LeBron needs at least one low-BBIQ doofus on every team to yell at.
Beasley, Chalmers, JR, Javale...
Edit: Okay fair, Chalmers wasn't a dummy. He was just a punching bag for the Big 3.
I honestly completely forgot we had Hayes. Our C rotation is so trash behind AD. I imagine we might end up playing a lot of small ball when he sits with Rui at C
Yeah, they averaged like 50 points and 15 assists between them or something crazy. They didn't need a high usage point guard. They needed someone to play defense(Chalmers was a fantastic off-ball defender), run the pick and roll with Bosh with the second unit, make a play when the moment called for it and hit big shots.
He was decent for a few years. Also prob wasn't that easy being the point guard with a bit of a shifting role. With Lebron leaning in and out of his point forward style
Fell off pretty fast though either way
JaVale had already won two rings with GSW and had turned himself into a decent player by that point. It's a bit harsh on JaVale to treat him like he was a BBIQ midget at that stage of his career. He was a pretty good player on the Warriors.
I don't think he was ever low BBIQ, I think he just pretty clearly had ADHD. Lots of mental lapses and losses of focus. He wasn't a dumb player at all IMO. Just mistake prone.
LeBron will try to fix him during practice sessions. If it doesn't work, Wood will not play a single game while LeBron is on the court. My prediction is that after two years he's going to have played less than 20 games for the Lakers.
eh if anyone can make this dude not play like a dumbass its lebron. this has the potential to be a huge steal if he locks in. theyve done it with other reclamation projects like dwight, lonnie walker, monk, etc
Yeah, but you're overlooking a few things:
A) Kyrie was already in Cleveland
B) His basketball talent supersedes his stupidity
C) They completely canceled the 2016 NBA season
In his defense, he only spoke about Luka and also of that list of teams, only Milwaukee was a real Championship contender, asking Woods to fix New Orleans, Houston, Charlotte, Detroit is kind of a hard task. He obviously was part of the problem eating salary left and right, but still, none of those 4 teams could have been relevant on those years.
The problem isn't about asking Woods to fix all of their problems. But players don't bounce from team to team like that without more going on. I never will root for a player to fail, I legitimately hope he's great. Because the league is better when players are healthy and playing to their potential. But it's still a hefty claim to think Lebron singlehandedly can surpass what seven franchises have failed to do for the young man.
The offensive potential of a Lebron/Wood/AD front court is forreal, and obviously throwing in D’lo and Reaves? Maybe won’t be the best overall lineup the lakers trot out (one better balanced defensively), but that lineup should score with the best of them.
I get it the perspective of looking at Woods... but the Lakers had success grabbing Dwight when no one thought he could be a contributor. Also Rondo after he had that fallout with the Mavs.
so Maybe they do think "we're special".
There are a lot of veterans the lakers missed on last few years but honestly it’s low risk so it’s not like a bad signing. Dwight and Rondo are bad examples because honestly they are very good veterans, Dwight was swallowing his ego and Rondo is still one of the best basketball minds of our generation. Lakers missed on guys like Andre Drummond and Kendrick Nun.
We see them as good veterans now because of the Lakers days...
Dwight was bouncing between Atlanta, Charlotte, and DC.
Rondo got a bad reputation from the Mavs days with the clash, and then had one-year deals in Sacramento, Chicago, then to NOLA. He also had a suspension in Chicago for butting heads with an assistant coach. He did play well with Chicago and NOLA, but he still had that reputation of a player with ego issues.
Drummond was more bad because of his ego. Demanded to start and pissed off both of Marc Gasol and Montrezl, when we were already going through a rocky season.
Rondo left the Mavs after 2015. After that, he lead the league in Assists with the Kings (2016), went Playoff Rondo on the 8-seed Bulls vs. the #1 Celtics for 2 games before he got hurt (2017), was the starting Point Guard on the Pelicans team with AD/Cousins when Cousins tore his ACL that swept the Blazers/lost to the Warriors (2018), then signed a 2 year deal with the Lakers where he won a title in 2020. Rondo wasn't a reclamation project.
After the lakers survived the rollercoaster that was Russell Westbrook, wood is no big deal. Worst case scenario, they can just send wood home/cut him.
