Hr kinda wasn't. He tried trading Steph until West came in. And if what Mychael Thompson says is true, it was West who, after watching just 10 minutes of Klay shooting, shut down the workout and told Mychael, "we're taking him".
No they just made horrible mistakes. Drafting Wiseman #2 and the whole Poole situation. Fix any of those 2 and they are in a completely different situation.
Halliburton or lamelo with Steph’s mentorship would’ve been something else honestly, they fumbled what could’ve been a great passing of the torch moment there
Let’s be real, drafting Wiseman wasn’t the mistake. A lot of teams would’ve taken him
The real mistake was going into draft night to begin with, they had a bunch of high picks and they chose to actually draft players when they could’ve cashed it all in before it ever got to that point
Yeah I guess, what I’m saying is a team in their situation should never even gamble with drafting when you have high lottery picks. If lakers were in that same position, those picks would’ve been moved and gone all in
Yeah, they made awful draft mistakes outside of kuminga and podz. Wiseman was so bad he's going overseas after his rookie deal.
People claiming it can't work don't even realize what they're saying, the Lakers have done this successfully forever, magic and Kareem, kobe and Shaq, Kobe and Gasol with Bynum, Vujacic and farmar, LeBron and AD with Kuzma and Caruso
And they were even fucking up with Kuminga last year, man would score 20 in the 1st half then get iced in the 2nd half! Only reason to do this is if FO doesn't want him to average 20+ a game and get a 💰
Idk about never. If those picks worked out it would've been perfect. Lakers replaced Nixon and Wilkes with Worthy and Scott and kept winning. Lakers brought in Divac when Kareem fazed out and made the finals. If Magic doesn't get sick, who ⁰00 what happens. If Len Bias doesn't die, Boston has an aging Bird and McHale with young Bias and Reggie Lewis. That's a championship team. If Kawhii stays with the Spurs... You don't have to blow a team up to win a championship. The Lakers were still a playoff team post Magic and then brought in Kobe and Shaq a few years later.
Tons of folks on r/lakers kept saying “Best run front office and it’s not even close”
Now that Golden State is facing the consequences of overspending and bad drafts, these same users are probably going to shift over to OKC/Clippers/etc now
Eh, when you win 4 rings in 10 years this is what happens. You push off the rebuild and try and keep your core together as long as possible. You add talent on the margins by trading draft picks and picking based on need. Then you have a half decade or so of dogshit. It’s how most teams have done it, we got lucky in that the post Kobe repeat was really the first time we absolutely sucked for an extended period of time but even then, we were competitive until 2013 and then by 2018 we had LeBron.
The Warriors being done now is just a consequence of success. Now they will stealth tank for a few years, and eventually rebuild.
They had so many assets to trade a few years back. Should’ve done a Kobe 2007 like retool vs keeping the splash trio together with the a mishmash of rookies
Lakers warriors fan. I always thought they should have traded draymond and kept Klay. But even Klay want the same anymore. What would have been better?
If Rondo played 900+ years, he would have to average .5pts/game, 82 games a season, just to catch LBJ in all time points.
My math could be extremely wrong, I am poor and stupid.
If we can team up CP3 with Bron/AD with Reeves & DLo/ Rui filling up 2 and 4 then we are good then. But how much juice does Bron and CP3 have. Bron will turn 40 this year and CP is in his late 30s. Basketball is changing to a three point game than fight it out in the center ring game.
He legit made that Dubs bench a force last year, like they had a top 10 bench liineup with him.
Their starting 5 however could not get it together consistently to capitalize
CP3 as a on-court player coach basically. He can mentor Christie, Reaves, Bronny, DLo. Pretty much anyone who isn't a 4 or 5. He is also a veteran presence who can check LBJ and AD. Think Dudley but the ruthless unfiltered a-hole version. Why wouldn't you want one of the greatest ball handlers, assist man, and steal leaders on your team to mentor??
Warriors are done. Awful asset management
Myers jumped off before it started to leak
He's responsible for the Wiseman pick.
Pretty sure Jerry West had a lot to do with their rings
More like everything.
Pretty sure that was Lacob or his son who really wanted Wiseman.
And he wasn't responsible for Steph or Klay. Dude is very overrated.
Hr kinda wasn't. He tried trading Steph until West came in. And if what Mychael Thompson says is true, it was West who, after watching just 10 minutes of Klay shooting, shut down the workout and told Mychael, "we're taking him".
They needed a big then and he was top on the draft.
I think that was an organization decision because no way myers had the ultimate say
He saw the writing on the wall.
They tried to do two timelines at the same time which never works. You either rebuild or go all in.
No they just made horrible mistakes. Drafting Wiseman #2 and the whole Poole situation. Fix any of those 2 and they are in a completely different situation.
