When it happened I wondered why they would do that & the Russ trade & it all makes sense that Perlinka was being cheap. Caruso was also a great chemistry guy. They try to hold onto AR to not make the same mistake but imo should’ve moved him to improve the over all team. Russ I can see him telling Lebron to back the trade because it was short term & Davis money to sign someone bigger later .. he couldn’t make it happen. People like to blame Lebron but I’ve been said it was Perlinka. & to get rid of that front court , the very one they needed in years since was straight questionable .
@@mikewilliams9069 yeah it was a crazy move. The dismantling of the roster overall was but Caruso was crazy. They didn’t even try by his accounts. One low ball offer didn’t even give the man the respect to listen to his counteroffer.
Fuckin Gasol Harrell and Drummond isn’t no damn flexibility. It just looks good compared the the bullshit we’ve had since. WE HAD BROOK LOPEZ BEFORE LEBRON CAME TO LA. IMAGINE LEBRON AD CARUSO KCP AND BROOK LOPEZ. THEY WOULD WIN 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS. MINIMUM.
@@JasonBrendan-td4qb Okay? Doesn’t change the fact that my point is we were playing LeWilt at the 5 a season later. That 2021 was so stacked Trez was getting DNPs as the reigning 6th man of the year, if that’s not flexibility then I don’t know what is.
@@jankarlo3798 the lakers didn’t need trezz. That’s why he was on the bench. The lakers needed big men who can protect the rim. That was the most important trait for a lakers center with AD and Bron. Even Gasol was too old. Drummond not a rim protector either. It just looks good/flexible cause of what we’ve had since. Lakers don’t need a center who can’t protect the rim OR shoot the 3. Gasol could do both but was way too old. Trezz and Drummond couldn’t do either.
@@JasonBrendan-td4qbOkay sure, but that 2021 team was on the verge of making back to back finals at the very least if it weren’t for injuries to Bron and AD. That team was fine. They just panicked and traded everything for Westbrick. And then the LeWilt Era began.
Just what we need! A channel dedicated to one of the most mid teams in the league before Bron retires and you go back to being bottom feeders. PERFECT!
If there’s ONE thing I’ve learnt as a Lakers fan over the past 4 years, it’s that this front office is GOD awful. The amount of talent that were traded for pennies on the dollar while Rob Palenka sat behind his desk eating twinkies and flirting with the boss is absolutely ridiculous. Here’s just a few to name them: Demar Derozan, Paul George (TWICE), Kawhi Leonard, Kyrie Irving, Jonas Valanciunas, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard, Buddy Hield, Chris Paul, DeJounte Murray, Alex Caruso, etc. The list goes on and on and on and on and those are just SOME examples that Rob has missed entirely across TWO seasons. He needs to do SOMETHING. There are currently, I believe, 6 rebuilding teams with assets that I (as a Lakers fan) would WANT to help win a ring.. and Rob’s response to that knowledge was an absolute nobody from Toronto.
@@vise_atoxity8083 you was doing alotta yappin im not reading all that answer the question or ignore me lol but you sound like a band wagon not a lifer but what ever
@@marquisfelder3170 How big of a nerd do you have to be to say something like that in response to a comment about the biggest misses over the past few years? Go outside and touch some grass. Lifer by the way, I’ve flown to plenty of Lakers game and been a fan since birth because of my family. Hard to be a “band wagon” when there’s NOTHING to jump onto. The team is a ceasepool as of now.
Bro he forgot one key detail lakers could’ve kept that same roster from 2020 with Caruso and in the off season they wanted to compete with the nets all they had to do was wait another week and BOOM DEMAR DEROZAN IS A LAKER SHIT MAKE NO SENSE THEY WERE THE BEST DEFENSE TEAM THE NETS REALLY WASNT AN ISSUE FOR THEM THE RUSS TRADE WAS SO DUMB
Your video production is absolutely incredible, creative ambient noise in the videos. I usually don’t comment, but your videos are great. Keep up the great work. You’ll get your flowers
I love it when I find a 100k channel before it even hits 10k I can’t figure out what I’m impressed with more the super high level analysis or the actual video itself. The editing and quality of this video is extremely professional. Did I mention the storytelling ability? I just became a huge fan of yours
The triple towers was nice to have too, someone always had a big defensive night (mcgee howard davis,) and kept a fresh presence in the paint, many nights they threw a block party.
