Lakers Start Their NBA Cup Title Defense vs. Spurs and Wembanyama. Should They Try to Repeat?

[@brodrickbaker]

Robert Williams + Lakers training staff = Crippled for life 😂😂

[@Objectivity-w5j]

Balls to the wall....Andy????? 🤣

[@Tim_Dunkin]

Really watching point differential? Point differential in this case doesn't really mean much bc they lost 2 games by a big margin. It should say how much it matters when a losing team has a positive one.

[@gregpollard7158]

I think 🤔 We’re gone have to wait til @ least DEC to make a Trade for a 1) Young/Big Body/Athletic Big Man and possibly a 2) Ball 🏀 Handling Guard and a 3) 2-Way Wing 🪽 Player. In My Opinion 🤔 Our Best Trade Partners are CHA & BKNY and a Trade for 1) Richards or Sharpe 2) Schroder or Tre Mann and 3) DFS or CamJ. Walker Kessler is a Baller but, Ainge will want 2-1st for Him. 📌 PLEASE No Older/Big Body/Slower Big Men like Jonas and Lopez bcuz these Young Athletic Big Men are Playing Them off the Court.

[@JasonBrendan-td4qb]

You, my friend, are a very smart man. No older slower big men on this team. The ideal player we need is an Alex Caruso type. 6’4” athletic, strong defender who can guard both guard positions, and who’s competent enough to stay on the court offensively. The other part is, I think we NEED Vando to get healthy. DFS and CamJ aren’t anywhere near the level of athlete or defender that Vando is. The lakers need perimeter defense and athleticism. DFS is best as a power forward imo and CamJ isn’t really a high level athlete or defender. He’d be great in the Kyle Kuzma role if we had a KCP and Caruso on the team, but having Reaves in the starting lineup complicates that fit imo.

[@gregpollard7158]

@ - Agreed!!!!

[@sharonb.9128]

The NBA has ruined basketball by putting so many games behind a paywall! You have to first create “casual” fans to eventually build the “super fan”, the NBA Pass buying fan. The current structure has locked out potential future fans of the game.

[@alk7478]

Can someone explain to me why dwight howard is not getting looked at or considered? He may not be the player he once was but he still has athleticism, toughness and defensive intelligence to help more than anyone else at this point. He has also said multiple times he would like to coke back. Seems like a no brainer to me.

[@JasonBrendan-td4qb]

Locker room stuff matters. DeAndre Jordan is still in the league.

[@alk7478]

@JasonBrendan-td4qb locker room issue is pure speculation. Dwight Howard is much more agile and a better defender than Jordan. I would still give him a shot. It's low risk high reward at this point.

[@stanjohnson7849]

That’s maybe a good point 🤷🏽‍♂️. But I kinda thought he just doesn’t have much left in the tank…. Just too old to get up and down to court…. But maybe I’m wrong 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@JasonBrendan-td4qb]

@@alk7478 that’s exactly my point. He’s clearly a better athlete and defender than DeAndre Jordan who rarely plays btw. So why wouldn’t he be on a team? Dwight was on 5 teams in 8 years before the bubble championship. He was still in his prime. At some point, you run out of excuses and look at the person

[@alk7478]

@@JasonBrendan-td4qb ohhhh that's what you mean. I gotcha. I just thought he wasn't on a team the last couple of years because of the lawsuit which ended up amounting to nothing but tarnishing his name.

[@jourdanzero9312]

need them to go 5-0 again and then get bounced immediately and go rest

[@fsgrell1429]

*off

[@JasonBrendan-td4qb]

Lakers haven’t had a 6 game winning streak since the 2020-2021 season. 3 years. Nothing more than a 5 game winning streak.