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

[CantStop]

a lot of these dudes gonna struggle without sabo feeding them

 

[Professor Emeritus]

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

What does that have to do with anything? The claim was that Bron had gutted the team and the Lakers had no future, when in reality they have 10 picks over the next 7 years and no money tied up in bad long-term contracts. No one was claiming, "Bron wanted to gut the team's future but didn't."

 

[Software]

a lot of these dudes gonna struggle without sabo feeding them

Facts. In quarters 2 and 3 he was having his teammates eatin

 

[ALonelyDad]

a lot of these dudes gonna struggle without sabo feeding them

Will be interesting to see

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

a lot of these dudes gonna struggle without sabo feeding them

Will be interesting to see

Good thing they kept shot creator Lonnie Walker

Its also why I'd take a flyer on John Wall

 

[ALonelyDad]

Good thing they kept shot creator Lonnie Walker

Its also why I'd take a flyer on John Wall

If Wall can accept a 12-15 min role, yes

 

[CantStop]

the difference between the play style of AD and Giannis is infuriating

AD taking fade away jumpers against Jrue while Giannis putting nikkas in the basket

 

[Trojan 24]

a lot of these dudes gonna struggle without sabo feeding them

Sabo's problem wasn't he couldn't contribute, it was his contract. At 8-10 mil he's actually a quality player in a 6th man role. Who's not closing games obviously

 

[Professor Emeritus]

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

Bamba also stretches the floor for you, which Vanderbilt doesn't do. I think their use will be situational if Ham is smart about it.

Why would you start Walker over Reaves? Reaves gives you nearly all of Walker's 3pt shooting while also moving the ball better, and he plays harder on defense. I would start Reaves unless he goes into some huge shooting slump, and make Walker/Beasey fight for the backup role.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Troy Brown and Walker playing fearless....like they aint got nothing to lose. lol

 

[jaydawg08]

Bamba also stretches the floor for you, which Vanderbilt doesn't do. I think their use will be situational if Ham is smart about it.

Why would you start Walker over Reaves? Reaves gives you nearly all of Walker's 3pt shooting while also moving the ball better, and he plays harder on defense. I would start Reaves unless he goes into some huge shooting slump, and make Walker/Beasey fight for the backup role.

Reaves should be a starter at the 2... but it'll probably be Lonnie and in some games Beasley

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Sabo's problem wasn't he couldn't contribute, it was his contract. At 8-10 mil he's actually a quality player in a 6th man role. Who's not closing games obviously

I don't see it on a contender. His defense, shooting, and decision-making is still so bad that he takes more than he gives away. Westbrook at this stage is the kind of guy you play when your roster is so thin that your only other options are even bigger net negatives.

 

[ghostwriterx]

a lot of these dudes gonna struggle without sabo feeding them

a lot of these dudes will be out of the rotation and the improved spacing should make whoever's running the second unit job's a lot easier.

 

[WesCrook]

Westbrook is probably a cool dude, but we all know the feeling of having a co-worker you're not very fond of leave the company.

 

[Sinnerman]

We have a relatively easy SOS the rest of the way right?