Cooked Kings, bytchmade bigs, and shytty snitches: Your 2022-23 GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers season thread

[Voice of Reason]

our roster wouldn’t look as shyt if AD lived up to his expectations. That’s what franchise players do. And yes they intended for AD to be a franchise player and it was looking like he was. Sadly that bubble ring was enough for him. U guys think Giannis is playing with world beaters or something? It’s just that Giannis is so great that others benefit from his greatness. U triple team one guy and the others willl eat. Teams are putting their sorry ass big on AD and daring him to shoot and when he does drive he throws up some weak ass hook or fadeaway.

Giannis is playing with some of the most impactful role players in the league.

Go look up Brook Lopez numbers

Jrue is a borderline all-star and the Bucks have the shooters to space the floor.

AD is playing like a p*ssy but Giannis would look worse on this team too.

Of course not as bad AD but still...

 

[CantStop]

Giannis is playing with some of the most impactful role players in the league.

Go look up Brook Lopez numbers

Jrue is a borderline all-star and the Bucks have the shooters to space the floor.

AD is playing like a p*ssy but Giannis would look worse on this team too.

Of course not as bad AD but still...

Giannis was playing with Mirotic and Bledose in the starting lineup in 2019 with George Hill and Ilyasova getting big mins. Do you think AD could have brought that roster even close to where Giannis brought it? there's no comp between Giannis and AD. this is coming from someone who told @Gil Scott-Heroin that AD was better than Giannis 2 years ago. AD is comparable to Lauri Markannen now as far as impact and as we've seen the 2 games we've played against Utah, he didn't impact the game as much as Lauri did.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Giannis was playing with Mirotic and Bledose in the starting lineup in 2019 with George Hill and Ilyasova getting big mins. Do you think AD could have brought that roster even close to where Giannis brought it? there's no comp between Giannis and AD. this is coming from someone who told @Gil Scott-Heroin that AD was better than Giannis 2 years ago. AD is comparable to Lauri Markannen now as far as impact and as we've seen the 2 games we've played against Utah, he didn't impact the game as much as Lauri did.

When AD was competitive against the Warriors in the 2018 playoffs he was playing the 4. The Lakers have not put him in the best position since the 20-21 team.

 

[CantStop]

When AD was competitive against the Warriors in the 2018 playoffs he was playing the 4. The Lakers have not put him in the best position since the 20-21 team.

AD is statistically having the worst 2 year run as far as jumpshooting goes. he's shooting from what I remember about 20%. now he doesn't even take jumpshots cause it's mentally messing with him. having 2 bigs that can't shoot in 2022 is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Voice of Reason]

AD is statistically having the worst 2 year run as far as jumpshooting goes. he's shooting from what I remember about 20%. now he doesn't even take jumpshots cause it's mentally messing with him. having 2 bigs that can't shoot in 2022 is a recipe for disaster.

Westbrook being on the floor is killing the spacing.

The last 2 seasons AD has fallen off a cliff compared to the 20-21 season before Westbrook was acquired.


In 20-21 he played the PF position 91% compared to 24% last season and 0% this season and his jump shooting was up across the board compared to these last 2 seasons.

And that 20-21 team did not really have elite shooting either.


The Lake front office are idiots that are miss using AD.

 

[ALonelyDad]

Kyrie on the way

 

[Voice of Reason]

Kyrie on the way

They need to make it happen now.

 

[ALonelyDad]

They need to make it happen now.

two 2nd round picks for Kyrie

 

[Voice of Reason]

two 2nd round picks for Kyrie

That's not terrible for the nets to be honest.

 

[jaydawg08]

He already mortgaged the future of this squad once to get bron his pal ad when he could have waited one year. he ain’t gonna do it again. Listened to bron got Westbrook in one of the worst trades ever. At this point I think they know it’s over so gonna

There's no guarantee that AD comes if he waits a year, and they won a chip in 2020 and honestly got some good pieces in 2021 so IT WORKED MORTGAGING THE FUTURE.


The issue was the course correction by the front office on being enamored with a 3rd star, and then not giving DeRozan and other role players a longer term contract to attain bird rights to keep them here. Malik Monk, TBJ are the most obvious recent ones now

 

[Georgiamuscle]

Kyrie on the way

Ben Simmons for Bron. Starts the rebuild with a young star and Bron plays with Kyrie again who says no

 

[SunZoo]

You Bron haters are slow as fukk Russ is no where close to the best player this season.

The reason this team is so terrible is because Russ' making 47 million takes away from 3 plus high level role players.

Ain't even about the hate. It's only fun to hate on Bron when he's front running, this shyt is sad, especially listening to what the fans think the problem/solution is. Bron being washed and AD being fragile and not having any dog in him are bigger problems than Russ contract.

You might be a little Delusional yourself there buddy

The few things they have going for them are things Russ is directly contributing to.

If you could move one or both of those guys for shooting you could net a playoff team. Lebron is doing nothing to help the pace or the defense at this point on top of constently being injuried. So yes, I would say Russ is "better" for the overall health of this team. Continuing to try and build around/cater to Lebron this year and for years to come is fukking DELISIONAL.

They both need shooters to thrive, only one of them is going to actually keep pace and actually show the fukk up night in and night out.

 

[Osmosis]

Russ is their best player right now.

If they were smart enough not to re-sign Lebron and get some shooters they'd be a playoff team. People negged me when I said Bron or AD (both actually) should be on the trading block, put shooting around Russ and let him play out his contract. Worst come to worst, he's off the books and whoever you get can benefit from the same shooters. Best case scenario...the team actually looks and plays a hell of a lot better and you can re-sign him at half the price if you wish.

There has been no signifigant fall off from Russ' season with Washington til now, he's just as capable of doing what he did there in LA (getting the team to the playoffs). But Bron is washed, chasing records and gumming up the gears as soon as there's a shift in pace.

Laker fans are still talking about making moves to build around Bron for next year...deliusional as fukk.

Russ was hardly even a positive player that season in Washington. They were 28-34 in the games he played, went 1-11 in games Beal missed (can't really blame Russ because that roster is trash but they were 4-3 in games Russ didn't play) and had an improved point differential without him. Some of that could be noise but he got his numbers in the most inefficient way possible. He was terrible for 75% of the season before a late season push that fans seem to focus exclusively on (He was then awful in the play-in games and shot 30% from the floor in the playoffs). If Russ is still that player he's still not a top 40 player in the league and certainly not better than AD or Bron who are also not very good right now but atleast have superstar upside on any given night.

 

[VegasCAC]

That's not terrible for the nets to be honest.

If they can get anything at all for him thats a win for them at this point.

 

[The God Poster]

two 2nd round picks for Kyrie

That first game Bron/AD/Kyrie are all out due to injuries