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The Home Page seems to serve as the longer and most important messages, I kinda would like the Blog landing to be more in real time comments so a running convo can take place. Just a suggestion?
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Trezz, Schroder, uh that’s about it. Not sure what to think about Kuz, dang he’s just a water treader, dang. Mathews, KCP ugh. Tucker shoot s too much and misses too many. We B in a real fix here.
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Lakers MUST MAKE BIG MOVES to save this season.
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Won’t do any good to trade low fruit for low fruit, better make a SPLASH!
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Can’t stand pat or go small now, DJ! Time to go bold.
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These guys are so smart and bring scoring under the hoop and Kuz is becoming a perfect fit!
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Don’t leave out THT. Kuz, Trezz, and THT have become the Lakers Bench Big Three.
This is a perfect example of opportunity knocking when a player gets injured. Without AD, the Lakers needed to adjust how they played and Vogel made the perfect adjustment, which was to use Trezz the same way the Clippers did last year, which is as the roll man in heavy pick-and-rolls. That’s how Trezz averaged 20 ppg and won 6MOY last season.
What we’ve learned is we were underutilizing Trezz the first half of the season, especially when he was in the game without AD. The whole concept of we could only play him with AD protecting him defensively has some validity but there are always two sides to the coin. What Trezz might give up in rim protection, he can sometimes make teams pay more at the other end with his offense. We’ve found a new weapon. And, we’ve just upped Trezz;s value to the team in the playoffs and his trade value.
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I’m with you DJ: I’m only trading Kuzma for a bonafide star at this point. Trezz is different, not under contract and will be hard to hold onto given our cap situatio and the pending free agency of THT and Caruso, both of whom fit well in what we do. I’d look to improve the roster using Trezz and 2nd rounders. After that buyout market.
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If I can’t get Steph or Beal I am not giving up Kuz and Trezz. That’s just me. Not that I wouldn’t take Lowery or Rubio or such, but Kuz and Trezz seem to be our best besides LBJ. Right now KCP, Mathews, and THT are not helping much. I think THT shoots too much, ain’t Kobe!
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Haha. Sorry, Dave.
Unless we trade LeBron or AD, we don’t have the juice to get Steph or Beal but check out my Trade Opus.
No trades for Schroder because he’s our most indespensible guard and only one for Kuzma because he’s our best volume 3-point shooter.
That means everybody else is trade bait, including Harrell, Caruso, KCP, and THT because they’re the only ones who have real value to other teams.
Can’t get valuable players by offering Gasol, Matthews, or McKinnie and Morris and Dudley can veto any trade.
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Sure was easy for Nets to get Harden and I forgot the Superstar they gave up for him. hmmmm. Why couldn’t we package Kuz, THT, KCP & Pick(s) for Beal? Might have to toss back Schroder? LBJ is our PG.
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Haha. Dave, you’re conveniently forgetting the three first round draft picks (2022, 2024 and 2026) and four first round pick swaps (2021, 2023, 2025 and 2027) the Nets sent to Houston in addition to Jarrett Allen, Taurean Prince, Caris LeVert, and Rodions Kurucs.
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Yeah, I get that, but I realize Wiz may not go for it, but Beal is attainable player and money-wise matchups. I might go for a couple of your trades, but not sure why you want to get rid of Harrell? He brings: scoring, bounds and toughness under the hoop.
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LOL, Dave. Beal is NOT attainable by us or teams like us, the Clippers, Bucks, and Nets who spent their draft picks already because he will require three or four first round picks like AD did, like Harden did, plus players to match salaries.
It’s simple. It’s a matter of elimination as to who’s available and has value to trade. That list is Trezz, KCP, Caruso, and THT. None of them are great 3-point shooters and chances are we will lose Trezz in free agency this summer. And he has a $9 million salary needed to match.
We need high percentage, high volume threes so it doesn’t make sense to trade Kuz. Plus he’s rebounding, defending at a high level. We found out how indispensable Schroder was when he was out for four games. We ain’t trading LeBron or AD and Dudley is now injured and he and Morris have veto power.
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LMAO and SMH. You shouldn’t be smokin’, DJ.
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Lol.
