piece of bass.

 

Just watched the game again without emotions involved. Game showed Austin's value. Ham took him out of the starting line because it was the easiest move for him to make not bc it was the right one. He didn't want to make waves and he knows AR is a team guy. What he needs to do is just let Austin run the offense.

 

Moving Austin to the bench worked out for one game so far. I’m all for it IF we can win more games than we lose.
Not sure why, maybe the defensive deficiencies, the AR and DLO backcourt hasn’t worked so far this season.
I’m itching to get Vando back because I think he’s the key to fixing the slow starts. Just him being on the floor energizes the rest of the team on defense.

 

It doesn't really matter if Austin starts or not, if he's playing 30 minutes.

 

Yeah not a big thing in the big picture of he can still be a Big Baller on the court. I gotta say though I agree with Zen about way he now gets zeroed out of probably any all star consideration no matter what he does, as well undoubtedly, doesn't "help" any Olympic aspirations he might have. Slick said neither did his pretty bad start to the season (for HIM) which is true, but he could and would probably in pretty short fashion have corrected that. Just saying.

 

It would be extremely difficult/unlikely..for Austin to get an All Star nod, in the current Western Conference. 6th Man of the Year is definitely possible though. Good stepping stone for his career too.

 

What a relief to get a win after 3 losses and 3 quarters of Laker play stuck in 3rd gear.

Not sure Ham has the rotations hammered out. Not sure if we need D-Lo and AR on the floor at the same time. Cam starting seems to be a good idea right now, though. The win in PHO made me feel like Cam Reddish is now a Laker. Like he really does belong in a way, say, I don't yet feel about Jaxson Hayes. Or Gabe Vincent, for that matter. Not saying I think those guys don't belong with us; they just haven't made me feel like they have insinuated themselves deeply enough into the fabric of the team. Not yet.

Taurean Prince is gettin' there for me. I like his size, D, and his hoops IQ seems higher than I thought.

The very bad game by Wood against HOU makes me wonder about his mental game. Dude has all the skills. His D could improve, but that's not the problem I'm seeing so far. He needs to make me a believer. I wonder what went on with him and the 76ers/Hornets/Buck/Pelicans/Pistons/Rockets/Mavs. I'm rooting for him. I hope Bron and AD can help him with his mental approach to his game.

Sorry: I saw the AR thread and thought I'd weigh in about the rotation and Hillbilly not starting, etc, and ended yapping about Cam/Prince/Wood.