We Will Rise Again: Official 2014 Laker offseason thread

[Yungin]

I don't really feel like dealing with anymore soft big men.

Melo/LeBron or bust. LeBron can play the 4 and have Barklondolph coming off the bench terrorizing the 2nd unit, Melo the primary scoring threat, Kobe the next option providing post play and all around plays. Getting both of them would make us an immediate contender while just Melo won't address our defense much.

We're not getting Lebron...stop it

 

[DoubleJ13]

this turn of events

 

[Trojan 24]

this turn of events

Just as funny as everyone saying we had no shot at Melo to everyone now saying our team will be trash

But honestly nobody gives a shyt about swag

 

[Kings County]

Before the draft.




After the draft




And no there were Laker fans who didn't like trading 4 draft picks for a 40 year old Steve Nash.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

We're not getting Lebron...stop it

I know, we're not gettin Melo either. Lakers being used as leverage so Phil can stop asking Melo to take less. Besides, just gettin Melo ain't enough cuz our defense would prolly be even worse than last year.

 

[I'm Chillin]

I know huh? These dudes are softer than a hunned pack of honey-buns.

"Damn nikka, honey buns?"

 

[CanesMiamiLakers]

Everybody talking about the defense San Antonio was ranked 6th in points allowed the heat ranked 5th and got smashed. We just gotta make the top 10 and be good.
Hell we weren't the good when we went to 3 straight

 

[Gregg PopaBitch]

"Damn nikka, honey buns?"

Yea nikka, honey-buns!

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Everybody talking about the defense San Antonio was ranked 6th in points allowed the heat ranked 5th and got smashed. We just gotta make the top 10 and be good.
Hell we weren't the good when we went to 3 straight

Yet they both made the Finals. Go figure.

 

[RichYung]

 

[Newzz]

nikkas turn into bytches in the off-season with all the in house cat fighting


Quit acting like girls and start swaggin like you're a fan of the GOAT franchise


Lakers fans aint ever been glass half empty people....where is this new shyt coming from?


I expect to see some shyt talking and boasting when I log in by #LWO members, not this passive aggressive approach we've seen to fall under lately


Get it together brehs.....@Regular_P is totally right and I dont like this scared atmosphere in this thread


We getting Melo, Pau coming back, Kobe is gonna be just like he was in 2013, Randle is gonna be the ROY, and we will be a top 5 team in the West....book it

















And if we aint....fukk it


#LWO NEVER lacks for confidence and believes EVERY year is OUR year.


Shape up nikkas

 

[Newzz]

People in here acting like that team didn't make the Finals with Vlad Radmanovic and Derek Fisher starting or that the Lakers haven't made almost half the Finals since 2000.

One bad season and the sky is falling. I'd hate to see some of your outlooks if you were Minnesota or Milwaukee fans.

Exactly

 

[Regular_P]

Phil should know better than this. He went to the Finals seven times with Kobe/Shaq and Kobe/Pau. I can't believe he actually said that to Carmelo.

 

[jay211]

Phil fukked up it looks like. I think Melo comes to LA.

 

[threattonature]

On twitter, there was a mention that Melo wasn't happy when Phil told the press about Melo needing to take a paycut before the start of free agency, as Phil thought that he could have Melo cave into taking less. Not sure how credible it is. On paper Bulls have the best roster that Melo should go to that can contend and beat the Heat in the weak East, on the Lakers, there wouldn't be enough defense to go around at all and at best Lakers might be a 5/6 seed AT best.


Not including the drafted rookies, and with just Kobe, Nash, Marshall, & Sacre on the roster, Lakers have 35 million in salary currently, with 28 million in cap space available. Lakers offered Melo the 4 year 97 mill max, his 1st year he would make I believe 21 mill, so than we would have 7 million left to spend, and use that to go over the cap to re-sign Pau and than sign a bunch of young and athletic players like last season to vet minimum deals and fill out the roster seems like the plan.

In order to actually have cap room to sign Melo they'll have to give up bird rights on Pau since he has a cap hold around $20 million. So if they resign him after Melo it would have to fit under the salary cap.