Great video, but you can’t trace it all back to that 3-pointer, that’s a reach. I always remember when Vogel tucked his tail against the Rockets and played small ball after losing Game 1 of their 2020 second round series. Javale McGee and Dwight Howard teaming with Anthony Davis gave the Lakers a revolving door of rim protection, but when they lost that game, it scared them from playing the way that earned them a top seed in the conference. They never really went back to it the rest of the playoffs, and that style of play eventually was so unappreciated that management didn’t work to bring it back. I would have much rather seen what happened with the great Lakers role players, since it was more than just Caruso. Rajon Rondo also came up big in the playoffs. Thinking they could simply replace him with Schröder was so stupid.
top notch i never considered meme material lebron doing a curry 3 vs houston was the start of the downfall that the lakers still has not overcome despite reaching the wcf after the westbrook era.
They need a traditional center to allow AD to do his thing more freely, healthy AD is the #1 or #2 two way player in the league, his output is compromised by him having to play Center.
Rob Pelinka really messed up in the 2020 off-season instead of running it back you decide to blow up the championship team and since then we haven't been able to get to the finals SMH these off-season moves all these years haven't been good
It’s unfortunate but I’m somehow still optimistic about next season even tho we went out in the first round the year before 💔. It would be cool if you made video about the downfall of Darwin Ham and how he lost the locker room.
The Lakers have had the worst Front Office in sports for the past…maybe 15 years. We lucked out getting LeBron, and AD deciding to join him. But the problems we had-the problems that killed our chances of getting Kobe a competitive roster late in his career-remained still. We won a chip, then decided to go for a retool by gaining two guys that we didn’t need, and one which was just a horrible fit. Complete identity change, but it still kinda worked. So then we get injured all year in 2021 and it causes us to lose in the first round. Okay no problem-except the Lakers FO decided to blow it up including trading for Russell Westbrook and letting Caruso walk for Luxury Tax money. We have the worst year possible, and we fire our championship head coach the next year because he couldn’t make Russ work. On a Lakers team with LeBron James. Who do we trade for? The worst coach in the NBA m, as he would prove to be.
I started watching basketball in 2020, and im from California so lakers was a natural choice for my fav team. I loved russ in la I genuinely feel like if they kept caruso and Schroder that first russ year and bron n ad didn’t get injured they would’ve been amazing. Most People forget russ was averaging 18/7/7 yes russ has always had a below average 3pt shot, but a backcourt or him and Caruso would’ve been an amazing fit. Caruso doesn’t need the ball in his hands to be impactful his defense is Elite and his shoot he spaces the floor. I still dont get why they let him walk knowing they were bringing in a guy who lets face it couldn’t space the floor consistently.
Would be hype if you investigated the 'young Lakers'-whether the organization actually did a good job of developing their picks (DLo, Ingram, THT, etc) OR if they should have traded away the 2018 core for Anthony Davis instead of waiting a year for him to come in free agency.
The front office of the Lakers has been abysmal. I blame Kobe. It’s was his agent that Jeannie fell in love with and kicked Magic to the curb. Jerry West gone, Dr. Buss gone, family feud ensuing, Rambis infiltration, complete lack of leadership and the ultimate tell Magic had enough. Jeanie Buss should sell the team. She’s a poor manager and horrible leader. Very likable but even the bubble chip don’t count…sorry. Magic should become the new owner and kick Rambis, Rob, and Jeanie to the curb. There are no championships for the Lakers in the foreseeable future. It may take a decade…
@NNOutBurger_Gaming Lebron has traded the most players in the NBA. More than any GM in history. Wtf are you clowning about? You want some honey to glaze Lebron?
