Are the Lakers our new Warriors?

The Warriors are still the Warriors lol

Steph, Klay, Draymond, + whatever they do with their draft capital will set them up to keep competing for ships long term

the Lakers are built for this year and maybe next year but most of their success will hinge on their ability to bring in more players as Lebron starts to decline

as far as this year goes the Lakers have our number

we have no answer for Lebron, a front court of AD, Dwight, Mcgee, and Morris is enough to give us a lot of fits and Vogel has outcoached Al the last two meetings

combine that with the fact that Ingram/Holiday tend to struggle against them

yes as we are currently constructed we wont get past them

you cant have your 2nd and 3rd best players be nonfactors vs one of the best teams in the NBA and expect to matter

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Will we be able to retain some of these players like Favors and bring in some others?

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Yes. We have no bad contracts.

dont sour on BI. Everyone has some teams that provide matchups they struggle with. Lillard is one of the best players in the league and Jrue fricks him up everytime they meet up.

Ingram is still extremely young and will continue to develop physically and in terms of his game.

like others have said Favors was never IMO meant to be the long term piece for us at C. He was just the best fit at the time of players that were available at a low cost to acquire.

because we have the option this offseason to lose players like Moore, Favors, Jackson, etc

plus since we will most likely move on from Jrue before we start actually competing in the West I wouldnt fret over our cap situation. Money will continue to free itself as we seem to need it IMO

because of the rookie deals I would expect the team at least the core of the team to remain largely in tact unless Griffin gets presented offers that are too hard to say no to

last year?

I wonder how different things would be with Kenrich guarding LeBoo. Kenny Hustle can play D. I think BI’s game suffered last night because he expended so much energy on the defensive side of the ball. Same thing happened to Jrue when he guarded that receding hairline arse bitch.

Lebron is a disingenuous, narcissistic opportunist arse.
He only wants the limelight to enrich the lebron brand. He does not care at all about Zion. He only wants zion, Ja, or any other names to sign with his agency or to promote his interests.

Case in point: Anthony Davis. He acts like his mini-me is so important to him. Who would want AD as a bestie?

lebron just uses what he needs to get to his goals. When has lebron ever treated a teammate with so much care as he has with AD? Think of JR, Kyrie, Love, Ingram, Ball, Hart? He is a user. If AD were signed to a longer contract, lebron would just constantly bitch him.