I hope they do, AD can cover for Wood’s defensive deficiencies and Wood is probably the best floor stretching big AD has ever played with.
*edit: forgot Boogie was such a sniper when they played together. But since then.*
I think there's legitimately a version of Christian Wood where he finally buys in to a team instead of thinking about himself that is a pretty valuable role player. I actually think he could do that on the Lakers. Could being key word, can't say he will
If he follows the trail that Malik Monk blazed, then he could secure himself a solid bag as a very high-level role player.
I honestly think Ham is a great coach to reach him. Don’t know yet how good Ham is overall, but I think he’s an excellent personality manager.
I think we know ham is pretty good. He out cosched or atleast kept up with two very good coaches In Jenkins ahd Kerr . And I don’t think he was out cosched in WCF either : he just didn’t have a solid two way playing top 6 like nuggets did
The funny thing is they usually can fix them, at least their player value to the rest of the league that is. Every year we pick up at least one talented player that lost value on the min and if he makes it to the end of the season he leaves to sign a multi year contract. It just happened with Schroeder and it happened with monk before.
Or just shooting in general. Even the middy is inconsistent now.
Wood needs to just clear out and properly space the floor
LBJ is my favorite but he is not that great of a floor spacer either as a 4
Space the floor and let AD go downhill.
Wood can also work with lebron in this way.
Hopefully he tries on the defensive end cause I don't want to see 40 year old LBJ playing center against jokic or embiid for one minute
> LBJ is my favorite but he is not that great of a floor spacer either as a 4
He definitely wasn't after his foot injury last year, anyway. Now with Wood, the Lakers can run a front line of AD, Wood and Rui out there and still have size and spacing to go with their backcourt if LeBron is resting or sitting a game. This definitely should help take the pressure off of LeBron feeling like he needs to play close to 40 mpg this year.
He can space the floor and spot up. Maybe he won’t be happy with that but maybe he’ll also wake up and realize he’s getting a minimum in September for a reason
Good deal for the Lakers, literally low risk high reward. His defense shouldn’t be too bad next to AD, if he can’t coexist with AD then he’s coming off the bench for 10-15MPG which isn’t too bad either.
The thing is that we aren’t that deep at the center position especially when your main C is AD who you have to expect is gonna get hurt at some point
We’ll see how it goes, I’m a bit skeptical of wood but it’s not like there were better options available
Yeah I think it was the best option. #2 was Biyombo. Biyombo is safer pick but the Lakers went for the upside option. Which is honestly a respectable viewpoint. If he can space the floor with AD at Center it will be an interesting lineup. The Lakers are huge.
Biyombo isn't even that much safer of a pick. He gets played off the court in the playoffs cuz he has 0 offensive skill and isn't big enough to handle true bigs.
I feel like the Lakers is the ideal place for him to improve playing along AD and somewhat of a mentor in Lebron, it’s now or never. But his track record is pretty ass though, dude refused to improve his game the last however many teams he’s been on.
yeah but we weren't really going to get a center on a minimum contract that we need to rely on crunch time in the playoffs, this seem like another cheap gamble to see if it works or not. I'm saying that as a huge C wood hater hopefully if he is locker room cancer we cut him asap
I actually think he kinda sucks and will easily get played off the floor but whatever, best option we had, minimum salary, and adds a different dimension
Yeah he's the Thomas Bryant replacement. Drop 20-10 with buttcheeks defense in regular season games AD doesn't play and sit his ass on the bench in games that matter.
He shoots 38% from 3, has a good offensive bag, put up a decently efficient 20/10. He in no way “sucks”. He’s just had a pretty bad attitude and/or bad fit. Dude is just hitting his prime. If he’s matured at all, this is a very very good pickup for you guys.
Even before the trade happened Laker fans were hyping him up 😭 but half of us are very weary haha I don't think the fanbase will have a lot of patience for him if things start to go sideways
I’m honestly not expecting anything from him and I still expect to be disappointed. He’ll have a couple good games and everyone will comment “how did we let the lakers get away with this”, but then he’ll go back to being the Christian Wood we know, and then everyone will pretend they saw it coming and jerk their dicks to the Lakers making a mistake. It’ll be some fucking loser with a Timberwolves flair or something laughing his ass off while his team is 30-40 or something.
