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Why would the Lakers buy him out when he has three years left on his contract?
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Why would the Lakers buy him out when he has three years left on his contract?
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Thats exactly why I think he would consider it. He looks down right miserable in LA.
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Change of plans. New management. I would imagine a team willing to sit a healthy player for 20 or so games would be looking to move him. Given his contract, the likelihood of that happening are slim to none.
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I was like WTF when Memphis gave him that money as well. Was surprised when they didn't seem to get any flack for it.
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Moz is such a fucking enigma. I know his hands suck but otherwise he's got all the tools. When he's engaged he can be a terror on the glass, blocking shots, and he's got a nice touch with his jumper. The next time you see him he looks like a bumbling idiot whose only on the court because he's tall. The dude needs a sport psyhologist in the worst way
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The whole Buss saga is weird. Everyone in LA including Jim Buss understood that Jeannie was the one with the brains on top of the looks. But Jim put his sons in charge: don't know what went into that decision but to me it seemed like he felt bad for them and so wanted to give them a shot to prove themselves with Jeannie as kind of a trump card to save the family business if things went south.
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Jim literally told Jeannie "You have so much and the boys don't. I want to give them a shot".
It was his way of trying to give Jim and Johnny something fulfilling and a real chance at the success Jeannie had earned over the years. It couldn't make sense to anyone who isn't a parent. Everyone knew it was the wrong decision immediately; I think even daddy Buss knew it wasn't the best call for the team. He had just put his family first. Outside of the Deng/Mozzie signings the front office has largely done an adequate, if unspectacular, job. Clarkson/Nance/Zubac were all good late picks. They avoided the Okafor timebomb. They brought in D12 which clearly didn't pan out but in reality they didn't even give anything for him.
The big problem the Lakers face is that they don't have Kareem/Shaq/Magic/Kobe et al talent forcing their way to LA as they did in Buss's day. If you think Magic having the final say in team moves is a great plan I will tell you that's not a much better plan than they have been attempting to execute of late. They still need guys like PG13 to push their way to LA in order to be successful.
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Oh, it is.
Those moves are up there, though.
And right now the Parsons deal looks real real bad. But he's still youngish so maybe he can get healthy at some point.
Noah was on another level of bad.
Still think Parsons is the worst because Memphis has some good pieces but now they are basically stuck.
At least LAL has some younger guys to build around which offset the bad money a bit.
Still think Parsons is the worst because Memphis has some good pieces but now they are basically stuck.
At least LAL has some younger guys to build around which offset the bad money a bit.
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2017-nba-predictions/?ex_cid=538twitter
warriors still the heavy faves. rockets/wiz/celts above the cavs. lmao!
warriors still the heavy faves. rockets/wiz/celts above the cavs. lmao!
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Can't wait to see people try to defend 538 again
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Houston has objectively been better than us so far this season. Hell, Utah has a better point differential (before tonights game). Toronto has a similar point differential. Washington and Boston seems a little overvalued, but not egregiously so.
Beyond that, it isn't taking into account JR or Love returning to form. Smith has basically been a zero for us all year: he was bad pre injury then out for a long time. If he comes back as last year's JR, that's a huge boost, but no way for that a huge if. Similar story with Love returning to form. This is in part captured by the fact they have 2 different models. The one that was posted takes player trajectories into account, thus the Cavs get dinged for the uncertainty of Love and JR. Their outlook looks a little better when you use the model that just takes game outcomes into account and ignores player trajectories.
538's model also uses future travel as an input, and given that the Cavs a lot of future road games, their score gets dinged a bit.
Now, the Cavs real odds are probably higher because of the chill mode effect. If you are going to criticize a model for not correcting for chill mode, go right ahead.