Realistic plan for the Lakers in 2015

[Ca$H]

Sign Draymond Green (10 million) and Omer Asik(Max). Draft emmanuel mudiay.

PG Mudiay
SG Kobe
SF Green
PF Randle
C Asik

They will have max money in 2016 when Kobe expires to make a pitch to KD.

[Clyde]

:roll:
Thats an awful plan

[Ca$H]

:roll:
Thats an awful plan

Not bad if Mudiay and Randle pans out. You need guys like Asik and Draymond to win championships. They are championship pieces. Draymond is arguably the most elite role player in the NBA.

[Papaya Petee]

$10 million a year for Draymond ****ing Green and offer Asik the max?

You need to go see a doctor.

[Ca$H]

$10 million a year for Draymond ****ing Green and offer Asik the max?

You need to go see a doctor.

Draymond Green is the goods. This man knows how to play basketball. He is the ultimate swiss army knife/glue guy. DeAndre Jordan or Marc Gasol would be preferable to Asik but the clips and grizz will max them out to keep them. Centers are overpaid anyways. Maybe 15 million would be enough to outbid the Pelicans?

[wakencdukest]

Let Kobe walk to a contender. Draft Mudiay or Okafor, whoever turns out to be better by draft time. Stockpile as much young talent as possible. There will be no immediate solution.

[Joyner82reload]

The sad part about this is that Draymond Green will probably get more than 10 million per year on the open market. The NBA's situation with overpaying free agents is absurd right now.

[Genaro]

I'm glad you aren't the Lakers' GM.

[LONGTIME]

Sign Draymond Green (10 million) and Omer Asik(Max). Draft emmanuel mudiay.

PG Mudiay
SG Kobe
SF Green
PF Randle
C Asik

They will have max money in 2016 when Kobe expires to make a pitch to KD.

:durantunimpressed:

[IncarceratedBob]

Get K Love to sign a max deal 5 years 150 million

Trade for Rondo


Rondo
Bryant
Johnson
Randle
Love

[KungFuJoe]

Give Lin the keys to the car.

The rest is irrelevant.

[KyleKong]

Force Kobe to take a 20 million dollar paycut or bench him until he does.

:crazysam:

[Levity]

Tobias Harris should be part of the plan.

and more importantly, try to swoop Dragic from PHX

Dragic
Kobe
Harris
Randle
Davis.

6th man: young

not a bad starting point. Team defense and rotations will have to be burnt into their heads, just like this season

[KobesFinger]

Tobias Harris should be part of the plan.

and more importantly, try to swoop Dragic from PHX

Dragic
Kobe
Harris
Randle
Davis.

6th man: young

not a bad starting point. Team defense and rotations will have to be burnt into their heads, just like this season

Exactly, which is why we're one of the best defences in the league. Oh, wait...

[Levity]

Exactly, which is why we're one of the best defences in the league. Oh, wait...

thus the reason it needs to be burnt into their heads.

[KobesFinger]

thus the reason it needs to be burnt into their heads.

Is Scott the man to do that though? Didn't he say during summer league and pre-season that they did a week straight of defensive drills? Wish we could've gotten Lionel Hollins, or that JVG would've made a comeback.

[Levity]

Is Scott the man to do that though? Didn't he say during summer league and pre-season that they did a week straight of defensive drills? Wish we could've gotten Lionel Hollins, or that JVG would've made a comeback.

for strictly defensive purposes, scott can and sadly will be that guy. The idea of rotations is there, but the team is full of low defensive-IQ players. Boozer, a shining example, often times positions his body in the compelete opposite way. he'll rotate over, but with his body positioned wrong, he gives an open lane to the basketball everytime. its soooo terrible to watch, and the rest of the team just gets as lost

Hollins would have been fantastic. Im liking what im seeing from the nets on both offense and defense. but jim buss is gonna jim buss :/

[Kidbasketball20]

All signs from Kobe and Scott point to Jeremy Lin being the franchise PG of this team for years to come.


No need to get Dragic or draft someone... they should be focusing on getting big men and DEFENSIVE help.

[boozehound]

$10 million a year for Draymond ****ing Green and offer Asik the max?

You need to go see a doctor.
green is easily worth 10 mil per.

[bizil]

I don't care what The Lakers or Kobe say, it was best for Kobe to pull a Duncan or Dirk. And that means u take siginificantly less and ASSURE your teams gets quality pieces to contend with. If u strike out on the superstar free agents, u can still round out the roster with very good or even All-Star kind of talent. The Mavs did an AWESOME job filling out there roster with getting Chandler, Jameer, Parsons, Felton, Charlie V., Jefferson, and Barrea. Kobe could have taken enough of a paycut to round out the roster A LOT MORE BETTER!

Don't get me wrong, I blame the Lakers more than Kobe. And Kobe has done so much for the franchise he deserves the money. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS the team wasn't positioned to really make a huge impact free agent or trade wise. U give yourself the most options u can to thrive in that setting. Once they struck out on adding a superstar next to Kobe, they still didn't have enough cap space to round out the roster the way Dallas or the Spurs could.