Magic Johnson stepping down as Laker's President.

[Sassy Squatch]

Just saw 2 potential candidates are David Griffin and Kobe Bryant. Good Lord.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Just saw 2 potential candidates are David Griffin and Kobe Bryant. Good Lord.

!@#$ing knew Griffin's name would pop up.

And deep down in the darkest recesses of my soul I feared that Kobe's would. Jeanie loves him.

Shit, he can't be any worse than Magic. And the public vivisections of Lonzo would be damn entertaining. If Lavar tried to stir shit, Kobe might actually literally murder him at a presser. And no jury in LA would convict him.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

And the public vivisections of Lonzo would be damn entertaining. If Lavar tried to stir shit, Kobe might actually literally murder him at a presser. And no jury in LA would convict him.

[Sassy Squatch]

Go get Griffin and Lue, and reunite LeBron with Irving. For the lulz

[Jerm]

No idea if he'd even consider it but Buss should go to Sam Presti with a blank check and say name your number.

[Valiant]

Honestly just have lebron be player, coach, GM and save some money.

[JakeF]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Honestly just have lebron be player, coach, GM and save some money.

You forgot Head coach and he already did that in Cleveland and he imploded the place.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Honestly just have lebron be player, coach, GM and save some money.

So true, should have seen them at practices in Cleveland, Lebron calls a potty breaks, they all follow him to the potty room like the pied piper.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Honestly just have lebron be player, coach, GM and save some money.

It's basically what you get with Lebron anyway.

He plays in the lebron system and does the lebron thing. He gets his way or he sandbags on the court. That being what it is, it's WELL ESTABLISHED what kind of team he needs around him to succeed and it's precisely the opposite of what LA did last off-season.

NOBODY understood what the hell they were doing.

[WhiteWhale]

Jeanie Buss hired a legendary Laker player to be the president. She hired Kobe Bryant's agent. Hired Luke Walton because her ex BF loves the guy.

The nepotism is strong in LA.

I love how Lebron doesn't even give a **** about shooting free throws or playing defense anymore.

And who the hell spends a #2 draft pick on a ****ing point guard who can't shoot free throws? Lonzo makes Shaq look like Mark Price at the charity stripe. That's just a talented player being lazy and that means he ain't trying to be great, and that's not even counting how detrimental that can be when trying to close out close games. Now you have to keep the ball out of your distributor's hands in case someone fouls him and sends his 43% sorry ass to the line.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

Jeanie Buss hired a legendary Laker player to be the president. She hired Kobe Bryant's agent. Hired Luke Walton because her ex BF loves the guy.

The nepotism is strong in LA.

I love how Lebron doesn't even give a **** about shooting free throws or playing defense anymore.

And who the hell spends a #2 draft pick on a ****ing point guard who can't shoot free throws? Lonzo makes Shaq look like Mark Price at the charity stripe. That's just a talented player being lazy and that means he ain't trying to be great, and that's not even counting how detrimental that can be when trying to close out close games. Now you have to keep the ball out of your distributor's hands in case someone fouls him and sends his 43% sorry ass to the line.

Why does Ball need to worry about shooting free throws? Guy's not gonna drive the lane anyway. Spot-shooters who don't work without the ball in their hands can't get to the FT line.

In all seriousness though - that FT% should've sent the Lakers running for the hills because there's a really strong correlation between FT% and a player's ability to improve his FG%. If a guy can't shoot when he's standing stone-still, there's a fundamental problem with his ability to shoot a basketball - period. And the biomechanics involved are so ingrained at that point that a complete overhaul is just unrealistic.

So the Lakers, if they had ANY kind of advanced scouting system, would've looked at that FT% and realized that history says there's nothing they can do to make him even an average NBA shooter. And with his first step being substandard on his best day, he's never gonna be a guy that can drive. So you have a bad jump-shooter with an average handle and poor first step but excellent court vision. Okay - so what happens when nobody respects anything else he can do and just sags into the passing lanes to give him nowhere to go with the ball?

Oh that's right, he becomes a defensive specialist. He becomes Bruce Bowen without a jumper.

That's the most aggravating part of the Lonzo Ball experiment - it took NO imagination to see this coming. He's exactly what a cursory glance at his form, his athleticism and his stat sheet suggests he would become.

And Magic bought his own bullshit and sunk the #2 overall on him just so he could move out a far superior player with an obviously better upside.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Why does Ball need to worry about shooting free throws? Guy's not gonna drive the lane anyway. Spot-shooters who don't work without the ball in their hands can't get to the FT line.

In all seriousness though - that FT% should've sent the Lakers running for the hills because there's a really strong correlation between FT% and a player's ability to improve his FG%. If a guy can't shoot when he's standing stone-still, there's a fundamental problem with his ability to shoot a basketball - period. And the biomechanics involved are so ingrained at that point that a complete overhaul is just unrealistic.

So the Lakers, if they had ANY kind of advanced scouting system, would've looked at that FT% and realized that history says there's nothing they can do to make him even an average NBA shooter. And with his first step being substandard on his best day, he's never gonna be a guy that can drive. So you have a bad jump-shooter with an average handle and poor first step but excellent court vision. Okay - so what happens when nobody respects anything else he can do and just sags into the passing lanes to give him nowhere to go with the ball?

Oh that's right, he becomes a defensive specialist. He becomes Bruce Bowen without a jumper.

That's the most aggravating part of the Lonzo Ball experiment - it took NO imagination to see this coming. He's exactly what a cursory glance at his form, his athleticism and his stat sheet suggests he would become.

And Magic bought his own bullshit and sunk the #2 overall on him just so he could move out a far superior player with an obviously better upside.

Lonzo is just busted. I think you got my point. I can't ever remember a perimeter player who was that bad at such a basic thing. I mean it makes driving the lane a non option even if he DID have the step/handle to get in there.

[Setsuna]

Lebum only succeeds with a bunch of cucks around him standing out on the perimeter waiting for daddy to pass them the ball. Wade was the only player who wasn't going to get bullied by Ledouche. And he leaves teams barren when he exits. Bringing in James was the nail in the Lakers' coffin. That's a shame.

[Baby Lee]

Shootin is fer showoffs. . .

[Jerm]

Jeannie Buss is gonna **** this up huh....

You'd think she'd go to Myers, Presti, or Masai with a blank check and make them say no but she's just gonna do something so unbelievable dumb, I can already feel it.