Jake LaRavia Discussion: Lah-Rave-E-Ya!

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  1. Pioneer10

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    I guess this is why I my gut feels like I'm being gaslighted thru the years it's switched from Vando to Jake (and to some extent Rui) as well. Even Max who I loved as a prospect I soured on and I'm still despite his box score metric, feeling pretty good about being ready to move on from him as his advanced metrics still look awful.

    These are the positions where the Lakers are losing the battles. You need to flip these guys from warm bodies who show flashes to guy who can actually be productive. A simple heuristic that I'm slowly relying on more is: are these guys opposing worry about, decide to target either on offense or defense, and how much time will they devote to it. These dudes are guys opposing coaches for the most part would be happy to see, unfortunately and this is why my posts probably sound very grating.

    You compare that to the 2020 roster and a completely different stack of quality on the roleplayers
     
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    I don’t expect Shamet to continue to shoot that well, but that wouldn’t be the main/only reason I’d be interested in him. Mainly he’s becoming a really good defender, so he’s a 2-way player, the kind we lack badly. Both Jake and Rui are one side of the court players. Rui improved on defense for sure, but he’s still in the middle ground where he isn’t quick enough to guard a lot of 3s and isn’t big enough to guard a lot of 4s. Jake on offense is just a disaster. If he could find his shot and never dribble or drive the ball he still has potential though.
     
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