Lakers Thread

I know it is the Summer League. but it has been quite a while that the Lakers was used in the same sentence as finals.

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Lonzo Ball is amazingly fun to watch as a player. He's pure fun. When I think of an ideal way to play basketball (Steve Nash, Jason Kidd), this is what I think of. I hope he has a long, successful career. I'm definitely a fan.

So many rookies especially guards are excelling in summer league from this year's class. Perhaps the hype was real.


And I told you guys this. Ainge should have put his foot down and drafted Lonzo with the top pick. #fucDaCelts

Lonzo Ball is amazingly fun to watch as a player. He's pure fun. When I think of an ideal way to play basketball (Steve Nash, Jason Kidd), this is what I think of. I hope he has a long, successful career. I'm definitely a fan.

I think there are some things that Lonzo needs to work on in his physique to keep himself from getting hurt in the future. But he certainly has the talent.

And how about that Kuzma kid? He has made the summer league awards 2nd team. Without Lonzo in the game and less than 3 minutes to go, Kuzma has put up 30 and the team is up by 12. How great is it that he has suddenly found a 3pt shot. If Kuzma keeps this up, he will certainly be recognized as a good stretch 4 and should not have trouble finding success in the league. Randle better watch out or he might be out of a starting job soon. In this short time, it is looking like Kuzma and Adebayo are good steal in draft. Let us see how they fare going into the season.

Really psyched about KUZZZZZZZZZ

I think Ball Bryant and Kuzma can all contribute this year, plus we've already seen massive improvement from Ingram plus Julius should havea career year as well with his physical transformation. So excited to see these young'ns play with the team now, after knowing absolutely nothing about them
Lopez/Bryant/Zubitch
Randle/Nance
Ingram/Kuz/Deng
KCP/Clarkson/Brewer
Ball/Clarkson

Last I heard Thomas Bryant and Ennis are still without contracts. And I think Deng has voiced that he wants to play at 4, which fits in todays NBA. Brewer is a good perimeter defender, but he lacks the legit ball handling skills of a guard, so I think he should be played more at 3. Clarkson also is not a legit lead guard, I think he still works best at 2. The Rondo boat could be sailing away soon. But it will serve the Lakers better if they have an experienced lead guard to stabilize things. If it were up to me, I favor Brooks or Udrih. Both have legit veteran PG experience will show flashes on scoring if needed and could possibly be had for cheap. Ennis is a young developing talent that is still floating around.

So I think the '17-'18 roster should look a little more like this.

Lopez/Zubac/(Bryant???)
Randle/Nance/Deng
Ingram/Kuz/Brewer
KCP/Clarkson/Hart
Ball/[please sign somebody]/(Ennis???)/Caruso

I remember seeing before summer league an instagram post of all of them signing contracts, so I'm pretty sure all the rookies are signed. I could see Deng at the 4. Don't know how much Hart will play if any. I agree they could sign a veteran PG out there to a one year deal to help develop Lonzo's game.

Ok fuck it I'm buying in on the hype. At least, it won't be like the Howard-Nash-Bryant season where everybody thought we're going to be a dominant team..

I think Hart will be a rotational player. I read he's got a decent outside shot and with the Lakers spacing, I think he'll get a chance. Also I think Zu will get more back up minutes compared to Bryant off the bat.

It's a nice collection of talent. Looking forward to the strides both Ingram and hopefully Randle have made this year.

Zubat kept pissing me off costing Lonzo assists with his kwame brown hands all summer league. I'd rather not see him on the court

Sup with nwaba being cut? Even Heard some chirps from lakers fans not liking the move

Sup with nwaba being cut? Even Heard some chirps from lakers fans not liking the move

They messed that one up. They thought no team would pick him up and that they'd pick him up at a later date.

Bad move, kid is athletic and plays hard every trip. Good on him being picked up asap.

Yeah that was a mistake. I was excited for him too. Seems like a bit of a waste cutting a guy that could potentially be on the team for a few years just to have an extra mil or two to give to a one year rental

And I told you guys this. Ainge should have put his foot down and drafted Lonzo with the top pick. #fucDaCelts

he could end up being 3 times as good as michael jordan and that still would have been a bad choice for the celtics as this dude had 0 intentions of every playing for the celtics.

he could end up being 3 times as good as michael jordan and that still would have been a bad choice for the celtics

If he comes even close to MJ, I wonder what people will say about the Celtics/Sixers "passing up on Lonzo" a few years down the line.

he could end up being 3 times as good as michael jordan and that still would have been a bad choice for the celtics

If he comes even close to MJ, I wonder what people will say about the Celtics/Sixers "passing up on Lonzo" a few years down the line.

people will say they made a mistake without taking anything else into account. they do this with sam bowie/jordan and oden/durant. they dont consider things outside of where the player was at the end of his career.

there are going to be people at the end of the season saying how both those teams were wrong anyway as lonzo is sure to put up better numbers in his rookie year than both fultz/tatum. the only player with any shot at ROTY outside of ball is fox

I'm not counting out Ben Simmons just yet.

Dennis Smith Jr ROTY
Will put up stats on a winning team

Any prediction on next Flynn/Ammo/Fredette/Bennett/Thabeet?

That's mean lol

I could see kennard not playing up to his draft position

Anyone catching tonight's game?

Ingram looks way broader in the shoulder. Hope no one gets injured and it's a good game overall. Looking forward to watch Ingram-Ball.

In other news Frank Hamblen passed away. RIP coach.

WTF Minnesota wearing white. Did they do that because they chose to or did they do that because Lakers gold is technically the away jersey?

Kuzzzzzz is so sick. Already one of my favorite Lakers

Thank God nba basketball is back!

The Lakeshow has a nice young core of players and showed it for the most part, the Twolves have to much firepower to close out a close game but loved what I saw from Kuz and Ball

Gotta love Thibs playing Butler the entire first quarter too. Thibs gonna Thibs.

Whoa. Who that skinny guy wearing that randle uniform??