The Lakers’ New Roster Is A Problem
Luka Doncic and Mark Williams make the Lakers this year’s biggest trade deadline winner, long-term, but just how good is the team right now?
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And with Bronny they’re unstoppable. Can’t wait to see the Luka and bronny chemistry 💯‼️‼️✊🏻let’s trade lebron for the entire Dallas mavericks franchise
With Mav fans threatening Nico,
I think it's incumbent for us Lakers fans to protect this man at all costs😂🤣😂🤣
This could be correct. But we'll have to see.
Hi hoop 3rd time commenting, just gotta say you seem like a pretty chill guy what do you think about the economic state of the world?
Williams staying healthy is the x-factor, just have to hope he was sitting extra games out for Cooper Flagg
Let’s not talk about whether the roster is a problem till we see them play. Attention grabbing analysis profiting off the hype around the trade. NBA YouTubers need to relax
Luka can give any teams nightmares. 😭
Mark williams trade was dumb hes not much better than Hayes and they traded dalton 🙁
JJ reddick just became a hall of fame coach over night. My prediction is LeBrons scoring might actually increase, turning into Karl Malone who can shoot
Luka is better than both Kobe and Jordan currently
Yeah yeah – You guys said the same thing when Kyrie was sent to Dallas.
This is the best assessment of pro and cons of this team – you know the game! Thank you!
@ 2:10 44.3 % of 307 is 136 in last 2 seasons.. stop the hype they dont have chemistry its over for lakers this year and FOREVER
So funny how the Luka hating trolls (mostly in Dallas) are trying to celebrate this trade, yet every Baketball channel, player (and ex-player), and coach or GM is basically trashing this trade. No one wants to say anything bad about AD, but the FACT is, you took a team who's strength was their PF and centers, and they're down a center (with a 2 month injury) and add a better PF (then move the existing PF to SF and SF to SG). So while they're better in the frontcourt, they're weaker at both positions in the backcourt (since Kyrie isn't a point guard and trying to play it is going to wear him out and hurt his scoring, while Klay is going to have to defend quicker guards and struggle, which is going to negatively impact his scoring. The bench is about the same but when you lose 30/10/10 at the PG and add 10/2/1 at the power forward, you are going to be struggling to win against teams who shoot lots of threes (which the Mavs have been bad at all season and this does nothing to help).
They need to complement Luka and Lebron. That means if the PG is Luka, your SG must be a very good defender. If Lebron is your PF, your SF has to be a great defender. You have to make up for their insufficiency. And most importantly, how is the Lakers bench? Teams these days dont win off their 1st teams anymore. Their bench must make a huge difference. Thats where the title will be decided.
They'll be top 3 for sure offensively. Luka does so much to get his teammates easy shots, as well as getting his own points. The funny thing is, despite him shooting so many 3s, he get a lot of his points inside (one of the best post players in the league) and gets good entry passes and lobs for his inside players to score. Dallas was routinely outscoring teams in the paint so even though they were 25th or lower in 3pt shooting, they were a top 5 offense before Luka got hurt.
Things will go right since this is a league orchestrated trade. Yes Anthony Davis is a fantastic player but aside from his injury issues he was expected to fully take the reigns and he hasn’t been able to do that which is why they had to pivot to this trade. LeBron at 40 is still playing at an unremarkable level and at times still carry like the old days. The thing is LeBron carrying is not sustainable at this point in his career so a player like Luka helps get the best out of an old LeBron. Luka carry’s we’ve seen him do it already..
Lakers will win 2025 championship. You dont see it? I do. Chemistry
Mavs roster is way better.
Man you did luka dirty in the thumbnail, his neck looks like he is a F1 driver 😅. I’m just fed up by media fat shaming Luka.
I know it’s less flashy, but we should get a Deandre Hunter to Cleveland video.
Hes 40 yesrs old
Bron needs more help
Trading away AD and Max really hurts our defense but we still have Vando, DFS, and Gabe
Ngl if the lakers didn’t give up Christie is give them better odds to make a finals. We was their guy this year.