Lakers 2015-2016 Bold prediction Thread

[Spens1]

Jim Buss will still be a Laker

as a player maybe, hopefully nothing to do with front office of basketball management for us

Like that will happen and thanks to his comments about not selling the team it's his way of telling us to sit down, shut up, and get over it. Also you can Jim all you want, but at end it's all Dr Busses fault because he put him in charge.

i'd rather like my team to have a season thats respectable, maybe one day we can get 35 wins in a season again

[Rafer24]

Randle will have a very good season and lead us into the playoffs as 7th seed.

Solid year for Hibbert, who will be back with a new contract.

[scoobs07]

I'm gonna make a few bold Predictions...

Hibbert wins the DPOY award
Lakers make the playoffs as the 7th seed
Randle and Clarkson get traded during the season

I agree with everything you said.

[trevm37]

1. With Upshaw, Brown, Nance Jr, and Frazier, the Defenders win the D-league championship!

2. Nick Young gets dumped at all star break.

3. Russell will get first team rookie, but not ROY.

4. Russell will lead the league in turnovers the first half of the season, but will dramatically improve post all star break.

5. The Lakers will finished 9th in the west, and lose their pick, but no one will care, because by the end of the season, it'll show that they have more than enough young talent.

[LApwnd]

Hibbert signs the max.


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Shoot better not be here with us

[Lakers24gm]

Alright really bold here...

Lakers play well to about 2 weeks before trade deadline battling around 8,9,10 seeds. Kings really start to fall apart and Cousins demands a trade. Lakers trade Randle, Clarkson, Black, Young, Kelly and future 1st round pick unprotected to the Kings for Cousins. Lakers battle to 7th seed and take the Thunder to 7 tough games. Thunder loose next round and Durant leaves OKC for Lakers in offseason. Lakers go into 2016 with line up as follows...

PG- D'Angelo Russel
SG- Kobe Bryant
SF- Kevin Durant
PF- Boogie Cousins
C- Roy Hibbert

OK OK OK Ill wake up now...

[Hank7]

Lakers make the playoffs ... 8th seed.

[TyCobb]

Clarkson will average 18 points a game.
Russell will average 5 boards and 5 assists a game.
Jim Buss removes himself from basketball operations.
Hibbert has a good first half and gets us multiple prospects in return from a contender at the trade deadline.
Kobe makes his final All Star game.
Nick Young legally changes his name to Swaggy P.
Louis Williams finishes top-3 in 6th man of the year votes.
Sacre, Black get traded. Kelly, Jabari Brown get released.
Lakers win 32 games.
Julius Randle really struggles and the fanbase freaks out.

[PharmD]

Lakers have a bottom 3 record, don't get unlucky and keep their pick.

[Up-And-Coming]

I think Randle is going to really struggle and people will be labeling him a bust. I hope I'm wrong, but from what I have seen from him (which admittedly isn't much), he seems too predictable and tries to do too much a lot of the time.

Laker's will trade one of their young "core" players.

[Michael Lucky]

Roy Hibbert will average 30mpg for the first time in his career.

[One Love]

Our future hinges on the devolopment of Russell & Clarkson... Randle will struggle... He has no touch, forces the issue, dribbles with his head down & either goes left or ends up spinning back left to shoot... His game is so predictable it is ridiculous... He will play 4 to 5 years with 3 teams than to overseas and bully inferior players...

[Up-And-Coming]

Unfortunately, I agree One Love. Not to mention, I thought his biggest asset would be his rebounding (more specifically offensive rebounding). But from what I have seen (which again, admittedly is not much) he gets beat by taller/longer players and faster players to rebounds. He has been a below-average rebounder thus far.

[LakersLegacy]

Upshaw makes a defensive impact.

[SlimShady83]

Hibbert/Upshaw become the next Robinson/Duncan of the NBA at least on the defensive end - both sign for max multi year deals
Everyone complains.

[tugs]

Hibbert/Upshaw will be our version of Chandler/Len but will be miles better.

[simon24]

Russell starts by All-Star weekend.
Randle is an All-Star.
Kobe stays healthy all this season.