Came off the buss with billions, now we back in the building: Your GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers 2025 offseason Thread

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Really have not been the same since Jackson left :wow:
 

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Let’s be honest the candidates for this job in this cycle weren’t good at all

Barrego lost the Hornets locker room cause his ego was big and he hadn’t won anything… how you think that plays with Bron and others in LA?

Cassell has lost on a bunch of HC jobs, so he’s either a terrible interview or people behind the scenes know he’s a better assistant than head guy.. he seems very much like a “Rah rah” type

JJ has the highest ceiling simply because he’s an unknown but he has a good basketball mind due to his talk on social media.. I don’t love it, but of all the choices it’s the highest upside
 
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Let’s be honest the candidates for this job in this cycle weren’t good at all

Barrego lost the Hornets locker room cause his ego was big and he hadn’t won anything… how you think that plays with Bron and others in LA?

Cassell has lost on a bunch of HC jobs, so he’s either a terrible interview or people behind the scenes know he’s a better assistant than head guy.. he seems very much like a “Rah rah” type

JJ has the highest ceiling simply because he’s an unknown but he has a good basketball mind due to his talk on social media.. I don’t love it, but of all the choices it’s the highest upside

Probably shouldn't have fired hamm
Or the coach before that
Or the coach before that
Or the coach before that
Or the 15 coaches we've had in the span of 2 years
 

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Let’s be honest the candidates for this job in this cycle weren’t good at all

Barrego lost the Hornets locker room cause his ego was big and he hadn’t won anything… how you think that plays with Bron and others in LA?

Cassell has lost on a bunch of HC jobs, so he’s either a terrible interview or people behind the scenes know he’s a better assistant than head guy.. he seems very much like a “Rah rah” type

JJ has the highest ceiling simply because he’s an unknown but he has a good basketball mind due to his talk on social media.. I don’t love it, but of all the choices it’s the highest upside


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This is true… but him on the Lakers would be such a perfect find

He’s better to me than them trying to trade for Ice Trae, or Murray

Rui, Gabe and both firsts.. Jazz probably want more than that


Nah looking into his numbers and Lauri is just a slightly better version of post All-Star Rui who averaged 16/5 on good efficiency.

The Lakers need a guard not a better version of Rui who can still improve.
 

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So what's left for the offseason? Draft Bronny, sign 2-3 more Klutch clients and then blame Pelinka?


The Lakers are not that far off fit and talent wise.

All they need to do is to flip Dlo for a PG with some athleticism and defense that can replicate his offense.

Bring in a rim protecting, rebounding center.

And pick up a few more complimentary pieces.

And also sign a good coach of course.
 

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Bronny really about to lap a bunch of dudes thats been on the bench and G League in minutes :mjlol:
 

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Probably shouldn't have fired hamm
Or the coach before that
Or the coach before that
Or the coach before that
Or the 15 coaches we've had in the span of 2 years


Y'all have only had 3 coaches in the last 8 seasons. Before that, there were 5 different coaches in the previous 5 seasons.

Of the last 3 coaches, the only one you shouldn't have fired is Vogel. He wasn't perfect, but he's easily the best coach you've had since Phil Jackson. Unless you had a proven better option to replace him with, it should have been Pelinka who took the heat for that year's shortcomings, not Vogel.
 

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Nah looking into his numbers and Lauri is just a slightly better version of post All-Star Rui who averaged 16/5 on good efficiency.

The Lakers need a guard not a better version of Rui who can still improve.
Lakers won their chip going big.. they’ve been trying to find a guard every year since 2020

DS, Westbrook, DLO… they aren’t able to find the right guard with their current assets. Lauri fits in pretty perfectly, he’s a MUCH better defender than Rui and a MUCH better rebounder
 
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