2018 Pick Watch (Philly, LAL 1 or 6-30, etc)

[LakersSoul]

Let's see how this Lakers thing shakes out. They basically have 3 key guys even under contract next year (Ingram, Ball and Kuzma). Everyone else is a free agent. If they strike out on stars and end up overpaying to retain or acquire non-stars, this whole thing could be thrust into disappointment.

Randle is playing himself into an issue for the Lakers because he is good enough to be worth signing, but they want to sign Max free agents which means that they will want to renounce him most likely.

I have always been a randle fan, and I am enjoying his rapid improvement. Actually I like Kuzma, Ball, and Ingram too. I think that the Lakers should be careful of taking short cuts and screwing up what they are building.


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Randle improved his stock too much this season. As long as other teams dont offer him in the $20 million range, I think Randle gets a good contract from the Lakers. Then we add 1 Max guy (PG) plus role players or vets for 1 year deals and we are done.

[the_process]

Let's see how this Lakers thing shakes out. They basically have 3 key guys even under contract next year (Ingram, Ball and Kuzma). Everyone else is a free agent. If they strike out on stars and end up overpaying to retain or acquire non-stars, this whole thing could be thrust into disappointment.

Randle is playing himself into an issue for the Lakers because he is good enough to be worth signing, but they want to sign Max free agents which means that they will want to renounce him most likely.

I have always been a randle fan, and I am enjoying his rapid improvement. Actually I like Kuzma, Ball, and Ingram too. I think that the Lakers should be careful of taking short cuts and screwing up what they are building.


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Randle improved his stock too much this season. As long as other teams dont offer him in the $20 million range, I think Randle gets a good contract from the Lakers. Then we add 1 Max guy (PG) plus role players or vets for 1 year deals and we are done.

Sorry to continue the OT... if Randle gets a 4-60 offer from Dallas, do the Lakers match it?

[LakersSoul]

Randle is playing himself into an issue for the Lakers because he is good enough to be worth signing, but they want to sign Max free agents which means that they will want to renounce him most likely.

I have always been a randle fan, and I am enjoying his rapid improvement. Actually I like Kuzma, Ball, and Ingram too. I think that the Lakers should be careful of taking short cuts and screwing up what they are building.


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Randle improved his stock too much this season. As long as other teams dont offer him in the $20 million range, I think Randle gets a good contract from the Lakers. Then we add 1 Max guy (PG) plus role players or vets for 1 year deals and we are done.

Sorry to continue the OT... if Randle gets a 4-60 offer from Dallas, do the Lakers match it?

I think thats a no-brainer for the Lakers. I think the Lakers will easily give Randle a 4 year deal at 66 million or $16.5 million per year with a team option on that 4th year.

The question will be what if Dallas offers 75+ for 4 years? Will Magic/Pelinka match that?

[Ericb5]

Randle is playing himself into an issue for the Lakers because he is good enough to be worth signing, but they want to sign Max free agents which means that they will want to renounce him most likely.

I have always been a randle fan, and I am enjoying his rapid improvement. Actually I like Kuzma, Ball, and Ingram too. I think that the Lakers should be careful of taking short cuts and screwing up what they are building.


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Randle improved his stock too much this season. As long as other teams dont offer him in the $20 million range, I think Randle gets a good contract from the Lakers. Then we add 1 Max guy (PG) plus role players or vets for 1 year deals and we are done.

Sorry to continue the OT... if Randle gets a 4-60 offer from Dallas, do the Lakers match it?

Unless the Lakers are sure that they can get George and Lebron, or George and Cousins, I think that they would have to sign that deal.

Randle is too good to let go for nothing.


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[Skates]

The way the league and conferences are shaking out it looks like the Lakers pick is going to be solidly in the 10-12 spots pre-lottery. Very little chance of moving higher or lower than that range.

[Sixerscan]

Randle improved his stock too much this season. As long as other teams dont offer him in the $20 million range, I think Randle gets a good contract from the Lakers. Then we add 1 Max guy (PG) plus role players or vets for 1 year deals and we are done.

Sorry to continue the OT... if Randle gets a 4-60 offer from Dallas, do the Lakers match it?

I think thats a no-brainer for the Lakers. I think the Lakers will easily give Randle a 4 year deal at 66 million or $16.5 million per year with a team option on that 4th year.

The question will be what if Dallas offers 75+ for 4 years? Will Magic/Pelinka match that?

Randle is one of the biggest RFA flight risks in history. Everyone knows the stakes with Lebron and George, and everyone knows that Lebron is going to take his time to decide. Every year some team with space identifies a vulernable RFA and gives them a huge offer to dare the original team to match. Randle seems like the obvious guy for that to happen this year.

