The Official Los Angeles Lakers Thread

[HaloMilliVanilli]

Wow!  Knicks beat the Spurs tonight.  That's....shocking!  Still doesn't likely change us catching them but they are only 3 games away.

[Angel Oracle]

All 3 teams are now either 2 wins (Philly) or 3 wins (T-Wolves, Knicks) in back of the Lakers.

At least Philly and the Knicks play in the much easier Eastern Conference. 

Don't have any hope for the T-Wolves at this point, being in the West.

[HaloMilliVanilli]

And the 76'ers draw within one game in the win column with a W against the Pistons tonight!  YES!!!!  Those two remaining games against them are looming large.

 

Just looked at the NBA schedule and New York plays Minnesota tonight and Philly tomorrow night.  VERY good chance that Minnesota closes to within two wins of us and Philly TIES us for wins tomorrow.  Things are heating up!

Edited March 19, 2015 by HaloWHAM!

[Angel Oracle]

Go T-Wolves tonight!    Go Philly tomorrow night! 

[nando714]

50 losses!! Keep it rollin!

[fan_since79]

Steve Nash just announced his retirement from basketball.

 

The most unsurprising news of the year.

[HaloMilliVanilli]

Big game tonight!!  76'ers vs. Lakers..  Kind of like the meetings in 80', 82', 83' and 01'.  

[HaloMilliVanilli]

And the 76'ers win (?) round 1.  Jeremy Lin is the tank-killer.  

[Angel Oracle]

Philly wins the rematch, and the 3rd worst record is still very obtainable.

NY and Minnesota are pretty much out of reach. 

[Hollyw00d]

how did the lakers win that game?  Unacceptable

[Angel Oracle]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12541459/nba-front-office-rankings-2015

 

Nicely done Jimmy Bob, you are now only ahead of the Russian owned Nets and the pathetic James Dolan owned Knicks. 

[Hollyw00d]

If you have a few beers and then squint your eyes, Ryan kelly kinda looks like Pau gasol

Edited March 25, 2015 by Hollyw00d

[Angel Oracle]

Need to lose to the T-Wolves tonight, and continue losing through to the road trip's finale in Philly.

[HaloMilliVanilli]

Jordan Clarkson has been a nice find this season.  For whatever reason, he slid into the second round of the draft last season when clearly he should've been a high first rounder.  Kind of sweet when you think about it.  How often do we luck out like that?

 

Agreed regarding losing to T-Wolves tonight.  Let's do this!!!

[nando714]

Damn 6ers lost lakers win

No bueno.

Also only ahead of Orlando by 1.5

[Angel Oracle]

Clarkson is a pleasant surprise, and has the athleticism and length to play either guard spot.

 

Orlando is tanking too.

Just need to lose the rest of these games on this road trip.

Would be nice to avoid 60 losses, while at the same time being in good shape for a top 5 pick.

Edited March 26, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Richard]

TANK WARS!

 

 

Sixers are going to drop this game. They know they own that pick outside of the top 5.

[nando714]

Damn it clarkson

[Angel Oracle]

On the bright side, the all-Mizzou rookie backcourt (Clarkson and Jabari Brown) is showing some promise. It has to help that they played together at Mizzou.

[HaloMilliVanilli]

These guys are idiots.

[Angel Oracle]

And now Orlando is only 2 wins in front.

[HaloMilliVanilli]

OK, here is my NO Top-5 pick plan and not a reach for the stars roster (i.e. reasonably attainable).

*Re-sign Lin and Ed Davis.

*Sign FA's Danny Green and Kosta Koufos.

*Draft PG Tyus Jones with the Houston pick and SF Justin Anderson with the early 2nd.  If we keep the Clippers 2nd, draft a euro to stash and develop.

 

PG  Clarkson/Lin/*Tyus Jones

SG  Kobe/Young  (Clarkson and Green could get minutes here too)

SF  Danny Green/*Justin Anderson/Kelly

PF  Randle/Ed Davis  (Kelly could get play here too)

C    Koufos/Black/Sacre

 

This is a nice, young, developing team that has a nice mix of guys who can defend, score and get out and run.  Plus, it gives us lots of assets with moveable contracts in an instance a stud becomes available via trade.  This is not the typical Lakers construction as they are adding NO huge stars.  That should wait until the 2016 and/or 2017 offseasons.  Next season will (and should) be about building.

[Hollyw00d]

tank until kobe's gone, that should be the plan.  no use trying to build anything while he's still on the team

[HaloMilliVanilli]

The franchise needs to be appealing.  We aren't the 76'ers.  We will not continue to be as bad as we have been over the past two seasons and we will not tank any longer.  We wouldn't arguably be as bad as we are this season if not for season ending injuries to key players.  And we've remained competitive, nearly beating many good teams.  Worst case scenario....the roster above and then tons of cap for 2016.  Best case....add a top-5 player (Okafor, Towns, Russell, WCS, Winslow) to the mix.

[Angel Oracle]

I'm all for that.

As long as they don't catch Orlando, there's still an 82% chance of having a top five pick.

Doesn't Orlando hold the tiebreaker as well, if they tie in wins?