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

[Mars]

For what LA is giving up this is a good move...If he can just guard his man and hit a catch/shot jump shot that is a major upgrade... Rui has the size, length, and athletic ability to guard wings (6'8 with a 7'2 wingspan).....Added bonus for the Lakers is that they're going to see their merchandise sales go up.

That being said Rui will need to improve his rebounding/team defense and hit the open man on offense.....I like the move.

 

[Raw Sauce]

For what LA is giving up this is a good move...If he can just guard his man and hit a catch/shot jump shot that is a major upgrade... He also has the size, length, and athletic ability to guard wings (6'8 with a 7'2 wingspan).....Added bonus for the Lakers is that they're going to see their merchandise sales go up.

I didn't even think about this, it was prolly a big factor for Jeannie (relatively) broke ass

 

[Software]

I didn't even think about this, it was prolly a big factor for Jeannie (relatively) broke ass

Japan bout to have a huge influx of laker jerseys

 

[10bandz]

Rui!!

 

[Omerta]

Rui vs Reddish

Lakers made the right call right?

Could easily have got Reddish for 2 seconds compared to Rui for 3 seconds.

 

[Software]

Rui vs Reddish

Lakers made the right call right?

Could easily have got Reddish for 2 seconds compared to Rui for 3 seconds.

Rui is much less of a gamble than Reddish. Reddish has the higher ceiling but the lower floor. Lakers are in win now mode so the safer bet made sense

 

[ALonelyDad]

None finally gone. @Voice of Reason in shambles. Still juelzing about Lonnie.

That man picks one random role player to hate on every season

 

[Left.A1]

One good thing about Rui tho is that while his shooting numbers have been kind of up and down for his career his corner 3 point shooting has been pretty damn good over the last two seasons …he’s shooting 42% on corner 3s this year on 42 attempts and shot 44% from the corners on 36 attempts last season …he just needs to stay away from that above the break 3 but those corners will be open playing with LeBron and AD

 

[bl2k8]

Dudes mental worries me, Lakers gonna quadruple his stanbase like we do with every one that comes here but if he struggles I hope they don’t go in

 

[tay1]

Three picks is a bit much but I love the acquisition. And we got rid of a guard on a crowded list of guards.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Imma need @CantStop and @2Quik4UHoes to call off the LWO dogs and tell em let Rui make it out here.


Nah seriously Im concerned about his mental health if 2016 CantStop shows up

 

[Kaypain]

You guys realize that take away that 2-10 start in November you'll be sitting in the 4th spot right now without AD.

 

[Regular_P]

This is interesting becuase his cap hold is like 18 million which means the lakers would have substantially less money to play with in free agency this summer if they are planning to keep him … to me that indicates that they don’t plan on being major players in summer spending and that they’ll likely push hard to leverage that cap space during the trade deadline instead …but we’ll see

This is what I'd been hoping they'd do. They were never gonna have the cap space to fill out the team in a meaningful way this summer. Trading for guys now is the best way to build a quality roster.

 

[G-Zeus]

You guys realize that take away that 2-10 start in November you'll be sitting in the 4th spot right now without AD.

Add those three games the refs sang fukk Bron Bron

 

[qashif]

the Cali weather might be the change of scenery Rui needs