But somehow on the Clippers he would be a thorn in the Lakers side. He needs to find his inner Spurs finals self.

Thank goodness this unit won’t see more than 10 minutes together a game

He was like that with the Spurs & Raps iirc. Would be useless as hell and then find his groove at certain moments. Luckily for the Spurs it was in the finals when he was playing his best ball

McGee Lowkey Been trash. This might be his last year starting. I think when playoffs hit his minutes get dropped big time to like 10-15 minutes. Hopefully Danny gets his act together, man getting paid to produce and is being outplayed by Caruso and a Waiters.

Sucks that the +- so bad with KCp Danny lebron ad McGee. Might have to slide Caruso in that starting lineup.

Idk to me Caruso seems like a no brainer to me to start. He’s athletic, fast, can guard other teams pgs, and plays smart. He can also shoot so Lebron has that space. Danny is there for space but he seems slow. Lebron already old we need more speed out there with him. McGee also just there with starting lineup so we need another athletic type.

Plus if we bench Danny, might just piss him off to actually do something. Waiters/Kuzma some firepower off the bench and Green and Morris right there we snipers off the bench. If McGee still just there being a JAG , Dwight right there for boards and D

Makes sense to me to have Caruso come off the bench for when Lebron comes out of the game.

Except the ball isn’t really in Caruso hands with the bench. Balls in waiters and Kuzma hands when the bench.

Ball isn't in Caruso hands when he is with Lebron and Davis. lol

Atleast he plays defense and can shoot. Danny seems slow and Caruso can fly around the court

I understand what you're saying, it's just in my opinion it's nice to have a little insurance off the bench for when Lebron needs to rest.

If we wanted to start our best 5 it would probably Caruso - KCP - Lebron - Kuzma - Davis

but that leaves our bench looking like a disaster.

Imagine if the Lakers kept Zubac

Fucc em. The one that really got away is one that Waffles has spoken on before, Thomas Bryant

Wagner >

wizofawes.com/2020/08/10/washington-wizards-better-center-moritz-wagner-thomas-bryant

Bro how many Laker picks are out here putting in work for other teams

Obviously the Pels got Ingram, Ball, and Hart. Wizards have Bryant, Wagner and Bonga. This is just off the Anthony Davis trade lmao

Just goes to show you the Lakers have been elite at drafting non lottery picks in recent years

Noticed the OP didn't have enough pics of Kobe and Gigi in it, went ahead and fixed that

At least they got to keep Kuz...

And now Ryan West is with Detroit

I’ll step in and continue the tradition

Low key a big loss. Dude is a draft genius... should have got a raise in promotion instead of letting walk..

Have no fear, Kurt Rambis’ wife has this handled

AD is what it is , good move. Letting all those kids go to wizards to pay Danny Green was stupid. Hindsight 2020 but should have known Kawhi was a snake, should have went hard after butler. Crazy Bryant, Wagner, Zubac alL better then McGee in 2020...

I also think Caruso role the same bench or starting. He isn’t going to the main ball handler that’s Lebron and Waiters.... and he isn’t going to be a go to scoring options. Actually waiters and Kuzma are two players who need the ball in their hands with the bench unit. The question is where do you value Caruso more as a starter or bench player for his role...

Idk to me it seems like the starting lineup needs more quickness/defense.... Danny can’t dribble or looking his age.... it’s like Caruso can’t shoot, prolly has better percentages than Danny

Danny Green is starting, NO MATTER WHAT. He’s the only player on the team that can guard big wings for an entire game besides LeBron who needs to save a lot of that energy to run the offense, and Kuzma who only very recently showed he could consistently guard big wings.

Javale is only still starting because he’s a crybaby. He should virtually get no playoff minutes with Dwight being better than him, and AD being the true playoff center and Kieff taking up any non-AD small ball center minutes.

Bron-Green-Kuz-AD will be the closing lineup, and then you can plug in KCP/Caruso/maybe even Waiters to that last spot depending on who is playing better. It will most likely be between KCP & Caruso or they might both be on the floor together with Kuz on the bench, depending on the closing lineup of the other team.

Ego death for Danny and McGee. Yeah if McGee is just a jag in the first round, just give that give like 10 minutes. 5 minutes 1st and 3rd. Is Danny really a better defense than kcp? Idk but Danny needs to step it up period. About time he hit some 4th quarter 3s

I also think we need to do a better job at getting DG open threes. I’d be willing to bet he had a lot more open 3 point shots on the raptors compared to this year