Team hypotheticals with and without Dwight

5ertwenty · Post #1 » by **5ertwenty** » Sat May 18, 2013 7:09 am

Give me your two realistic team hypotheticals for next season. One team WITH Dwight, one team WITHOUT Dwight. Mine are as follows:

WITH DWIGHT - Wright for the mini MLE, Tolliver for the vets min.
PG - Steve Nash/Steve Blake/Rookie
SG - Kobe Bryant/Jodie Meeks/Rookie
SF - Dorell Wright/Earl Clark
PF - Pau Gasol/Anthony Tolliver
C - Dwight Howard/Jordan Hill

WITHOUT DWIGHT - Lamar Odom for the vets min, Dorell Wright once again for the mini MLE
PG - Steve Nash/Steve Blake/Rookie
SG - Kobe Bryant/Jodie Meeks/Rookie
SF - Metta World Peace/Earl Clark
PF - Dorell Wright/Lamar Odom
C - Pau Gasol/Jordan Hill

Hopefully we can stay competitive for a season and then the real moves begin.

rhp1990 · Post #2 » by **rhp1990** » Sat May 18, 2013 8:56 am

still a pretty crappy team :'(

zerowolf88 · Post #3 » by **zerowolf88** » Sat May 18, 2013 12:44 pm

No kobe for much of the season.The lakers should just tank for wiggins

salmahayek · Post #4 » by **salmahayek** » Sat May 18, 2013 3:51 pm

Even if Dwight bolts, there's no way the Lakers could tank enough for Wiggins.

Plus, they have to field some type of team to sell seats, especially those of the court - side variety.

Desiderium · Post #5 » by **Desiderium** » Sat May 18, 2013 5:32 pm

zerowolf88 wrote:No kobe for much of the season.The lakers should just tank for wiggins

Lakers and tank don't go in the same sentence. and it's too early to tell if kobe will be ready or not. but he seems ahead of schedule. i expect him to be ready for opener...or miss a month at most.

DEEP3CL · Post #6 » by **DEEP3CL** » Sat May 18, 2013 6:46 pm

To OP, we're gonna have a hard time getting a guy like Tolliver to sign for the $3 mil MLE. He's worth a little more than that.

redzealots · Post #7 » by **redzealots** » Sun May 19, 2013 10:12 pm

we need to get danny granger, tyler hansbrough for pau.

pg - nash/blake
sg - kobe/meeks
sf - granger/artest
pf - clark/hansbrough
c - howard/hill

and obviously make some small acquisitions and developing mini mamba

TylersLakers · Post #8 » by **TylersLakers** » Mon May 20, 2013 4:54 am

Dwight's not going anywhere. I would honestly be shocked if he turned down the extra 20+ million.

RamonSessions7 · Post #9 » by **RamonSessions7** » Mon May 20, 2013 4:41 pm

DEEP3CL wrote:To OP, we're gonna have a hard time getting a guy like Tolliver to sign for the $3 mil MLE. He's worth a little more than that.

Tolliver would be thrilled with 3 mil.

LApwnd · Post #10 » by **LApwnd** » Mon May 20, 2013 5:26 pm

DEEP3CL wrote:To OP, we're gonna have a hard time getting a guy like Tolliver to sign for the $3 mil MLE. He's worth a little more than that.

why? he's been on what like 3-4 teams in the last 3-4 years? what has he done to warrant anything more than vet min?

AcecardZ · Post #11 » by **AcecardZ** » Mon May 20, 2013 7:16 pm

Please no Nash and Blake at pg next year... Anything but that!!!

DEEP3CL · Post #12 » by **DEEP3CL** » Mon May 20, 2013 10:38 pm

And so the Dwight situation has started. I don't want to call it drama because the only way it can be drama is if Dwight makes it that way. Last summer I was real abrasive about the situation, but this time around I'm gonna be more laid back. Like I've said in the past, if he wants to walk.....he walks.

And I know guys are gonna repeatedly say he'll stay, but as it was said today he can take a shorter deal with some team and recoup it later. It makes plenty of sense when you think about it.

