Ballers Wanna Ball, Rollers Wanna Roll, But We're Taking All--The Official 2017-2018 Lakers Thread

[Regular_P]

We really posting lineups that have played about one quarter worth of minutes together on the season and bragging about it?

 

[Newzz]

This is all bullshyt. He’s been in the League 2 years, averaged 18 and 7 his rookie year and ran into problems with the team his second. Teams won’t trade for him because they know they can get him for cheap next year. Watch him have a breakout year next season.

Yep...and when he does, @ALonelyDad & @Reid2Achieve will have to answer for all their posts today since they are saying he's not even worth a 2nd round pick.



Not a 1st rounder or late 1st rounder....saying he's not even worth a 2nd round pick



That's absurd to me, but it's their opinion

 

[10bandz]

Should we start a lineup of

Ball
KCP
BI
Kuzma
Randle

 

[DPresidential]

@LinusCaldwell How'd y'all lose last night??

Could sworn y'all had it in the bag.

 

[Newzz]

A GOOD PORTION OF LAKER FANS HERE AINT EVEN FROM LA AND DEF DONT HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF FOLLOWING THE TEAM SINCE SHOWTIME ERA..THE SELECT FEW ROUND HERE WHO ON THAT LEVEL I SALUTE. U DONT SEEM TO FIT THE CRITERIA BY THE WAY U RUNNIN YOUR MOUTH THO.

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION .. I NEVER SAID OKAFOR AINT WORTH A SECOND ROUND PICK. BUT OFFENSIVELY, HE IS INTERCHANGEABLE WITH BROOK LOPEZ MINUS THE SHOT.. AND WE ALL SEE HOW THATS PANNING OUT.

FACT OF THE MATTER IS, LUKE'S SYSTEM LEAVES NO ROOM FOR A BACK TO THE BASKET BIG MAN..BUT AS A CASUAL, U WOULDNT KNOW THAT. BASKETBALL IS NOT ALL ABOUT COMPILING TALENT. YOU GOT TO MATCH THE PIECES TO THE PUZZLE, YOUNG'N.

Im sitting in the sky box with all the other legendary #LWO posters.....watching all your horrible posts making what we built UP with the #LWO acronym and making us look like bad posters.


Getting us clowned in thread after thread



Going after #LWO legends like CantStop, asking for threads made by #LWO legends to be moved bc "you made yours first"...I been peeped you, but I let you slide for a long time now. Im not as nice as the others you're accustomed to in here



I've sat back long enough bc it's the same thing after another.........A WHOLE BUNCH OF CAPITALIZED LETTERS IN NONSENSICAL POSTS AND BEING WRONG


Sit down somewhere, learn the game a little better, and post regular for a change....and respect the #LWO hierarchy in here

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I found this interesting, no Nance or Lopez

Sign him the max then breh

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Lineup down the stretch should be

Ball
Clarkson
Kcp
Ingram
Kuzma

 

[Bilz]

Im sitting in the sky box with all the other legendary #LWO posters.....watching all your horrible posts making what we built UP with the #LWO acronym and making us look like bad posters.


Getting us clowned in thread after thread



Going after #LWO legends like CantStop, asking for threads made by #LWO legends to be moved bc "you made yours first"...I been peeped you, but I let you slide for a long time now. Im not as nice as the others you're accustomed to in here



I've sat back long enough bc it's the same thing after another.........A WHOLE BUNCH OF CAPITALIZED LETTERS IN NONSENSICAL POSTS AND BEING WRONG


Sit down somewhere, learn the game a little better, and post regular for a change....and respect the #LWO hierarchy in here

 

[Newzz]

LOL @ U PURPOSELY LEFT OUT JORDAN CLARKSON, MARC GASOL, AND PATRICK BEVERLY

You cant read either


I said:

Lakers 2nd round picks of this decade:


Devin Ebanks
Derrick Caracter
Andrew Goudelock
Chuk Maduabum
Ater Majok
Robert Sacre
Ryan Kelly
Anthony Brown
Zubac
Tony Bradley





But we cant give up a 2nd round pick for Jahlil Okafor? Yeah, because we've had such great luck finding steals in the 2nd round



Lakers are stupid

This decade means 2010s - current.



I guess I have to capitalize it for you

Jordan Clarkson was a 2nd round pick

Jordan Clarkson was our pick.


The Wizards traded us the pick & we drafted him (we basically bought him).



However 1 player in a decade though? That's what we're holding on to the 2nd round pick for? A player like Jordan Clarkson who everyone bashes on here?



Interesting.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I think people are judging fit not talent. I think Okafur has one exceptional talent when posting up but he's not a good passer, slow laterally which kills his defense, bad rebounder, and when he played just didn't have any sort of defensive instincts and stayed getting lost. But he is a beast in the paint with the ball in his hands. I just don't like the fit with the rest of the team as none of the guys around him are good enough shooters to build an offense around a post player.

That's literally all we need is a big that can guarantee a bucket.

Not turn the ball over, try to dribble up the court, or camp at the perimeter

Okafor can score and score well. We've proven that EFFORT can make anybody defensively better. Most of the people off the bench are shyt defensively anyway aside from maybe Hart.

Plus Okafor only been in the league 2 years and is apparently being blackballed in Philly. We got nikkas that haven't gotten better in 4 years getting knob slobbed where a talented big who can consistently score efficiently is not getting any recognition of playing time.

I personally think we have too many bigs atm though. We need shooters.

And honestly, we don't even give Thomas Bryant any play. Dude plays with a lot of energy, is intelligent, is willing to listen to Lonzo, and can score in multiple ways yet he's stuck in the d-league.

 

[Newzz]

Ima young casual Bilz...don't mind me

 

[IGSaint12]

Should we start a lineup of

Ball
KCP
BI
Kuzma
Randle

Honestly we should but we won't because of Luke's stubborness. Hell I would even take just playing Kuzma Randle and Clarkson more. They are woefully underutilized on this team.

 

[Newzz]

lol well Randle is more valuable than Okafor based off defensive ability alone. I think you dudes understand how bad Jahlil is defensively. If he gets switched in PNR he's done. He is strictly a post scorer and doesnt fit the team at all.

You gonna have to let that Randle crush go breh.



He's a good backup PF...that's where it ends

 

[Bilz]

Ima young casual Bilz...don't mind me

Sccit being garbage is one of the few things I agree with LWO about. Also that Luke tanked the game last night

 

[Newzz]

You had me with taking a flyer on Okafor but then lost me with putting him in the starting lineup.

Unless he dramatically improves his defense Oak's role in this league might be an Ennis Kanter in OKC type. Which isn't a bad thing, we desperately need a consistent low post scorer when the offense gets stagnant. He could serve that role coming off the bench.

Kanter on NYK:

64% FG, 14 ppg, 10.2 rebs.....26 mpg. Knicks are 10-10.



I don't know what NBA yall watching, but again...there's no such thing as "too much talent" for a team extremely devoid of it.

It's up to the coach to put your talent in the best position, and the lesser players (Lopez, Bogut, Zubac, Nance, Randle) will have to find their way...not the other way around.

Trading a 2nd round pick to place Okafor on the Lakers would make the team better. Not worse.




And nobody has explained HOW giving up a 2nd round pick for Okafor would make us a worse team.