LAL1947 wrote:sonnyhill wrote:Ball so hard wrote:Are you affiliated with Klutch? You continue to push the Lakers should hire Rich Paul and make Lebron player-coach narrative. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take your post seriously.
Longtime fan (since the Wilt, West, Baylor days) and see the value in disruption; not affiliated with Klutch, but see the value that Klutch brings to the Laker org.. Empowering Klutch to jumpstart-and-power the Lakers is potentially a disruptive action which could catapult the Lakers ahead of both the "draft-develop-build" teams like the Warriors, Celtics, Spurs, and Raptors and the" compete for free agents and trade acquisition" teams like the Heat, Clippers, and perhaps the Knicks.
What Jeanie and her front office have been doing is not working, and to borrow the rhetorical question which former President Trump had used when courting the African-American vote in 2016, when considering bringing Klutch into the Lakers' front office to jumpstart-and-power the Lakers, Laker nation should be asking ourselves, "What do we have to lose?"
This is one of the stupidest things I've read. You want Jeanie to plant the seeds of self-destruction... you want to take the Lakers away from the family who built it from nothing, and give it to Lebron without a care... all while grossly overestimating Lebron's and Rich Paul's capabilities to operate as coach or manage a franchise.
The Lakers must conduct business like Real Madrid, the leader in its field of EU Soccer, and not become a clown show like you're proposing here. The organization is much larger than any one person... even a player like Lebron James. Take note of how Real Madrid traded Cristiano Ronaldo, a bigger name than Lebron James, when they had an opportunity to obtain $100m in transfer fees. It is the same point where the Lakers are at too... and instead of trading him in return for assets... or giving him one last ill-advised go at contending... you're actually suggesting that they give him the keys of the whole organization, lol.
You're definitely a Klutch plant.
LAL1947 wrote:This is one of the stupidest things I've read.
Do you disagree that the Lakers are in competition with "draft-develop-build" teams like the Warriors, Celtics, Spurs, and Raptors AND the "compete-for-free agents-and-trade acquisitions" teams like the Heat, Clippers, and perhaps the Knicks" and need a strategy which either competes head-to-head with those teams or is new-and-different than what those other teams are doing?
No, I do not "want Jeanie to plant the seeds of self-destruction," and am "open-to-and-would-welcome-seeing" a full rebuild, including trading Lebron AND AD for a haul of assets (trading Westbrook might be impossible until right up to next season's trade deadline).
It is Jeanie and the front office who have embraced the LeBron-Klutch ecosystem (hiring Randy Mims, trading away the young-and-developing talent PLUS first round draft picks for AD, not trading for Hield-and-trading for Russ, hiring Ham) and is now looking to "run it back" with the same core roster as this past season's. So, again, given the actions and decisions which Jeanie and her front office have chosen, with regards to really going all-in on giving LeBron and Klutch "the keys to the whole organization," including finally hiring Rich Paul as CEO, "what do the Lakers have to lose?"
BTW, Jeanie could still go the route of a full reset by trading away LeBron and AD for a haul of assets and empowering Pelinka to construct a roster of players over the course of the next 3-4 years which vertically-align with Coach Ham's coaching philosophy and system. I would find this approach to be both refreshing as well as prudently wise; however, Jeanie has stated that she wants to see LeBron break the all-time NBA scoring record in a Laker uniform; she has loaded up the team with Klutch clients and LeBron posse members; and has through her proxy, Phil, advocated for the new coach to build around Westbrook.
