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So what! Did you read what I wrote? He’s not a flopper. He has to be fouled.

 

That makes sense, because Missi only gets paid about 3.5 million, and it makes sure it gets a center who could jump for Luka. Now you have a 3 man rotation of Stewart/Missi/Hayes. You have 2 bigs who could jump, 2 bigs who could block shots at a high level, and 1 big who could shoot.

 

Each one of the games vs OKC was almost a blow out. Yes Luka is the best player on the team But if Austin is a star he shared the floor with Lebron. You have to be at least competitive. Each season Lakers faced a top team in the play offs its been one sided. Lakers lost all games they played OKC this season 8 in total. The thing is in the playoffs no one cares if your 10% or a 100%. Once your on the floor its time to go. Most players deal with some form of injury. I will say some are more serious than others which hampers. But you hardly hear what so and so is dealing with why they lost.. So by that now remove Luka and Lebron. Are you a serious contender with Austin as your lead player?

 

And it’s all Austin’s fault . Clown take when you look at our available roster, no Luka and not much of any depth.

 

Its not Austin fault he is a good player. But a player can be placed in a bad position which affects if your a true contender or not.

 

Naw, but when you fancy yourself a $40 million dollar player, and you're "pedestrian" in PO performance so far, it doesn't help. He also only played 53 games. Again, that doesn't help. If you think this is bad now, wait until he's getting paid $40 million plus and goes through a bad shooting stretch or is out for multiple games, the criticism is only going to get louder.

Either way, I'm tired of talking about him. I think the Lakers have a chance to land an impact 5 by trade, and I think Rob gets that done. How much will it cost? IDK, but I'm all for upgrading and legitimizing that position for the forseeable future.

 

I think the problem its in LA. La is use to stars with a bigger pedigree. So lets say he played with Suns where expectations are not as high its not as bad. Can go on avg 23-24-25 ppg make 2 allstar games all good. In La its a bit different when your playing after Magic, Kobe, Shaq, etc. These guys are legit #1 options not fringe stars. So when you pay big and you cant round out the team it can get a bit messy. Because now fans have to lower expectations and be ok with just being average. Call us spoiled.

 

I just don’t see Yves Missi as that good. He blocks shots and catches alley-oops - which sounds awesome in a vacuum. Until you see he has a terrible FG percentage in the paint and awful touch offensively and on defense he is constantly selling out to block shots and isn’t a good rim protector as a result. He also isn’t a strong defensive rebounder.

I’m not sure that Isaiah Stewart is good enough to be your full time starting center because he isn’t the cleanest fit next to Luka. So I’d like to get Stewart and one more guy.

That’s why I like the Claxton / Stewart combo. You have two elite ways to play defense. Claxton is elite at switch defense and can block shots. Stewart is elite at interior defense and blocks shots. They can also play together because Stewart can shoot the 3.

We could play a Luka - Shooter - Smart - Claxton - Stewart rotation at times.

 

What guards had better shooting %, getting to the rim and scoring series against OKC these playoffs? Honest question no idea. If anyone did by how much?

 

We are spoiled, but he's a good player. He'll get paid. That's fine. If I'm Austin, I'm trying to extract every dollar I can out of this transaction. He's not wrong for doing that. In fact, he should.

Lakers have to be prudent and how that contract can potentially age. This is where the compromise happens and hopefully everybody is happy.

I'm more concerned with landing a starter on this team this summer.

 

He shared the floor with stars they also toyed with Lakers. Meaning you can get your numbers up when the stars of the other team hardly breaks a sweat. Why would they go hard to stop you and they are up 20? Lakers had one of the worst diff among contenders.

 

Why are you comparing Reaves as a 35m high end role player to GOAT’s. Compare Luka to the other best players in the league and he is top 5.

You’re arguments are just odd.

 

I can live with 35mil. Its the rumored 40 plus mill thats a bit off setting.

 

Yeah, well, get used to it. It's going to likely happen.

 

ANT averaged 23 over 5 games but empty stats his fault for being even higher level of star that didn’t get it done. 1 win 4 losses. He crapped the bed on big stage too by Idawgs lame self manufactured, no context wins in playoff statistic he is so amped up to use against AR.

 

So at 35mil he is right there with a number of good players thats not stars? At that point no argument. But to think he would make a bigger impact than say prime CJ Mccollum and be a star i would argue that.

 

An impact 5 changes everything honestly.

 

Yep. Agree.

Also, Darius Soriano and LFR mentioned John Collins today. Thought that was interesting.

 

Lakers have interest in Lu Dort and Robert Williams and Mitchell Robinson according to reports.