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Lakers fans are notorious for overvaluing players, especially their own. And I have been dead on in every talent evaluation and signing since I signed on here. So, your little snide remarks are just gaslighting tactics that don't fool me.

Nikola Jokic, if he doesn't extend next year with the Nuggets. That's who the Lakers need to be an immediate title contender.

 

Lakers do not need mediocre players. Max Christie moves nothing. Always has always will.

 

Which is the thing....I think Davis and LeBron deserve the jersey retirements for the 2020 title and being on the team and all that they did on that level. Statues? NOPE.

 

But you evaluated nothing when I asked except jumping all over Pelinka for overpaying, when to get the guys they wanted including Kessler for Luka, your guy, may very well have been needed to keep them hanging on in FA while Kessler was being wrenched out of Utah who was certainly going to do us no favors. Aside from the Bronny and Max crapping all over them always.

And Jokic? That's the guy? Filling out the roster with whom .... and when? Are you telling us we should have saved the cap space for NEXT year in that pursuit with zero guarantees and punted another one THIS year? What do you have against Kessler? He looks perfect for what Doncic wanted and asked for.

 

C'mon man, no one is going check up on you, too much work, but no one is dead on about every talent evaluation unless you only do a couple over the years. There are just too many variants. 70-80% is fantastic, 100% just isn't believable...lol.

 

Mosgov - Disaster
Deng - Disaster
Bronny - Disaster
Christie - C-/D+

The famous ones on here with LT.

 

I would disagree that Bronny is a disaster. He is working and developing beyond what many thought. Certainly not getting a high grade but I put him above disaster. It is easy to call out the sure fire hits and say everyone else sucks...lol.

 

For next years MLE, who are you going for?

 

I gave you Mozgov you were right. We NEVER argued over Deng WTF? You're going to be dead wrong about Bronny NEVER becoming a "rotation player in the NBA", how short sighted of a career capper can you be .... so we're even on Mozgov, Iike you I'm claiming in advance. And those career capped grades on Max I seriously doubt it.

 

The 100% claim has already been debunked...lol.

 

Players are allowed to tamper it’s only front offices that aren’t by official rules.

 

Oh, yeah, I like fights. Let's go!!!!!

F Austin and that boated contracted, too. F Okafor and his a** playing who knows where. F JHS. F Knecht. F Ball the so called "one." F them all.

Let's go!!!

Yeah!!! Let's go!!!

And F LBJ. I was ONE of only a handful of people who wanted him here at the time, but I got sick of him. Take his son with him too that @LTLakerFan overrates and believes "reports" that the Lakers like him. They'd trade him tomorrow for a second, homie.

Let's go!!! Go get me Thybulle and Kuminga!!. And let's equip this fat European with some talent!!!

 

He has really good calves.

@LTLakerFan your neighbor's gardener sucks and so does Bronny. Let's go!!!.

 

LOL …. putz!

 

I mean.....I hope we all agreed and knew the Mosgov and Deng were bad signings when they happened. I also think it's fair to say Mitch got TOO excited with the money back then. We can say Pelinka MIGHT have done the same thing....but we'll have to wait and see this season. If it is.....then he goes the way of Buss and Mitch before him. So, job well done on Pelinka's part........

Then with Bronny....I think Bronny is a perfect example of what the Lakers tried to do this year for Luka, by doing that for LeBron. The SAD FACT IS....drafting Bronny didn't save us from losing LeBron.....but they tried. Everything this off-season is kind of a rinse and repeat that YOU WOULD THINK would work better to appease and help us keep Luka. But we'll wait and see on that too.

 

This clearly is not a serious discussion. We’re talking about Mozgov, Deng, Bronny, Christie as if there weren’t far more signings in between and since.

 

Bronny is one of the better draft picks at 55. Practically no one plays NBA minutes that’s selected that late.

I’d love Thybulle, I actually think he is a young 29 having missed a good chunk of the last two seasons. Everytime he has been healthy, his defensive playmaking has been top notch and the last two years he has shown that he can shoot too. Low Risk High Reward signing. If he is healthy, you get a premier POA guy, if he isn’t, he costs the minimum.

 

Nahhhhh man you ain’t gonna talk young and then sign Thyblle.

We need to sign Kaminga. Simple as that.

when you’re playing Jalen Williams Kevin Durant LeBron Jaylin Brown Dylon Harper Stephen Castle Anthony Edwards you gotta keep teams honest.

we need some more balanced scoring.

we got the big 2 scoring but we gotta make teams pay for doubling. We got a lot of good role players. We still need some more scoring.