I feel like some team like the Hawks or Mavs with cap space and a need at the 4 and that is at least 2 years away from competing is going to offer Randle something like a 3 year contract at close to the max. Randle gets his money and reaches UFA faster than signing a 4 year deal, the team gets a decent piece that will be tradeable by the time they want to compete or can extend him when the time comes or try to sign him with birds. Lakers get scared off because they are waiting for Lebron to sign (btw, if he's not signing with you, don't expect Lebron to give you a heads up before Randle's deadline comes up)

[Wilfried]

Let's draft best player available (SGA, Sexton, Zhaire Smith, ...) with Laker's pick and draft a big with some upside (Porter, Williams, Gafford, Robinson) with our own pick.

[Wilfried]

Looking at the remaining shedules of Charlotte/Detroit/LA, I have to admit LA has by far the toughest one.

Very important game is march 26 when Detroit plays LA (in Detroit). Let's root for Detroit, there's still a decent chance the LA pick ends up 10th.

[Mrcrockpots]

Looking at the remaining shedules of Charlotte/Detroit/LA, I have to admit LA has by far the toughest one.

Very important game is march 26 when Detroit plays LA (in Detroit). Let's root for Detroit, there's still a decent chance the LA pick ends up 10th.

Any chance the Hornets will be able to jump LA?

[Wilfried]

Looking at the remaining shedules of Charlotte/Detroit/LA, I have to admit LA has by far the toughest one.

Very important game is march 26 when Detroit plays LA (in Detroit). Let's root for Detroit, there's still a decent chance the LA pick ends up 10th.

Any chance the Hornets will be able to jump LA?

It's possible, Charlotte hast to win 3 more games than Lakers.

@BKN
MEM
@DAL
NY
CLE
@WSH
PHI
@CHI
@ORL
IND
@IND

at least 6 very winable games for them left, and they should be able to win about 2 games from the IND/CLE/PHI/WSH opposition.
So let's pressume (if they don't start tanking) they can win 6-7 games

LA has:
@NO
@MEM
@DET (go Pistons!)
DAL
MIL
SAC
@UTAH
SAS
MIN
UTAH
HOU
LAC

Too bad the last 2 games won't be important anymore for their opposition, so those could be 2 L's where there shouldn't be.
If Detroit can win it's game against LA, I can see them win 4-5 more games (Memphis, Sacramento, Dallas, Houston (resting players), LAC (let's hope clippers want to win for the honour of the hometown).

[Aussiepiston1]

Looking at the remaining shedules of Charlotte/Detroit/LA, I have to admit LA has by far the toughest one.

Very important game is march 26 when Detroit plays LA (in Detroit). Let's root for Detroit, there's still a decent chance the LA pick ends up 10th.

Any chance the Hornets will be able to jump LA?

It's possible, Charlotte hast to win 3 more games than Lakers.

@BKN
MEM
@DAL
NY
CLE
@WSH
PHI
@CHI
@ORL
IND
@IND

at least 6 very winable games for them left, and they should be able to win about 2 games from the IND/CLE/PHI/WSH opposition.
So let's pressume (if they don't start tanking) they can win 6-7 games

LA has:
@NO
@MEM
@DET (go Pistons!)
DAL
MIL
SAC
@UTAH
SAS
MIN
UTAH
HOU
LAC

Too bad the last 2 games won't be important anymore for their opposition, so those could be 2 L's where there shouldn't be.
If Detroit can win it's game against LA, I can see them win 4-5 more games (Memphis, Sacramento, Dallas, Houston (resting players), LAC (let's hope clippers want to win for the honour of the hometown).

Batum is out but so is Ingram.
Lets hope at least Pistons take care of business and we end with exactly where MCW was picked in a much better Draft so I'll take it as a Win.

[HotelVitale]

Sorry to continue the OT... if Randle gets a 4-60 offer from Dallas, do the Lakers match it?

I think thats a no-brainer for the Lakers. I think the Lakers will easily give Randle a 4 year deal at 66 million or $16.5 million per year with a team option on that 4th year. The question will be what if Dallas offers 75+ for 4 years? Will Magic/Pelinka match that?

Yeah, 4/60 is just 15% of your cap so less than what a solid starter makes on the open market. Lakers would likely pick that up unless they have a specific use for the money this offseason. (Unless they don't believe in Randle and are feeling a little gun shy after handing similarly talented Clarkson a sizable deal and getting mediocre results.)