And if he stays I would be happy with that too. So this is on D12, the only thing the fans can do is hope. But I'm past hoping.....whatever happens, just happens.

LApwnd · Post #13 » by **LApwnd** » Mon May 20, 2013 10:44 pm

DEEP3CL wrote:And so the Dwight situation has started. I don't want to call it drama because the only way it can be drama is if Dwight makes it that way. Last summer I was real abrasive about the situation, but this time around I'm gonna be more laid back. Like I've said in the past, if he wants to walk.....he walks.

And I know guys are gonna repeatedly say he'll stay, but as it was said today he can take a shorter deal with some team and recoup it later. It makes plenty of sense when you think about it.

And if he stays I would be happy with that too. So this is on D12, the only thing the fans can do is hope. But I'm past hoping.....whatever happens, just happens.

the only thing I dont see these writers acknowledge is additional money he could lose by not being in a big market in regards to marketability. While the article noted he isn't liked as much now and he doesn't get to do much commercial, how would going to a market like Hou/Dall help that matter? I also share your sentiment about if he walks he walks and I dont really care I just find it comical those morons on the T&T board really think we'd be SOL if he walked and rather do a S&T to take on a bunch of garbage :lol:

TARIQ · Post #14 » by **TARIQ** » Mon May 20, 2013 11:46 pm

Devin Harris,Anthony Morrow,Nick Young, Dorrell Wright,Wesley Johnson,Elliot Williams,Martell Webster. I'm sure at least one of them will sign with us for the mini mle.

LAKESHOW · Post #15 » by **LAKESHOW** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:00 am

"According to sources with knowledge of the situation, part of the discussion between Howard and Kupchak centered around Howard's frustration with D'Antoni -- particularly how the center felt marginalized as the coach looked to Bryant and Steve Nash for leadership and suggestions and discounted Howard's voice"

Maybe we need to discuss hypotheticals without dantoni

5ertwenty · Post #16 » by **5ertwenty** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:06 am

LAKESHOW wrote:"According to sources with knowledge of the situation, part of the discussion between Howard and Kupchak centered around Howard's frustration with D'Antoni -- particularly how the center felt marginalized as the coach looked to Bryant and Steve Nash for leadership and suggestions and discounted Howard's voice"

Maybe we need to discuss hypotheticals without dantoni

Kupchak has made it clear that D'Antoni's job is safe. I see him having one full season with training camp, then he's on the chopping block.

Post #17 » by **Kilroy** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:47 pm

If Howard's biggest issue is really that his opinions didn't have as much weight as Kobe and Nash, his value dropped a couple more points for me.
Who takes the class clown seriously?

Post #18 » by **Slava** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:52 pm

I honestly don't see the fixation with firing D'Antoni. The difference between Mike Brown and him is night and day and I actually liked watching more of this season than the season before just because the offense was a lot more free flowing and tolerable atleast in the later half of the season and you didn't have a clown on the sideline calling out plays on every possession.

LaLa · Post #19 » by **LaLa** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:02 am

Free flowing? More like let Kobe handle the ball 24/7, play him all 48 minutes and pray for a win. Even Kobe ignored Mike D's offensive plans so many times throughout the season. Kobe never told Mike that he was gonna go into facilitator mode, he forced Pau into the post not Mike D, this dude is a **** clown and should be fired ASAP.

Post #20 » by **dockingsched** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:29 am

LaLa wrote:Free flowing? More like let Kobe handle the ball 24/7, play him all 48 minutes and pray for a win. Even Kobe ignored Mike D's offensive plans so many times throughout the season. Kobe never told Mike that he was gonna go into facilitator mode, he forced Pau into the post not Mike D, this dude is a **** clown and should be fired ASAP.

He doesn't agree with your assessment

“I think there’s been far too much criticism of Mike [D'Antoni],”

“I think it’s grossly unfair to him. He inherited a team that had a bunch of injuries,” [he] said. “He inherited a team without a training camp. I think he’s done a nice job, to be honest with you.”