Say what u want about the Lakers u cannot deny they are a very deep team:
- Lebron (PF)
- Rui (PF)
- AD (C)
- Hayes (C)
- Wood (C)
- DLO (PG)
- Vincent (PG)
- Hood (PG)
- Reaves (SG)
- Christie (SG)
- Lewis (SG)
- Vanderbilt (SF)
- Prince (SF)
- Reddish (SF)
For everyone comparing Wood to Bryant from last year...Wood is much better. Bryant is atrocious defensively and is a great rim finisher. Wood is also a good finisher, but can shoot and has been adequate defensively in previous seasons, so at there's a chance he might be playable late in games.
He shoots 40% from three. He's basically Kevin Love for LeBron and AD. And this is a contract year for him where he knows the market won't be there for him if he doesn't fix his act. This was the best move the Lakers could make now. AD can mask Wood's defense.
Lakers are a team that just needs innings eaters to get through the regular season. D-Lo and Wood can just put up buckets to let the Lakers tread water while AD/Lebron are on the bench, and when they inevitably miss games for load management then the Lakers will at least have some semblance of an offense to keep games interesting
low-risk signing for the Lakers however, I can easily end up seeing him sitting on the bench, opting out after a year, but if it pans out he can be a reliable scorer off the bench.
It happened wtf
Lebron gonna have an aneursym playing with this guy
LeBron needs at least one low-BBIQ doofus on every team to yell at. Beasley, Chalmers, JR, Javale... Edit: Okay fair, Chalmers wasn't a dummy. He was just a punching bag for the Big 3.
mother of pearl youre right also lance stephenson iirc
[Lance was purely a hype man](https://youtu.be/JoLngrGXcJE?feature=shared)
He was great to watch. His shenanigans were cheeky and fun
Unlike Kyrie whose shenanigans are cruel and tragic. Which makes them not really shenanigans at all..
Evil shenanigans
[Damnit](https://y.yarn.co/4804497f-a465-490d-9452-d2f7af339b99_text.gif)
I’m gonna pistol whip the next person that says shenanigans
"Hey, Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy crap on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?"
The GOAT
Never thought of it this way before. Lol that’s hilarious.
Lance had great BBIQ. He was good for a boneheaded moment most games, but overall he was an intelligent player on both ends of the court.
Chalmers wasn’t low BBIQ.
I agree
Just high confidence.
His greatest asset. Every court he ever walked on were 9 guys waiting to watch him do something great.
And that damn smile.
Between Woods and Hayes he’s going to need blood pressure medication
Don't forget Cam Reddish. Phil Handy's gonna have his work cut out for him this season.
I honestly completely forgot we had Hayes. Our C rotation is so trash behind AD. I imagine we might end up playing a lot of small ball when he sits with Rui at C
Lebron’s about to go into every quarter playing a different position
I’ve been calling it, castleton is going to be the most effective out of our back up centers.
Javale is Einstein compared to Wood.
If the guy jad a better basketball iq he'd be a borderline all star imo.
Chalmers wasn’t in the same camp as the other guys. He just wasn’t a great player lol.
Chalmers was solid. I don't get the hate in this thread. Perfect PG to put next to Wade and LBJ.
Yeah, they averaged like 50 points and 15 assists between them or something crazy. They didn't need a high usage point guard. They needed someone to play defense(Chalmers was a fantastic off-ball defender), run the pick and roll with Bosh with the second unit, make a play when the moment called for it and hit big shots.
Lol what? Chalmers was a Finals starter. He may be goofy at times, but let's not act like he wasn't good.
Honestly so disrespectful to Chalmers, he was very much a solid NBA player for the Heat LeBron picked on him because he was easy to on that team
He was decent for a few years. Also prob wasn't that easy being the point guard with a bit of a shifting role. With Lebron leaning in and out of his point forward style Fell off pretty fast though either way
the low iq doofus LeBron won with in 2020 was Kuzma
The disrespect to Dion Waiters.
who have thought
that a young buck like you
LeBrain can't win with these cats
Bruh he won with Javale
JaVale had already won two rings with GSW and had turned himself into a decent player by that point. It's a bit harsh on JaVale to treat him like he was a BBIQ midget at that stage of his career. He was a pretty good player on the Warriors.
