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But you need to understand Hayes is Lukas Buddy on and off the court. Jaxon's cap hold is 6.5 million. He will get at least that. I mean around 7-9 would be a fair amount for a good back up center. That's around what Jaelen Smith, Lopez, Capela, Bitadze, Looney, Jackson, and Ayton are getting.

 

DFS was his buddy on and off the court too. This is a business at the end of the day, everyone knows what it is. We aren’t trading Luka’s kids away here. If Hayes doesnt want to stick around for 6m, he can go to all the other suitors that are willing to pay him double. I’m sure he’ll find there aren’t any.

Hayes is a 7/4 career backup that hasn’t averaged more than 20 mins a game and isn’t so useful in the playoffs. You don’t pay 8% of the cap for that.

 

Agreed.
If he wants to smoke week and drink- just hire a driver!!!
What a fool.

 

Different situation though. Hayes fills an important need on a Luka team. He's a lob-catching big and is one of the few bright spots this season. 7-9 million per year is fair for him. Yeah, 10-12 may be a little rich for him, but we do need to stock up on lob-catching/rim-protecring big. We had a surplus of power forward shooter types, and a need for a big, so Lakers chose to sign Ayton over DFS.

 

Dude first of all calm down. You have no idea the context of my voice when I was saying that or how I was saying that. It wasn’t like the Cop was wrong. It was like Cops damn the cops.

Of course you arrest his a** for a dui. I said why don’t these guys have drivers driving them when they are drunk? I clearly state that.

nothing right about what Dillon Brooks did. I was saying what happened to your hand? Obviously the guy broke his hand.

and I was asking if it was Legal in Arizona cause I know it wasn’t Legal in Nevada even though they have dispensaries.

Do not under any circumstances think I’m condoning that.

 

Luka clearly plays better without Lebron. Lebron isn’t a problem it’s the fact that Luka can’t think and just goes to let me differ to him and facilitate. Unfortunately you don’t want Luka being Magic even though I stated it would help. He has to be Kobe he has to be aggressive. And the only way he’s effective is putting 44 points on teams. He can’t impact a game not shooting like Chris Paul.

he has to be aggressive. Lebron has to play that Draymond Green. Pick and roll. Pick and pop Karl Malone.


Reddick has to Chanel Tyron Lue and let Luka be Kyrie. He dictates everything. Lebron needs to play that Cleveland role come off screens facilitate play defense block shots. Adjust be the most devastating athletic elite power forward in the league. Use your body push tempo. Make the shot when it’s there.

Austin Needs to come off the bench or start and Lebron needs to come off the bench. Enough is enough I’m not play cating to egoes. I’m trying to win a championship.

Luka has to be playing with active moving players. We can’t have Lebron and Reaves and Luka on the court at the same time.

LeBron can help but he’s gotta change his game. Luka cannot figure out how to get these guys involved. I just want Luka trying to score. So as follows.

Luka should be playing with Kennard. Honestly at this point. I would just start.

Luka
Kennard
Vando
James
Hayes


Bench

Reaves
Smart
Hachimura
LaRavia
Ayton.

 

Figure it out!!!!!!!!

 

The thought of bringing Austin and Rui off the bench? Boy...you'll start a riot around here Tony Hawk!!!



Ironically.. the previous HC thought of that blasphemy..while trying to figure out, how to get the most out of Tinkerbell!! It got ugly around these parts!!