Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

Welcome aboard LakersKing82.

Been watching the Lakers since Jerry West was a rookie!!

We can't win them all and fans come and go.

The bottom line for all these fair weather fans is for them to realize that I am always right and they are mostly wrong, unless they agree with me!!!

It is as simple as that!!

 

The bright side is we know we beat the Suns (2nd best reg season record in the West) if Davis is healthy... we would probably win 4-1. This AD+Bron pairing works so we just have to pray that both of them come back healthy and rejuvenated. The pessimistic side of me is saying we need to trade everyone else, though. Not a single player stepped up this series (excluding game 6). Go across the board... KCP made only one three in games 1-5 and he was supposed to be the Lakers best shooter. Kuzma is just a lost cause. He needs to go. We should have kept Josh Hart and shipped Kuzma out. As much as I dislike AD's injury history, we were winning when he was healthy so it isn't his fault he got injured. Bron was clearly not 100% but he was the MVP leader in the regular season up until Solomon injured him. It's the rest of the guys on the roster who did not step up.

 

Like I said, I'm at peace.

Seems like just the other day we won the title. We're the greatest franchise in sports.

Liveshot of me on the Jameson tonight:

 

Hmmm guess that is a swing and miss.

Optimism change.... Healthy next year for the "Revenge Tour"

 

Sure, yeah maybe it was a miss, but man I appreciated your post so much. Gave me a lot of hope because your optimism was based on the mystique and tradition of Lakers success. I think there was a kernel of that hope in all of us, because we've seen our team come through like that before.

This year, it wasn't meant to be. But hope to see you stick around and continue to post here! Always great to see some of the CL OG's!

 

yeah, we have two top five nba players, neither of whose injuries should carry over into next year. the press is going to yammer on about us being done, but we most certainly are not.

 

Rolling with my Lakers mask and lanyard because my team still has more championships than your team.

 

real short memories around here. a first-round loss minus a first-team all nba player would have been parade-worthy 4 years ago.

 

We essentially had our two best players missing for the playoffs, not near 100 in any case.

 

We went from 2012 to 2019 not sniffing the playoffs. Just in 2020-2021, We made the playoffs twice and won a Championship. I am extremely happy with that.

 

Didn't know where to put this so "optimism" sorta related to "best wishes" for their future happiness, right? That Matt B. probably phoned to wish them?



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Fish needs to check the sorrounding bushes around him when they are out

 

NSFW *LANGUAGE

 

I'm optimistic AD is going to learn how to train and stay healthy. He needs to do some kung fu training to limber up.

 

I think the Lakers crush both the Bucks and Phoenix if they were healthy.
Once Saric went down, the Suns went from Ayton to a bunch of SF's: the Lakers would be throwing at AD and Lebron on him and he'd have to give energy on defense. Jrue and Middleton aren't guy who traditionally give the Lakers trouble either.

We saw when AD was healthy the Lakers didn't even take the Suns seriously. Oh well, I think both the Clippers and Nets are thinking the same as well. All credit to Giannis and the Bucks as every championship is hard and injuries happen but this was one of the weakest runs I've ever seen (Nets have Harden on one leg, Kyrie barely plays. They're losing to the Hawks till Young gets hurt, Phoenix faces no Murray, a hobbled Lebron, no AD, no Kawhii, no Murray)