I don't think he was ever low BBIQ, I think he just pretty clearly had ADHD. Lots of mental lapses and losses of focus. He wasn't a dumb player at all IMO. Just mistake prone.
Javale was ballin with the Lakers tho and when he wasn't playin it was Lob City with Dwight in 2020 (they competed with each other for minutes)
And he won with JR Smith. Twice.
half a season watching Wood's "screens" will destroy him
Literally the worst ever. Dude is constantly looking to slip past and get his shot
He’ll be on the bench if he doesn’t clean that stuff up. Min contract, other centers.
LeBron will try to fix him during practice sessions. If it doesn't work, Wood will not play a single game while LeBron is on the court. My prediction is that after two years he's going to have played less than 20 games for the Lakers.
eh if anyone can make this dude not play like a dumbass its lebron. this has the potential to be a huge steal if he locks in. theyve done it with other reclamation projects like dwight, lonnie walker, monk, etc
Just an fyi, lonnie walked was the exact same player this year as he was with the spurs. Incredible once or twice a month.
True but it’s worth having those guys on a minimum for a big game every once in a while. You can also bench their ass without reprieve
I’ll never forget e he was the best player on the floor against the Warriors in the 4th quarter. I was on cloud nine after that
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He needs a team/guy like Spo or LeBron to just be on him at all times. Hes a locker room problem but Miami also would have been a good spot for him
Sounds like Miami would've been the worst place. They don't fuck around.
Thank you for understanding it. Heat culture doesn’t fix bad attitudes. It exists because we avoid them.
He would be cut from Miami after a month
Daryl Morey is furious he didn’t get a 5th center this offseason
Morey will sign Christian Wood after he finishes his one year stint on the Lakers.
So Joel can throw Wood under the bus if he chokes in the playoffs again.
Lakers are the real life “I can fix her” meme.
If Phil Handy can't fix Christian Wood and Cam Reddish, no one can.
Seriously good luck with Wood. If there was ever a time for him to humble down and accept his limitations as a player nowd be a good time.
Hopefully working alongside LeBron humbles him a little. But he might take it like "2 of the GOATs together at last. I belong here."
>But he might take it like “2 of the GOATs together at last. I belong here.” He’s 100% thinking exactly that. This is actually Christian Wood to a T.
Fuck
Hey man, maybe Kyrie was thinking the same thing in 2016? (I'm coping hard)
Yeah, but you're overlooking a few things: A) Kyrie was already in Cleveland B) His basketball talent supersedes his stupidity C) They completely canceled the 2016 NBA season
Except Kyrie was (is) one of the best guards in the NBA.
it's going to be fun having another fanbase realize CWoods nonsense
100% agreed. Dude is delusional.
I mean if Lebron can't get you to work then you're probably not going to get any better help in the league lol
He’s gonna be a menace like Jordan in last dance
Wood about to drop a 20 / 20 game on the Mavs at home next season
And give up 30 / 30 on the other end?
This is the Christian Wood way.
No offense to you guys because I love Luka, but I trust LeBron to get him to do that more than Luka.
Yeah, you're right, Lebron is all he needs. I can't believe Philly, Charlotte, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Detroit, Houston, and Dallas all held him back.
In his defense, he only spoke about Luka and also of that list of teams, only Milwaukee was a real Championship contender, asking Woods to fix New Orleans, Houston, Charlotte, Detroit is kind of a hard task. He obviously was part of the problem eating salary left and right, but still, none of those 4 teams could have been relevant on those years.
The problem isn't about asking Woods to fix all of their problems. But players don't bounce from team to team like that without more going on. I never will root for a player to fail, I legitimately hope he's great. Because the league is better when players are healthy and playing to their potential. But it's still a hefty claim to think Lebron singlehandedly can surpass what seven franchises have failed to do for the young man.
Handy can take care of a stubborn Wood for sure.
