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24 Comments
If you max money for anyone besides Jokic than you are terrible franchise. Lakers pay two guys max contracts.
It's really naive to discount whoever comes out of the SAS/Denver matchup. to say those teams are going to be too tired to compete, that's not really how basketball has ever worked and a series like that usually turns whoever wins into a well oiled machine barring any serious injuries.
This is a front office issues……new management better fix this next season🤦🤷
This show went for analysis to therapy real quick after Luka and AR went down.
saddest young players in the league
Lakers don’t develop there rookies…
Throughly impressed with Luke Kennard especially his aggressive nature that seems to be rubbing off on the young-show. He seems to be one of those guys that wills his way throughout a game
As far as vando it’s obvious JJ despises him
Get LaRavia off the team and give his minutes to Thiero
go send jason to a celtics podcast
i think lakers should go after zion this offseason. would be a good fit with luka and easier to go after than the bucks
Ayton doesn’t care about basketball that much. Pretty simple. Rich and smokes weed. Not focused on his craft.
Thiero needs the minutes asap next season this kid is going to be a monster the shot is there just needs a little fine tuning this summer
Rob Pelinka needs to be fired for building this sorry ah roster. He’s been doing this for the past years. Cut the rope already.
Yall don’t want to say it so I will. Rob pelinka. He is the worst. The dude is simply terrible. I know mentioning his name in a negative light would make you guys lose access to the team.
Non of our role players would get minutes on a contending team, except smart and maybe hachimura.
This is the worst team in the league is you take out the super stars. Before you chat rubbish reply, Luka and bron aren’t the highest paid duo in the league right now.
Stance comments interesting. Jason you should be scouting for the lakers
I don't want to be the guy to come on here and be negative, but after last night, DA is absolutely brutal to watch without their stars… He could have taken this time to try and shine and he did the absolute opposite. Just seriously disappointing. Sorry but I had to say it..
Love you guys going in on Ayton 😂. But you can't legitimately use hand size as an excuse for not being able to catch a basketball. Is that a real thing?
Don’t have enough defense players on this roster to win enough games without there starters
You know why other teams have good benches? It's because their coaches play them! And Don't yank them for silly reasons. Stopping blaming the roster every chance you get
Well, there were like 70% of lakers fans and media including some of the guys on the screen saying guys like Rui were better than MPJ, Wiggins and Jerami Grant. Now these guys can’t scale up. 😂😂😂 you know what those other 3 guys can do. They can scale up and get you 25-30 when the stars are missing. That’s why you need high end role players for like Denver, spurs, San Antonio and okc have.
Who are your guys dream 5 rotation players? name those players of course being realistic. I think the locked down players are Bron Luka Reaves and Smart.
Saying JJ got up to fight Vando is a bit of a stretch. He got up and walked the opposite way.
You guys don't care about holding people accountable. Reaves had 4 turnovers in 5 possessions and nothing happened. JJ just wants to bully certain players.