Lakers need to go all in with picks or ride out the year and say bye bye to LBJ and Westy, swap AD and start all over?
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August 13, 2022 6 Comments
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I will say ride out the year and go from there. I am not expecting a championship this year as presently constructed, so I’m at peace with my expectations. Going all in with the picks would only make our future rebuild murky and a bit more restrained. However, a home run gymnastics around the roster would change my mind.
I feel the same Buba. Using one pick is where smart stops for me. Using both basically relegates us to draft day deals or dangling picks 7 years out every other year. There’s not one smart thing about that situation.
You hit the nail on the head, Jamie. Thanks for the response.
In every full Lakers season, Lebron has proven injury prone, defensively disinterested, and when you absolutely needed a basket, he couldn’t be counted on. He’s never even made the playoffs as a Laker in an 82-game season. What changes with a trade?
It’s funny how the Bubble title is both one of the harder things in terms of it being an epic test of focus, mental fortitude, and excelling in inexpected conditions but also, because of the long break, has becone something if an asterisk to both Laker fans who are trying to figure out the worth vs. cost to retain LeBron and eventually AD. Problem with ending is it the Lakers track record of rebuilding aint great in modern times.
The bubble deserves no more of an asterisk than another shortened season, but simultaneously for the Lakers, exemplifies what even Lebron himself knows: he can’t carry the load in the regular season and AD’s health can’t be counted upon. Kyrie is only slightly less of a hail Mary than Westbrook was. Neither has nor will relegate the Lakers from being a team where the unlikely health of its aging or injury-prone stars will make or break the season. So, the Lakers can either roll the dice on what’ll probably be another disappointing campaign and push their future relevance even further down the road, or stand firm and make some moves that’ll position them to getting back to the mountaintop someday in the next decade or so.
Paying that fading star never works out in the modern NBA. Waaaaaaaaaaay too much salary for diminishing returns. The Lakers have proven that several times now. Time to do the smart thing, blow it up, and build for the future.