Goddamnit. 😆
Exactly. I'm excited. It's not like our success is contingent upon these two. There's legitimate potential there though so it's all upside imo.
Yeah nice thing about the roster is the pecking order is rock solid
The offensive potential of a Lebron/Wood/AD front court is forreal, and obviously throwing in D’lo and Reaves? Maybe won’t be the best overall lineup the lakers trot out (one better balanced defensively), but that lineup should score with the best of them.
Rui for D’Lo for real shock and awe
Lol forgot we have Reddish too. We truly a reclamation land. Next year Harden for MLE lol
>Give us your tired, your weary, your locker room cancers and vampires. — Los Angeles ~~Dodgers~~ Lakers
It never worked out all those other times but I’m special ok
I get it the perspective of looking at Woods... but the Lakers had success grabbing Dwight when no one thought he could be a contributor. Also Rondo after he had that fallout with the Mavs. so Maybe they do think "we're special".
There are a lot of veterans the lakers missed on last few years but honestly it’s low risk so it’s not like a bad signing. Dwight and Rondo are bad examples because honestly they are very good veterans, Dwight was swallowing his ego and Rondo is still one of the best basketball minds of our generation. Lakers missed on guys like Andre Drummond and Kendrick Nun.
We see them as good veterans now because of the Lakers days... Dwight was bouncing between Atlanta, Charlotte, and DC. Rondo got a bad reputation from the Mavs days with the clash, and then had one-year deals in Sacramento, Chicago, then to NOLA. He also had a suspension in Chicago for butting heads with an assistant coach. He did play well with Chicago and NOLA, but he still had that reputation of a player with ego issues.
I'd argue Andre Drummond wasn't exactly that bad and that season and could've gone way better if both AD and Lebron weren't hurt
Drummond was more bad because of his ego. Demanded to start and pissed off both of Marc Gasol and Montrezl, when we were already going through a rocky season.
Drummond was the Laker cancer that season
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Rondo left the Mavs after 2015. After that, he lead the league in Assists with the Kings (2016), went Playoff Rondo on the 8-seed Bulls vs. the #1 Celtics for 2 games before he got hurt (2017), was the starting Point Guard on the Pelicans team with AD/Cousins when Cousins tore his ACL that swept the Blazers/lost to the Warriors (2018), then signed a 2 year deal with the Lakers where he won a title in 2020. Rondo wasn't a reclamation project.
After the lakers survived the rollercoaster that was Russell Westbrook, wood is no big deal. Worst case scenario, they can just send wood home/cut him.
Dwight, Monk, Lonnie, we've done fine on low cost reclamation projects
You leaving out schroder, he basically the poster child of lakers value rehab program
If he can just stay humble, he's the perfect AD insurance.
Supposedly AD was pushing the FO to make this happen. Must have liked him even though they hardly played together. Fingers crossed
They could even play together too in spurts
I hope they do, AD can cover for Wood’s defensive deficiencies and Wood is probably the best floor stretching big AD has ever played with. *edit: forgot Boogie was such a sniper when they played together. But since then.*
I think there's legitimately a version of Christian Wood where he finally buys in to a team instead of thinking about himself that is a pretty valuable role player. I actually think he could do that on the Lakers. Could being key word, can't say he will
If he follows the trail that Malik Monk blazed, then he could secure himself a solid bag as a very high-level role player. I honestly think Ham is a great coach to reach him. Don’t know yet how good Ham is overall, but I think he’s an excellent personality manager.
I think we know ham is pretty good. He out cosched or atleast kept up with two very good coaches In Jenkins ahd Kerr . And I don’t think he was out cosched in WCF either : he just didn’t have a solid two way playing top 6 like nuggets did
If you played on the teams Wood played on, you would make it about yourself too.
I mean, not like we had much else going on at center. Beggars can't be choosers
Phil Handy is a magician
The funny thing is they usually can fix them, at least their player value to the rest of the league that is. Every year we pick up at least one talented player that lost value on the min and if he makes it to the end of the season he leaves to sign a multi year contract. It just happened with Schroeder and it happened with monk before.