[Wilfried]

LA has:
@NO
@MEM
@DET (go Pistons!)
DAL
MIL
SAC
@UTAH
SAS
MIN
UTAH
HOU
LAC

Too bad the last 2 games won't be important anymore for their opposition, so those could be 2 L's where there shouldn't be.
If Detroit can win it's game against LA, I can see them win 4-5 more games (Memphis, Sacramento, Dallas, Houston (resting players), LAC (let's hope clippers want to win for the honour of the hometown).

Carve out an extra W for LA against NO on thursday. I notice it's the Pelicans' 3rd game in 3 nights?!?
Has that ever occured? They played Dallas yesterday, Indiana today and LA Lakers tomorrow. Is that legal??

[Ericb5]

LA has:
@NO
@MEM
@DET (go Pistons!)
DAL
MIL
SAC
@UTAH
SAS
MIN
UTAH
HOU
LAC

Too bad the last 2 games won't be important anymore for their opposition, so those could be 2 L's where there shouldn't be.
If Detroit can win it's game against LA, I can see them win 4-5 more games (Memphis, Sacramento, Dallas, Houston (resting players), LAC (let's hope clippers want to win for the honour of the hometown).

Carve out an extra W for LA against NO on thursday. I notice it's the Pelicans' 3rd game in 3 nights?!?
Has that ever occured? They played Dallas yesterday, Indiana today and LA Lakers tomorrow. Is that legal??

I remember that happening a lot in the lockout shortened season back in Iverson’s third year, but I’m not sure that I have ever seen it in a regular year.

Maybe one of the games is a makeup game for one that was missed and this is the only way that they could make it work?


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[the_process]

LA has:
@NO
@MEM
@DET (go Pistons!)
DAL
MIL
SAC
@UTAH
SAS
MIN
UTAH
HOU
LAC

Too bad the last 2 games won't be important anymore for their opposition, so those could be 2 L's where there shouldn't be.
If Detroit can win it's game against LA, I can see them win 4-5 more games (Memphis, Sacramento, Dallas, Houston (resting players), LAC (let's hope clippers want to win for the honour of the hometown).

Carve out an extra W for LA against NO on thursday. I notice it's the Pelicans' 3rd game in 3 nights?!?
Has that ever occured? They played Dallas yesterday, Indiana today and LA Lakers tomorrow. Is that legal??

Yeah, what the hell kind of terrible scheduling is that? I thought the idea of starting earlier was to lessen back to backs... and yet the Pelicans get 3 in a row? I’d be really mad if that happened to the Sixers.

Also, if I were NO; I use the end of the bench for the majority of the game tonight and basically throw the out of conference game. Focus on winning the in conference game against the worse team. Which means the terrible scheduling would end up affecting the Sixers.

[bball4life]

LA has:
@NO
@MEM
@DET (go Pistons!)
DAL
MIL
SAC
@UTAH
SAS
MIN
UTAH
HOU
LAC

Too bad the last 2 games won't be important anymore for their opposition, so those could be 2 L's where there shouldn't be.
If Detroit can win it's game against LA, I can see them win 4-5 more games (Memphis, Sacramento, Dallas, Houston (resting players), LAC (let's hope clippers want to win for the honour of the hometown).

Carve out an extra W for LA against NO on thursday. I notice it's the Pelicans' 3rd game in 3 nights?!?
Has that ever occured? They played Dallas yesterday, Indiana today and LA Lakers tomorrow. Is that legal??

Yeah, what the hell kind of terrible scheduling is that? I thought the idea of starting earlier was to lessen back to backs... and yet the Pelicans get 3 in a row? I’d be really mad if that happened to the Sixers.

Also, if I were NO; I use the end of the bench for the majority of the game tonight and basically throw the out of conference game. Focus on winning the in conference game against the worse team. Which means the terrible scheduling would end up affecting the Sixers.

Pretty sure they had a leaky roof incident earlier in the year so wasn’t originally schedule this way. Between the other team’s schedule and other stuff scheduled at the arena I guess this was the best they could do. Still surprising.


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[OleSchool]

Could be a big night for the LAL pick. LAL plays NO in NO and Char plays Mem at Char. loss by the LAL and a win by Char would put that LAL pick at 10.

I think thats as far up at the LAL pick can go as the top 9 is pretty much set

[spikeslovechild]

The way the league and conferences are shaking out it looks like the Lakers pick is going to be solidly in the 10-12 spots pre-lottery. Very little chance of moving higher or lower than that range.

Yep the only way it moves is if Silver punishes the bottom guys for their obvious tanks.

[PLO]

The Lakers are doing right by us, basically just chucked away the Pels game, unfortunately a few cake games coming up for them.

[snoopdogg88]

of course the lakers next game is memphis