Who’s going to step up and be our #2 option?

george w kush · Star Player Joined: 05 Jun 2009 Posts: 1169

Lebron easily had his worst game of the season and we got blown out. Is this how it’s going to be every time he’s having an off night? You can tell he was really trying to be aggressive in the first quarter but I saw him totally gassed once he went to the the bench and got subbed for Beasley.

Ball, Ingram, Kuzma and Hart all have one game where they play great then dissappear the next. Ball can’t hit 3s and can’t consistently finish in traffic, Kuzma bricks open 3s and Ingram’s game is too predictable, shooting nothing but ISO fade-away/midrange jumpers. Hart can shoot and finish in traffic but can’t do much else.

So who’s going to step up be our consistent #2 giving us 18-20 PPG nightly and hitting 3s on a consistent basis? I think it would greatly help to have a definitive #2 but no one wants to seem to take on that responsibility.

drae · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Nov 2018 Posts: 16144

We definitely need one, and we don't have one. I was hoping Ingram would step up, and you can tell he definitely wants to be that number 2 guy. He's about 2 years away though, unfortunately

epak · Retired Number Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 34147

Unfortunately, BI.
It would turn into "fortunately BI" if he made the game easier for himself. But I don't see that happening this year.

RusselDoeee01 · Star Player Joined: 28 Apr 2014 Posts: 1072

Generally it’s not that easy to just have a 2nd option to take over when Lebron isn’t playing well. Whether lebron is hitting his shots or not he is going to keep taking them as he is such a high talent player.

Lebron is without a doubt the best player on the team and there is no equal. It’s not like kobe and Shaq where we can argue who is better.

Players can’t just switch from being passive to a ball dominant player like James to a ball dominant player themselves. It’s just not as easy as people make it seem.

Lebron is option 1. Players are forced to feed option 1 and play backup to
Him. If they aren’t used to being option 1 then there is no way for them to be successful at it.

unleasHell · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:32 pm Post subject:

Well, let's see, we could have had George, or Kahwi, or Butler, but we chose to home certain players would eventually come around,

Then we could have Beal, or Green, but, we'll just continue hoping that someone will sign here next summer for LESS money, and suddenly hopefully that person will inspire all the hopefuls to flourish...

great plan...FO!
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unleasHell · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:38 pm Post subject:

ringfinger · Retired Number Joined: 08 Oct 2013 Posts: 29418

No one realistically. Not this season anyway.

drae · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Nov 2018 Posts: 16144

VicXLakers · Franchise Player Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 11823

BI...

LakersRGolden · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:32 pm Post subject:

They're all playing like #2

24Legend007 · Star Player Joined: 05 May 2018 Posts: 1789

Looks like it will be Pope?

deal · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:29 am Post subject:

No one on this squad is a Number 2, we have a bunch of inconsistent 3-5's. The number
2 will need to come from elsewhere; IMO.
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FreakofNature · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:03 am Post subject:

governator · Retired Number Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 25076

Gonna have to be BI or Ball

venturalakersfan · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:47 am Post subject:

No one
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jg77 · Starting Rotation Joined: 19 Feb 2015 Posts: 429

BI, Ball and Kuz had their chance...

It's time to give Hart some more burn.

defense · Retired Number Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 39445

The guy who gets 35 minutes a game for a season

Translation

No one

Kobe2Lonz0 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:00 am Post subject:

RI Laker · Star Player Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 7148

Who cares? Its going to be a different player every time. I am very happy where we are considering all the new players. If one did not expect growing pains, than they are fooling themselves. Will we be a dangerous team down the road, and next year we will be hoisting up another banner. We should all enjoy whats taken place before its great being a Laker fan again.

adkindo · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:03 am Post subject:

Zubac (is he still on the roster?)

KingKobe20 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:59 am Post subject:

20 games in with 62 more to go.

Will get a better feel after the AS break.
Pretty sure it will be BI

Day · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 9:00 am Post subject:

Bradley Beal

KingKobe20 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 9:13 am Post subject:

VicXLakers · Franchise Player Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 11823

who started this B Beal trade stuff?