Why the Lakers didn't trade Reaves?

[bisme37]

Kinda hoping the OP makes a thread about trading Payton Pritchard so he'll go off for 200 points tonight.

You guys want Knecht for Prichard? I was looking for a trade about this, but salary doesn't mach.

No not really.

[wco81]

I need yall to premptively not say Luka or Lebron need help… if yall do I will say AR needs help… this man is either perfect help or they need to help him

Have you seen how tired he was after these few games? He said he hopes Luka comes back soon lol.. Puts it in perspective how much TOP guys have to do when they carry teams and then get disrespected on top of it for lack of defense and being in bad shape, etc... They're expected to be 100% each game and put up godly numbers.

AR is scoring like Luka when he is alone on the court and primary offense guy and Luka is always the primary -

The lakers are a offensive problem -

When LeBron comes back and plays Point it’s gonna be a freaking problem - cause 3 guys that can do what they can do at this level are a problem period

His numbers are up after 6 games, minutes, PPG, FGA and FG%, rebounds, assists and most of all FTA and FTM. He's getting 11.2 FTA per game, which is almost triple the 3.8 FTA for his career and more than double the 5.0 last season.

Is he going to keep up those numbers?

Probably not, Luka will get the most touches and shots and while the Lakers seem to be signaling that this is LBJ's last season with them, when he comes back, is AR going to get more touches and shots than LBJ?

[cupcakesnake]

Kinda hoping the OP makes a thread about trading Payton Pritchard so he'll go off for 200 points tonight.

You guys want Knecht for Prichard? I was looking for a trade about this, but salary doesn't mach.

You want a bad player on my team, who can't quite crack our rotation, for a good player on your team, who starts, and won a major award last year?

[SlimShady83]

Kinda hoping the OP makes a thread about trading Payton Pritchard so he'll go off for 200 points tonight.

You guys want Knecht for Prichard? I was looking for a trade about this, but salary doesn't mach.

You want a bad player on my team, who can't quite crack our rotation, for a good player on your team, who starts, and won a major award last year?

LOL To be fair, Bos have better chances of unleashing Knechts 3 point shooting then Lakers do.

[cupcakesnake]

You guys want Knecht for Prichard? I was looking for a trade about this, but salary doesn't mach.

You want a bad player on my team, who can't quite crack our rotation, for a good player on your team, who starts, and won a major award last year?

LOL To be fair, Bos have better chances of unleashing Knechts 3 point shooting then Lakers do.

Knecht might or might not end up being a good NBA player. He has some obvious scoring talent. He's got some serious holes in his game that might prevent him from getting there. We'll see.

Right now though, Knecht doesn't have positive trade value. Pritchard is a proven commodity. Anyone trading for Pritchard knows they're getting an established shooting/scoring threat with a good motor on both ends. Teams would value him as a guy who can juice your bench offense, or space things for a driving star in a starting lineup. Trading for Knecht... you get a guy who hasn't established himself in the NBA yet. Knecht played enough last year to show some upside, but also show his warts. He struggled mightily to play off the catch. That's a big problem for a guy who's never going to be the main initiator for an offense. His defense is also atrocious.

We all have young guys on our teams that we value due to our familiarity, but that doesn't make them trade assets. It's unlikely any NBA team would give up anything of value for Knecht right now. If he starts balling out, he might have trade value again.

[CobraCommander]

Have you seen how tired he was after these few games? He said he hopes Luka comes back soon lol.. Puts it in perspective how much TOP guys have to do when they carry teams and then get disrespected on top of it for lack of defense and being in bad shape, etc... They're expected to be 100% each game and put up godly numbers.

AR is scoring like Luka when he is alone on the court and primary offense guy and Luka is always the primary -

The lakers are a offensive problem -

When LeBron comes back and plays Point it’s gonna be a freaking problem - cause 3 guys that can do what they can do at this level are a problem period

His numbers are up after 6 games, minutes, PPG, FGA and FG%, rebounds, assists and most of all FTA and FTM. He's getting 11.2 FTA per game, which is almost triple the 3.8 FTA for his career and more than double the 5.0 last season.

Is he going to keep up those numbers?

Probably not, Luka will get the most touches and shots and while the Lakers seem to be signaling that this is LBJ's last season with them, when he comes back, is AR going to get more touches and shots than LBJ?

its up to the super boy coach to get AR more touches and not being focused on letting one guy score ONLY. the lakers clearly have the talent to be successful...but look at these games and the scoring...if they can't win with this roster look at the coach and maybe the maturity of the players. Again...no excuses for Luka or Lebron.

[Archx]

AR is scoring like Luka when he is alone on the court and primary offense guy and Luka is always the primary -

The lakers are a offensive problem -

When LeBron comes back and plays Point it’s gonna be a freaking problem - cause 3 guys that can do what they can do at this level are a problem period

His numbers are up after 6 games, minutes, PPG, FGA and FG%, rebounds, assists and most of all FTA and FTM. He's getting 11.2 FTA per game, which is almost triple the 3.8 FTA for his career and more than double the 5.0 last season.

Is he going to keep up those numbers?

Probably not, Luka will get the most touches and shots and while the Lakers seem to be signaling that this is LBJ's last season with them, when he comes back, is AR going to get more touches and shots than LBJ?

its up to the super boy coach to get AR more touches and not being focused on letting one guy score ONLY. the lakers clearly have the talent to be successful...but look at these games and the scoring...if they can't win with this roster look at the coach and maybe the maturity of the players. Again...no excuses for Luka or Lebron.

How did we go from Ayton and Smart are washed, Reaves should be traded, Lebron is too old, Luka is fat and doesn't play winning basketball.... all the way to, if they don't win it all it's a fail?

Man, some of you guys flip the script every 5 minutes.

[CobraCommander]

His numbers are up after 6 games, minutes, PPG, FGA and FG%, rebounds, assists and most of all FTA and FTM. He's getting 11.2 FTA per game, which is almost triple the 3.8 FTA for his career and more than double the 5.0 last season.

Is he going to keep up those numbers?

Probably not, Luka will get the most touches and shots and while the Lakers seem to be signaling that this is LBJ's last season with them, when he comes back, is AR going to get more touches and shots than LBJ?

its up to the super boy coach to get AR more touches and not being focused on letting one guy score ONLY. the lakers clearly have the talent to be successful...but look at these games and the scoring...if they can't win with this roster look at the coach and maybe the maturity of the players. Again...no excuses for Luka or Lebron.

How did we go from Ayton and Smart are washed, Reaves should be traded, Lebron is too old, Luka is fat and doesn't play winning basketball.... all the way to, if they don't win it all it's a fail?

Man, some of you guys flip the script every 5 minutes.

I have never said that -

Ar is that guy - smart is decent- Ayton is fine- Lebron still top 10 for a game or series and Luka is in shape - and the coach is the next coming- no excuses -