Why The Lakers Lost Big At The Trade Deadline

My latest on the Lakers trade deadline madness. Hang in there everyone, and keep your fingers crossed for the tank! I would love to hear your opinions!

 

Very precise observations. They are on thin ice, not dumping Hill and Lin somewhere could bite them in the a**.....or releasing Boozer. The upcoming games with the Knicks and 76ers will be interesting, and quite possibly amusing, and I'm betting the NBA league office will be watching closely. Minny certainly will climb out of the top 5, but now I worry about the Jazz after they dumped Kanter. A thought comes to mind, all these teams including the Lakers may do a Popovich, shut guys down with minor, or fake injuries. It's going to be quite the comedy to see play out...and who can blame them, those top 5 picks are studs.

 

Nobody wanted Hill&Lin. Dunno how it bites you in the behind, we needed all the draft picks or future pieces that we can get. Lin is out, but atleast we already got some picks for him. With Hill nobody wanted him for a first most likely or else IMO you have to pull the trigger. Keep his value lower now,maybe re-sign for cheaper.

 

Our biggest assets are our rookies whom we just drafted. Randle and Clarkson. We're not parting with them.

 

I think at the 4th spot we have an 82.1% percent chance of keeping our pick. If we move the the 3rd spot, we'd have a 97% chance of keeping our pick. Top 2 guarantees it. My number might be off just a bit; but not much.

 

Probability of keeping the pick with finish: 1st: 100% 2nd: 100% 3rd: 96.0% 4th: 82.8% 5th: 55.2% 6th: 21.5% 7th: 15.0%

Official Savory

 

if they can finish with at least the 2nd worst record behind the knicks i'd have a lot of faith that the #1 pick will be ours. the league owes us anyways and unfortunately for them, they can't give the cavs another #1 pick this year

 

need to get to that 2nd/3rd worst spot. unfortunately, philly and nyk really upped their tank game.

this is all quite sad.

 

I think there is a certain strategy to the draft though. If you do your due diligence, you can get really good players on the cheap.

Which is exactly what this team needs. We need assets above all else.

 

That's due to awful scouting departments and even worse management. I agree there's no guarantee with draft picks, but our scouting department has done damn good in recent years. With a top 4 pick I have very little doubt that we can't net a top tier rookie who can contribute. How much and how soon depends on the slot, but we're infinitely better at this than those abysmal organizations.

 

Historically speaking, Magic was drafted, Worthy was drafted, oh, and a guy named Kobe.

 

Well without a doubt, I think relying on the lottery as a long-term plan is a terrible idea. I don't think any of us want to do that. But that's the position we're in right now. We're a bad team. All we can do at this point is hope that we keep our pick, and hope he develops into a cheap impact player. Regardless of whether or not that happens, I think this off-season we need to try our hardest to acquire young, talented free agents. Even if it takes us just out of the lottery and into the middling range, I'd rather try to get players like Dragic or Monroe, surround them with hard workers, and hope that they can develop together as opposed to throwing away another year to keep praying on the lottery.

 

Real broke down our drafts the last 3 or so years; it wasn't that bad at all. There's always going to be busts, journeyman, or players that make a career out of playing overseas. We're not always going to be right with every pick. The key is though to be right more than we are wrong and that we are...