He’s right in that. Bad decision after bad decision here. Particularly Westbrook. That decision pushed for by Lebron, AD, and the rest of the Klutch mafia was the nail in the competitive coffin for this squad. Drafting poorly and consistently picking the wrong guys to throw your MLE at only compounded things, but this post-Dr. Buss leadership is going on about a dozen years of misses. Outside Lebron deciding he wanted to live in LA, the Lakers would be going on almost 15 year of irrelevance.
But the other side of the coin is Lebron is simply not good enough any more either. You put Jokic at the head of the roster in his place today, and he’s elevating the other 3 to levels no one thought they’d have been capable of previously. He’ll put them in the best places to succeed and consistently bail them out when he needs to. The overall talent level in the middle of these two squads isn’t that far apart, but the talent at the top is lightyears ahead.
That’s a relief. I say make a statement and let Phil coach this last game. Why put off the inevitable when you know Busslinka will throw Darvin under the buss anyway?
They had up and coming stars on manageable deals while assembling a team. When you’re throwing 100mm on two aging guys, already wasted a bunch of assets in a handful of foolhardy decisions, there’s little opportunity to make those moves. I know you’ll continue these mental gymnastics, throwing out the probability of Lebron’s continued decline and AD’s revert to the norm of 30-odd missed games per year. The ONLY reasonable solution is to set a fire to this trash heap and build it back up from the ashes.
He also wants to wet his beak – if you ain’t coming with some equity, you can stop right there. Those Busses can’t even agree on a dinner order, much less something like that.
When the he!! was Isaac an even willing 3 point chucker? He’s been demoted for his lack of O.
He’s right in that. Bad decision after bad decision here. Particularly Westbrook. That decision pushed for by Lebron, AD, and the rest of the Klutch mafia was the nail in the competitive coffin for this squad. Drafting poorly and consistently picking the wrong guys to throw your MLE at only compounded things, but this post-Dr. Buss leadership is going on about a dozen years of misses. Outside Lebron deciding he wanted to live in LA, the Lakers would be going on almost 15 year of irrelevance.
But the other side of the coin is Lebron is simply not good enough any more either. You put Jokic at the head of the roster in his place today, and he’s elevating the other 3 to levels no one thought they’d have been capable of previously. He’ll put them in the best places to succeed and consistently bail them out when he needs to. The overall talent level in the middle of these two squads isn’t that far apart, but the talent at the top is lightyears ahead.
That’s a relief. I say make a statement and let Phil coach this last game. Why put off the inevitable when you know Busslinka will throw Darvin under the buss anyway?
They had up and coming stars on manageable deals while assembling a team. When you’re throwing 100mm on two aging guys, already wasted a bunch of assets in a handful of foolhardy decisions, there’s little opportunity to make those moves. I know you’ll continue these mental gymnastics, throwing out the probability of Lebron’s continued decline and AD’s revert to the norm of 30-odd missed games per year. The ONLY reasonable solution is to set a fire to this trash heap and build it back up from the ashes.
He also wants to wet his beak – if you ain’t coming with some equity, you can stop right there. Those Busses can’t even agree on a dinner order, much less something like that.