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

[Bilz]

it has been two games and both of them were pretty much tied going to the 4th quarter.

 

[The Villain]

 

[Mic-Nificent]

I really don't know what anybody could say to Randle to make things right. The dude elevated his game and showed that the team is better with him on the floor. He's earned more playing time but instead he's being jerked around in a contract year no less.

With Clarkson you can argue that he gets too much playing time given how often he gets tunnel vision and freezes out his teammates.

And somebody should honestly slap the shyt out of KCP for some of the shots he takes, especially those shots late in games.

 

[Flex Luger]

Lakers hold team meeting to air grievances

With players frustrated with losing, team roles and the uncertainty that next summer holds for the franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers held a team meeting to air out their issues.
The Lakers, who have lost four straight and seven of their last eight entering Friday's game against the Clippers, held the "heart to heart" meeting in place of practice on Thursday.
"Just clearing up some things, what we can be better at, how we can hold each other to be more accountable, more accountable for ourselves and how we can just get a better feeling for the game," Lakers forward Brandon Ingram said after the team's shootaround on Friday. "... I don't think you work through it in one day, but I think we put it out there about how each guy was feeling about how they play on the basketball floor, about how they're feeling about the business of the organization. How they want to be played or anything of that nature, I think they just put it all out there and ultimately I would hope they felt free after they did."

"Julius has shown us how great he can be," Walton explained on Friday morning. "And I believe in Julius and I continue to challenge him and some nights when he doesn't play big minutes, it's because other guys are rolling and some nights it's because I don't believe he is playing up to the standard that he set for himself. I want him to feel and realize the difference in those nights as part of his growth as a player."
"For me a lot of times we want him running, we want him playing fast, we want him running into screens," Walton added. "He is such a dynamic roller when he does it that he collapses a defense with how he can move around the court."

"I'm not sure, only time can tell," Ingram said when asked if the team meeting helped. "Hopefully we think about what we said to each other, what we said to the coaches and that the coaches have listened to what we said. Hopefully we can take it into practice, into games and just get better."

 

[Dwight Howard]

Lakers hold team meeting to air grievances

Welp. The FO fukked this up. Strike 2. Rule of thumb: if you want to trade a dude dont decrease his minutes and announce it to the world.

Whole locker room messed up cause the FO pretty much just dikks around everyone not named Ingram, Lonzo, and Kuzma. Magic's basic line of thinking is troublesome. Randle and PG share the same agent too. I dont think his agent would appreciate the way they dikking around with his clients money. I knew players werent fukking with luke's rotations like that. They are too random and he overthinks shyt. He the type of dude that plays his whole bench on 2k.

 

[ALonelyDad]

This FO got rid of D'lo and now Randle for what? We are not signing any big names next season

 

[KingBeez]

I’m crying that KCP really getting escorted to and from the staples center by police like he Goldberg

 

[Hater]

This shyt fukked up the whole season. nikkaz just playing for stats and I can't even blame them

 

[ALonelyDad]

Randle starting tonight lol

 

[Captain Crunch]

When will Zo come back?

 

[Dwight Howard]

 

[ALonelyDad]

team meeting and then come out with zero effort we are really worse than the Suns and Kings

 

[Regular_P]

Start Randle, brehs.

Start a game with no point guard, brehs.

 

[ALonelyDad]

Randle will be lucky if he is allowed in China after this game. I like him, but I like him as a backup 5 or a 4, there is no way he should be starting at 5 against an elite rebounder like DeAndre. Luke has lost this team

 

[Flex Luger]

So KCP running point or his Hart? Why not just start JC?