Did the Lakers Punt Too Soon on Julius Randle, D'Angelo Russell and Others?

laker50 · Star Player Joined: 07 Mar 2014 Posts: 2140

Randle a definite yes.
DLO a maybe

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Zubolo · Starting Rotation Joined: 09 Jun 2017 Posts: 402

It begs the question: had Maginka/Luke treated Randle a alot better and had Maginka formed a better relationship with Goodwin, who is also the agent of Paul George, would Maginka had been able to get a meeting with Paul George and subsequently convinced him to come?

I have been saying from day one that Lebron needed the Lakers more than the Lakers needed him but people will be quick to dismiss that theory without thinking it through.

Everything to me now seems like Maginka put alll their eggs in the Lebron/Rich Paul basket and by default, Lebron/Rich Paul are the GM's of the team. Everything KD said about Lebron creating a toxic environment is starting to materialize as much as I hate to say it.

Wish we stayed the course with our youth movement and made PG the priority last summer. We could have then focused on KD/Kawhi this summer, while keeping Randle. I am cool with loosing D-Lo for Hart and T Bryant (whom I also felt we should have kept). I wish D-Lo the best but at the time, this wasn't the best place for him.

32 · Retired Number Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Posts: 73101

I really don't care about either of them. All I care about is this current team with LeBron for the next 4 years.
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Zubolo · Starting Rotation Joined: 09 Jun 2017 Posts: 402

Just imagine if we made Randle and PG13 the priority instead of KCP and Lebron:

2019-2020 roster:
C - Lopez/Zubac/T Bryant
F - Randle/Kuzma/Wagner
F - Kawhi/Ingram/Svi
G - PG13/J Hart/Bonga
G - Ball/(Room Exception - D Collison?)/2019 FRP

Just saying...

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Kobesystem · Starting Rotation Joined: 29 Dec 2018 Posts: 641

DLo starting 5 is Kurucs, Joe Harris, Trevon Graham and Jaret Allen.

Even with Lebron out with injuries and the Nets in the eastern conference, they should be in no way have a better record than us.........

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Craigh · Rookie Joined: 19 Jan 2019 Posts: 4

I wish we could have kept all the youngsters, but the two bad contracts cost us. I can somewhat understand the DLo trade but was upset with letting Randle go and getting nothing in return, especially seeing what Pope signed for. I do not agree with letting a YOUNG asset go without any return. If you buy a new Corvette you just don't give the older one away. It still has value..

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32 · Retired Number Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Posts: 73101

I don't see much improvement in Randle. He's getting solid numbers but it's not translating to team wins for the Pelicans. He's not making much of an impact. He is putting up good numbers on a lottery team. Some people here were overrating him with most wanting to pay him between $16-18M a year. Some crazy people here wanted to pay him the max $25M a year. The market value ended up being $9M a year. The cap space we would have left couldn't get us a star player. He's not even a #3 on a contender. I would rather have Kuzma at a fraction of the price.
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RichD · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:13 pm Post subject:

Rondo controlled the game

LonzoLegend2 · Starting Rotation Joined: 05 Aug 2017 Posts: 680

Thomas Bryant, similar stats to Zu but with better 3pt percentages.

oldlakerfan · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:47 am Post subject:

Losing Randle was a blunder my Magic Rob. Cutting Thomas Bryant was a blunder. At a minimum both would have been great trade assets.

Randle would have been our 2nd best player this year by far. How do you blow it. They totally mishandled things and could have given him a 2 year deal with no risk.

Russell deal worked out as we got Kuzma and got rid of Mosgov which it turns out really wasn't that important to our cap situation. Russell seemed to have some issues but would have been a decent 2 guard with Ball at the 1. So I like this deal and would call it at least an even swap.

I like the Nance/Clarkson deal too as i do not view either player on a championship type of team and we got back a 1 and got rid of Clarkson's contract.

TooMuchMajicBuss · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 8:00 am Post subject:

DLO would have been great to watch at SG alongside Ball. Randle was becoming a force in the middle and now he's got a 3 shot. Only problem is, we'd have needed to stick with the young core strategy and not go max FA. The plan was to build a perennial contender.

Still gotta see who we pull in besides LeBron, and if we get any titles out of this.

MIMLaker · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:48 am Post subject:

Love how it's only been 3-4 days since this article came out and some people already want to deal every player we have under the age of 26 to get AD.

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