Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
The reason I say that the Lakers team is garbage is simple, and people misrepresenting it doesn't actually make it incorrect.
If you were to take ANY other team in the NBA and place 2 all-stars on it, and then fill out the rest of the roster will players of the calibre that LA has, everyone would accept that that team was garbage.
I'm pretty confident that nobody would deny that a team with that supporting cast was woefully constructed, lacking talent, lacking depth, lacking quality pieces that fit together.
But because it's LA, and because those two allstars are Lebron and AD, people are acting like this supporting cast is actually just fine. It's not. It still sucks. This team, overall, is still trash. Now, it's trash that MIGHT make the playoffs as long as neither Lebron and AD get injured, because Lebron and AD are both incredible players, but that doesn't change the fact that it's trash. Lebron carried that CLE team to the finals a handful of seasons ago, and that CLE team was trash too. That's the power of a player of Lebron's calibre.
Remove the Lakers blinkers, and ask yourself: outside of Lebron and AD, what is the overall quality of this roster?
- Kyle Kuzma
- Danny Green
- Dwight Howard (2019)
- Javale McGee
- Rajon Rondo
- Quinn Cook
- Jared Dudley
- Talen Horton-Tucker
- Alex Caruso
- Troy Daniels
- Avery Bradley (2019)
If you're about to tell me that that team isn't awful, then you're gonna have to explain why, because I just don't see it.