Earl Clark?

[GAME TIME]

imagine if we had both hill and clark healthy. it would be hustleville

Hill probably won't see any playing time with Clark blowing up

[EArl]

We would probably trade gasol if we had Clark and Hill.

[laduane1]

6'10 and he hits 4 out of 5 three pointers. Just think if he got more playing time sooner, Lakers might have had more wins. Plus he is only 25 years old. Hope he is here for a long while.

[ROballer]

We would probably trade gasol if we had Clark and Hill.

Rightfully so...gotta get some flexibility at the very least

If we keep Gasol,no way we keep Clark in the summer....he's a FA and some team will throw 4-5 mil at him for sure
With the high payroll,no way we'll match that

[Dr Aki]

clark's getting more un-re-signable by the game

[The Boot Room]

6'10 and he hits 4 out of 5 three pointers. Just think if he got more playing time sooner, Lakers might have had more wins. Plus he is only 25 years old. Hope he is here for a long while.

if he keeps playing like this he is gonna have pretty good offers next summer. I doubt lakers will be able to match them.

[Tee212]

lets not overrate him just yet and dont forget hes playing with players that draws so much attention. reminds me of devon georges % sky rocketed playing with the lineup of shaq/kobe/payton/malone.

With that said...clark done no wrong so far! he knows where to be/lil mistakes/no plays drawn for him/makes ft's/guard multiple positions/hustles on d/blocks shots/does a lil bit of everything we need. Its just a perfect situation at the perfect time.

[JohnVancouver]

Agree Tee2 - Clark has been waiting for a chance and a good situation since day one, and credit to him for being ready to capitalize on it. He's alos improved his court sense and IQ greatly since he came in with PHX.
But we all loved him there, despite rookie mistakes and a tendency to rely on his jumper over everything else.
Really happy for the guy, and he might be smart and stick with LA. There'll be a way to sign him

[LApwnd]

maybe he'll surprise us like Hill did and stay for a lil less, after all he's been on 2 teams now and neither one was condusive to his skills until now. He's still young enough if things do work out with Antoni for the long run, Clark, Howard, Hill can be a solid young/athletic front court for the forseable future.

[tenten]

Devin George #2
George had great numbers starting with the 4 other greats

[Kilroy]

maybe he'll surprise us like Hill did and stay for a lil less, after all he's been on 2 teams now and neither one was condusive to his skills until now. He's still young enough if things do work out with Antoni for the long run, Clark, Howard, Hill can be a solid young/athletic front court for the forseable future.

The thing is, if we're serious about cap room, it might have to be next to nothing...
Oddly, Clark's future might be directly tied to what happens with Pau even if he doesn't get traded with Pau. Because if we take on a long term contract with Pau, it might be more likely that we sign Clark long term too... If not, I just don't see us signing him to multi year contract even if he was willing to play for 5-6M a year. Which I highly doubt he would be.

[Run-MKE 311]

He is a decent piece for right now, we will see where the rest of the season goes.

[LApwnd]

maybe he'll surprise us like Hill did and stay for a lil less, after all he's been on 2 teams now and neither one was condusive to his skills until now. He's still young enough if things do work out with Antoni for the long run, Clark, Howard, Hill can be a solid young/athletic front court for the forseable future.

The thing is, if we're serious about cap room, it might have to be next to nothing...
Oddly, Clark's future might be directly tied to what happens with Pau even if he doesn't get traded with Pau. Because if we take on a long term contract with Pau, it might be more likely that we sign Clark long term too... If not, I just don't see us signing him to multi year contract even if he was willing to play for 5-6M a year. Which I highly doubt he would be.

Gerald Green exploded last year with NJ and all he got was $3mill/yr. I think teams are more weary now to give anyone long term high value contracts anymore without a history of success. I thought Hill was gona get 5-6mill too based on his rebouding abilities.

[ROballer]

^ Ariza got the MLE putting up worse numbers than Clark

Although he performed great in the playoffs ,where it counts,so I give him that..

But if Clark continues his solid play throughout the whole season,he'll get 4-5 mil a year at the very least from a team,that much I'm sure

His numbers since he became part of the rotation(12 games)

11,4 ppg
9,2 rpg
2,1 apg
0,9 bpg

50% FG ,61% 3P

All in 30,4 MPG


Jeff Green got like what...4 yrs/36 mil? And I'd personally take Clark over Green
Not saying he'll get as much but at least half of that is plausible....and with Lakers rocking a 100+ mil payroll(if Dwight resigns,Gasol isn't traded,MWP isn't amnestied/traded) the Lakers won't have the luxury to pry him away from more tempting offers

[LApwnd]

^ Ariza got the MLE putting up worse numbers than Clark

Although he performed great in the playoffs ,where it counts,so I give him that..

But if Clark continues his solid play throughout the whole season,he'll get 4-5 mil a year at the very least from a team,that much I'm sure

His numbers since he became part of the rotation(12 games)

11,4 ppg
9,2 rpg
2,1 apg
0,9 bpg

50% FG ,61% 3P

All in 30,4 MPG

well that was BEFORE the current CBA and like I said Gerald Green in NJ avg. 12.9 shooting similar fg% but that 3pt% that Clark is putting up isn't gona last.

[ROballer]

What did Green (Gerald)do besides scoring?Nada...

Clark plays D ,rebounds, surprinsingly good passer out of the post and he's even hitting his open shots and 3's(another surprise) at a decent clip(to say the least)...of course his 3P percentage won't last,but I'll be impressed even if he hit slightly better than half of what he's hitting now,considering the fact that he made 2 3's in his career before this season

And I gave you another example in Jeff Green

Clark's gonna get paid....

[LApwnd]

What did Green (Gerald)do besides scoring?Nada...

Clark plays D ,rebounds, surprinsingly good passer out of the post and he's even hitting his open shots and 3's(another surprise) at a decent clip(to say the least)...of course his 3P percentage won't last,but I'll be impressed even if he hit slightly better than half of what he's hitting now,considering the fact that he made 2 3's in his career before this season

And I gave you another example in Jeff Green

Clark's gonna get paid....

Jeff is not a good example, he's a different case altogher, Bos was just stupid ...........If Clark gets overpaid so be it, we all know how it worked out for Ariza

[Kilroy]

Gerald Green is 6'8" and 2 years older with 2 more seasons in the league to show something, and has only really turned it on recently... I'd say Clark is playing better right now and has more up side... Plus teams seem to pay to keep LA from keeping it's free agents. I still say someone is going to give him around 7M... Which is over-paying but how many 6'10" players are there with Clark's skill set and upside? He's kind of one of the few guys out there than can bother Durant a little too.

[GAME TIME]

He will be offered more than we think is reasonable and will go somewhere else.
Book it.

I'd love for him to stay but I just am not sure we want to invest in a player like him for the long run in this financial market.

In fact, as much as I don't want to see him go, it might make sense to try to trade him as an expiring.

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[SportsandTacos]

his current play really reminds me of trevor ariza