McBubbles wrote:thebigbird wrote:MartinToVaught wrote:Someone needs to tell LeBron that there's a way he can still play in LA and not have to deal with a terrible owner and the dumbest GM in the sport. Just saying.
Man people like clowning on the Clippers but their owner is rich as hell and they’re going to have a nice new arena. The Lakers just have the tradition and they’ve been living off it for a awhile. I never liked LeBron going to the Lakers, honestly. Didn’t like it in 2018 and still don’t now.
Same, although not for basketball reasons. He had a extremely, extremely unique career path / storyline. By going to the Lakers he became just like every other great who did the same thing. Shaq, Wilt, Kareem, Dwight, Nash, Malone, Grant, Payton, etc. Removes some of what made his career kinda special imo.
can't in good conscience blame the GM without pinning some of this on the stars. If they simply added some combination of Nunn or Monk to last year's team they'd have been better off but Lebron and AD showed why you don't listen to players in teambuilding. They are a slow halfcourt team, favour postups, favour defense, favour Rondo and favour their double big system, there were like 5 overlapping reasons why it was never an ideal destination for Westbrook. Players know talent but don't have a clue how to put together a functional team. I guess you're right to say the GM also screwed up not applying initiative and taking their input.
I thought the Deandre Jordan signing was pure negligence though. Nets were the biggest story in the Nba last year, how did a front office guy not tune in to one game to see how bad he was? He can't even jump anymore. Do you realise how bad one needs to be to be a negative defender in a lineup that contains Kyrie and Harden. The other issue was not addressing their wing depth. One injury to a 36 yr old roleplayer was all it took to destroy the rotational wing balance? Was so confused by that, so did the title plan include Melo guarding Giannis or KD in the finals? Because if one also watched the EC playoffs you saw Giannis absolutely abuse Ariza physically.
