Stephen A Smith - “Chris Paul wants out”

Looks like the Lakers are on the brink of acquiring AD. If reports are true, Butler will sign with them if they offer him the max.

Doubt they want a washed up point guard with that contract.

 

You do understand a lot of the "extra minutes" are on Harden himself who is simply stat padding and chasing regular season records like consecutive 30 point games. There were several games where Coach tried to pull him out and even said so but Harden just won't listen and wants to go back in.

Quit putting the whole show on him? Dude, that's his style of basketball. If he doesn't have the ball he is just standing rooted to one spot. How do you run plays if your star player is just standing and pouting till he gets the ball?

And we all know that if Coach gets on the bad side of Harden, it's bye bye coach.

 

Graphs or gtfo

 

Can the lakers afford 3 max contracts though? I mean Rox got capped out with just 2 highly doubtful Lakers can have Lebron making the max, trade for AD making the max and still sign Butler to the max as well

 

That makes two HOFers that choose to bail on Harden. Who will be number 3?

 

They would agree to the AD trade and not make it official until after they use their cap space.

 

@vlaurelio

 

Our offense has no off ball movement why do people keep saying Hardens is at fault when no other player is moving.

If you don't understand that simple fact you don't know much about basketball.

 

So Lakers add butler and davis?

If butler signs here, it’s possble Lakers take Paul.

 

I mean technically they can but the rumor that Butler will sign with the Lakers if they offer him the max could be BS, who knows?



https://sports.yahoo.com/report-lakers-interested-jimmy-butler-221504748.html

 

Lakers plan is far better team than anyone in west.
Starters
Davis
Kuzma
Lebron
Butler
Point guard 10 million a year to spend
Bench
Reddick 2 years 20 million MLE
keep Last year Lakers bench

 

How do people not see this is a product of what Harden wants our O to be.

 

He has to hate that idiot. And I don’t blame him.

This is clearly a D’Antoni problem.

 

Austin Rivers said something to the tune of....”James is doing what the organization and coach are asking him to do....”

 

Lakers have better improvement plan than morey after signing a star.

 

Again, our offense is one of the greatest offenses of all time.

Not the issue...

 

Except when it matters most come playoff time when defense gear up to stop the gimmicky ISO heavy 3 ball or bust game

Now throw some ORTG or other stats @ me

 

You can't troll and state facts

 

What does this has to anything?

We still had one of the most efficient offenses in this year's playoff.

And why are people only calling out Harden for running the offense as called?

 

We need to move our objectives from: where Harden suceeds to: where 10 guys succeeds