The Official Los Angeles Lakers Thread

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Above last year's win total. I want 27-30.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

One man's trash is another man's treasure!

[Angel Oracle]

Games like last night will continue to happen here and there until a) the current young players mature, and b ) bringing in a solid veteran on court leader.

Detroit destroyed them in the 3rd quarter.

[Richard]

..and here we go. 

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/magic-johnson-wants-to-call-the-shots-for-lakers-instead-of-jim-buss/

 

Well the good thing is we're not the Knicks organization at the moment and kicking James Worthy out of Staples Center, but I don't see Jim willingly hand over the reins. Magic could potentially bring back Jerry West as well(something he has advocated for).

[Angel Oracle]

The Logo may still have something left in the tank, even at age 78.

Anybody but Jimmy Bob! 

By the way Jimmy Bob, remember that pledge you made 3 years ago?  That if things weren't great in 3 years, you would leave?

[Angel Oracle]

Hope this time off for the team, and that at the ASB, rejuvenates them.

[Richard]

Magic now wants Kobe back to help make the Lakers great again.

 

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18684105/magic-johnson-says-recruit-kobe-bryant-help-fix-los-angeles-lakers

[Richard]

Yeah fucking idiot replaced the scouting department he inherited and replaced them with his people.

 

I don't see Kobe being lured back unless he's given reins of the franchise. 

[HaloMilliVanilli]

I actually like Ryan West quite a bit, nor can I really complain too much about the picks we've made over the past 3 years. I'm pretty happy with Randle, Clarkson, Russell, Nance, Ingram and Zubac.  There are only two guys I can think of that I wish we'd drafted and that's Myles Turner of Indi and Jocic of Denver but I'm completely fine with what we've done based on where we were drafting.

[Angel Oracle]

Just need for the youngsters to grow together, and find even just one rock solid veteran oncourt leader type FA to bring in after the season .

And no, he can't be constantly on the shelf like Nash turned out to be.   Might as well have brought in Kevin Nash, although he did play division 1 basketball in college.

That was a heartbreak loss last night, as Lou Williams did everything he could except for the last second 3 pt. miss that would have won the game.   Cousins is always impossible for the Lakers to stop.

[Angel Oracle]

Looks like they gave up last night.   9-29 after the 10-10 start

They are suddenly just 1/2 game in front of the 2nd worst record (Suns).   Brooklyn has the worst record pretty much sewed up.

[Richard]

Need to win 6 games for the over 24.5 wins vegas line.

[nando714]

vlade got fleeced 

wonder why the lakers didn't make that trade 

[Angel Oracle]

Hield is one of those typical four year college players, who proves the reason why he needed 4 years of college basketball.

[m0nkey]

Have arrests been made for the robbery of the Kings yet?

[nando714]

So Ingram is untouchable.

now jimmy butler is in the conversation 

[nando714]

39 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

Lou Williams needs to be traded for a first round pick. We can't afford him winning us pointless games and affecting our draft pick chances.

Same with Nick Young if anyone even wants that bozo.

The boogie cousins trade is going to hurt his return imo. 

Magic running the show now. Idk how I feel about this 

[Richard]

 

Jim got put through the wringer. Magic has to deliver now.

[Inside Pitch]

28 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

No one knows if Magic is qualified to run the basketball operations of an organization. In most cases, great former NBA players have failed miserably. 

If only Magic could morph into Jerry West redux....

 

[Inside Pitch]

2 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

That would be nice. But he could make Ryan West a GM, which IMO, would be a great move.

I'd be on board with that too...  Maybe slip his Dad a mickey and rummage through his offseason notes....      

[eaterfan]

34 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

No one knows if Magic is qualified to run the basketball operations of an organization. In most cases, great former NBA players have failed miserably. But one thing this does ensure is to get the two idiots that were in charge of basketball operations out of there. Jim was a flat out idiot and Mitch could not keep up with the times. The Mosgov and Deng signings were the final straw for those bone heads.

I'm just hoping that Magic gets together a group of analytical guys who understand and know how to construct a successful basketball team. If he thinks he knows how to do it alone, he's probably wrong, because he has no experience running a team. I'm hoping he gets together the type of personnel the Dodgers have, where a lot of smart guys make the baseball decisions.

If this doesn't end up being the case, at least Magic got Mitch and Jim out, which is a positive in itself.

I'm pretty scared. This looks like a move looking to recapture the past instead of looking forward. Hopefully I'm wrong.

[Richard]

38 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

No one knows if Magic is qualified to run the basketball operations of an organization. In most cases, great former NBA players have failed miserably. But one thing this does ensure is to get the two idiots that were in charge of basketball operations out of there. Jim was a flat out idiot and Mitch could not keep up with the times. The Mosgov and Deng signings were the final straw for those bone heads.

I'm just hoping that Magic gets together a group of analytical guys who understand and know how to construct a successful basketball team. If he thinks he knows how to do it alone, he's probably wrong, because he has no experience running a team. I'm hoping he gets together the type of personnel the Dodgers have, where a lot of smart guys make the baseball decisions.

If this doesn't end up being the case, at least Magic got Mitch and Jim out, which is a positive in itself.

This is my hope as well. He'll obviously be a bigger presence as he's one of faces of the franchise and has a personal tie to the team, but I hope the new regime can learn from the failures of Mitch and Jim. I don't need to hear about "toughening up" and "the way we used to play the game" cliches. This is a much different league than the one he and showtime ran through.

[Richard]

As some have speculated:

 

 

[Richard]

 

[eaterfan]

32 minutes ago, Richard said:

This is my hope as well. He'll obviously be a bigger presence as he's one of faces of the franchise and has a personal tie to the team, but I hope the new regime can learn from the failures of Mitch and Jim. I don't need to hear about "toughening up" and "the way we used to play the game" cliches. This is a much different league than the one he and showtime ran through.

That's my best hope as well. But Magic doesn't run the Dodgers. He's a figurehead and owns like 2%. If that's all he is then I'm fine with that. But why do people think Magic is totally into the way the game is played now or understands it? I may be misrembering but he seems to be a guy who thinks basketball was at its best when he played. I seem to recall him making comments to those effect. Just because he played like they do now doesn't mean that's the style he likes. Joe Morgan was one of the best sabermetric players ever. He does nothing but disparage their use. 

What is Magic going to do other than trot out old trophies and say what the Lakers used to be? 

But once again, if he just wants to hire good people and be hands off that's excellent. Just go out there and schmooze FA? Great! But I don't see Magic having left his role with the Dodgers to do that. He has said he wants to be making the decisions. And the people he's mentioned discussing things with are James Worthy and Robert Horry. I don't have a lot of confidence.