The Show Must Go On: 2013-14 Los Angeles Lakers thread

[Trojan 24]

Y'all right, fukk it draft Smart pickup Love next year and see what happens. Maybe we could do something like Smart/Chandsome/Love in 2 years. Kobe better take a fukking cut,

 

[Dwight Howard]

btw check out the latest mock draft from nbadraft.net. Alot of new developments.

-Kyle Anderson being a top 5 pick
-Cleanthony Early, Elfrid Payton, and TJ Warren (has the name of bust athlete) are now considered lottery picks
-studs like Nic Stauskas going 25

just shows how deep the draft could be, there are alot of quality prospects

http://nbadraft.net/2014mock_draft

 

[Kenny_Powers]

this fanbase is downright cringe-worthy sometimes. Like yall really sitting here blaming management for winning games? The roster couldnt be worse in Lakers standards. its the NBA, players can ball and win a game on any given night. There's too much talent in the lottery to be whining after every W. Embiid and Wiggins were never gonna be Lakers unless we got flat-out lucky. The complaining is ironic considering Kobe (goat laker) was drafted at 12. Yall wont Exum but dont even know why. I think Marcus Smart is better and more proven anyways when it comes to combo guard prospects. Mitch knows talent and has drafted well. Im fine with whatever pick we get. shyt Id love Aaron Gordon on this squad, dude is stud. Its impossible to predict who will be franchise players in this draft. I mean a guy like Gary Harris could be a legit all-star, and somehow Julius randle flying under the radar.

Mitch hasn't drafted well at all.

Tell me one player that's even worth a damn that he drafted the past 6 years.

Marc (luck), Bynum (not even his choice, he wanted Sean May), and Farmar. That's it.

 

[Dwight Howard]

Mitch hasn't drafted well at all.

Tell me one player that's even worth a damn that he drafted the past 6 years.

Marc (luck), Bynum (not even his choice, he wanted Sean May), and Farmar. That's it.

he's had 1 first round draft pick the last 6 years. how can you just attribute the Marc Gasol pick to luck? the Lakers have had 1 lottery pick in the last 15 years, and that was all-star Andrew Bynum. Farmar at 26 was great, as he filled a hole on a championship squad. Sasha Vujacic was drafted in the late first round and he turned out to be a championship piece. You can only judge the draft by the approach the team was taking. We've been contenders for so long, so we drafted like contender, selecting only niche players

 

[Kenny_Powers]

he's had 1 first round draft pick the last 6 years, so the question is unfair

how can you just attribute the Marc Gasol pick to luck?

the Lakers have had 1 lottery pick in the last 15 years, and that was all-star Andrew Bynum.

Farmar at 26 was great, as he filled a hole on a championship squad.

Yeah, because he traded them all. That's on him, and further proves what a fukking moron he is.

Uh, because Marc was chosen in the 2nd round and it was because of his last name and who is brother was?

Yeah, but Mitch didn't even want Bynum.

I agree.

 

[Regular_P]

he's had 1 first round draft pick the last 6 years. how can you just attribute the Marc Gasol pick to luck? the Lakers have had 1 lottery pick in the last 15 years, and that was all-star Andrew Bynum. Farmar at 26 was great, as he filled a hole on a championship squad. Sasha Vujacic was drafted in the late first round and he turned out to be a championship piece. You can only judge the draft by the approach the team was taking. We've been contenders for so long, so we drafted like contender, selecting only niche players

These guys just love to hate Mitch. He's regularly drafted solid rotational players for a decade. Vujacic, Bynum, Turiaf, Farmar, Gasol, Patrick Beverley, Toney Douglas, and even Ryan Kelly looks decent. Mitch also brought in a bunch of contributors through trade/FA: Pau, Ariza, Josh Powell, Shannon Brown, Artest, Chris Paul (), Hill and Dwight. Even this season he's found a bunch of hidden gems. Bazemore, Henry, Johnson and Marshall were all outcasts and have all shown they can play.

No one gets it right all the time, but he's done about as well as he could given their crappy draft position and lack of major cap room. I trust him to get the job done.

 

[Captain Crunch]

he's had 1 first round draft pick the last 6 years. how can you just attribute the Marc Gasol pick to luck? the Lakers have had 1 lottery pick in the last 15 years, and that was all-star Andrew Bynum. Farmar at 26 was great, as he filled a hole on a championship squad. Sasha Vujacic was drafted in the late first round and he turned out to be a championship piece. You can only judge the draft by the approach the team was taking. We've been contenders for so long, so we drafted like contender, selecting only niche players

Yeah, because he traded them all. That's on him, and further proves what a fukking moron he is. Uh, because Marc was chosen in the 2nd round and it was because of his last name and who is brother was? Yeah, but Mitch didn't even want Bynum. I agree.

 

[GreatestLaker]

he's had 1 first round draft pick the last 6 years. how can you just attribute the Marc Gasol pick to luck? the Lakers have had 1 lottery pick in the last 15 years, and that was all-star Andrew Bynum. Farmar at 26 was great, as he filled a hole on a championship squad. Sasha Vujacic was drafted in the late first round and he turned out to be a championship piece. You can only judge the draft by the approach the team was taking. We've been contenders for so long, so we drafted like contender, selecting only niche players

Mitch for a long time was drafting on "triangle fit" instead of the best player available. The scouts wanted Barbosa in 2003 and Mitch ignored them and drafted Brian Cook. The same thing happened a year later when he drafted Sasha over Anderson Varejão.That's how we ended up with these one dimensional players in Brian Cook, Sasha, Kareem Rush and Luke Walton.

In 2005 he changed the way he drafted and started picking the BPA. That's how he ended up with the Bynum, Gasol, Turiaf and Beverley picks.

Marc Gasol was projected to go late in the first round, but teams passed on him because of his conditioning. It did take some luck on teams passing on him, but I'll give him credit for drafting him. If it was earlier in the decade he would have passed on him too and would've gone with the triangle fit.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Y'all right, fukk it draft Smart pickup Love next year and see what happens. Maybe we could do something like Smart/Chandsome/Love in 2 years. Kobe better take a fukking cut,

lol@take a cut. Kobe is done playing in the Finals breh maybe even the playoffs. He might as well get on some super psycho bean shyt and get as close to Kareem's record as possible. The idiots that run the organization ruined any chance of Kobe gettin a 6th ring when they didn't trade these one and done players for picks and offered him the contract that they did before even seeing him play.

Good job mitchell.

 

[Regular_P]

 

[Dwight Howard]

-really does remind me of Dwade. He's actually alot stronger than DWade was when he came out of college. He weighs 225, prime Dwade weighed 220. So from a physical standpoint I'd say he's ready day one. He's the best rebounding guard in the draft, can score, can defend, and is a capable playmaker. Id love him here, he probably has the best set of intangibles as well. zero aggression issues

 

[Hater]

 

[IGSaint12]

Thank god for the boston games against philly but god damn I am hating the players on this team right now.

 

[Regular_P]

-really does remind me of Dwade. He's actually alot stronger than DWade was when he came out of college. He weighs 225, prime Dwade weighed 220. So from a physical standpoint I'd say he's ready day one. He's the best rebounding guard in the draft, can score, can defend, and is a capable playmaker. Id love him here, he probably has the best set of intangibles as well. zero aggression issues

I like Smart's overall game too, but he can't shoot and I have doubt's about him fitting with Kobe on the team.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I can't lie I'm salty, I hate this Laker team so much I hope none of em come back.