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What the Lakers really need to do?

What up guys/girls I’m a little past being drunk and it’s 3am on Saturday morning, can’t sleep so figured I’d type something out and get something off my chest, so excuse any spelling and grammar it isn’t the best.

First and for-most, the Lakers need to stop trying to form a “Big 3”, the last few years of seeing the NBA I’ve seen too many teams trying to form the big 3-4 and not getting things to work out, the problem with this is, that there is usually too much ego in one team and it’s the reason why it rarely works (shaq/Malone/Kobe/Payton etc).

Unless you have the best player in the game – Lebron/Durant it’s not going to work, by the way the only reason why Miami one Chips was because Bosh was willing to take a lessor role in order to win <<< Don’t believe me take a look at Cleveland now with – Lebron/Love/Irving < Love is a little lost and doesn’t know where he stands, it takes time for a new team to get to know each other, it’s why we never won with Malone/Payton+ too much ego – Also note OKC is only one more scorer away from being a champion ship team -IMO

Ok enough about that for now.

So what do the Lakers really need in order to start winning games? [Let’s forget the fact we are tanking shall we] …

Double Teams: I’m so ‘sick n tired’ of seeing almost every single team just double teaming either Kobe or Young because we don’t have that third scorer who can get us that 15/25 points a game, this is the reason I believe Lakers have interest in Jennings.

Lakers need to sign someone like Jennings who can be that 3rd scorer and stop teams from doubling Kobe/Young ^ I’m not saying Jennings is the answer < “someone like Jennings” who can score at will and be a threat “consistently” and give Kobe/Young some breathing space + prefebly someone who isn’t a big time star, just a quite achiever

PG: Lakers need a Pass first point guard and this is another reason I feel we should go after Rondo “OR AGAIN” some one like Rondo who is a pass first PG to get the ball to our shooters and big-men that we’ll have next year.

Keep in mind we have a Coach that is a offensive minded coach and with the line up I’m about to propose to you all, you’ll find something wrong with this like Defense, injury prone, too old, $$$ too high, well keep in mind that nothing is perfect even in our championship days there were flaws to be made so get over it.

C: Hill
PF: Randle
SF: Kobe
SG: Jennings
PG: Rondo

Yes our Defense is going to suck, but keep in mind once again that we have an offensive minded coach, while I do believe Defense wins game a good strong offensive game that can average 100 + a game is tough too be no matter how good your D is.

Kobe’s Minutes. Kobe’s minutes need to monitored of course and I feel his minutes should be watched closely like this.

1st quarter 7-8 minutes
2nd quarter 4-6 minutes
3rd quarter the last 6-8 minutes < he plays his best in the 3rd I feel and of course 4th
4th quarter the last 6-7 minutes

Average of 28-30 minutes a game. We need to save him for the end of games. When he is resting, give the young guys time.

Our full line up next year???

C: Hill/Top 5 pic/Black
PF: Randle/Boozer/E.Davis
SF: Kobe/Wes/Kelly
SG: Jennings/Young/Ellington
PG: Rondo/Clarkson/Price < Yes I still want Price, but limit his minutes.

I wonder how much crap I’ll get for this? Hehe. But not bad for a drunk/tired guy huh???

hahah Rondo/Jennings....go back to sleep bro

You from Australia or something? 3 am lol

You really don't know basketball.

Coulda swore hes a defensive minded coach lol

Rondo Lin Tyus Jones
Clarkson Young RJ Hunter
Kobe Wes Kelly
Randle Booz Black
Okafor Or Towns Kaman Sacre

Hou 1st Jones: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/tyus-jones
LAL 2nd Hunter: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/rj-hunter

2016 Kobe out, Durant in

Penberthy wrote:Rondo Lin Tyus Jones
Clarkson Young RJ Hunter
Kobe Wes Kelly
Randle Booz Black
Okafor Or Towns Kaman Sacre

Hou 1st Jones: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/tyus-jones
LAL 2nd Hunter: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/rj-hunter

2016 Kobe out, Durant in

I don't see Boozer returning. He's at that age in his career when he's likely to go ring chasing. Judging from that glimpse we got in the Backstage Lakers tidbit during his intro early in the year, he's salivating for a ring. And this season has shown he's got enough offensive skill to be useful off the bench of a contender or playoff team, especially if it's in limited minutes or spurts where the team isn't going to live or die by his (lack of) defense. I think he goes ring chasing and signs to come off the bench of a contender.

