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2012 NBA Offseason |OT2| Lakers Fans Despise Freedom.
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Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
Your right... Total disclosure here I forgot about Faried because he is 1 year beyond being a rookie but he is the starting 4. The nuggets have a squad.
go new york go new york go...
Maybe we could rejoice in thinking that 28 teams will be in the same boat now.
ynot?
Net_Wrecker
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Nash/Dwight PnRs.....Nash/Pau PnRs......Nash/Kobe PnRs.....
Bahahaha
All the reactions are so good. Old Snake + Dwight salute, the hate, all so good. I love this game.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
Real quick non dwight question. Does the FIBA goaltending rule go into effect this year.
What. The deal is so laughable for Orlando. I'm 'still banking on Stern nixing it.
Tom Penny was ironic
I don't believe it. Klay is better than Kobe
Grover Cleveland
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"The Magic GM traded Dwight Howard to us for 50 cent and a bag of skittles"
Maybe we can trade for Lin now that the west is won.Hey, we got our thread bac.....
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wtf
go new york go new york go...
Stern is a better GM than Demps.
He's the one the slapped the taste of out Demps' mouth and made him sit the corner while grown folks organized a trade for Eric Gordon instead of Emodom.
MInd bogglingly bad deal. How is Al Harrington and affalo and vucevic + 2nd round picks better than Brooks/humphries + four 1st round picks? Plus the Nets were gonna eat more bad contracts.
Demps was able to dump Okafor and Arizas contracts, he's not all bad.
I wouldn't even credit him with that. Ever since Stern/The League took over for basketball reasons, that ship has been running smoothly - and you know he ain't about that life. He's probably been tied to a chair somewhere in that empty ass arena to help boost attendance.
I was going to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's been a lame duck.
Then I remembered he drafted Austin Rivers.
He's a visionary. Anthony Davis could easily average 10 boards a game if Rivers shoots 30% on the season.
Dreams-Visions
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because they are.
Its also quite possible that Davis is a better point guard.
The second one obviously, the inside duo is disgusting. I want a refund on my 20 years of following the NBA.
The difference between gasol/dwight vs okafor/bynum is way bigger than the difference between cp3 and nash. especially when you take into account how bad the center/pf positions are for the other contenders in the league like the heat and thunder.
Harkless/Nicholson/Vucevic will be starting after 20 games. They'll win 15 easily
Knux-Future
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The league is so corrupt.
Stern making it so teams can actually make shitty trades.
It's not fair man. He should take away GM's freedom of choice and make all the good moves for them.
He should basically own every team and basketball reason all bad trades, yo.
/jk.
In the end you just can't stop stupid.
The Lakers just seem to be on the good side of it....all de time.
I am just surprised that we didn't fuck up too.
I've never been about this life.
Stern making it so teams can actually make shitty trades.
It's not fair man. He should take away GM's freedom of choice and make all the good moves for them.
He should basically own every team and basketball reason all bad trades, yo.
/jk.
In the end you just can't stop stupid.
The Lakers just seem to be on the good side of it....all de time.
I am just surprised that we didn't fuck up too.
I've never been about this life.
Mitch is just a pretty damn good GM these days.
He was, at best, mediocre in the early 2000's, wasting all of our mid-level exceptions on horrible players and wasting cap space on garbage like Devean George. But he's really improved his craft tremendously since then.
If 2002 Mitch were as good as he is now, the Lakers might have 8-peated.
He was, at best, mediocre in the early 2000's, wasting all of our mid-level exceptions on horrible players and wasting cap space on garbage like Devean George. But he's really improved his craft tremendously since then.
If 2002 Mitch were as good as he is now, the Lakers might have 8-peated.
Maybe they just wanted Dwight gone?
Maybe they threw in season seats next to Jack at the Staples Center?
Knux-Future
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they will attempt to out tank the bobcats.
You gotta try to do that because the Bobcats are tanking gods.
other tan tat i guess move on from the Dwightmare...and making other teams better..which helps tanking?
yeah.
I don't even.
Byakuya769
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Magic keep on making it, Lakers keep on taking it.
The Rockets deal was better by leaps and bounds, and the Nets deal was also better.
Lakers lose to Blazers in WCF
Rodeo Clown
All aboard! The Love train!
I don't subscribe to the theory that a GM should get credit for cleaning up his own mess. He still traded Collison for Ariza in the first place.
Like, David Kahn should not get credit for flipping Wes Johnson and the Memphis pick for some second round picks.
They have absolutely no bench and will be leaning on Old Snake, crazy Metta, and a 39 year-old PG heavily for perimeter production. They also have nobody to run alongside Nash, so his numbers will be down from Phoenix.
One injury to any of their four main guys and not only are they not chipping, they probably lose in the second round again.
OKC and SA are still great teams, and both have mismatches they can leverage against the Lakers.
GremlinFool
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This all amounts to wishful thinking from my vantage point.
No one to run alongside Nash? I suppose the best running big man in the game along with arguably the best perimeter offensive player remaining in the league is too paltry for Nash to work with after being carried by Grant Hill and Channing Frye.
Also, outside of Harden, OKC does NOT have a better bench than the Lakers. Jamison is still a potent scorer, and Hill is only improving. Sprinkle in Blake and Ebanks, and presumably a Meeks-caliber SG free agent signing, and I'm not particularly sure that more than a handful of teams have better depth coming off the bench.
Kobe and his shooting percentage have gone down in the last four years. Best perimeter offensive player? WTF. The corpse of Paul Pierce outshot him last year on an old C's team. Perhaps you're referring to someone else.
When I say "run alongside," I mean literally that. If you think the Lakers are gonna have the pace of Nash's Phoenix teams, you're delusional. He also needs the ball in his hands to be most effective, and you're an idiot if you think Kobe is giving the ball up in crunch time.
Also, :lmao at touting Antawn Jamison as some kind of bench monster... and Kobe as the best perimeter offensive player in the league. Pretty sure that guy plays for OKC at the moment.
OKC still has Kobe Kryptonite (Kobenite?) in Sefolosha, KD isn't nearly as affected by MWP as he used to be, and they have no answer for Westbrook.
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