Old Luke Walton Thread

[Sedale Threatt]

Can you not say pretty much the same thing about Walton? He's done virtually nil since he got his deal.

[Slava]

We know what Walton can do if he can suit up. Phil trusted him with key minutes immediately after recovering from an injury in the finals series against Orlando and he came up with some timely help.

Were the medical staff not right in diagnosing him before giving that deal? May be yes.

I can't say the same about Turiaf. What was it 2 pts and 1 reb for the entire playoffs? He was really bad.

[Sedale Threatt]

He had one good game in the Finals, Game 1. Otherwise you've got 0-0-2 in 15 minutes; 2-2-2 in 12 minutes; 6-2-0 in 11 minutes (not bad) and 2-2-1 in 14 minutes. That looks mediocre-to-poor to me.

Probably just beating a dead horse here, but I guess I'm waiting for him to contribute something more substantial to the team after, what, six or seven years?

[Slava]

Considering how little he played before that and the impact he made to the reserves when he was on the floor, I would think that it was a minor shot in the arm for us to take control of that series.

Practically speaking he is overpaid but that hasn't hurt anyone other than Buss' wallet. If we can overpay two more mugs and get a couple more rings in the process I'm all for that.

[Sedale Threatt]

Just because it didn't impact our ability to put and keep a roster together doesn't mean it wasn't, in hindsight, a bad signing. We've basically paid him mid-tier money to be injured and, when healthy, play well every fourth or fifth game. I don't care how nice a guy is or how much his teammates like him, that's a poor return on your investment any way you look at it.

[dockingsched]

LAL could have probably traded ammo's expiring for kirk hinrich if luke wasn't on the books, instead the lakers were only willing to take on hinrich if they got rid of sasha's deal.

[Pablo Escobar]

lol at the volleyball part with Kobe, hopefully Luke's back is ok he has a horrible contract but he might as well play it out instead of sitting down doing nothing

[Slava]

I think they were put off more by the length of Hinrich's contract than what was owed right then. May be they could have picked up his contract if Luke wasn't paid but I think Mitch would still have wanted to dump one bad contract in that deal to take on Hinrich's bad contract no matter how useful he might be.

[stunnar0b]

i hope his backs does get better and could contribute somewhat this season. after all his knowledge of the triabgle offense is through the roof and when he is in the game the offense runs so much more smoothly. lets go luuuuuuke