I don't see him coming back to the Lakers. Besides which, the Lakers are in a rebuilding phase. He's not the right age. Better to invest in younger guys that can grow beyond the Kobe final farewell tour treadmill years, into the years when guys like Clarkson and Randle and the Top 5 pick start to mature and enter their prime to contest for rings. When Randle and the rest are ready to charge for the ring, Boozer will be even older and probably less productive with age and wear and tear. In addition, having Boozer back would steal minutes from younger guys who need developing. Better to have the minutes go to develop guys like Randle.

Booz ain't coming back. Not a good fit for him or the team considering the circumstances and phase of development/career of the twain.

I see where you're coming from and it might be true. My thinking was that he would be a good positive mentor to the young bigs like Randle Black and Okafor. He seems to be a positive influence and steadying force during this chaotic depressing season, and with so many young bigs, it would be nice to have a few humble vet back up bigs like booz and kaman. I was thinking something like 28 mins for Randle and 20 for Booz behind him. I could easily see him going somewhere else like the mavs though and playing behind dirk if they wanted to give him a few bucks.

haha yeh I was a little wasted last night as I had a big night and forgot Jennings is a PG haha. My bad on that one.

But you all get my drift, we just need another 3rd scorer who can score consistently and we need our big three to get around 60 a game.

Those of you mentioned Kaman coming back, I'd love for him to come back, but doubt he will.

Marionettetc wrote:You from Australia or something? 3 am lol

Sydney lol

Penberthy wrote:Rondo Lin Tyus Jones
Clarkson Young RJ Hunter
Kobe Wes Kelly
Randle Booz Black
Okafor Or Towns Kaman Sacre

Hou 1st Jones: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/tyus-jones
LAL 2nd Hunter: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/rj-hunter

2016 Kobe out, Durant in

Why would the Lakers sign Kaman and why would Kaman wanna come here?
No to Rondo. He's not gonna help us for the future. And let Wes go. Way too inconsistent.

With the HOU 1st, they need to get Delon Wright and w/ their 2nd take the best player available regardless of the position.

I rather draft a PG or roll with Clarkson at PG. Jennings is a chucker and Rondo can not space the floor.

id just keep lin and jclark. draft a c. sign another guy like youve been saying someone who can drop 20-30 any given night like a jimmy butler.

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I stopped after the part of the Lakers needing Jennings. You're drunk skullz. Go home.

With the development of Clarkson, id rather focus on the center spot And the wings. A lot of point guards are always available. No need to overpay for one. We have bigger needs.

Just concentrate on rebuilding and go from there. I would look into PGs and SFs' in the draft if I'm the Lakers as a start.

The first thing the Lakers need is stop with this "Lakers will be contenders talk". I know it's partly done just to sell tickets, but they need to give the fans the benefit of the doubt that they'll continue to support the team even if they're not contenders. The next thing they need to do is decide if they're going do a complete rebuild or focus on becoming a playoff team. If the idea is to rebuild cool, set out a 3 year plan, trade Nick Young, collect assets and maintain cap flexibility. If the plan is to become a playoff team, they need to take a gamble on one young free agent and use remaining cap space to sign some vets to reasonable deals. Either way this half assed idea of signing one year contracts and hoping to land a superstar needs to stop.

The off-season is pretty simple:

1) Get Julius Randle back healthy and develop him.

2) Lose pretty much the remainder of our games to help solidify getting our Top 5 pick. Hopefully Top 4 so we can get one of Towns, Okafor, Russell, Mudiay. With the Houston pick, draft another player who can contribute next year. Usually when you have a late 1st round pick or a 2nd rounder, you look for a player that does something specifically really well. With Clarkson, it was his ability to score. With Kelly, it was his ability to shoot and his ability to understand the game. With Turiaf, it was his hustle, heart, energy. We must do the same thing with the Houston pick as well as the early second round pick. Find athletic guys that can play good D, hustle, rebound and run the floor (Hollis-Jefferson, Trey Lyles, Cliff Alexander, Jarrell Martin) or find a specialist in other areas of the game ex- shooting, floor general, etc.

3) With free agency, go all out at the big guys (Kawhi Leonard, DeAndre Jordan, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler) and try to hit a home run. If they say no, move onto the next tier (Rondo, Monroe, Dragic, etc). Key thing for free agency if we miss out on the big fish is DO NOT OVERPAY on that second tier of free agents. Doing that sets franchises back years. We cannot do that. Any one of Rondo, Dragic, Monroe, etc will come here for 15-20M a season, that doesn't mean we take it just for "band-aid" purposes.

I'm not convinced that Kawhi Leonard deserves to be top tier. He may just be a product of a good system. Has good defense but that alone is not enough To earn max For me.

I hope you guys get Rondo...and he gets max $$