greepleairport wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 5:20 pm
Really though I'd bump Roberto from the Lakers so he can't win another championship
Didn't you trade him Coss and Schiff?
But seriously, I would take the Lakers. They've had bad playoff luck, but they've been set up for now and later for so long that it reminds me of those old Scott teams where he wouldn't budge either way but had guys like Ben Simmons, Markelle Fultz, Van Grimaldi, Udoka Azubuike etc. and never won a championship because he never truly went all in (and when he did, he won 4 championships in a row, racked up an insurmountable tax bill and 23 skidoo'd).
The Lakers are better, but the whole league is better and filled with better players thanks to everyone knowing how to train and spending all their points on it, so I think the Lakers are in a similar spot. What differs is that the Lakers probably have so many good players, they don't have the space to really pack in any more. I'd really like to try game planning with their roster in the playoffs and see what I could do...though I'm not sure what I'd do differently. I do think that the Lakers are a little purple obsessed. Banchero would probably be shipped out for a b/b point guard or a b/b C. Unless the league is kind of savvier to the color curve than I think, they could probably have their pick of 1s or 5s for a p/p current except McClung.