3rd seed that won one playoff game. What an embarrassing (bleep). Idc about the trade. He was outplayed every fourth quarter by Ant. Was lazy as all hell on defense and disappeared in the fourth.
The ending sucked, but we traded 3 starters midway through the season. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
It remains to be seen. If you look at it from the perspective that the team was built to win now with Lebron/Rui/Reaves/DFS/Vincent/Vandy, I mean only Knecht was the future asset, the team came up really weak and short.
Lets be real. If it's AD who had the same exact series Luka had, a large portion of the fanbase hates on him and Klutch. Blame them.
Basically, most are ok with this because they believe Luka will be Kobe, IE franchise guard that leads Lakers to a title while leading the league in scoring.
So to me it's all about what you think Luka will give you. If you think he will give you some Kobe level years. You'll love our season becasuse we "stole" someone's "Kobe". If you think he's a great player, but TBD if he's a top 20 GOAT level player, then you're going to just hope it works out.
Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Glendale, CA
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:26 pm Post subject:
Honestly that Luka trade injected some life into the season for us. It was fun to be a Laker fan and it was fun to watch. Obviously the style of play wasn’t going to last and we saw the cracks happening as the season ended. It’s funny though, going into last offseason we kept saying we need another big. Now going into this offseason we need a big and more. I just hope Rob can make adjustments. No way he can roll out the same team as this one.
Trying to keep into perspective that the Lakers really didn't do much to format the team around Luka, it's probably somewhere in the middle.
I'm just annoyed that the Lakers wasted another year of good play from stars with a mediocre supporting cast. It was the same thing with LeBron and AD, so there's so carry-over annoyance from that.
Unfortunately, the big man issue cost us any hope of a postseason run.
Hayes needs to be dumped.
Let's be real. This series was supposed to hinge on AR & LeBron dominating as the 3rd & 4th best players in the series. They weren't. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
Joined: 14 Apr 2001 Posts: 145794 Location: The Gold Coast
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:35 pm Post subject:
They averaged almost 19,000 per home game, that was very successful. They won 50 games, I would call that successful. They brought in Luka but at the cost of defense. That one is pending. They still have Pelinka making decisions, I don’t see much success in that. My biggest disappointment was traveling for work and missing out on a lot of the games. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 8961 Location: Santa Monica
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:39 pm Post subject:
We came into this season looking like we had no shot at a championship any time soon. We snagged Luka, giving us our next generational transcendent player for up to the next decade.
The Luka trade alone is a huge success, as long as he sticks around for many years and we build a championship-caliber team around him.
But as Pat Riley once wrote, there is winning, and there is misery. When you have a player like Luka or LeBron on your roster, anything but winning the world championship is considered a failure. However, failure can lead to success, as Giannis pointed out in the classy press conference. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers
Guys I can't wrap my head around how option A isn't the answer with Luka alone. The Williams trade timing exposed an incurable wound but take all of how this feels now....because we have Luka. Yes they have a lot to do but don't overthink this into insanity like Nico did.
Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 3358 Location: Orange County, CA
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:44 pm Post subject:
A success.
We were the recipients of one of the most shocking trades in NBA history and didn't need to give up a haul of draft picks to get him.
He is a first team All-NBA talent, has the 2nd highest playoff PPG average in NBA history, and has scored 73 points in a game. You only need to surround him with good 3&D guys and a rim running big to have playoff success.
We gave up an all-star, but he was 31 years old, somewhat injury prone, and never proved to be a number one franchise player.
For this alone, the season was a success.
We were able to hit the reset button without actually having to go through the drudges of resetting (i.e. tanking and hoping we get a franchise player in the draft)
It kind of required blowing up this season because we gave up our only true playable big in the process, but sometimes you gotta do that.
Highly successful. I had no idea what the future looked like as LeBron/AD wasn't getting it done.
Now we have a Top 3 player.
Lots of work to do but hey, the hardest part is done.
Unfortunately, the big man issue cost us any hope of a postseason run.
Hayes needs to be dumped.
Let's be real. This series was supposed to hinge on AR & LeBron dominating as the 3rd & 4th best players in the series. They weren't.
Lebron averaged 25/9/6 with 2 blocks and 2 steals shooting 48/36 splits. I believe wolves shot under 40% whenever Lebron was guarding.
Reaves averaged 16/5/3 along with 3 turnovers a game on 41/31 splits.
there was one guy who completely (bleep) us over this series and it sure as hell wasn't Lebron. It was the guy people in here touted as a legit 2nd option on a contending team.
Very successful, as long as success-criteria doesn't involve winning a Ring. At some point, the Lakers were going to lose in the playoffs. I honestly thought they'd get past the Wolves easily. But I also knew they were going to lose at some point.
Depressing. Celebrating a gentleman's sweep is like celebrating the IST trophy. Another failure to add to the long list of failures these last 7 years. If Luka wasn't on this team, fans would be protesting again outside of Crypto. He is the only saving grace. _________________ Yi Jianlian Fanboy. Respect The Chair.
Starting anew. I'm retiring my main.
We got Luka. That’s amazing. Top 5 guy. Weird year for him. JJ learned. That’s makes for a great year. Luka needs his types of guys.
Our climb starts now. He’s our #1 we don’t need faux #2s. Get him size and defense ala mavs. _________________ Trade Bronny East.
How do you finish -53 on a 50-win team?
This game today is a little bit more soft, to call anybody a GOAT nowadays is disrespectful to ... the awards and accolades [MJI and Kobe have won.
Moderately successful.
Record: Better than I expected (low/mid 40s is what I expected). A-
Team: Got a generational talent in Luka, A
FO: Extended Pelinka, meh, hasn't shown he can build a team, C.
Coaching: JJ could do no wrong in the season, but likely lost at least 1 playoff game single-handedly, perhaps 2. Some questionable postseason moves. B-
Outlook: Traded short term mediocrity for long-term hope. That's a major win. But now cue Pelinka ... A-
Joined: 16 Apr 2001 Posts: 13755 Location: Pasadena, CA
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 6:58 am Post subject:
Moderately successful for me.
50 wins was nice.
Lakers had some good runs when Luka came to town.
I am pissed the Lakers weren't ready for Game 1.
That's on both JJ, his staff, and the entire Lakers squad.
The Wolves ripped our home court advantage and set the tone.
We had a chance to win 3 of the 4 losses but could not execute down the stretch. JJ was out coached in every aspect of the game. He needs a big slice of humble pie. Game 4 playing one lineup killed us in the 4th, yesterday, playing no center, killed us as well.
Hayes should have played.....
A for getting Luka
C for roster construction
C for Reaves in the playoffs
B-/C for Lebron in the playoffs - good on defense at times but zero energy at the end of these games.
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