2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (27-34, 10th Slot on 3/2)

[liam]

Lonzo follows up his spectacular 5 points, 6 assists and 7 rebounds outing with....

9 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds on 3/10 shooting.

ROTY! MAGIC JOHNSON IN THE MAKING! 

Advanced metrics say that the Lakers offense is much worse with Ball on the floor.

https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/924331177959350272

The Laker's offense does look better with Ball off the floor. The ball moves better and there is more spacing.

What do you think would be the best lineup for the Lakeshow?

J.Clarkson
Kuzma
j.Hart
Ingram
Nance JR

[SHAQATTACK]

Ball seems extra  rattled with road games. 

Lopez and Bogue are basic junk to me

Why is Lebron going to the Lakers ?

[Phantom255x]

Ball seems extra  rattled with road games. 

Lopez and Bogue are basic junk to me

Why is Lebron going to the Lakers ?

Lebron really has no reason to.

Only way I see Lebron considering LAL is if they add another max player, but I think there's a really, really good chance George stays in OKC. So yeah, why would Lebron go to Lakers? (Unless he's fine teaming up with Cousins lol). 

[slightly biased bias fan]

Ball seems extra  rattled with road games. 

Lopez and Bogue are basic junk to me

Why is Lebron going to the Lakers ?

I said this before the season started, he isn't. Lakers would have to pull off the greatest roster turn around in NBA history, trading for Davis or Cousins, convincing Paul to bail on Houston and George on Thunder = a miracle. This was all typical Lakers ESPN hype to get clicks and fill time. Magic is just a used car salesman for the Lakers hoping their reputation will outweigh their recent ineptitude.

I honestly could see Rockets making a run at Lebron if they could get off Anderson's terrible contract, it's the situation he's after, a well run team with a great coach, GM and a younger franchise star in Harden to lessen the load. But most likely he'll resign on another 1 + 1 contract as he doesn't trust Dan Gilbert enough to re-sign long term...but can you blame him?

[RockinRyA]

Lonzo follows up his spectacular 5 points, 6 assists and 7 rebounds outing with....

9 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds on 3/10 shooting.

ROTY! MAGIC JOHNSON IN THE MAKING! 

Advanced metrics say that the Lakers offense is much worse with Ball on the floor.

https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/924331177959350272

The Laker's offense does look better with Ball off the floor. The ball moves better and there is more spacing.

What do you think would be the best lineup for the Lakeshow?

Something that has Hayward in there. 

[Big333223]

Through 6 games the Lakers are 11th in defense and 29th in offense (per basketball reference) which is basically the exact opposite of where most figured they'd be. I anticipate huge regression in defense since they still don't have a single plus defender in their rotation outside of KCP. Hopefully their offense stays bad and we'll be all set.

[mr. dee]

Through 6 games the Lakers are 11th in defense and 29th in offense (per basketball reference) which is basically the exact opposite of where most figured they'd be. I anticipate huge regression in defense since they still don't have a single plus defender in their rotation outside of KCP. Hopefully their offense stays bad and we'll be all set.

Bogut is healthy at the moment and he gives them a defensive boost.

[Big333223]

Through 6 games the Lakers are 11th in defense and 29th in offense (per basketball reference) which is basically the exact opposite of where most figured they'd be. I anticipate huge regression in defense since they still don't have a single plus defender in their rotation outside of KCP. Hopefully their offense stays bad and we'll be all set.

Bogut is healthy at the moment and he gives them a defensive boost.

Good point. That can't last long.

[SHAQATTACK]

Ball seems extra  rattled with road games. 

Lopez and Bogue are basic junk to me

Why is Lebron going to the Lakers ?

I said this before the season started, he isn't. Lakers would have to pull off the greatest roster turn around in NBA history, trading for Davis or Cousins, convincing Paul to bail on Houston and George on Thunder = a miracle. This was all typical Lakers ESPN hype to get clicks and fill time. Magic is just a used car salesman for the Lakers hoping their reputation will outweigh their recent ineptitude.

I honestly could see Rockets making a run at Lebron if they could get off Anderson's terrible contract, it's the situation he's after, a well run team with a great coach, GM and a younger franchise star in Harden to lessen the load. But most likely he'll resign on another 1 + 1 contract as he doesn't trust Dan Gilbert enough to re-sign long term...but can you blame him?

1+1 for Lebron brings him near the end of the NBA show .  Even Lebron is gonna fall off a bit at age 36 .  MJ could not defeat father time .....neither will LeBron.

Lebron has to win NOW ..... latter and father time is just around the corner

[mef730]

Wow, a lot of "optimists" here for LA's pick. There are some truly, truly horrendous teams out there. I'm having a hard time coming up with any scenarios where the Lakers are in the bottom 4 teams, outside of injuries.

Mike

[GreenShooter]

Wow, a lot of "optimists" here for LA's pick. There are some truly, truly horrendous teams out there. I'm having a hard time coming up with any scenarios where the Lakers are in the bottom 4 teams, outside of injuries.

Mike

Which is why, I think, DA didn't take the LAL pick straight up, minus the top pick protection. He saw the LAL being a bad team but he also may have seen how some other teams could be just as bad or worse, as he hadn't too much of a clue at the time of the trade, before the off-season and trading/signing of players began. He knew the LAL would likely get better after this year so he put in the Sacramento pick as a fall back plan. Not a bad plan.

[ETNCeltics]

There are a # of bad teams, but it's not a stretch to see the LAL worse than any of them. They're one hoop against Phoenix from having the worst record in the league.

JMO, I think Sacramento and Dallas may be just as good as LAL. Chicago and Atl might be worse, but they have easier schedules. This thing is probably going to go down to the wire.

Odds might be against us, but not by much. The Lakers are bad. Say they wind up with the 5th worst record. We'd still have a 47% chance at the pick.


My guess is we'll be glued to our TV sets on lottery night.

[TheSundanceKid]

Bottom 6 as of this morning are Lakers, Suns, Bulls, Hawks, Kings, Mavs. I expect those to be the bottom 6 come the end of the year as well. The Pacers and Nets both seem to have enough to keep them milling over and the other teams around them are all playoff chasers.

It's all going to come down to lottery balls, can the Lakers pick jump up to the top 3 or can it stay within the top 5. At least the new lottery rules give us an extra advantage of being 2 or 3 if the Lakers finish 5/6th

[SHAQATTACK]

Man LA would super suck if Ball  stumbles.

[GreenShooter]

LAL at home tonight playing Detroit and are 3.5 point dogs. Man, they've played a lot of home games thus far? Anyways, they may have a better shot then they did against the Wiz and Toronto though Pistons are a bit underrated right now. They are a really good defensive team and LAL may struggle if they can't get easy buckets. Prediction: a win...for Detroit, by 6.
Only about 6 of their next 20 games are winnable so they are about to go down the drain, hopefully.