WE DID IT! (HIBBERT PRESS CONFERENCE EDITION)

KobeBryant24 · Post #441 » by **KobeBryant24** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:57 am

Lol why hasnt Kobe hit up his new teammates yet

BEazy · Post #442 » by **BEazy** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:10 am

This is beyond dumb that ESPN is blowing this crap up. They just love giving the haters more fuel for their hate...smh...

Post #443 » by **dockingsched** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:17 am

Hibbert lost 15-20 lbs? Did I hear that right on the radio?

Sofa King · Post #444 » by **Sofa King** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:21 am

Kobe don't call no scrubs for whatever reason

Post #445 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:22 am

dockingsched wrote:Hibbert lost 15-20 lbs? Did I hear that right on the radio?

Yeah, I heard that too... He definitely looks slimmer.

Post #446 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:25 am

ScHoolBoy B wrote:This is beyond dumb that ESPN is blowing this crap up. They just love giving the haters more fuel for their hate...smh...

Lakers can't win with Kobe. When he's involved with Free Agents, it's all wrong, and he supposedly turns them off... When he isn't involved, he doesn't like them and turns everyone off...

Time to admit Kobe really isn't that big a factor in their decision making at this point, one way or the other.

LApwnd · Post #447 » by **LApwnd** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:48 am

Slava wrote:That was one of the least interesting press conferences ever. 1/10.

Guess mgmt still hasnt learned from their presentation with Lma, unimpressive lol.

LApwnd · Post #448 » by **LApwnd** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:50 am

Call me a hater but i was never really impressed with hibbert even with his peaks in indy.

Marionettetc · Post #449 » by **Marionettetc** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:58 am

LApwnd wrote:Call me a hater but i was never really impressed with hibbert even with his peaks in indy.

You're not a hater. The tone throughout this thread from even before we knew the Lakers were even looking at Hibbert was very lukewarm.

I think any enthusiasm on our parts has to do with the fact he's a reasonable upgrade at center from what we were rolling out for the past few years and maybe some optimism about him changing scenery.

DEEP3CL · Post #450 » by **DEEP3CL** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:34 am

Kilroy wrote:
ScHoolBoy B wrote:This is beyond dumb that ESPN is blowing this crap up. They just love giving the haters more fuel for their hate...smh...

Lakers can't win with Kobe. When he's involved with Free Agents, it's all wrong, and he supposedly turns them off... When he isn't involved, he doesn't like them and turns everyone off...

Time to admit Kobe really isn't that big a factor in their decision making at this point, one way or the other.

No it's more like Kobe can't win, everything he says or action is over blown, over exaggerated.....it's media trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I don't think Kobe has factored into anything since like 2011 or 12....pretty damn sure about that.

Hell maybe Kobe doesn't even have their numbers yet, then if he did text,call or made any contact the media would've been all nosy...asking these guys what did he say ?

Can you imagine the blow back had Kobe not responded to Larry Nance Jr ? They would've bugged Nance all summer asking has he heard from Kobe yet.

BigBennett2013 · Post #451 » by **BigBennett2013** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:38 am

Some of those guys are just waiting for next season to over so they can hit the market next offseason

Dr Aki · Post #452 » by **Dr Aki** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:00 am

they didn't write him no long ass letter having to call him mr bryant

DEEP3CL · Post #453 » by **DEEP3CL** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:19 am

LApwnd wrote:Call me a hater but i was never really impressed with hibbert even with his peaks in indy.

Maybe because you were spun by the narrative that he wasn't the flashy offensive force like the media thinks all centers should be ?

I've watched Roy since he was at Georgetown, I knew watching then he wouldn't be super dominate on O, but you could always see flashed of the presence he could be on D. His offense has improved by leaps and bounds since his college days, at least he's more than serviceable than Hill and Sacre put together.

Listening at Roy I know he gets it, he's been receptive of listening to Kareem and it seems like he's ready to work.

DEEP3CL · Post #454 » by **DEEP3CL** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:21 am

BigBennett2013 wrote:Some of those guys are just waiting for next season to over so they can hit the market next offseason

Like who are some of those guys ?

ratra_1211 · Post #455 » by **ratra_1211** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:27 am

DEEP3CL wrote:
BigBennett2013 wrote:Some of those guys are just waiting for next season to over so they can hit the market next offseason
Like who are some of those guys ?

Bobby Sacre

DadoTheRabbet · Post #456 » by **DadoTheRabbet** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:28 am

Kilroy wrote:
dockingsched wrote:Hibbert lost 15-20 lbs? Did I hear that right on the radio?

Yeah, I heard that too... He definitely looks slimmer.

Damn. 7' 2" 265. Looking good. Here's hoping...

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Pinoy cchio · Post #457 » by **Pinoy cchio** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 4:37 am

Mitch has done a great job. Lakers are on track with their rebuilding. These are solid players, a definite upgrade from players they are replacing. Hibbert will have a big year, he has the talent to be an impact player in this league. Williams is just reaching his prime. Brandon will be very solid.

Lakers' rebuilding right on track, exciting season smoking up.

LApwnd · Post #458 » by **LApwnd** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 6:49 am

DEEP3CL wrote:
LApwnd wrote:Call me a hater but i was never really impressed with hibbert even with his peaks in indy.
Maybe because you were spun by the narrative that he wasn't the flashy offensive force like the media thinks all centers should be ?

I've watched Roy since he was at Georgetown, I knew watching then he wouldn't be super dominate on O, but you could always see flashed of the presence he could be on D. His offense has improved by leaps and bounds since his college days, at least he's more than serviceable than Hill and Sacre put together.

Listening at Roy I know he gets it, he's been receptive of listening to Kareem and it seems like he's ready to work.

his rim protection is fine but I think he's gona struggle on PnR, especially with this team. Honeslty its not the offense that i'm not impressed with, but come on man the dudes 7 2- 7 3 ish and he's NEVER avg. double digit reb. and can't even muster enough stamina to play 30mpg. As far as the narrative, he's a former all-star, well it the east is all i can say....if he was in the west during those times he wouldn't even be an after thought, he'd be more in the range of the Robin Lopez, Gortat (pho) tier C's.

Post #459 » by **TyCobb** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 6:50 am

Losing 16 pounds is a good start.

ArC_man · Post #460 » by **ArC_man** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 5:42 am

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