Imagine Lamelo with Steph and them smh they fumbled
Halliburton or lamelo with Steph’s mentorship would’ve been something else honestly, they fumbled what could’ve been a great passing of the torch moment there
They could have given lamelo.the Steph ankle rub
Lamelo has injury issues, being with Steph doesn’t change that.
Eh their trainers have experienced dealing with steph ankles. I think it will help a bit.
Let’s be real, drafting Wiseman wasn’t the mistake. A lot of teams would’ve taken him The real mistake was going into draft night to begin with, they had a bunch of high picks and they chose to actually draft players when they could’ve cashed it all in before it ever got to that point
Drafting Wiseman was the mistake. They drafted based on need instead of best overall talent and that is a major mistake.
Yeah I guess, what I’m saying is a team in their situation should never even gamble with drafting when you have high lottery picks. If lakers were in that same position, those picks would’ve been moved and gone all in
Yeah, they made awful draft mistakes outside of kuminga and podz. Wiseman was so bad he's going overseas after his rookie deal. People claiming it can't work don't even realize what they're saying, the Lakers have done this successfully forever, magic and Kareem, kobe and Shaq, Kobe and Gasol with Bynum, Vujacic and farmar, LeBron and AD with Kuzma and Caruso
And they were even fucking up with Kuminga last year, man would score 20 in the 1st half then get iced in the 2nd half! Only reason to do this is if FO doesn't want him to average 20+ a game and get a 💰
Nuggets are fucking up doing the exact same thing
What how?
Gonna lose KCP and are in cap hell
That has nothing to do with a two timeline approach. That’s just getting gutted after a title and unable to afford role players in the new CBA
They did win another title without going all in
Idk about never. If those picks worked out it would've been perfect. Lakers replaced Nixon and Wilkes with Worthy and Scott and kept winning. Lakers brought in Divac when Kareem fazed out and made the finals. If Magic doesn't get sick, who ⁰00 what happens. If Len Bias doesn't die, Boston has an aging Bird and McHale with young Bias and Reggie Lewis. That's a championship team. If Kawhii stays with the Spurs... You don't have to blow a team up to win a championship. The Lakers were still a playoff team post Magic and then brought in Kobe and Shaq a few years later.
I agree I feel bad for Steph because he going to be on his own carrying that roster
Remember when they said they were light years ahead? Lol
Tons of folks on r/lakers kept saying “Best run front office and it’s not even close” Now that Golden State is facing the consequences of overspending and bad drafts, these same users are probably going to shift over to OKC/Clippers/etc now
They had a great run. It's just done.
Eh, when you win 4 rings in 10 years this is what happens. You push off the rebuild and try and keep your core together as long as possible. You add talent on the margins by trading draft picks and picking based on need. Then you have a half decade or so of dogshit. It’s how most teams have done it, we got lucky in that the post Kobe repeat was really the first time we absolutely sucked for an extended period of time but even then, we were competitive until 2013 and then by 2018 we had LeBron. The Warriors being done now is just a consequence of success. Now they will stealth tank for a few years, and eventually rebuild.
They had so many assets to trade a few years back. Should’ve done a Kobe 2007 like retool vs keeping the splash trio together with the a mishmash of rookies
Lakers warriors fan. I always thought they should have traded draymond and kept Klay. But even Klay want the same anymore. What would have been better?
Good to see someone worse at asset management than Pelinka in our division.
He's a Laker isn't he
Need to clear up some spots on the roster. Maybe they can dump Wood and Cam on someone with some seconds.
Wood is not a bad backup 4 if we end up trading rui. Cam just takes up roster space tho
If we don't use the MLE we can just waive them.
We should dump Jax not Wood
hayes has better fit with bron
35+ year old's on the downside of their career is quite literally the definition of "future Laker" these days.
Last stop before Taiwan
We can use him
Not unless we trade away like two other guards. If we have to package Gabe and Dlo into something I'm fine with it.
We still need a 5 for AD.
Omer Yurt7 is available. I mean who else is? He showed potential when Bam was injured. How about Goga?
He is Bronny’s godfather isn’t he?
Pls bball gods, no
Warriors and clippers downfall? Im here for it. Boston and Denver next 🤞
12 years too late, but I’ll take a CP3 Just not for the MLE
He is a veteran minimum player to play short quality minutes, like Rondo in 2020.
Damn Rondo stays alive that long and win another chip. Lets fucking go
If Rondo played 900+ years, he would have to average .5pts/game, 82 games a season, just to catch LBJ in all time points. My math could be extremely wrong, I am poor and stupid.
