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lakerlove123 Starting Rotation


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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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ksmgf wrote: | tox wrote: | Magic Shaq Kobe LeBron Luka
Feels DAMN good to be a Lakers fan |
If Kawaii didn't go to the Clippers, he would be up there too. |
I am a word guy (writer by trade) and just the beauty & seamlessness of these lingual transitions between players is really cool.
Magic Shaq Kobe LeBron Luka
And besides the alliteration...what else do these letters spell and lead to, but...
the always-unfolding, always-riveting CQKLL (Sequel) that comes with being a Laker |
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mad55557777 Franchise Player

Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 24591
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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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ksmgf wrote: | tox wrote: | Magic Shaq Kobe LeBron Luka
Feels DAMN good to be a Lakers fan |
If Kawaii didn't go to the Clippers, he would be up there too. |
With his injuries? No way |
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Dr. Laker Franchise Player


Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 17857
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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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I'm still enjoying the afterglow. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns". |
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LFsnz67 Starting Rotation

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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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mad55557777 wrote: | ksmgf wrote: | tox wrote: | Magic Shaq Kobe LeBron Luka
Feels DAMN good to be a Lakers fan |
If Kawaii didn't go to the Clippers, he would be up there too. |
With his injuries? No way |
The real Street Clothes |
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Vin Star Player

Joined: 03 Jan 2013 Posts: 6043 Location: France
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 5:30 am Post subject: |
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mad55557777 wrote: | ksmgf wrote: | tox wrote: | Magic Shaq Kobe LeBron Luka
Feels DAMN good to be a Lakers fan |
If Kawaii didn't go to the Clippers, he would be up there too. |
With his injuries? No way |
We dodged a massive bullet. |
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wolfpaclaker Retired Number

Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 59039
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:36 am Post subject: |
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ocho especially after last night, we need a Clipper QFOTS. |
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hype Star Player


Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 4496 Location: Lake Nacimiento
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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wolfpaclaker wrote: | ocho especially after last night, we need a Clipper QFOTS. |
Here's a couple...
Quote: | Kick their asses please. |
Quote: | Just feed Zu 15x in a row vs the light in the pants Jaxson H and Koloko |
Quote: | Leonard and Harden picked the wrong time to go cold.
Defense looks out of sorts.
Lakers on fire.
Man. Lakers making us look silly out there.
Dunn guarding James is a choice.
45 points in the first quarter lol. |
Quote: | Kawhi/Harden look washed |
Quote: | Kawhi isnt good on either end of the court. no lift, bricks, no defense. He used to be a menace and a rebounding machine. |
Quote: | with kawhi back, we look like less of a team and just little effort. i expected so much more tonight after a pathetic showing in toronto. We had an extra day off too. |
Quote: | Lakers gifted yet another superstar by the league while we're cooked beyond belief. What a sh*t show of a performance. Embarrassing and pathetic. Kawhi looks washed and Harden is old and slow. Too many redundant same players who can't shoot nor step up once in a blue moon. Just awful
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Quote: | This team has plummeted back down to earth. Time to start shopping Kawhi, Harden, Norm, and Zu for any draft capital we can get. |
Quote: | They clearly don't need Luka to kick our ass.
Kawhi was awful tonight and last game against Toronto. |
Quote: | I think Dallas is going to be good as well with AD being the focal point, if he can stay healthy. Kawhi and Harden struggling is the front page of the last two losses. Inside the paper is the bench turning to sh*t. The Lakers with Luka will gobble up the entire city and league. I'm hoping this isn't a passing the torch back to them moment, but it sure looks like it. We're back to "B Teaming it" for real. If Kawhi doesn't get right then there's no bright spot for this team and a serious playoff push after the all star break. If things stay like this you'd have to see if Norm could net us a 1st round pick which I think he can. |
Passing the torch back? Delusional beyond belief
Quote: | I actually bet on the Clippers MINUS-8 1/2. Silly me.
Saw the Lakers at a very tempting 4-to-1 straight-up but I said, nah, I never bet against my own team... |
Quote: | Quote: | No one is trading draft picks for Kawhi or Harden. |
I don't expect a mindblowing return for them, but teams might get desperate thinking either of them gets them over the top this year. I think a team like OKC might want to consider giving us some of our picks back for one of those guys because they need to respond to the Luka trade.
Regardless, the Kawhi experiment has failed, it's over, and it's time to turn the page and recoup as many assets as we possibly can. |
I have a feeling OKC is just going to keep the picks.
Quote: | Kawhi was out there looking like PJ Tucker while 40 year old LeBron was the best player on the court. |
This was realgm which probably was a bad choice to pick for quotes but there were a few decent ones in there  |
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JerryWest_44 Retired Number


Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 27012
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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tox wrote: | Magic Shaq Kobe LeBron Luka
Feels DAMN good to be a Lakers fan |
Mikan, Wilt, West, Magic, Kareem, Kobe, Shaq, Lebron, Luka .... |
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A Mad Chinaman Star Player

Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 6420
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Two Interesting Takes
1 - From Reddit
[Engelmann] The Luka Doncic Trade — My Perspective as an Ex-Mavericks Analytics Staffed Who Spent Two Years Pushing to Trade Him
Fascinating read. The article is behind a paywall but I’ll summarize the broad strokes.
- Luka plays a brand of basketball that generates raw numbers that overstate his impact. This has gotten better over the last few years but the Mavericks’ own internal models showed him as significantly overrated
- There are questions about Luka’s commitment to doing the things that lead to winning like getting back in transition, rotating on defense, boxing out, being conditioned etc. It appears these questions are much more serious than this sub thinks
- Luka requires very specific team construction to get the best out of him
- This trade would have never happened with Mark Cuban at the helm and Nico Harrison surrounded himself with “yes-men”
In summary the author agreed with the decision to trade him but thought they could’ve gotten more. While the author was with the Mavs he had proposed a Luka for Tatum + picks trade for example.
The most interesting part of the article imo is that the Mavs’ own internal models showed that Luka is overrated, this is especially notable since they have by far the most data on him.
URL: https://www.roycewebb.com/p/the-luka-doncic-trade-my-perspective
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From Udonis Haskem
If, if not the only player in the NBA, that Luka will truly listen to and allowed to be mentored by would be LBJ
LBJ can show what it takes to maximize his prodigious talents over an extended length of time at a high level and WIN a Ring
Personally hope that this news reaches Luka to make him an ***ANGRY LUKA!!!!*** resulting him playing with vengeance against all naysayers
Also could be news to pacify Mavs fans and media pundits such as Jason Whitlock who has advocated for Silver to void the trade (Silver cannot) |
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