@@delconagher12 How can a player trade another player. Only GMs have that power. Are you saying LeBron is the first active nba player and GM in league history?
Traded Zubac for Mike Freaking Muscala because a certain somebody wants all the 3 pt shooters around him. Zubac has blossomed into a solid nba center. Still on the clips.
Lebron signed off on trading everyone so he can pursue the hottest girl on the market in Westbrick. They really thought that big 3 alone would drag any roster to a championship.
If lebron could get his sorry son a guaranteed contract he could have gotten thr other players to stay just as he did with jr smith and Tristan Thompson
Suns were the best team in the league that year 😂 y’all get caught up to much with name value over an actual good team. Even when CP3 was hurt, they were winning games.
Because he joins teams, guts them of picks and prospects, then leaves. Then he and his fanboys complain he doesn't have enough "help" every year when he loses.
ppl in here blaming the laker front office when all they did was do what bron wanted and would have complained about had he not gotten it i really dont understand how its their fault and not bron n ADs for tryinh to make a trio to compete with another conference team when your not a lock to even win your conference lol
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The Caruso decision is unforgivable absolute garbage front office.
When it happened I wondered why they would do that & the Russ trade & it all makes sense that Perlinka was being cheap. Caruso was also a great chemistry guy. They try to hold onto AR to not make the same mistake but imo should’ve moved him to improve the over all team. Russ I can see him telling Lebron to back the trade because it was short term & Davis money to sign someone bigger later .. he couldn’t make it happen. People like to blame Lebron but I’ve been said it was Perlinka. & to get rid of that front court , the very one they needed in years since was straight questionable .
no excuses. caruso was "REQUIRED" to be loyal and stay in la
@@mikewilliams9069 yeah it was a crazy move. The dismantling of the roster overall was but Caruso was crazy. They didn’t even try by his accounts. One low ball offer didn’t even give the man the respect to listen to his counteroffer.
@@Supreme36074 lebron was lowballed for seven years in Cleveland but you people destroyed him for leaving and not being “loyal”
@@mikewilliams9069 wrong one bro, I definitely was okay with him leaving
I’ll never forgive Solomon Hill 💔
One of the worst days of watching sports I can remember 😢
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Weirdo behavior
This is all his fault lmao
He knew what he was doing. We could of gone back to back 😢 thats if AD didnt get hurt either
How we went from the flexibility of AD, Gasol, Trez and Drummond at the 5 to playing LeWilt at the 5 the next season is still beyond me.
LeWilt HAHAHAHA
Fuckin Gasol Harrell and Drummond isn’t no damn flexibility. It just looks good compared the the bullshit we’ve had since. WE HAD BROOK LOPEZ BEFORE LEBRON CAME TO LA. IMAGINE LEBRON AD CARUSO KCP AND BROOK LOPEZ. THEY WOULD WIN 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS. MINIMUM.
@@JasonBrendan-td4qb Okay? Doesn’t change the fact that my point is we were playing LeWilt at the 5 a season later. That 2021 was so stacked Trez was getting DNPs as the reigning 6th man of the year, if that’s not flexibility then I don’t know what is.
@@jankarlo3798 the lakers didn’t need trezz. That’s why he was on the bench. The lakers needed big men who can protect the rim. That was the most important trait for a lakers center with AD and Bron. Even Gasol was too old. Drummond not a rim protector either. It just looks good/flexible cause of what we’ve had since. Lakers don’t need a center who can’t protect the rim OR shoot the 3. Gasol could do both but was way too old. Trezz and Drummond couldn’t do either.
@@JasonBrendan-td4qbOkay sure, but that 2021 team was on the verge of making back to back finals at the very least if it weren’t for injuries to Bron and AD. That team was fine. They just panicked and traded everything for Westbrick. And then the LeWilt Era began.
a UA-cam channel focused on the Lakers. I'm all in!
