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Westbrook will destroy that team like he destroys every team. The Lakers desperately need a volume 3-point specialist. What game have you been watching for the last decade+?
Hield isn't a spot up shooter. He's a ball dominant scorer. I understand Westbook is too, but RW brings star power, FT, rebounding and other intangibles.

I don't like RW, but hard to bash the guy for not succeeding next to Harden then accepting the 2nd role behind Beal. He's flawed but he does want to win #1

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Hield is a volume shooter on bad teams. At least Westbrook will rebound and play hard. LeBron will get more out of RW than he would out of Hield

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You're right. How awful it would be for Hield if he was suddenly wide open and playing off of LeBron and Davis. Shooting was definitely not an issue for the Lakers...it was rebounding all along.
 
Hield isn't a spot up shooter. He's a ball dominant scorer. I understand Westbook is too, but RW brings star power, FT, rebounding and other intangibles.

I don't like RW, but hard to bash the guy for not succeeding next to Harden then accepting the 2nd role behind Beal. He's flawed but he does want to win #1

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Ummmm 80% of Hield's 3s are assisted... have you watched him play? He's offball and with motion.
 
LAL gonna wrap up their offseason by grabbing Blake Griffin and try to conjure the spirit of their bloated 2004 and 2012 teams. They cannot help themselves.
The second I saw this trade and realized they would need to fill 70% of their roster with min guys, i said "well, one of those spots will be Blake....."
 
On top of adding a chucker who can't shoot and is getting worse every single year (paired with his declining athleticism which most of the good attributes of his game are based on), the Lakers are trading two of their better/more useful spacers for him. This is an absolutely monster gamble by them.

Remember when Lebron showed up and those geniuses were like "yeah, we're not gonna do this stupid Lebron + shooters thing that has always worked at an elite level, we're going to surround him with people that take the ball out of his hands and/or don't space the floor and it's going to DOMINATE"? Then Lebron had his first losing season in 15 years? Yeah, glad they learned apparently nothing from that.
 
Westbrook as a wildcard 3rd option is better than relying on him as a 2nd option. So there's that. Lakers need shooting though. They were one of the worst shooting teams in the league last year.
 
On top of adding a chucker who can't shoot and is getting worse every single year (paired with his declining athleticism which most of the good attributes of his game are based on), the Lakers are trading two of their better/more useful spacers for him. This is an absolutely monster gamble by them.

Remember when Lebron showed up and those geniuses were like "yeah, we're not gonna do this stupid Lebron + shooters thing that has always worked at an elite level, we're going to surround him with people that take the ball out of his hands and/or don't space the floor and it's going to DOMINATE"? Then Lebron had his first losing season in 15 years? Yeah, glad they learned apparently nothing from that.
They also were on the verge of landing Hield and rumors were Derozan might have gone there somehow... Derozan would scare me more with them than Westbrook.
 
The second I saw this trade and realized they would need to fill 70% of their roster with min guys, i said "well, one of those spots will be Blake....."

Blake was a buy-out last season. Not sure he plays for the minimum this season. And if he did, why not stay in Brooklyn?
 



Really? That's not what I been hearing.
 
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