LA looking for camp bodies, working out 14 players

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  1. wallangong

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    in all likelihood, you're right. but one man's trash is another man's treasure. i.e. Danny Green
     
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    system players only succeed if you have a system though...
     
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    Princeton>Triangle.
     
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    fixed
     
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    You know I was being sarcastic, right? Princeton and Triangle ate garbage in today's NBA.

    Pace and space, baby.
     
    LaVarBallsDad, Aug 12, 2015
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    Gerald Green is another recent example. Heck Jeremy Lin is too.
     
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    C'mon now. Give Phil and Tex skilled players and a couple of generational superstars in that starting lineup, and the Triangle or Princeton is looking pretty damn good. Ball movement and execution when that bad boy was clicking would be just as effective, with the horses to run it, in today's NBA. A lot more going on than just the usual pick & roll or chucking from all the stretch forwards and centers from 3 point land now in the league.

    The 2 generational superstars are the hard part of course.
     
    LTLakerFan, Aug 12, 2015
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    Plus, Phil deviated from the Triangle from time to time. I think he'll deviate more from it this year as well.
     
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    Looking for "camp bodies"? Look no further than last year's second half roster.

    That's a relative term for a team like ours as well.
     
    bonk, Aug 13, 2015
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    Yes and no. If you execute the motion offenses well and have discipline they work very well in any "era" of the game. They are timeless. SA just won a chip a couple years ago with a motion offense. We didn't do to bad with one either.

    The players today lack the execution, patience and discipline to do them right. Product of the one and done era. The execution level that leads to team success rarely leads to individual statistical success which is at the heart of the problem IMHO. The product is more about the stats at times than the outcome.
     
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    JSM, Aug 13, 2015
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    I thought we worked him out last year as well. I could be mistaken, though.
     
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    Now I'd definitely take Tyler over Sacre. Does all the same things, but a little better. More intense and less friendly, but he's a slightly better 3rd string Center.
     
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    One of those is Upshaw. Room for a couple other guys, but the roster is getting crowded.

    Russell/Huestas
    Clarkson/Williams/J. Brown/Frazier
    Bryant/Young/A. Brown
    Randle/Bass/Kelly/Nance Jr./Holmes
    Hibbert/Black/Upshaw/Sacre
     
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    I think most of these scrubs will be gone before the end of camp unless they have a tremendous pre-season.

    I don't expect Holmes, Frazier or Huertas on the opening day roster.
     
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    Wasn't there the Tyler guy the Lakers invited to camp? Did that fall apart?
     
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    Huertas is no scrub. He's been around the block for a long, long time. I'd compare him to a rich man's Prigioni or a poor man's Calderon.

    The others I definitely expect to be on the D-Fenders learning how to grow though.
     
    therealdeal, Sep 2, 2015
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    Jeremy Tyler? I don't remember hearing that... There was Moreland who I heard was choosing between us and a few teams.
     
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    He had a workout w/the Lakers. I don't know if he was invited to camp.
     
    LaVarBallsDad, Sep 2, 2015
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