Cooked Kings, bytchmade bigs, and shytty snitches: Your 2022-23 GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers season thread
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Cousins can barely jump at this point tho.
Voice of Reason
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yea but he's nowhere close to TB offensively. honestly if TB is going to give us this type of production on offense, I can live with his woat defense. and also cousins was horredous defensively the last time he was actually in a rotation which was in 2019. warriors fans will tell you. kept getting PNR cause he couldn't move. probably worse now.
duckbutta
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Have you never seen cousins play
Dr. Narcisse
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IF Bryant dominates Jokic when do we entertain getting more high quality players and health for AD 
I will blame this take on heavy drinking last night if he doesnt
I will blame this take on heavy drinking last night if he doesnt
Voice of Reason
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Thomas Bryant def deserves minutes but you need a center that can come in and help you get some stops on defense. If Cousins is not that guy they need to give someone else a look.
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If ypu want defense, youre better off trading for noel
I don't know much about what the market is going to be next year (cap, how much space teams have, who has what needs, etc.). But it seems like if he holds up then someone is going to throw 3 years $40 million at him for absolute certain and I won't be surprised to see it higher. Will anyone be willing to go crazy with like 4 years $80 million on a center with one good year and no defense? It would be hard to imagine, but he does everything you want a modern center to do at a wicked high level on offense right now, and someone is gonna believe he can be coached up on defense.
Should the Lakers be the ones? Depends on what their options are. They should know better than anyone why his defense is limited right now and what his ceiling is. It's weird, I'm trying to think of a good comp for him, and I somehow thought of a much rawer but more agile Kevin Love. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I'd sit tight and capitalize on the buyout market if I was the Lakers FO. Use those picks to build another young core and flip it for a star again 
Voice of Reason
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Someone said he is a great value version of Sabonis and I think that's fair. Sabonis makes 18 million per so ideally you could pay Thomas Bryant around 12 million per. And given how injury prone AD is you need TB's offensive production from the center position going forward. Keeping him is an absolute must in my opinion.
Honestly, I believe the Lakers should explore a trade with the salaries of Lonnie Walker, Nunn, Damian Jones which equals about 13 million. Maybe throw in Pat Bev but I'm hesitant to do that because you need his vocal leadership.
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I think he might be a buyout candidate but I doubt he signs with the Lakers because he hates Klutch.
Fortunate Lee
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They need to move AD. As ridiculous as that sounds…you just have to do it. He's only getting older. If he can't stay healthy in his prime years, what makes you think he can do that in his 30's?
Bron finna retire in two years I think..AD will not deliver anything to LA without Bron.
Bron finna retire in two years I think..AD will not deliver anything to LA without Bron.
this is the opposite of passive aggressive
I think that's a pipe dream with the salary cap going up next year. Sabonis signed that contract in 2019 as his rookie extension, he'd be getting more now.
It all depends on what you can get. No one should be off the table honestly.