2018-19 NBA Off-Season

It's funny. A few posts ago I laid out why some of the moves might work out OK. Then I went and looked at the Lakers' depth chart.

This roster reminds me of the way I tend to draft a fantasy team. I spend all kinds of time looking for sleepers and potentially undervalued players and go for those guys in the draft. Then when the draft is over I look at my team and think "Jesus, THIS is my roster?"

LeBron's gonna have grey hair by the end of the season.

 

Anyone want to have a virtual beer bet that this Lakers team is going to win 45+ games. All these hot takes are hilarious. LeBron is going to be just fine.

 

"The Lakers will win 45+" and "The Lakers roster is a hot mess" are not contradictory takes.

 

Yeah, that’d be a hoot.

 

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I would not consider a team winning 45+ games a hot mess.

 

Look at the roster.

Seriously, look at the roster.

It's got LeBron, so I'm down for 45 wins.

Outside of LeBron the players are (a) young guys who will probably be good someday, (b) old guys I can talk myself into seeing as decent additions, and (c) Rajan Rondo. LeBron is going to be drunk texting Kevin Love by week three.

 

Look at his teammates in 2007.

 

A 45 plus win season is the West would mean that the Lakers are objectively better than last season's Cavs.

 

It was a garbage roster that won 50 games because it had LeBron on it.

 

And LeBron did not grey hair.

 

"Last season's Cavs" is a tough thing to pin down, though. They replaced a huge chunk of the roster on the fly and were pretty damn bad for long stretches. The opening day roster had Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, Isaiah Thomas and Jae Crowder.

A 45 win team would also mean LeBron is worth 10 wins over last season's Lakers. Seems reasonable.