WMC 24-25: Seasonal Highs And Lows!

It’s not the culture, it’s the current group running things.
The Clippers were one of the worst, if not the worst Professional Sports Franchises for decades while Donny Sterling was running it. Then, Ballmer takes over, hires some smart people to build up a proper team and now they are no longer the laughing stock they once were.
You proved my point even further by stating that we couldn’t attract any top tier FAs for years. It wasn’t because we aren’t, or weren’t the Crown Jewel of the NBA. It’s because when Dr. Buss passed on the Lakers to his kids, neither Jimbo nor Jeanie have shown that they learned the most important lesson from their Dad: you hire the best and smartest individuals for the Front Office positions and then get out of the way.

 

Uncle Fester hired right people and got out the way, I dont see it that way here, feels like most roster moves isn't 100% Rob

 

How are we to know they aren’t 100% him? We can speculate, but we usually don’t know.

 

As soon as I heard about Rob’s extension, I lost the last shred of hope and trust I had in Jeanie.

 

Maybe. I think we're sitting at 5-5 at the very worst. There's been several games we lost because we can't shoot....all of them, can't defend in the past couple games, cannot generate any 3rd Q offense, AD is gassed by the 3rd, and both stars look like it's game 40 already in terms of spent energy. Those two fix literally all of that and prevent the impending shut down injuries to both Bron and AD, at which point I'm turning the TV off until next season.

 

This is depressing.

 

btw, don't buy at all that we would gladly eat rozier's deal for 3 more years and wouldn't take hayward's for one more. i think there's a lot of misinfo/incomplete info out there. i'm also not sure indy was going to take russ/2 1sts for turner/hield. i really think they were asking for MORE.

 

5-5 and not having to shut down Bron/AD due to injuries is not worth the 2 FRPs IMO. And i'm of the mindset that Bron/AD are just not going to give you 70+ games even if they have a better supporting cast

 

so weird to me that the read on this isn't "small sample and some very bad luck" and is instead that the lakers are SO bad at talent evaluation that they somehow make bad shooters EVEN WORSE.

sorry, that's insane. ok, we fielded a bad shooting team. but not this bad. no projection had that. no sane person would have predicted. all the smug talk in the aftermath is pretty annoying. nobody expected us to shoot his bad. not our staunchest haters. it's a fluke.

 

The only thing that truly sucks is I can't start a tank thread.

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so you name three guys but ignore that literally everyone is shooting below their career average? you seemed to have missed my point entirely. 34% is MUCH different than 29%. the latter is unprecedented. by previous teams or by the players on our team. it's an anomaly. i can't put it more plainly. the difference between our expected value based on previous seasons and what we've done is the same as the difference between our expected value and leading the f***ing league in three point shooting.

our title team was a bad shooting team. this team projected like that one, shooting-wise (well, green was supposed to be good and wasn't here, actually). what's happened is nuts.

 

For Real.. The fact that there's potentially 2 Franchise Players in this Draft & we could end up sending one of them to NO is salt in a festering wound... Nothing against NO, they've kinda become my bandwagon Team, but just sayin'...

 

they made that "deal with the devil" time to pay up

 

the westbrick trade

 

If we had our pick secured, I would 100% be SO content just pivoting to monitoring the Tankathon standings. Cheering for the team, savoring the little moments of Reaves showing potential, Lonnie Walker throwing down a highlight dunk, etc, but otherwise not really be too hung up when the team inevitably piled up losses…

 

This is how I see it