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Amazing!!

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LMAO, this is freakin fantastic. Every face is perfect, Nance looks giddy, Russ has the tongue out, even Jim is smiling. Mitch looks like the mob boss calling the shots.
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Sirron - Is that Ireland in the background?

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Sirron - Is that Ireland in the background?
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Yes

haha

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Claude Monet, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, sirronstuff

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@sirronstuff that gif is awesome lol! I wanna put that up on my instagram and share it with everybody. Man instant classic

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Sirron - Is that Ireland in the background?
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Hahaha I didn't even catch that til you mentioned it.

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Yeah, that is genius work sirronstuff!!

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That is the best thing I've ever seen.

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you are a genius @sirronstuff. But you know that already

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Awesome work, I agree.

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That is awesome. So good I want to like it twice.

Next request: the Phil, Kobe, Pau, Sasha riding in a jeep gif ----> Luke, Randle, DAR, Clarkson new age crew. Please and thank you

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Thanks guys, you all make that stuff fun to work on. I think Barns has a version of the jeep he had in the works, but it can be tough to string together the hours to work on.

My gf actually sent me the Beverly Hills Cop clip that's from. Such a great find.

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Next request: the Phil, Kobe, Pau, Sasha riding in a jeep gif ----> Luke, Randle, DAR, Clarkson new age crew. Please and thank you
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I think Barns has a version of the jeep he had in the works, but it can be tough to string together the hours to work on.
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Yep. I'm waiting to see who we have before I complete that.

I have to take out Byron and put in Luke.

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Well conceived and done... Mad props!

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Nice guys. I'm sure whenever it gets done its going to be fantastic. That was by far my favorite Laker gif at CL.

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I started work on it at the beginning of the season, but the team sucked so bad, I just figured I'd save it till the next season.

It's probably at least 60% done

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Jerry West: Luke Walton needs more talented Lakers roster
The San Diegan faces challenge to avoid storied NBA franchise's recent coaching stumbles

By Bryce Miller | 8 a.m. May 6, 2016

The history of the Los Angeles Lakers is passion ablaze in purple — Mardi Gras in sneakers. It’s Magic, coast to coast. It’s Kareem’s goggles and Cooper’s socks. It’s Worthy wriggling in the paint. It’s Kobe off the dribble.

It’s Phil Jackson lowering blood pressure and raising expectations. It’s Jack Nicholson peering courtside.

Zero guarantees await Luke Walton, however, when he wades into the heart of Los Angeles to forge an NBA reclamation project of the highest order, re-imagining a franchise wrapped in pedigree no one outside of Boston’s C Bags can truly understand.

When it was time to consider a Lakers-sized coaching leap, the San Diegan bent the ear of the man best equipped to untangle what he’s leaving behind at Golden State and inheriting with a team that’s a sad shell of its Showtime self.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” Jerry West, a Lakers legend and current board executive with the reigning champion Warriors, told the Union-Tribune. “He’s the fifth coach they’ve had in six years. It tells me there’s probably not the talent there you need to allow a coach success.

“That’s what you have to have more than anything, players. You just can’t win with young 18- and 19-year-olds, unless it’s LeBron James or someone like that.”

West, who is so basketball revered that the NBA logo is modeled after him, counseled Walton about the Lakers.

Walton played on a pair of championship teams in Los Angeles, so he knows the city and team while remaining in the comfort zone of his native Southern California. His coaching star glistened when he steered Golden State to a 39-4 start this season after back surgery sidelined Steve Kerr.

Others who likely would fare well coaching Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green: Gary Busey, your kid’s youth soccer coach, the propped-up guy from the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s” and a stapler. That’s a dandy oversimplification, of course — but sprinkled with truth.

In L.A., Walton will be forced to coach … early, often and always. There’s nothing cushy about inheriting a 17-win team working on its fifth coach since Phil Jackson said see ya’ in 2011. The sideline ashes include Mike Brown, Bernie Bickerstaff’s Lakers cup of coaching coffee, Mike D’Antoni and Lakers icon Byron Scott.

At 36, Walton’s is set to become the youngest coach in the league.

So, is he up to the task? None of us know, really. That includes West. Walton, after all, doesn’t get to bring Curry, Thompson and Green with him.

“I think if he can get players with that kind of attitude (at Golden State), I think you’ll see big improvement,” said West, reminding that the Warriors built a title run on defense and selflessness illustrated by a league-leading assist total this season.

“But they do need more talent on that team.”

Compiling the Western Conference’s worst record means the Walton-led Lakers, pending draft lottery looniness, are positioned to add a top-tier talent like Duke’s Brandon Ingram or Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield. Magic Johnson urged via Twitter that the franchise needs free-agency aggressiveness, too, starting with a full-court press on Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant.

And now, for the first time in two decades, it’s not a place defined by Kobe Bryant. The canvas is clean, easel and brush at Walton’s ready.

West identified another potential advantage.

“He’s such a refreshing person, engaging. I think he’ll bring a different vibe there,” said West, 77. “He’s just really pleasant and easy to be around. In a long, grueling 82-game schedule, with all the highs and lows, I think he’ll probably be able to weather that well.

“In the NBA today, with so many young players, that will probably pay a lot of dividends most people don’t understand.”

Others, like FOX Sports Radio’s Colin Cowherd, criticized the hire. Cowherd argued the team needs experience on the bench — like Stan Van Gundy, Brad Stevens and Erik Spoelstra.

West countered that a fresh approach could be a plus, pointing to Atlanta’s Mike Budenholzer. The 46-year-old was named last season’s NBA coach of the year. The Hawks are his first job after serving as Gregg Popovich’s assistant at San Antonio.

No head coaching experience. Worked in a winning system. Took over a team lacking superstars.

Sound familiar?

“You can’t live in the past. If you’re living in the past, that’s a nightmare,” West said. “You have to understand game is changing, the rules are changing, the tempo has changed, everything has changed. You have to have some guys who have a modern approach to the game.”

There’s the interim coaching experience of this season to lean on. If D’Angelo Russell is blowing up the locker room by videotaping teammates — hypothetically, of course — Walton can drop a story about how Curry’s work ethic, the grit and toughness of Green, the blossoming game of Thompson.

West predicted that the Lakers will model the ball-movement traits perfected by Golden State.

“They’ll try to play like us, I guarantee you that,” West said.

That would be a smart place to start.
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I'd argue with Jerry that much of the talent we have has been underutilized. The group we had last year were a 30+ win team if we had a better coach.

I like his optimism about Walton and his personality being a perfect fit for this group.

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After the Boron debacle, I think I can endure any inadequacies Walton may show the first year.

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I'd argue with Jerry that much of the talent we have has been underutilized. The group we had last year were a 30+ win team if we had a better coach.

I like his optimism about Walton and his personality being a perfect fit for this group.
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Jerry is very right about us needing more talent, but he is definitely hard on our guys. I think we're more talented than he thinks we are, but we still need more of it. A lot more!

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