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Once guard Avery Bradley clears waivers today, he plans to sign a two-year, $9.7M deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent Bill Duffy of @BDA_Sports tells ESPN. Bradley will have a player option on the second season.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 8, 2019
Lakers took the role player signing suggestion to use their new cap money seriously. They took a chance at the a max guy, then immediately focused on signing role guys. All in all they are putting together a decent team (on paper).
The Lakers have two elite stars, a oft-injured former All Star Center, a young scoring forward who’s still growing, and a lot of depth full of experienced vets. I know we don’t like them for how they handled the AD trade, but Lakers are definitely a good team if their duo stays healthy most of the season.
In Real Plus-Minus, out of 299 players that averaged at least 15 minutes per game (for 40+ games)
— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) July 8, 2019
Offensive RPM:
Avery Bradley – 262nd
Rajon Rondo – 263rd
Defensive RPM:
Bradley – 228th
Rondo – 237th
Total RPM:
Bradley – 273rd
Rondo – 276th
We all know Rondo is cooked outside of the playoffs or when he is motivated , but Bradley... Dude is trash..
Derrick Favors's untapped potential in a nutshell https://t.co/0uzktX7VVC
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 8, 2019
You could easily rephrase it as;
The Lakers have two elite stars, one of whom has a history of sulking and is a continuous injury threat, and the other is 35. They have a former all-star centre whose legs have spent the last two years exploding and who was so disastrously bad that he found a way to sink Golden State's offense last season. He's always been a negative on D, and that has only gotten worse recently. They have a young scoring forward who is absolute garbage by all advanced metrics, and is a horrendous defender, and they have no quality depth: they only have maybe 2 people outside of Lebron who can create their own shot, and most of their depth is well over the age of 30 in the form of people like Rondo and Dudley.
It has nothing to do with whether we like them or not. Their roster is NOT GOOD. Could they have a super lucky year, where they have no injury issues, where Rondo and Boogie play like it was 2011 not 2019, where Lebron puts in effort on defense and where AD manages to stay in all of his games without walking out? Sure, they could. But is that really more likely than the players just y'know, being who they are?
Deadspin even called it out
https://deadspin.com/lakers-sign-dem...los-1836152884
Lakers even signed Quinn Cook. LOL championship.
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