Laker Talk

RoadDawg55 said:

Gladstone said:

RoadDawg55 said:

BallSacked said:

Lakers won't win again until Kobe hangs it up. Ditto for Little Jimmy Buss.

Why is Jimmy Buss the scapegoat? I'm not sure if he even does anything important. Kupcheck makes the decisions on talent.

in lakerland, if magic rips you, you become a pariah

he also is blamed for not doing more to make phil jackson come back to LA instead of knicks

also nba stats nerds will never let him live down the comments he made about how he felt like scouting wasn't very important

and he's compared to his dad with every move he makes or doesn't make

Good points. So he's an idiot, fair enough. I just don't get why Jeanie and Kupcheck receive very little backlash, but lil' Jimmy does. And some of it is because of Jeanie's media manipulation, which is obviously a strength of hers.

Hiring D'Antoni was a disaster, but they still weren't winning anything with Phil. They had a broken down Howard and Nash. That team would have been better with Phil, but they would have still gotten stomped by SA, OKC, and probably a couple other teams.

The scouting comments are FS.

The cancelled Chris Paul trade played a huge role in the Lakers being in the position they are now. It led to the disastrous Steve Nash trade, which greatly contributed to D'Antoni being hired. It had a real snowball effect.