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

[Regular_P]

It’ll be interesting because Vandy is just a flat out better more versatile defender than Bamba but starting Bamba would allow you to put AD in his more natural 4 role where he can go back to really wreaking shyt as a roamer … Ham is definitely on the hot seat right now tho he has a short time to figure his rotations out and they can’t afford to lose games in that process ..if I were him I’d probably go

DLO
Walker
Vanderbilt
Bron
AD

At least this way you have some athletes out there to mitigate their poor transition defense and I would stagger DLO with Bron to protect him a little and always make sure a playmaker was on the floor ..the bench would be nice tho

Beasley
Reaves
Rui
Gabriel/Bamba (whoever’s working that night)

Schroeder and Brown would be out of my rotation ..redundancies

With Bamba on the team, I'd actually be comfortable moving AD to the 4. I'd go:

Dough Boy
Beasley/Walker
LeBron
AD
Bamba

Gives them plenty of shooting and two guys who can protect the paint. Then, mix and match Schroder, Rui, Reaves, Vanderbilt and Gabriel.

 

[10bandz]

Rob's generally made good moves. The only really bad one was Russ, which was forced on him by Klutch and Jeanie. The insane Klutch/LeBron narrative slandering him for being inept that caught on with so many was nuts.

REP +10

 

[VegetasHairline]

the Lakers for having a good trade deadline. It really could have been much worse!

 

[HoldThisL]

 

[jaydawg08]

So what do we think we need to go in order to make the playoffs?

We still thinking play-in for this team or we have aspirations for a 6 seed or better?

Honestly the magic number is probably gonna be 16 more wins rest of the year.. We can't afford to drop games, and unfortuently with this new lineup we're gonna need to hit the ground running. Going 16-11 probably gets us a play in spot. 18-20 wins might get us a top seed to bypass the play-in

 

[G-Zeus]

Ain't will Barton a good pick-up if bought out?

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

People who said Bron gutted the team's future were either lying or clueless.








Yeah, it looks like they didn't make a trade so still no 3-and-D. I definitely agree that Vanderbilt might be a better starting option than Rui, or maybe even Bamba.

3 of the 1st round picks they aren’t even allowed to trade or else they have have

 

[Left.A1]

With Bamba on the team, I'd actually be comfortable moving AD to the 4. I'd go:

Dough Boy
Beasley/Walker
LeBron
AD
Bamba

Gives them plenty of shooting and two guys who can protect the paint. Then, mix and match Schroder, Rui, Reaves, Vanderbilt and Gabriel.

I can see that ass well …the only reason I said Vanderbilt starting was because he probably can guard down better than AD and he probably could guard wings better than anyone on the roster ..but idk …you can’t play all these nikkas so Ham has some hard choices

 

[areohbee824]

Rob's generally made good moves. The only really bad one was Russ, which was forced on him by Klutch and Jeanie. The insane Klutch/LeBron narrative slandering him for being inept that caught on with so many was nuts.

Photoshopping half his face with Bin Laden Just one example but stupid shyt like this daily for the last two years in many spaces

 

[Left.A1]

Would be nice to get Pat Bev back after he gets bought out but that ain’t allowed right?

Gotta wait 30 days “Gary Payton” rule

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

Photoshopping half his face with Bin Laden Just one example but stupid shyt like this daily for the last two years in many spaces

And they wonder why Kobe and mj Stans form like voltron against bron stans

 

[Software]

So what do we think we need to go in order to make the playoffs?

We still thinking play-in for this team or we have aspirations for a 6 seed or better?

Honestly the magic number is probably gonna be 16 more wins rest of the year.. We can't afford to drop games, and unfortuently with this new lineup we're gonna need to hit the ground running. Going 16-11 probably gets us a play in spot. 18-20 wins might get us a top seed to bypass the play-in

Statistically speaking the 6th seed is the only seed lower than 4 that has won a championship.
The 4th seed has won it just as many times as the 6th which is once. If they get the 6th seed there's like a 1% chance they get to the finals and win. I'm curious how far this team could go in the playoffs I doubt they reach the finals but still could keep us entertained for a round or 2.
7th and 8th seed or play in is probably a first round exit for this team barring some poor play by the other squads.

 

[areohbee824]

So what do we think we need to go in order to make the playoffs?

We still thinking play-in for this team or we have aspirations for a 6 seed or better?

Honestly the magic number is probably gonna be 16 more wins rest of the year.. We can't afford to drop games, and unfortuently with this new lineup we're gonna need to hit the ground running. Going 16-11 probably gets us a play in spot. 18-20 wins might get us a top seed to bypass the play-in

Gotta get to at least 6 and got a punchers chance. Gotta finish strong and get in the playoffs with a hot hand

 

[Software]

Gotta get to at least 6 and got a punchers chance. Gotta finish strong and get in the playoffs with a hot hand

The Suns and Mavericks probably gonna swap places with the Kings and Grizzlies. Pelicans are gonna fall into the play in or out of the offs completely. Lakers will mainly be competing against the Clippers, Timberwolves, and warriors for 6th seed

 

[Regular_P]

So what do we think we need to go in order to make the playoffs?

We still thinking play-in for this team or we have aspirations for a 6 seed or better?

Honestly the magic number is probably gonna be 16 more wins rest of the year.. We can't afford to drop games, and unfortuently with this new lineup we're gonna need to hit the ground running. Going 16-11 probably gets us a play in spot. 18-20 wins might get us a top seed to bypass the play-in

You gotta get to at least 45 wins for a chance at the six spot. That'd be 20-6 after they lose tonight. No way that happens.

The 8th seed is probably their best bet so getting that 9/10 play-in spot would be a good look. I'm assuming Phoenix is getting the #2 seed now. I'd feel better about a Denver matchup with this current roster than Phoenix.