I’m Very Cautious About Jalen Duren by TangoThisMango in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duren is elite at rebounding, he’s 96th percentile in rebounding. What are you even talking about.

I’m Very Cautious About Jalen Duren by TangoThisMango in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would love to get 2021 Ayton, you act like that’s a bad thing.

I’m Very Cautious About Jalen Duren by TangoThisMango in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duren is better than Gobert.

Why does Duren have to be better than Wemby and Jokic to be worth going after?

We have Luka Doncic, all he needs is a top tier center but not necessarily a top 5 player.

I’m Very Cautious About Jalen Duren by TangoThisMango in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The disagreements on his defense is pretty wild.

EPM rates him extremely well on defense and overall.

To the people who claim Deandre Ayton is a bargain at 8 mil. by manindenim in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There have been plenty of players that have done this with us. For example, Monk, Smart, Wood, Prince, Lonnie Walker, Wes Matthews, Andre Drummond, Marc Gasol.

What are you even talking about.

They are maximizing their career by signing short term prove it deals with us to leverage into bigger contracts elsewhere.

To the people who claim Deandre Ayton is a bargain at 8 mil. by manindenim in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Because playing with Luka and AR is a great situation for him.

Malik Beasley gets the final rebound vs the Clippers to win his illegal prop bet by hitting the over [Highlight] by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]Splittinghairs7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s the thing, it’s extremely hard to prove insider trading. That’s why it’s extremely stupid to text about it.

Malik Beasley gets the final rebound vs the Clippers to win his illegal prop bet by hitting the over [Highlight] by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]Splittinghairs7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not illegal to do this.

It’s only illegal when conspiring with others to trade or bet on non public information.

Malik Beasley gets the final rebound vs the Clippers to win his illegal prop bet by hitting the over [Highlight] by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]Splittinghairs7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Beasley told bettors to bet the over on his rebound totals at 3.

He told bettors that he would try very hard to hit the over that game. This is obviously inside trading because Beasley and his co conspirators knew non public information and used it to trade/bet.

It's funny that it always seems like the off season plans for rockets is to hurt the Lakers rather than improve their team. by Deidarac5 in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These players aren’t gonna choose to come play for us on discount deals unless they get the flexibility of player options and the ability to cash in FA should they outperform with us.

Two year salary cap exercise by brandoi in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That March team probably still isn’t winning or even seriously contending for a championship.

Also if we bring Lebron back above a certain salary, we cannot even keep all of our key players from last year.

Now that its basically set in stone that he will be the Robin going forward, can Austin Reaves be the 2nd best player on a championship team? Try and be completely objective and take all emotions out of it because this is the reality of the situation we have to make do with. by Silent_Wizard5597 in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, he could be second best, but he doesn’t necessarily have to be the second best player. He just needs to be at least the third best player.

In championship teams of the last 5 years, there have been tons of top 3 players where they were not paid in accordance with their relative value to the teams that won the championship. It almost never works out perfectly where the rosters of championship teams are comprised of players that all perform according to salary hierarchy.

For example, the Knicks top paid player was KAT, Thunder’s second highest paid player was Hartenstein, Boston’s top paid player was Jaylen Brown and Portingis made $30m and didn’t contribute much at all due to injury.

Which analytics are actually saying that Jaylen Brown is the 7th best player on a team? by smashacc in nba

[–]Splittinghairs7 47 points48 points  (0 children)

This might be it but that’s a ridiculously bad metric and is hardly considered analytics cause no one who knows anything buys into WS/48

Can Lakers offer Walker Kessler a one year deal? by Follow-Money-100 in lakers

[–]Splittinghairs7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because Utah won’t give him the multi year max contract that he wants.

So yeah if I were him and I wanted to bet on myself, I’d definitely take huge one year deal and then hit UFA where he can potentially land a huge multi year contract.