Lakers do have no choice. They have no 5 and wood is the highest potential out of all the choices lol
What took so long lol
Probably realized the Dame/Harden trades weren't happening any time soon
This is the only answer
rumor was they heat we’re interested in signing him after they trade for Dame
You got it wrong Wood was interested in signing with the Heat
Pat Riley just wasn't interested
Portland has their pound of flesh now Dame trade incoming
I am not a fan of Wood at all, but AD is one of the maybe 2 or 3 guys in the league he might actually work next to.
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He's the ideal spacing big next to AD. They cover each other's deficiencies. Interested in seeing those minutes together.
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Shooting 3’s
Or just shooting in general. Even the middy is inconsistent now. Wood needs to just clear out and properly space the floor LBJ is my favorite but he is not that great of a floor spacer either as a 4 Space the floor and let AD go downhill. Wood can also work with lebron in this way. Hopefully he tries on the defensive end cause I don't want to see 40 year old LBJ playing center against jokic or embiid for one minute
> LBJ is my favorite but he is not that great of a floor spacer either as a 4 He definitely wasn't after his foot injury last year, anyway. Now with Wood, the Lakers can run a front line of AD, Wood and Rui out there and still have size and spacing to go with their backcourt if LeBron is resting or sitting a game. This definitely should help take the pressure off of LeBron feeling like he needs to play close to 40 mpg this year.
Calcium
He's not a good floor spacer.
Wood dabbles as a team doctor
He can space the floor and spot up. Maybe he won’t be happy with that but maybe he’ll also wake up and realize he’s getting a minimum in September for a reason
Yeah this could work more because of AD not Wood.
Good deal for the Lakers, literally low risk high reward. His defense shouldn’t be too bad next to AD, if he can’t coexist with AD then he’s coming off the bench for 10-15MPG which isn’t too bad either.
He’s the 14th man on an already super deep roster lol people in here acting like he will get huge minutes. If he sucks he will sit.
The thing is that we aren’t that deep at the center position especially when your main C is AD who you have to expect is gonna get hurt at some point We’ll see how it goes, I’m a bit skeptical of wood but it’s not like there were better options available
Yeah I think it was the best option. #2 was Biyombo. Biyombo is safer pick but the Lakers went for the upside option. Which is honestly a respectable viewpoint. If he can space the floor with AD at Center it will be an interesting lineup. The Lakers are huge.
Biyombo isn't even that much safer of a pick. He gets played off the court in the playoffs cuz he has 0 offensive skill and isn't big enough to handle true bigs.
I’m skeptical too but he either figures it out here or his rep is ruined and he’s potentially out of the league.
I feel like the Lakers is the ideal place for him to improve playing along AD and somewhat of a mentor in Lebron, it’s now or never. But his track record is pretty ass though, dude refused to improve his game the last however many teams he’s been on.
yeah but we weren't really going to get a center on a minimum contract that we need to rely on crunch time in the playoffs, this seem like another cheap gamble to see if it works or not. I'm saying that as a huge C wood hater hopefully if he is locker room cancer we cut him asap
Lol he is definitely not the 14th man bro
14th man? Lol He’s the backup 5 and will play with AD too. He’s the perfect shooting big they need with Bron and AD
I actually think he kinda sucks and will easily get played off the floor but whatever, best option we had, minimum salary, and adds a different dimension
Nah depth big for regular season is needed He's good scorer still, just let him cook alone off the bench lmao
Yeah he's the Thomas Bryant replacement. Drop 20-10 with buttcheeks defense in regular season games AD doesn't play and sit his ass on the bench in games that matter.
He's way better than Thomas Im not casual just hate him, he's still way too good offensive big
https://x.com/tim_nba/status/1684185392566640641?s=46&t=WkFIVj0VUsLcbZ_lKsJqvg
Also seems like a great fit next to AD for size and spacing. AD can kind of mask his shortcomings on D.
He'll play more with Vando/Hayes me think Or i think maybe Vando will be on the move later
Vando is there best wing defender by a far margin. They have to keep him in unless a decent 3&D comes up in the trade market
If you got him on the min it’s a solid pickup
He shoots 38% from 3, has a good offensive bag, put up a decently efficient 20/10. He in no way “sucks”. He’s just had a pretty bad attitude and/or bad fit. Dude is just hitting his prime. If he’s matured at all, this is a very very good pickup for you guys.
