Why Did the Lakers Fail Mark Williams?

[Meticode]

I was thinking about this the other day...

Do you think the reports are mostly true the Hornets didn't divulge everything wrong with Williams and he legit failed the physical the Lakers gave?

-OR-

The Lakers were looking for an excuse to rescind the trade because they realized they gave up too much for someone as injury prone as Williams? Maybe someone in the Lakers brass didn't like the trade Pelinka made and they made it so he'd fail the physical so it could get reserved?

This made me think about it even more today when Williams himself came out and said he was baffled how he failed the physical. Mentioning every injury and recovery he's had has been documented and the night or two before the physical he played a lot of minutes and was fine. Or maybe something else I'm thinking?

[Neal Romer]

Presumably the Lakers made the trade for Williams in a haste at the last minute to just make sure they secured his rights before the deadline passed, while buying some time to really look at his history and think it over.

It's not like he's injured right now. So there's no reason he shouldnt have passed based on current health. I think the Lakers used the extra time to really weigh whether they were getting a good trade, and decided against it.

He's mainly just a lob threat. Jaxson Hayes can do that too, and probably without getting injured as often. He might be a somewhat better defender than Hayes but not significantly if at all. It wasnt really that much of an upgrade. If they wanna go after someone like Rob Williams in the offseason they can probably do that with EITHER an unprotected pick OR Knecht. Giving up both those things for Mark Williams was a panic move. The Lakers are lucky they found an out.

[90sgoat]

I think perhaps it was a fake out of Lebron, apparantly Bron has been eying Mark Williams and was annoyed they didn't want to trade away the picks for him.

I think it's a good choice, they are not winning a ring this year and they need to be careful in building the best team they can and Knecht is timeline wise and fit wise a good match for Luka.

Also they have Kleber who is a stud at center.

[iamgine]

I was thinking about this the other day...

Do you think the reports are mostly true the Hornets didn't divulge everything wrong with Williams and he legit failed the physical the Lakers gave?

-OR-

The Lakers were looking for an excuse to rescind the trade because they realized they gave up too much for someone as injury prone as Williams? Maybe someone in the Lakers brass didn't like the trade Pelinka made and they made it so he'd fail the physical so it could get reserved?

This made me think about it even more today when Williams himself came out and said he was baffled how he failed the physical. Mentioning every injury and recovery he's had has been documented and the night or two before the physical he played a lot of minutes and was fine. Or maybe something else I'm thinking?

I think it's because of different departments making the decision. Trade was made by front office (I'm guessing medical team gave a "should be ok" at this point). Once made, Lakers medical team did the physicals and gave a "does not recommend". Front office doesn't want to take the risk of being blamed by going against the medical team in case something does happen.

[FKAri]

Neither.

Every ballplayer is going to have wear and tear. It was apparent in college that DWade had bad knees. TMac and Nash's back problems were known for a while before they hampered them. Lakers want a big for the long term and probably felt Mark Williams won't have a long career and that was enough to reject him. Not sure the Hornets are makign as much of a fuss about it as his agent because this kind of black balls him around the league as everyone's going to be weary to sign him to a long term deal. So obviously they're going to fight it to clear his name.

[BarberSchool]

Nicca had Yao Ming feet.

Most public concerns were his back, but Lakers staff said that wasn’t the issue. But his feet were. Appears to have extremely soft feet that don’t wanna heal well, and that explains why he moves without any ability to exert lower body force.

[coin24]

Who knows, but the corpse that is Jaxon hayes is going to kill them in the playoffs..

Never seen someone look so uncoordinated catching a lob.. he jumps weird, lands weird and puts the ball up soft AF..

[Chick Stern]

Nicca had Yao Ming feet.

Most public concerns were his back, but Lakers staff said that wasn’t the issue. But his feet were. Appears to have extremely soft feet that don’t wanna heal well, and that explains why he moves without any ability to exert lower body force.
Big men with leg issues do not get better. There a long track record of this. That why I think the Pels should have already moved on from Zion.
Williams could also have some Bynum knees, who knows?