kblo247 wrote:You telling me we couldn't even invest in Plumpee who is a cheap Mihm like player and honestly better than any draftee or Ed Davis? The only saving grace is that Javale Mcgee may be bought out. If he is, we need to make an offer for an athletic center. There isn't one draftee who can help us. Okafor is slow and plodding on D, has Baby fat, and won't play more than 25 mins or 60 nba games in his physical shape. Towns is worse off than that because he can't even average double digit point consistently and while he has some instincts, he has a lot of mental checkout moments. And stein has a health concern, all the intensity in the world, but is less polished than most on o, kinda like Deandre Jordan lite.
The most depressing part of this deadline was it was clear this team has no plan. There is none. Lets not overlook or sugarcoat, you can all get mad at me for saying it, but I'm right. Just like how all of you got mad at me for saying the Nash trade was garbage after it was done unless if Nash wanted to be an uber Steve Kerr. Guess what, I was right then too. Like with saying Brown was better coach than Scott this summer too. Letting Pau go for nothing and not even getting any second rounders back when Prigioni was good for two was hard to swallow. This is a debacle.
In the nba it is better to be mediocre than awful. Being awful doesn't help us. The Cavs weren't awful when they got Bron, simply mediocre by east standards. The fact is any free agent worth a damn, not Love as he isn't worth what he wants especially the max, will join this team with its bad coaching and lack of direction and assets. You need some B guys that are actual investments. You can't have a D guy like Wes and Ed to tell a free agent come in, or pay 15mil for a pick to a C guy like Lin. You have to go out and invest in the B guys like Dragic, Deandre, Rondo, Monroe, etc and it has to be investing in two B guys with a bunch of C and few D guys to support them to get a meeting with Bron. Don't get it twisted, I wasn't ranting, I was being honest yesterday, and honestly the only reason we got a meeting with an A guy in Melo last year was as Stephen a Smith said, Melo did it because another A guy in Kobe asked.
This really doesn't help us long term to waste our time on a fifth pick or purposely trying to lose. So yes I'm going to be disagreed with when I say it, like I documented before I was disagreed with about Nash and coachi, but I hope Hill, Booz, and Nick blow the tank up and beat Phili those two games. I rather not waste time on potential or guys who aren't close to NBDL level fitness, let alone nba fitness. I want to invest in 2-3 B guys with all our cap space and actual commitment to those guys with multiple years, and then offer the room to a C. We need two of Rondo, Monroe, Matthews, Tobias, Deandre, Dragic and so on as we have no shot, and deserve no shot at a meeting with Marc or Aldeidge this summer. Then we still need to get a Gerald Green or Kosta Kufos with the room as opposed to wasting time on Ed and Wes who aren't full time rotation guys.
Sig it, quote it, be mad whatever, I'm just being honest, and saying we don't have a plan or assets and we can't do what we did last year
There is a plan, which is not to freak out about a traditional rebuild like a grandpa who doesn't trust computers. The draft isn't perfect not because the prospects are untalented, but rather because the teams that drafted these prospects didn't have the infrastructure and openings to develop him. This should not be a worry with the Lakers, as you can see that the 2nd round talent is getting better every game (we can delve into that with more detail later).
Kevin Love is better than every free agent on your list, and i don't think it's even that debatable. For all the crap Love gets about nonexistent help defense, it's not like Monroe is Hibbert lite or something. DeAndre has a glaring flaw, Rondo has the same flaw just not as glaring and an actually even more glaring flaw while Dragic is the only one who I feel like can compare with Love in terms of talent. Love is a decent post defender really, and he is a player you can build your offense around. He can shoot 3s, and unlike Ryan Anderson, he has a real post game, which he dominated Ryan Kelly with last time they played. At the end of the day though, I'm with you on not wanting him for fit with Randle, and people need to stop saying that you try to make it work if he wants to come. There's something called opportunity cost.
Also, when you list free agent targets, don't list guys for what they've done. List them for what you think they're going to be. If you think Monroe is only going to get better, fine, list him as a B guy worthy of a max. Don't list Rondo, who is only going to decline from now on and who's shown that he don't give a damn when the team starts losing.
So if you're not going to go after 1 of them, then who should the Lakers sign with their cap space? Marc Gasol and Aldridge aren't going to leave so who do we target. I could point out the flaws in every single player, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't sign them.