Walton said today that he doesn't expect Zo or Ingram back this year

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Don't really know what all of these mean, gonna need IMU to come explain this advanced stats stuff to me, but here is where Lonzo ranked on the Lakers this season in what I am told are very important stat categories.



RPM

1) Lonzo Ball................+0.89
2) Julius Randle............+0.65
3) Josh Hart..................-0.92
4) Kyle Kuzma...............-1.65
5) Brandon Ingram.........-1.99

BPM

1) Lonzo Ball..................+1.6
2) Julius Randle..............+0.8
3) Josh Hart....................-0.4
4) Brandon Ingram...........-1.3
5) Kyle Kuzma.................-1.4

On Court/Off Court (Net Rating)

1) Lonzo Ball..................+1.8
2) Julius Randle................0.0
3) Josh Hart....................-0.8
4) Kyle Kuzma.................-1.1
5) Brandon Ingram...........-2.7

VORP

1) Lonzo Ball..................+1.6
2) Julius Randle..............+1.5
3) Josh Hart...................+0.6
4) Kyle Kuzma................+0.4
5) Brandon Ingram..........+0.3



PIPM

1) Lonzo Ball.................+1.89
2) Julius Randle..............-0.83
3) Josh Hart...................-0.99
4) Brandon Ingram..........-1.31
5) Kyle Kuzma................-1.88

Wins Added

1) Lonzo Ball.................+5.06
2) Julius Randle.............+2.17
3) Brandon Ingram........+1.34
4) Josh Hart..................+1.25
5) Kyle Kuzma...............+0.73

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Loans named to NBA all rookie second team. 7th place in total votes. Solid result for a guy who missed 31 games.

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I thought there was a rule against posting to yourself 5x in a row, You gotta suck Sini's dick or get a 1 year ban from the NBA section.

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Your boy Fox didn’t even make an All Rookie team despite playing 21 more games than Lonzo. Sad!

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Same minutes probably, Swiper will avg. 15 ppg next year with dogshit around him.

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Lonzo Ball making 2nd team all rookie has to be a huge disappointment. He had by far the best setup of any rookie and that includes Mitchell. They rolled the ball out to him and he still couldn't get it done.

I'm also certain that he led all rookies in avg min. per game too. He stinks.


FF one bet down and one to go. Kyrie might be difficult given the injury but i'm keeping the faith.

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He barely played half the season and still was voted as having the 7th best rookie season. Not a disappointment at all.

Both bets were lost when each guy got injured for weeks. I’ll take the +$50.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Being a soft bitch isn't a positive, all these guys were tired n soar.. He bitched out. Not them.

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Nah you and that idiot Shakes have been pumping "if only he'd played more games he'd have been right there. No he wouldn't. The top 5 guys all played better than him from the start of the season til the end of the season. Kuzma slipped a little but he was still better than Ball for most of the season.


Who does he beat out in order for you to be right?

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Ball would have been better if he didnt get picked by the Lakers. If he went somewhere else and experienced a new city and culture it would have helped him grow as a player.

Loanso def disappointed me this year. He hit the rookie wall late in the season and missed what? 31 games?

Not good.

Hopefully, next year is a rebound.

No one underestimate just how much this Lavar sideshow affects the whole family mentally either.

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yep, Zo the only guy chosen for either team who missed significant time this season. Everyone else played at least 69 games.


No summer league for Zo this year, Magic has him in the weightroom all summer.

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Fuck the weight room.. Work on a jumper

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And the shitshow continues.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la ... story.html

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So in case you didn't know, Lonzo and Kuzma are really tight and have one of those friendships where they are constantly ripping on each other. No one thought much of it till yesterday when Lonzo released a diss rap called "Kyle Kuzma". he goes at Kuzma pretty hard, even making comments about how Kuz never knew his daddy.

So of course everyone is up in arms saying that Lonzo took it too far this time and that him and Kuzma aren't gonna stay friends. Rumor that the Lakers aren't happy about it. Even heard Frank and Scal talking about it for 20 minutes this morning on the NBA channel.

So then the video comes out and Kuzma is a featured performer in the video. Yea, I'd say there's a good chance he's in on the joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBIoRLTcwSM

oh and Lonzo is actually not terrible as a rapper. Probably one of the better athletes in that regard.

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Shakes.. You think his baby bro get drafted?

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no, he's terrible and doesn't have close to NBA body or athletic ability.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BkOE5kMHNyE/?utm_source=ig_embed

Someone's definitely been hitting the weights this off season.



Looking much bigger up top.

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gaaaay

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

you could at least wait to post that until after I've rubbed one out to the photo. So come back in 10 minutes.

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One of the funniest and more interesting developments in the Kawhi saga involves Lonzo Ball. Spurs want nothing to do with him. His precipitous fall from Franchise guy to essentially role player is another interesting development.

The fact that the Lakers believe they need 3 All Stars in order to compete for championships suggests greatly that they don't think he is much of shit.

https://nypost.com/2018/06/29/lonzo-bal ... i-leonard/

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I think the Lavar factor is something Pop wants nothing to do with.

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If they thought Lonzo was good they'd do the deal imo.

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No. Pop is like Belichek. He doesn't put up with sideshow bullshit.

He once coached Stephen Jackson. Stephen Jackson makes Lavar Ball look like Pee Wee Herman.

If they really thought Ball were any good they'd roll the dice.
Still doesn't explain why the Lakers are so ready to abort mission on him. From Franchise to Trade Bait after one season?

They also don't have to deal with Lavar if they don't want to. They can simply isolate him as the Lakers have.

Pop is one of the few NBA coaches that i believe would have no problem dealing with Lavar.

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How does Stephen Jackson make Lavar Ball look like a buy caught masturbating in a movie theater?

And Stephen Jackson illustrates my point perfectly. Belicheck takes on "bad apples" but they are always on their best behavior for him. I don't think Pop has anything against Lonzo, but he can't control his dad. And he's not going to put up with that shit.

I also think Pop likes Dejounte Murray as the PG of the future for the Spurs.

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