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LAKERS MY LEAGUE - SEASON 2 EPISODE 1

Posted on May 11, 2015 at 09:53 PM.

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The Lakers started the season slow with 4 losses in a row coming before their first win. The roster stood like this:

PG: J. Clarkson / M. Williams / C. Osman
SG: K. Bryant / D****ssell / B. Bogdanovic
SF: D. Carroll / R. Kelly / S. Karasev
PF: J. Randle / K. Porzingis
C: J. Henson / K. Seraphin / R. Sacre

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Positive:

- Clarkson has improved a lot, especially with his shooting.
- Cedi Osman has shown nice flashes of athleticism and good defense.
- D'Angelo has been great when attacking the basket.
- Porzingis has been playing great, closing out games in place of Randle becuase he has better size and shooting ability. His turnaround jumper is always money.
- We make good rotations on defense and usually outrebound the opponent.

Negative:

- Mo Williams and Russell have been cold with their outside shot.
- Kobe's defense hurts the team badly and I can't wait for his contract to come off the books this season.
- Bogdanovic has been horrible in his time with the Lakers.
- Randle hasn't improved on defense and hurts our spacing.
- We clog the paint on offense and that helps the defense to collapse when our guards penetrate. We struggle to find alternatives on offense and our perimeter defense is lackluster except for Demarre's.

Based on this impressions I decided to pull off a trade. When starting this series I had doubts about Clarkson and Randle being the future of the team. I am sure about JC but I don't see Randle as a go-to option at PF. Bogdanovic wasn't playing great either so I traded them both to the Suns for Markieff Morris and Archie Goodwin.
I see Morris as a guy who can become an all-star in our system and will definitely space out the court on offense for us. Goodwin was a reserve in Phoenix but will have some minutes off the bench for us to see what he can do.