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wallus wrote:Wolves pretty much have to trade KAT imo
paulpressey25 wrote:wallus wrote:Wolves pretty much have to trade KAT imo
KAT's under contract for 6/$228mm. Is he a designated Rose player that we'd be prevented from obtaining due to Giannis? I don't think so, since this is Giannis 3rd contract.
Also Bill Simmons dropping the "AD possibly available" piece.
Bucks should kick the tires on both. Middleton really our only asset though. And I'm not sure I want to mess with this chemistry. Middleton is our only missing piece at the moment.
JEIS wrote:Kyrie and Simmons for AD and Russ seem like where the world is headed. Didn't trade check.. Just seeing the moving parts. Bless Darvin Ham's heart to pit up with that.
emunney wrote:paulpressey25 wrote:wallus wrote:Wolves pretty much have to trade KAT imo
KAT's under contract for 6/$228mm. Is he a designated Rose player that we'd be prevented from obtaining due to Giannis? I don't think so, since this is Giannis 3rd contract.
Also Bill Simmons dropping the "AD possibly available" piece.
Bucks should kick the tires on both. Middleton really our only asset though. And I'm not sure I want to mess with this chemistry. Middleton is our only missing piece at the moment.
You can have 2 designated vets and we've only got one. I still think Minnesota turns it around and wins 50+, personally, but if they're thinking about major moves this quickly, I'd consider them stupid enough to approach.
LOS ANGELES -- Anthony Davis attempted just two shots in the second half of the Lakers' 114-100 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday, dropping Los Angeles to 2-7 on the season.
"Obviously, it starts with AD and getting him more touches," LeBron James said afterward. "Our focal point is and always should be to make sure he touches the ball throughout the course of possessions, quarters, halves."
Davis was 4-for-5 from the field in the first quarter as the Lakers outscored an opponent (36-30) in the opening frame for the first time all season. Then Davis was just 1-for-2 in the second half as the Lakers scored 36 points in the third and fourth quarters combined.
There were differing perspectives offered on whose responsibility it is to involve the talented big man more: his teammates, his coaches or Davis himself.
"I don't know whose primary job it is, to be honest," said Russell Westbrook, who finished with 19 points, 10 assists and seven turnovers as the Lakers' primary ball handler with the second unit. "I'll leave it up to the coaches to figure out the best way for them to utilize him.
"When I'm in, I do the best job I can in making reads, try to make the game easier for him when I'm in."
Lakers coach Darvin Ham put the onus on the players: "These guys are not rookies." Ham essentially explained that the veterans on his team have free reign to course-correct as they deem fit -- Davis included.
"We have a playbook. We have a menu and a bunch of sets where AD can be featured," Ham said. "You have to just be organized."
emunney wrote:Coach Ham's not going to last the season.
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Yeah but have you seen how they play? Edwards is their best player, and he's standing there waiting for the d'angelos of the world to do their thing. And when he gets the ball and tries to do his thing, which is getting to the paint, he bumps into 2 seven footers (and their defenders) because his team's strategy is to be the Ralph Sampson rockets.Ron Swanson wrote:Don't think Gobert is the problem when your two franchise guys are already loafing around and looking disinterested 10-games into the season. I guess it's always been a challenge with KAT getting him motivated, but I really didn't expect this with Edwards so early in his career. He's the future of that franchise, so if he's already acting like a diva over how the offense is run, then that's really concerning. KAT is the guy who needs to be saved from Minnesota. I just wish we had the assets to go get him....
Pachinko_ wrote:Yeah but have you seen how they play? Edwards is their best player, and he's standing there waiting for the d'angelos of the world to do their thing. And when he gets the ball and tries to do his thing, which is getting to the paint, he bumps into 2 seven footers (and their defenders) because his team's strategy is to be the Ralph Sampson rockets.Ron Swanson wrote:Don't think Gobert is the problem when your two franchise guys are already loafing around and looking disinterested 10-games into the season. I guess it's always been a challenge with KAT getting him motivated, but I really didn't expect this with Edwards so early in his career. He's the future of that franchise, so if he's already acting like a diva over how the offense is run, then that's really concerning. KAT is the guy who needs to be saved from Minnesota. I just wish we had the assets to go get him....
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