Official Whine, Moan, Complain Thread 19/20-CLOSED "WE CHAMPS!"

Me neither. I have purposely watched every single game the last 4 years so I didn't have to tell myself I was a fair weather fan. I would watch games i recorded for weeks, suffering watching, letting myself feel the pain, so that when it got turned around, I would feel good about myself for truly being loyal. Being a Lakers fan has always been easy before 4 years ago. 2 non playoff seasons and even when they weren't title contenders, there was quality wins and excitement for games.

It was a horrible feeling turning to TNT, seeing the staters and then the first 4 minutes of the game and realizing, after 4 years of horrid basketball, this current team may actually be the worst out of all of the team's the last 4 years. Just depressing.

 

My WMC?

Having to read all these lame a** whiny b**** complaints in this thread.

Don't get me wrong. They are justified, but they shouldn't have to be made at this point.

Magic's charisma and Rob's parables aren't going to be enough. We need a serious shift in the approach to coaching this team. The lineups for half of preseason and for game one were inexplicable and inexcusable.

 

so frustrating, new coach, new front office, same garbage plan, same garbabage outcome.....it doesnt feel like we'll ever get out of this dark period n i really really dislike Magic big mouth every passing moment

 

It wasn't supposed to be this way. I don't know what to think now. I need a hug. Luke .... WTF??

 

Naked while wearing sandles. Yes.

 

I was all in on the youth movement too. Let the kids grow together, get some chemistry going, keep some vets for stability, and then maybe add an all-star closer to when they're ready to make noise. But no, Magic and his "once again, swing for the fences at the cost of all else" approach we've seen fail more times than I can count... I can't do another year of this.

 

i do expect a lot of losing but the type of losing makes a difference, the way they lost ladt night makes you wonder where the "growth" is gona come from

 

Magic said this and that...yawn. Please dig up where he said we'll make the playoffs this year. Please dig up where he said this team will compete for a title within a year and this should be a quick turnaround, in spite of all the road blocks the previous regime placed at his feet.

Lavar, Zo and the players spoke playoffs into existence. Vegas odds makers took it and ran with it. The media talking heads had everybody eating it up shortly thereafter.

As a manager of basketball ops, you need to talk up your players, build them up, cause they are assets in a business at the end of the day. If you get on the phone with an opposing GM and they know BI is untouchable, well guess what, when Magic does relent and put him on the table, the opposing GM feels some sort of accomplishment, but how was that all created? By your FO building up their trade assets. I don't understand how you guys think its a deterrent.

You look at our roster and you need someone to take on the scoring punch. Why can't it be BI? Especially if he is taking it upon himself to put in the work. Its not a contract year...dude doesn't have to get shredded for wedding pics...he hit the gym hard on his own accord. You encourage that type of player and that mindset. Why wouldn't you?

The frustration of losing is really clouding public perception around here. If you guys are willing to let the youth grow then understand that our coaching turnovers didn't help. The toxic division between our basketball ops and our ownership group didn't help (especially with free agency). The players that got used to losing, didn't help and as a result, there needed to be a large turnover in player character and mindset. And of course you need to add the right vets to a young team. Instead we got a Russian center and a Sudanese wing that probably didn't share the same type of dialogue, let alone accent, to our young core of players. All these roadblocks and you expect the new regime to get it all right with just the 2018plan?

Our current FO has righted alot of those wrongs and not once have said that we will be a playoff team this season. Y'all did it to yourselves...and I get why. I'm tired of the losing too. There's no more draft pick to tank this season for. So let the winning start asap.

But I don't get why its the new FO's fault in filling your heads with it, when all they really said was that they wanted to change the culture and set themselves up to shop for free agency next summer. If it were really up to them, they would have had PG13 here already, but Pritchard made sure that never happened.

I understand the rage of getting blown out....I don't understand all the other far-fetching noise that's coming out of it though.

My WMC is fan revisionist history.

 

We're not getting 2 maxes, Ingram isn't the scorer or the win threat we need, the roster is almost the complete anthises of what Ball needs to be surrounded by to be successful, and our coach has made some ridiculously stupid decisions early in his coaching career...there's not much to be positive about here.

 

We have successfully determined a couple of lineups that don't work very well. It's actually good news LOL

 

We looked bad...really, really bad. Out of proportion to young-squad-and-first-game-of-the-season kind of bad.

 

smoke up!