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TEAM LEBRON FTW
Team LeBron dominates to win NBA All-Star Game. That's 4 in a row for team LeBron! #NBAAllStarGame #TeamLeBron#AllStarGame pic.twitter.com/gQGOVrupsa
— MNLtoday.ph (@MNLtoday) March 8, 2021
The All Star games now are awful to watch in my HO.
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Lost my Internet due to technical problems and watched part of first quarter on my phone before getting tired. Watched 4th quarter on phone and was bored. Uncompetitive teams. Should go back to East vs. West imo.
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Yep, you are right about the boredom with the all-star game. I fell asleep right from the first quarter. And that was me just trying to watch at least.
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No complaints, right? It was a great game, DJ.
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Marc looked like he might be heading toward plain ol’ worthless 🤣. For some of us, anyway…
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LBJ, Trezz, Kuz, Schro and THT. Let’s go with our scores and quickness to start off, instead of falling behind by 15.
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Scorers.
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Yes, Kuz should start at the 2 over KCP at this point.
He plays much better as a starter.
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We take the win. Why is Gasol playing? Nothing much from Morris or KCP. Too many guys playing weak. Looked good on “D” though. My starters are: LBJ, Schro, Harrell, Kuz and Tucker.
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Agreed DJ, Portland has a terrible defense and is a team we ought to beat. Still, a win is a win. Need as many as we can get.
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Get Gasol outta there. Less than worthless. We goofed on him and paying KCP. I think we are in more trouble than we think.
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The Warriors are at $174 Mil this year and $164 Mil next. Nets are at $163 Mil now and $164 next. We are at $136 this year and $121 next???? They must be in the penalty stage and who cares? Monopoly Money. Lakers are RICH beyond.
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PS-This year salaries match Beal = Schrod and KCP.
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LMAO, DJ. By the way, the Warriors will have a tax bill of $147M and the Nets $59M. Lakers $5M. But next year, Lakers will be in the Net’s range.
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Trade anyone, but LBJ and AD. We need a 3rd star and he needs to be Brad Beal. Trez needs about 35 minutes per. So far KCP, Caruso, Morris, Mathews giving below average. Gasol is way below average. Kuz has been average, but fits overall. Just my thoughts. Nets done it right. They gonna be a handful in PO’s.
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Yes, we do need a trade but we don’t have the trading chips and draft picks to trade for Bradley Beal. Other teams can make offers that easily are greater than ours. Beal is unrealistic target.
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I know I’m not quite understanding why Warriors could pay HUGE money for 3 Stars and the Nets can as well, but we cannot. Seems crazy to me?
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Me too, DJ. I am not good at crunching the NBA salary cap numbers. Maybe Tom can shed some light on that.
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It’s because you can bring back 125% of what you send out in a trade and you can give players with Bird rights raises to the max. Regardless of cap status.
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Sit LBJ and take the “L!” This team without AD and Shro have slim and no chance of winning. Vogel gonna run LBJ into the ground!
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LeBron won’t win MVP.
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I have said that before. Sit LeBron until after the all-star game and let him rest. This team is not as deep as previously thought.
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LeBron does not like to sit. Bionic man.
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Had 2nd shot. Sore arm as with 1st. The 2nd: low fever, ackey, minor headache, tired for about 2 days. That was my experience to share.
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Thanks for sharing, DJ.
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Got both shots of Pfizer vaccine with no side affects. Mrs. LakerTom got her first shot of Moderna vaccine and has sore arm.
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Great LT, U B A MAN! Mine was Moderna. Good for MRS. LT as well!
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The traffic is pretty evenly split between the Home and Blog pages, Dave, and the intent is like you said, for the original content to be on the Home page and the current events to be on the Blog page.
There’s usually so much news, however, and so many people who only go to one page that I’ve made a decision to pin work by myself, Jamie, and Gerald to the top of the blog page on the day they’re posted. Then they leave. My articles go to the Home page, Gerald’s podcasts to the Podcast page, and soon, Jamie’s 5 things to the new 5 THINGS page.
What I don’t want happening is content that we spend a lot of time and effort creating getting lost like it does on Twitter. I think the way we’ve been doing it works well and don’t have any plans on changing it going forward although the community can comment and we will consider any suggestions. Thanks.