Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3251144, member: 833"]
That is probably as good a comparison as you will find for the Lakers, and I agree that the Lakers will be worse than the 2017-2018 Pelicans because:

1) Lakers don't even have a full starting lineup.  They have Davis, Lebron, Green and Kuzma.  Who is the 5th starter?  McGee?  The Pelicans had Davis, Holiday, Cousins then Mirotic, E'Twuan Moore (who had a really good season), and Rondo (who was aging pretty quickly even then).

2) The only Pelicans' starter over the age of 30 was Rondo, who was 31 when the season started.  They could play a 25 year old Davis and 28 year old Moore and Holliday a lot of minutes.  Even as young as the team was, they lost Cousins to injury in January, and the workload was probably a factor.  Assuming McGee starts, 3 of the Lakers starters (Lebron, Green, McGee) will be over 30 when the season starts, as will Rondo.  You can't load these guys up with minutes.  Bradley and KCP are the only two of the Top 8 that can probably handle a lot of minutes.  After the Top 8, it gets really grim.

3) That Pelicans team only won 48 games, and their first round win over Portland was considered a pretty big upset.

4) The Pelicans' bench that year, as bad as it was, is better than the Lakers' bench will be this year.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

First name of men's bb coach