Vando has been better as of late since they stopped sticking him in the corner as much. he’s actually a good passer and shoot be used in the short roll much more

and Ham has the audacity to say that our defensive scheme isn’t to give up threes as opposed to drives…it’s like he thinks we can’t see him. like once the hands are in the pockets he’s suddenly invisible.

thats fine and all, but in an ideal world, if he could be traded this season, i'd want him traded. i dont feel like there's much of a place for one-way defensive wings in this league anymore, like the tony allens dahntay jones kind of players and vando is essentially in that role. much less to have two of those players in a rotation,

its a large part of the reason why this offense is absolutely horrific. we had FOUR non-shooters in the rotation at one point with hayes, AD, reddish, and vando

id love to be a fly on the wall in team meetings/film sessions because im wondering is anyone coming to him man to man and calling him out on his s***. like does the team not have these stats and if so why the f*** are we continuing to do the same s*** each game

Ham the modern age Byron Scott

Is that you MrWaffles ?

always funny to me when I see some Lakers fans say this

We gave up a whole bunch of assets for AD and we're just off a Western Conference Finals. Why would the Lakers rebuild ?

Why do you want to rebuild so much ? So you can complain more when Lakers are losing and not competing ?

Zach Lowe said he spoke with an executive and they mentioned if the Lakers threw in reaves they could likely get back Dejounte, Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic

Are yall making this trade ??

@YoungFashioned @MadVillain @Ye24

@Saturn

lol

— Rui Hachimura is available.
— Anthony Davis and Christian Wood are probable.
— Cam Reddish and D’Angelo Russell are questionable.

yeah, we would have to give up dlo, reaves, rui, probably jhs and a pick.

ad - capela - wood
bron - vando
reddish - christie
prince - bogdan
murray - gabe

i'd just hope capela is fine with coming off the bench, although darvin's dumbass would probably start him

this what i mean by i wonder if anyone within the team actually calls him out on his bullshit.

yes

I wouldn’t. You don’t realize but Lebron holds this team down. He hogs the ball and calls the plays. Notice when he is out the team has better rhythm. Rui and Reaves would flourish on another team. I’m not giving up both. Trade Vandy or Prince but I ain’t giving up Rui and Reaves . Murray can’t shoot either. His stats will take a nose dive playing with Lebron and having the ball less often

lebron has never and will never be a ball hogger, his usage rate is currently the SECOND LOWEST of his career, trailing his rookie season.

you're complaining about him calling plays.. as opposed to what? you'd rather dlo or reaves handle the ball the majority of the time when either is on the court with bron?

murray is getting his numbers playing with trae who handles the ball even more than lebron does (32.6 and 31.3 usage rate the past two seasons), he'd be fine playing with bron.

and youre talking about lack of shooting.. if murray can shoot his career average from 3 which is basically 35% then that's fine. you realize reaves is shooting the same from 3 this season lol

and bogdan is shooting better from 3 than rui on almost 3x as many attempts per game.

yeah bro lebron at 39 loves having to play high minutes and wouldnt like someone else being a consistent high scorer for us. totally. he’s so happy we’re the 10th seed right now

he also definitely didnt take a backseat and played off ball more late in the season last year

The guy u quoted once said losing Mo Bamba in free agency was a game changer and that Jaxson Hayes should be our starting center

Take it easy on him

can you imagine how much worse we'd be if we had jaxson starting and playing 20 mins

our front office is incompetent

The Lakers are reportedly unsure if trading Austin Reaves for Dejounte Murray would move the needle, per Dan Woike

“The Lakers, though, have shown no interest in trading Reaves despite some defensive regression this season, and even if they did flip him for Murray, there’s real skepticism that it would ‘move the needle’”

Darvin Ham says “all signs point” toward Cam Reddish being available tonight. He’s still going through his pregame process.

Darvin Ham says he’s unsure if Rui Hachimura is going to start in place of LeBron James because Hachimura is going to be on a minutes restriction tonight after returning from his calf injury.