Deandre Ayton Discussion: This Is A Platform I Can't Run From

In Stein's most recent piece

 

That's reassuring

 

Definitely like hearing this

Another positive for him to assimilate here and fit in

 

yeah, nice to hear he has an advocate on the coaching staff. i think that's important.

 

OK I'm going to channel Captain Obvious "you know who" here ....




Yes Luka is great friends with DFS. Luka also recognizes that all the moves now have to maximize the time line and arc of HIS career as a Laker going forward. So he understands the Lakers offer to DFS for the (similar?) dollars per for 2 years at his stage of his career and coming off ankle surgery .... was fair, even though Dorian wanted the long term deal. Luka is also great friends, including families, with Deandre Ayton. These two guys have not yet ever had the chance to play together and have wanted to play together, and now that's going to happen. There should be chemistry off the charts between them JUST like he had with DFS. Luka will be totally fine and harbor no ill will regarding Dorian not being able to stay.

 

I think Ayton going to be awesome. He's definitely going to have those Rui type of WTF are you doing if I had that size and strength I wouldn't be f***ing around you lazy POS games.

But he's going to have a lot more oh this guy was a key piece on a finals team and is only 26 years old. How the hell did the Lakers pair this guy with Luka for nothing

 

Lakers #5

d*** Barnett 1963-1965
Jim McMillian 1971-1973
Tom Abernethy 1977-1978
Jim Price 1979
Eddie Jordan 1982
Duane Cooper 1993
Robert Horry 1997-2003
Ime Udoka 2004
Tierre Brown 2005
Jordan Farmar 2007-2009
Steve Blake 2011-2014
Carlos Boozer 2015
José Calderón 2017
Josh Hart 2018
Tyson Chandler 2019
Talen Horton-Tucker 2020-2022
Malik Beasley 2023
Cam Reddish 2024-2025

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAL/numbers.html

Why would we do that to him?

Ugh

Getting started on the wrong foot

Or maybe he can be special and make his name synonymous with that number

Which one will it be?

Stay tuned ladies and gentlemen

 

Farmar and Robert Horry is enough for Lakers legacy and actually who cares about numbers,now most popular one is 0 which I don't think that anybody wore it in 90 or 2000 except for Westbrook and Tatum is champion already , Haliburton is 0 and one of the best in the league

 

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...yton-tests-positive-diuretic-gets-25-game-ban

So apparently Ayton has a PED suspension under his belt. LeBron, make sure your boy gets the Miami hookup so that doesn't happen again.

 

A 19 year old on steroids already? Idk.. taking a pee enhancer, that was probably some kind of mistake. Now ..John Collins getting busted for taking a growth hormone, in that same season, that sounds more intentional to me. I'm sure that both, have been drug tested frequently ever since.

 

25 games ban for a diuretic? Wow..

 

"allegedly"

 

Ok..young fella! It's good to know, that you are fully aware, that there is no place to hide, when you put on that Purple and Gold!! Now go out and back that up!!

 

laker haters are going to be really mad about this one, imo.

we just need to find some perimeter defenders so he's not like AD having to cover for everyone all the time.

 

I cant believe we got a slightly lesser version of AD to pair with Lebron AND Luka. Insane.

 

He’s way too slow to be able to cover for everyone on that end. AD was seriously something to behold on defense- best big down there as a coverall I’ve seen since Hakeem.

 

AD was, and still is, several levels better on defense than Ayton.
I really hope Deandre can improve dramatically on defense with better focus for us- if not, we will be in for a long season.