stan francisco wrote:Worst_to_First wrote:Dr Aki wrote:
Look at the players in the trade, the Lakers needed to make it a legal above the cap trade and Ingram's salary was a necessary part of the trade
From what I remember Lakers had the cap space that time to take on the additional salary that comes with AD.
The rationale for putting Ingram there instead of Kuz is to be able to create that max space in order to lure Kawhi in. Unfortunately that didn’t pay off but at least Rob was able to recover and sign guys like Danny Green etc.
Under a scenario where Kuz was included and BI was kept the effect would be you guys wouldn’t have signed Avery Bradley.
Am still rooting for you guys to get the chip this year but having a trio of LeBron, AD and BI would have made the Lakers unstoppable.
Yes. But that wasn’t an option. If, if, if. If Smash Parker played defense we wouldn’t have dumped him and we wouldn’t have signed MWP six years later...
And if Kuz played like he did last year, we’d be looking almost equally unbeatable now as if with BI. He’s by far the better solo player, impact player of the two. Especially defensively, if you watch that end. Kuzma has nothing on BI besides one thing: eye of the tiger killer instinct. Kuz can get very streaky and finish off a tight game. He’s clutch.
Look, I wanted to keep BI and Hart and LB and Kuz while adding AD. They asked for BI. And now the world outside Lakers fandom are realizing how great he is and, to boot, telling us how we should’ve kept BI.
Yay.
LOL. Smush Parker.
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