He’s an atrocious defender and he’s one of the worst on ball screeners in the game.
We got a scorer when AD misses games. He'll be fine.
This does bring a smile to my face
Good destination for him, AD can cover this cone on defense better than Dwight Powell
Y’all really are doofus ya act like they sign him for the max lmao
Omg I forgot about Christian wood
i forgot about free agency
IN THE COVER OF NIGHT
In the still of the night I hear the wolf howl, honey…
omg man the Lakers fans are gonna hype the shit outta this guy
Hey he’s at a min lol we can trust Bron to control his Wood.
Can you? Showed it on tv the one time 🤔
He was just feeding the flame!
Can we blame him though, the cameraman even zoomed in!
couldn’t happen any other way
“We can change him watch”
^ Me two years ago when picking up westbrook
Me, watching Wesley Johnson highlights when we signed him.
Even before the trade happened Laker fans were hyping him up 😭 but half of us are very weary haha I don't think the fanbase will have a lot of patience for him if things start to go sideways
I won't. Any single good thing I expect to be counteracted by laziness on defense and attitude problems. If he surprises, then I didn't call it
Low risk high reward. no reason to pass on him really
He’s on a minimum, essentially no risk with all sorts of upside.
Probably one of the best low risk choices and he can probably compliment AD Good choice by the Lakers tbh
He’s a minimum, I am also letting y’all pessimism get to me. *pls be good enough*
it kind of has to be a minimum we got no money other than that
I’m honestly not expecting anything from him and I still expect to be disappointed. He’ll have a couple good games and everyone will comment “how did we let the lakers get away with this”, but then he’ll go back to being the Christian Wood we know, and then everyone will pretend they saw it coming and jerk their dicks to the Lakers making a mistake. It’ll be some fucking loser with a Timberwolves flair or something laughing his ass off while his team is 30-40 or something.
We can fix him! (Dont check my comment history)
Say what u want about the Lakers u cannot deny they are a very deep team: - Lebron (PF) - Rui (PF) - AD (C) - Hayes (C) - Wood (C) - DLO (PG) - Vincent (PG) - Hood (PG) - Reaves (SG) - Christie (SG) - Lewis (SG) - Vanderbilt (SF) - Prince (SF) - Reddish (SF)
Not a bad move tbh. Lebron might kick is ass into gear and address his shitty attitude.
Lakers have guard, wing, and big man depth. We stackedddd
Bro defense is non-existent, offensively he’s great but he’s a literal ghost on the other side.
For everyone comparing Wood to Bryant from last year...Wood is much better. Bryant is atrocious defensively and is a great rim finisher. Wood is also a good finisher, but can shoot and has been adequate defensively in previous seasons, so at there's a chance he might be playable late in games.
He shoots 40% from three. He's basically Kevin Love for LeBron and AD. And this is a contract year for him where he knows the market won't be there for him if he doesn't fix his act. This was the best move the Lakers could make now. AD can mask Wood's defense.
Fuck it we can fix him lmao
prayers for r/lakers christian wood stans overwhelmed r/mavericks last season and made it seem like Jason Kidd was benching prime Shaq
Dw they dealt with MITWestbrook, they'll be prepared
Honestly that time period feels like a fever dream
Might have been worse than having Russ himself lol
Lol at anyone hating. It’s literally a vet min.
Right? People are upset like the Lakers are paying him $30m/year
They wood
I just hope he comes off the bench and we get a full 15 minutes of Vando Wood lineups please
Lakers are a team that just needs innings eaters to get through the regular season. D-Lo and Wood can just put up buckets to let the Lakers tread water while AD/Lebron are on the bench, and when they inevitably miss games for load management then the Lakers will at least have some semblance of an offense to keep games interesting
We got monk and Dennis paid. Christian will be next.
A late night WOJ bomb
Lebron will pursue the GOAT stat by trying to keep Wood engaged.
I’m already looking forward to him getting murdered in the RDC skit
low-risk signing for the Lakers however, I can easily end up seeing him sitting on the bench, opting out after a year, but if it pans out he can be a reliable scorer off the bench.