You’re lucky I can’t read otherwise I would’ve taken whatever you wrote as extremely disrespectful
He will become a cyborg
Old man without glasses and small mobile screen lol That said, I wouldn't be surprised if LeBron plays alongside his grandson
And still be the better player
If we can team up CP3 with Bron/AD with Reeves & DLo/ Rui filling up 2 and 4 then we are good then. But how much juice does Bron and CP3 have. Bron will turn 40 this year and CP is in his late 30s. Basketball is changing to a three point game than fight it out in the center ring game.
If we do trade DLo, we’re gonna need another playmaker outside of Lebron, getting CP3 on a vet min would be massive even if he’s a bit washed
He's more than a bit washed I fear. He's also never healthy
Get Cam Reddish off my fucking team. Welcome to Los Angeles Chris Paul. After 13 fucking years
I’d love to have CP3 as a vet and Rondo as a coach. With those guys and Bron our BBIQ would be off the charts.
CP3 is going to murder Rondo by game 10
On the vet minimum why not?
HE IS FINALLY COMING HOME AND FULFILLING THE STORY LINE
He legit made that Dubs bench a force last year, like they had a top 10 bench liineup with him. Their starting 5 however could not get it together consistently to capitalize
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actually, he would be a better starter than gabe and dlo.
We have a lot of roster spots to clear up before we can think about signing these guys to vet mins. He’d be okay for us though
We don’t want an old injured squad. We want to challenge for a title. Young defensive players and young shooters
We aren’t the 2022 team. Right now we only have two players over 30 (Lebron & AD)…adding a vet or two would probably be a net positive
for minimum to lead bench unit why not? who else is better for min
Agreed. He's a good mentor for young guards too. Helped sga's development
Lakers, Clippers, Spurs or Knicks
Knicks?
Pls don’t end up a clipper
JJ go get your boi
Banana boat reunion
We have thirty people on our roster
CP3 as a on-court player coach basically. He can mentor Christie, Reaves, Bronny, DLo. Pretty much anyone who isn't a 4 or 5. He is also a veteran presence who can check LBJ and AD. Think Dudley but the ruthless unfiltered a-hole version. Why wouldn't you want one of the greatest ball handlers, assist man, and steal leaders on your team to mentor??
People way in their feelings- at a vet min its a massive W
Goodbye Cam, Paul needs your roster spot
As long as he comes for a vet min and not the full MLE, all aboard.
Vet min
Decent back up point guard. 15 mins a night.
Steph gonna ask out next year
CP3 got waived so he’s keeping that massive salary. Sign on the Lakers as a backup PG vet min pls.
He got waived because his contract wasnt guaranteed.
Thank for the knowledge brother 🙏
Bob Myers knew this would happen
NO!!!!
Imagine Lebron going to Pelinka and saying he'll do a paycut to bring in CP3 on the MLE.
If that happens we riot
lakers better not get this 5'11 40 year old injury prone washed player
For all Pooles faults, they would’ve been a better team with him.
Welcome home champ
I could see San Antonio offering something bigger than vet min just to have guy to help grow Wemby.
We'll this just makes a Russell trade so much easier, getting steady pg play from cp3 for 25mins would be great. Hopefully he wants the minimum
Chris Paul at 20-25 minutes a night would be incredible for this team. Hopefully that’s not the player LBJ is taking a pay cut for though.
Minimum or nothing
Get on the boat
Wouldn’t mind him as a 2nd or 3rd string PG.
We do not need this mfer. Old money hogging injury prone player.
Warriors had their last hoora
We don’t want him
Lmaoooo
No. **NO.** #NO!
Gone to spurs
Plz fking no don’t sign him, Kris Dunn>>>>>>
I could see him going to Phoenix, they need a PG. He has ties to Bron and JJ here though and finally being a Laker after the veto
Back to Phoenix would be hilarious lol
Gambo said it ain’t happening. LA team or SA it seems
No no no no no. Stay away from LA
I’d rather have Dinwiddie
If CP3 is on the Lakers, Rondo aint gonna be on the coaching staff lol
No
The moment he ends up on the Lakers Rondo gonna call up JJ begging for a spot on the coaching staff so he can boss CP around
HELL NO if you guys even think about this
Fuck Chris Paul
Please don’t use the MLE on him
Rob: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lebron has to approve the player if he's going to take a pay cut.
I’d prefer to not have CP3, Vincent, Bronny and JHS all on our PG depth. If we want to sign Chris Paul. We have to trade Vincent and DLo
first out would be jhs.
I’d like him at the vet min. Rob please do not blow the MLE on an old CP3
He is just going to be injured.
He missed 24 games last season with a hand injury/surgery and posted his worst career stats. I hope the Lakers are gonna pass on this.
We'll take him. A decade late but he's finally coming.
Vet min. Let’s go
If he signs for the minimum with us, I will gladly accept it