The Lakers start the second half of the season with a 105-100 victory over the Indiana Pacers. The guys from lakerholics.com are back as LakerTom, “Admiral Akbar” Jamie Sweet, and Gerald Glassford talk about Kyle Kuzma’s performance and why we still have great concerns for the team even after the win. Plus, we have ideas on which Pacers players could help the Lakers, and we have fun with Twitter taking on one of “TraderTom”‘s latest trade proposals along with sharing our own ideas on the latest Lakers Fast Break podcast!
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I don’t think Gasol will be waived or traded. A depreciating almost beyond salvageable asset. So only the ESPN trade machine will alleviate this problem for us. So have at it. Let’s hope we find a WAR replacement PREFERABLY more than a warm body.
LT is now a proponent of the NBA.con trade machine, more accurate.
TRADENBA.COM
waived. Can’t see a squad looking at Marc and saying ‘THAT guy puts us over the top!’
TradeNBA.com takes into account Kyle Kuzma’s poison pill that allows the Lakers to consider only $3.6M going out but $10.6M in (average of current contract and extension) to team to whom he would be traded. Also allows for S&T scenarioes and adds draft picks to trades.
Great conversation beween Jamie, Gerald, and me about whether the Lakers need to make a move. All three believe they do but I’m the only one who thinks they will actually make a big move.
I also put forth that the best thing that may be happening with the Lakers right now is continuing to struggle with 3-point shooting and rim protection as it may be the push needed to get the team to make a big move.
Rather see us struggle and make a big move than suddenly start hitting our threes like earlier in the season and thnking we’re fine and standing pat and then getting blown out in the second round of the playoffs like the Clippers were last season. This is not last season.
I believe NOT making a big move to improve those two areas is a bigger gamble than making a move that doesn’t work. We’re not going to get a sure thing in any trade we make as we don’t have the assets to acquire ‘sure thing’ players.