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Non-Warrior fans don't enjoy watching them play. Curry is a taunter and Green is dirty. Their fans need to get a life, get out of this thread, and start their own.
Green is dirty and Curry isn't a taunter but seeing him jack up 30 3's a game is BAD for basketball
 

MR4

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Green is dirty and Curry isn't a taunter but seeing him jack up 30 3's a game is BAD for basketball
As a fair weather basketball fan, I don’t care for Green but Curry’s 3’s are a big thing for me
 

Terry Yake

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He’s trying to be like Kobe. He wants two numbers retired with the Lakers.
don't think they should retire his #(s) but i'm almost certain jeanie will make it happen. if anything, as a favor to bron for saving the franchise
 

Terry Yake

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Saving the franchise?
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Horrible management is horrible management. The Lakers don't build winners, they buy them. All of those season still were sell outs and still had nationally televised games. A team Like the Lakers knows (just like the leafs) that their fan base will support even bad teams and at the very instance of Apathy go out and start signing players to make a run. It's the only way the Lakers are successful, they buy teams by poaching the best from other teams.

The lakers tanked after Kobe retired and started getting better just without a marketable star.

Lebron didn't save anything.
 

Terry Yake

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Horrible management is horrible management. The Lakers don't build winners, they buy them. All of those season still were sell outs and still had nationally televised games. A team Like the Lakers knows (just like the leafs) that their fan base will support even bad teams and at the very instance of Apathy go out and start signing players to make a run. It's the only way the Lakers are successful, they buy teams by poaching the best from other teams.

The lakers tanked after Kobe retired and started getting better just without a marketable star.

Lebron didn't save anything.
nationally televised ganes and sellouts? lol its the lakers, not the cavs, grizzlies, or hornets where those things would be considered wins. anything short of a deep playoff run is seen as a disappointment

the lakers struck out on big name FAs throughout the 2010s until lebron arrived. if he hadn't signed with the lakers, they'd still be competing for the 10th seed every season with guys like ball and ingram
 

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nationally televised ganes and sellouts? lol its the lakers, not the cavs, grizzlies, or hornets where those things would be considered wins. anything short of a deep playoff run is seen as a disappointment

the lakers struck out on big name FAs throughout the 2010s until lebron arrived. if he hadn't signed with the lakers, they'd still be competing for the 10th seed every season with guys like ball and ingram
Your mistaking being a fan with running a business. Lakers are about making money. Everything else is a bonus. "Lakers struck out on big name FA's"

I rest my case.
 

Terry Yake

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Your mistaking being a fan with running a business. Lakers are about making money. Everything else is a bonus. "Lakers struck out on big name FA's"

I rest my case.
it's not all about the business side, especially with a franchise like the lakers where you're expected to contend for a title every year. that could apply to shit franchises like the ones i mentioned, but not the lakers where the $$$ is there year in and year out

you think the organization was cool with finishing in the basement every year? if that was the case, they would've kept jim buss and mitch kupchak in charge of things
 

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it's not all about the business side, especially with a franchise like the lakers where you're expected to contend for a title every year. that could apply to shit franchises like the ones i mentioned, but not the lakers where the $$$ is there year in and year out

you think the organization was cool with finishing in the basement every year? if that was the case, they would've kept jim buss and mitch kupchak in charge of things
You can't contend every year unless you want apathy to set in. Every decade except for the 90's since the 1960's the lakers had multiple finals appearances. Look what happened with Lebron going to 10 straight finals, people lost interest.

The organization new there was going to be another downswing after Kobe left. No free agents wanted to go there fresh off of a hall of famer retiring just like in Chicago after Jordan retired

While they lost for 5 years they were drafting to fill out a roster that could win in the cap era like GS did. Waiting for Kobe to retire allowed for the rebuild. They were paying him almost half of the salary cap that year. They were not going make a team to beat Cleveland or GS. That's not the years you go for it. The building is full so you are making gate revenues and concessions. Merch sales slowed but that's to be expected. You live off of the brand for a few seasons then start promoting your "young stars" to give fans optimism. They turned those draft picks into AD.

They had to wait for the right time to spend as not to waste their money.
 

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You can't contend every year unless you want apathy to set in. Every decade except for the 90's since the 1960's the lakers had multiple finals appearances. Look what happened with Lebron going to 10 straight finals, people lost interest.

The organization new there was going to be another downswing after Kobe left. No free agents wanted to go there fresh off of a hall of famer retiring just like in Chicago after Jordan retired

While they lost for 5 years they were drafting to fill out a roster that could win in the cap era like GS did. Waiting for Kobe to retire allowed for the rebuild. They were paying him almost half of the salary cap that year. They were not going make a team to beat Cleveland or GS. That's not the years you go for it. The building is full so you are making gate revenues and concessions. Merch sales slowed but that's to be expected. You live off of the brand for a few seasons then start promoting your "young stars" to give fans optimism. They turned those draft picks into AD.

They had to wait for the right time to spend as not to waste their money.


Fact check: 2010s. Only one NBAF appearance (2010)
 

Terry Yake

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You can't contend every year unless you want apathy to set in. Every decade except for the 90's since the 1960's the lakers had multiple finals appearances. Look what happened with Lebron going to 10 straight finals, people lost interest.

The organization new there was going to be another downswing after Kobe left. No free agents wanted to go there fresh off of a hall of famer retiring just like in Chicago after Jordan retired

While they lost for 5 years they were drafting to fill out a roster that could win in the cap era like GS did. Waiting for Kobe to retire allowed for the rebuild. They were paying him almost half of the salary cap that year. They were not going make a team to beat Cleveland or GS. That's not the years you go for it. The building is full so you are making gate revenues and concessions. Merch sales slowed but that's to be expected. You live off of the brand for a few seasons then start promoting your "young stars" to give fans optimism. They turned those draft picks into AD.

They had to wait for the right time to spend as not to waste their money.
kobe retired in 2016. they tried and failed to sign big name FAs like LMA and melo before that

the lakers had a "down" era in the early-mid 90s as well, but those teams were fun as hell to watch with guys like jones, van exel, divac, ceballos, and threatt and they weren't losing 50-60 games a season like the lakers of the mid 2010s were. those lakers teams were depressing and the franchise had never been through that bad of a stretch in its history. they weren't going anywhere, even with the high draft picks, until lebron signed
 

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kobe retired in 2016. they tried and failed to sign big name FAs like LMA and melo before that

the lakers had a "down" era in the early-mid 90s as well, but those teams were fun as hell to watch with guys like jones, van exel, divac, ceballos, and threatt and they weren't losing 50-60 games a season like the lakers of the mid 2010s were. those lakers teams were depressing and the franchise had never been through that bad of a stretch in its history. they weren't going anywhere, even with the high draft picks, until lebron signed
Sedale Threatt had some games vs Phoenix in 1992-1993 - regular season and playoffs - where he really went off on the Suns' backcourt
 

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Sure. Just give up your dominant big (who they have no replacement for) for a high volume shooter. That will surely fix everything
 
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tbh they need doncic or lillard to compete again

problem is how to get either. if they sign doncic in fa oh boy we back
 
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PG Westbrook

SG unknown

SF James

PF Davis

C unknown

I'm pretty excited right now but I want more. Need a shooting guard.
 
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Terry Yake

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they better have a trade lined up or something, because losing caruso is really going to hurt defensively

and bringing schroeder back would be a big mistake
 

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