Austin Reaves Discussion: Overachiever Who Underachieved

Clamp brothers

 

vasashi rolling in his lakersball grave.

 

F Lebron if we lose him

He needs to be Laker for life, like Alex should have

 

I attribute most of the Russ fiasco to LBJ/AD/Klutch.

I'm guessing Rob knew AD and Davis were conducting interviews for a 3rd star but if that didn't line up, he had a trade for Buddy ready to go with Sac.

Once Russ decided to essentially force his way out of Washington, Rob changed courses and made the trade with Westbrook.

Although, I'm sure he knew what the proposed trade would look like for Westbrook in previous discussions.

I trust Klutch more than Rambis. I also trust Rob knowing his way around the CBA and finding ways to add talent around a superstar core.

Nevertheless, what do you do, when you're superstar who came when nobody else wanted to and has already delivered a championship want another "alleged" star.

Rob had to deliver. Bear in mind, I'm not trying to absolve him. He holds a lot of the blame, too.

Nevertheless, I think he has been okay for the most part even with the botched roster construction this season.

He signed Reaves to a multi-year deal, and I think Bradley, Monk, and Melo have outperformed their contracts. DJ was a disaster, though. Nunn has been a bust. Etc.

We also have two legit MAX players when healthy. Russ hasn't been great, and I think that's where the biggest miss is....

Just my thoughts...

 

agree. i trust rob to make generally good choices, and i think the summer played out exactly as you said. to me, lebron and AD engineered this stuff (really starting with the drummond bs).

anyway, back to the point of the thread: lebron didn't sign reaves. rob did, listening to our scouts.

 

Yeah, and then started bandwagoning the scouts and FO, especially 2 nights ago, that "he" realized probably before even the coaching staff (seriously you egomaniac?) did how effective Reaves could be "playing with Him"

 

i think he chose his words carefully there--suggesting that he knows things about how he plays that others don't.

but he certainly could have been more in vogel's corner this year. everyone's obviously just frustrated, and rightly so.

but if lebron knew right away that reaves could play well with him, why didn't he advocate for him to start? when do you and when don't you have power? when things work?

 

yeah, i lol'd at the credit to lebron for us using stanley johnson to iso rudy gobert into submission. ummm....everybody's seen this happen before, folks.

 

What?!? He’s the omniscient King!

 

Last night was his most mistake filled, rookie looking game. He's due some of those, but he's spoiled us with playing the right way and making the right play so much that it's a little jarring when he makes rookie mistakes.

But here's a nice positive stat...

 

thank the sweet lord. honestly, they should look at reaves with the starters more. bradley's provided a spark off the bench a couple of times, and vogel's love for bradley with the starters is clearly about him setting a tone by getting after it defensively.

reaves won't look as great this way, but it will be a good learning experience for him and for the team going into this summer's rebuild.

 

He “will” look a lot better on the switches on to bigger guys than AB. Agree on great and needed experience under fire against better players. Will up his ball handling skills further out of necessity and from more minutes.

 

yeah, i don't think he'll be able to do some of the freelance stuff on offense attacking closeouts against first-line players. then again, i didn't think he'd be able to jump in and do it against second-line players, either, so who knows?

i just know he gets himself to the right places on both ends and is a real competitor. you can work with this all day.

 

I'm sure he is getting the advanced handles work with Handy because why would he not. Though he has rarely lost the ball I cringe every time he goes behind the back in traffic.