Gonna put it out there: LMA WILL STAY.

Aldridge & Kobe?

 

Holy shit you spelt both names right!!!! Is the world ending?!?!?!?!

 

I would trade Nic. Unlike LA, who's future is very murky right now, I am fairly certain Batum will leave next summer. I really didn't get the impression he wanted to stay during the whole Minnesota ordeal. I could see some team overpaying him next summer because they missed out on Durant.

 

Send him to NOLA for Evans. NOLA needed a true SF and we really need a slashing SG.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=kv9pv3f

 

I would rather send him to the east coast. Maybe Toronto would take him for DeRozan.

 

Doreen would definitely be an option. I think Toronto has a decent French Speaking Population as well. Or maybe that's Ontario?

 

And Rondo.

 

and the worst piece..Byron Scott

 

Unless he's fired and they get Thibs! LOL

 

They're sending him to New York for the lottery. Don't think they have any intent on firing him.

 

Lillard gets killed for being a bad defender, and he is below average, no argument there. But he's a willing defender. He tries. He's just not big enough, athletic enough or savvy enough to deal with good screens, and the way we defend those, especially when Rolo's man is the screener, makes Lillard look worse than he is. He's left out to dry, trying to get through a big and then recovering onto his man while Rolo already has sunk back to the basket.

Lillard, if he doesn't get worn down and hurt by this, will get better. I am fairly confident of that. Honestly, if you can find a 5 who can do what Rolo already does but also is agile enough to hedge or blitz the pick-and-roll and still be able to recover once Damian is through the screen, Damian would probably be considered at least an adequate defender.

 

Dame fighting through screens is so weird. It's like hes so focused on his man he doesn't see the screener. The guy is able to literally seal him off |_ without putting up a fight. If you watch Parker or CP3, they always anticipate and move before the screener gets set. (most of the time)

 

It's the screener defender's job to let him know the screen is coming, so even that isn't all on Dame. I think we don't see enough good screening from our bigs, either, to fully appreciate what a good screener does. IMO, it's the one part of LA's game that I don't like, and I thought Rolo took a step backwards in that aspect this year -- I thought last year he was much better at sealing and creating a gap to roll to the hoop or a mismatch on the perimeter. Of course, we only seem to utilize the actual screen and roll with Batum and Rolo, so there's that, too ....

 

staying.

-Voteban

 

I have very little doubt that Aldridge, Rolo, Wes, Lillard, and Batum are talking together after the season is over to figure out their plans.
I have much doubt that any of them have the Jeremy Lin mentality and talk about it before the season is over... Much Much doubt.
They're goal is to win a ring now, not play for next season.
They all want to win now, it's been said.

 

At least it wasn't like he played great and nobody else helped him.

 

LA has peaked. Sign and trade him for cheaper pieces and a trade exception.

 

LMA has already left.