It’s Lakers Weekend as after Thursday’s loss against the Clippers, the NBA world already has the Lakers down for the count unless they get some help. Could some be already on the way? Shams Charania reports the team may be willing to add players, but will any free agents come to the rescue? Join us as Jamie Sweet from lakerholics.com has Five Things he’d like to discuss with observations on the team after two games. What choice words will Jamie have? Tune in and find out on our latest Lakers Fast Break podcast!
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Re-evaluate from what? A borderline play-in team to a tanking team with no pick? DNP Turner and Buddy Mid aren’t fixing this mess.
I tend to agree. Improve slightly, yes. Transform us? No. I think the roster is terribly assembled, again, but the Pacers trade doesn’t address the awful bench enough or the lack of size and shooting. It helps but is that worth making only draft day deals for mediocre talent for the next couple years? I have a lot of doubts.
This roster is doing exactly what most folks expected them to do so far. Make the Indy trade or tear the whole thing down beginning with trading AD. I’ve been leaning toward the latter because mediocre is the worst position to be in the NBA.
That’s my biggest fear. We trapped ourselves into this when we tinkered around the margins which led to breaking up a dynamic team to trying to make three ill-fitting pieces. Trades for guys we let walk, talent we developed let walk for nothing and a slot of self-inflicted bad luck won’t be undone by one trade. But the future could and in the name of fairly marginal improvements. I will say this, if we are going to trade it just makes it sillier the longer we wait. Just makes the process of integrating whomever more difficult. Makes me wonder why they dithered and feel like the part that’s the most broken (the front office) will panic trade in a couple weeks, get players who don’t fix enough, and basically mire us in mediocrity until the next decade.
Here’s my biggest fear: the guy we’re counting on to fix this mess is the same guy who screwed it all up in the 1st place. And the biggest kick in the nutts is that we just rewarded him with an extension!
Exactly.
That’s tough to say about an all time great, albeit on the down side, like Lebron, but I suppose it’s pretty spot on.