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How many wins for the Lakers with Lopez, loaded West.
« on: July 10, 2017, 06:25:01 PM »

Offline KG Living Legend

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 Brook Lopez
 Randle
 Ingram
 Clarkson
 Ball

 Not bad at all. Four nice young players and Lopez, but they are crazy young and the West is deadly. Hard to predict. I'll say 36 wins.

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I see them having trouble getting to 30 wins in the West when they will give up 115 every night.

Literally only Clarkson isn't an utter defensive liability at this stage. Alot of them have potential to be average to good de fenders, but for now they arent.
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It depends a lot on how their young guys do. If one (or more) breaks out, I could see them winning 35 games. With what I expect of them (losing a lot of games late due to inexperience), I think they finish with 29 (and yes, Lopez will help them by giving then a go-to guy late in games, but he's not a ballhandler and I think their guys will have plenty of sloppy turnovers that prevent him from even taking the winning shot)
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23. Brook lopez is made of glass

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28 and fifth most ping pong balls, setting up a coin flip situation

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About the same as the won last year. Around 25 wins.

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One thing that I'm actually taking seriously... because of the Ball family hype machine, no teams will take a night off playing these guys. Every team when they come to Staples is going to be gunning to win by 50.
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If I remember correctly, they got off to a decent start last year before the bottom fell out. Hopefully they have a bad start due to so many young players this year. I don't think they get more than 30-32 wins this year even if all core players stay healthy. I'll predict 29 wins.

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The Lakers were the worst defensive team in the league last season and getting Ball and Lopez doesn't help.  They've also lost their best 3pt shooters (Williams, Young and Russell) so they'll probably fall to bottom 5 in the league.  The West is loaded so most all of the bad teams are in the East so the Lakers only play them twice each.  That is not a combination that is going to produce a lot of wins.  I'll go with 25 wins but that could be on the high side. 

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One thing that I'm actually taking seriously... because of the Ball family hype machine, no teams will take a night off playing these guys. Every team when they come to Staples is going to be gunning to win by 50.

That is true. Thanks to LaVar Ball's big mouth, Lonzo Ball is now a primary target for many teams and not in a good way. Teams will be motivated to...destroy him and the Lakers  ;D


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23. Brook lopez is made of glass
He's been pretty healthy actually.  How long are we going to keep saying that?

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23. Brook lopez is made of glass
He's been pretty healthy actually.  How long are we going to keep saying that?

He's played in 75, 73, and 72 games the past 3 years. That's less that 82, so clearly he's one of the most fragile players in the NBA
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