Lakers VS Slippers Discussion

Remind me again what happened.

 

Lawler is rolling in his grave

 

Who gives a crap if they hate each other .... the only thing that matters is the Clippers and Balz sucking and circling the drain.

OX .... probably

 

They are sooo terrible. There's only one thing from preventing it from being the best thing in the league...

They're about to give OKC a franchise player.

 

clips have no incentive to tank, so they'll finish high enough to keep okc from getting a top-5 pick, imo.

the wiz, bkn, indy, and charlotte will out-tank them even if they try, right?
utah is a seasoned tanking veteran. masters of the second-half swoon.

ok...actually they might have a shot at a top-5 pick...

though that also adds 8m to their 246 million payroll, too, so i wonder what they'll do.

i'll take caruso dumped into our space, plz.

 

I think it is more likely that Kawhi gets injured again and they just suck for the whole year. I cannot see anyone on this team having the heart to dig themselves out of this grave they have already dug. They won't do it to win in the playoffs because that will likely be out of reach. Pure pride and I think they just retreat to the golden toilets and give up.

 

yeah, true. not a whole lot of heart over there. but what do you do if you're them right now? i know people are pointing to their cap space for two years from now, but...shouldn't they think about cashing in on harden while he's still playing at an allstar level?

harden for trae young--who says no? cleveland for garland? memphis for ja? trying to think of teams that might think they have a shot this year and next. to miami with bogdanovic for rozier/wiggins?

i don't know. they're not in a great spot.

 

Yeah it seems like a sunk cost fallacy to try to be better just so OKC doesn't get better pick. I think the right way to think about this is that there is also no incentive to tank either so the best thing to do is acquire young talent in exchange for taking on dead weight salary? try to get Ellis in exchange for taking on Lavine - I think that makes the most sense. But that sort of plan doesn't work with that 2 years free of cap space plan. yeah I'm tying myself in knots - I'm still not sure why they pulled the trigger on the Powell trade - didn't make sense

 

No heart. Injuries. Finger pointing. No leadership.

Oldest team in history of the league and age is really showing on some of them.

They all have the same 5 year plan


There's no easy, clean fix and that's beautiful. They're stuck between a tree and a hard place.

 

Don’t forget Treegate with Kawhi hanging over the franchise’s head and the other Celebrities now suing Balz’s crooked a** for fraud too. It’s soo beautiful!



… except for that next high draft pick for OKC likely coming.

 

Lawlers dead? I thought he just retired; he was good

 

He might as well be