Just what we need! A channel dedicated to one of the most mid teams in the league before Bron retires and you go back to being bottom feeders. PERFECT!
Looking forward to this channel’s growth
If there’s ONE thing I’ve learnt as a Lakers fan over the past 4 years, it’s that this front office is GOD awful. The amount of talent that were traded for pennies on the dollar while Rob Palenka sat behind his desk eating twinkies and flirting with the boss is absolutely ridiculous. Here’s just a few to name them:
Demar Derozan, Paul George (TWICE), Kawhi Leonard, Kyrie Irving, Jonas Valanciunas, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard, Buddy Hield, Chris Paul, DeJounte Murray, Alex Caruso, etc.
The list goes on and on and on and on and those are just SOME examples that Rob has missed entirely across TWO seasons. He needs to do SOMETHING. There are currently, I believe, 6 rebuilding teams with assets that I (as a Lakers fan) would WANT to help win a ring.. and Rob’s response to that knowledge was an absolute nobody from Toronto.
were you only a laker fan over the last 4 years only?
@@marquisfelder3170 Reread the comment and use context clues and then you tell me man 😂
@@vise_atoxity8083 you was doing alotta yappin im not reading all that answer the question or ignore me lol but you sound like a band wagon not a lifer but what ever
@@marquisfelder3170 How big of a nerd do you have to be to say something like that in response to a comment about the biggest misses over the past few years? Go outside and touch some grass.
Lifer by the way, I’ve flown to plenty of Lakers game and been a fan since birth because of my family. Hard to be a “band wagon” when there’s NOTHING to jump onto. The team is a ceasepool as of now.
@@marquisfelder3170 Touch grass
Bro he forgot one key detail lakers could’ve kept that same roster from 2020 with Caruso and in the off season they wanted to compete with the nets all they had to do was wait another week and BOOM DEMAR DEROZAN IS A LAKER SHIT MAKE NO SENSE THEY WERE THE BEST DEFENSE TEAM THE NETS REALLY WASNT AN ISSUE FOR THEM THE RUSS TRADE WAS SO DUMB
Was genuinely shocked this hasn’t got more views considering how well edited it is
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Way is LeBron James doing about this incident in life OK ka.pai
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Your video production is absolutely incredible, creative ambient noise in the videos. I usually don’t comment, but your videos are great. Keep up the great work. You’ll get your flowers
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I love it when I find a 100k channel before it even hits 10k
I can’t figure out what I’m impressed with more the super high level analysis or the actual video itself. The editing and quality of this video is extremely professional. Did I mention the storytelling ability? I just became a huge fan of yours
this video is edited so good & well made i went to subscribe & was surprised to see only 26 subs, keep going you already have good quality content
Thank you for the kind comment. Just started this channel but will be posting more videos like this!
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@@andreashley6084 ikr
How do you barely have any subscribers this was a good ass video
Just started the channel! Thank you so much for the comment, hopefully this can be the beginning of a nice journey.
This video was clutch. Well done.
Cavs were up 2-1 in 15 before losing to GSW
Darn it, that’s what I meant to say my bad!
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This is still a very painful topic to discuss 💔
The triple towers was nice to have too, someone always had a big defensive night (mcgee howard davis,) and kept a fresh presence in the paint, many nights they threw a block party.
Yeah, and AD prefers to play the 4, so you need a good center who can take on those assignments.
Your work is too good to only have 5k subs. Spreading gospel to everyone who will listen.
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Thank you and I won’t, got lots of videos lined up!
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Thank you and will do!
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Love the videos, any reason you use such sleepy music as background?
Great video, but you can’t trace it all back to that 3-pointer, that’s a reach.
I always remember when Vogel tucked his tail against the Rockets and played small ball after losing Game 1 of their 2020 second round series. Javale McGee and Dwight Howard teaming with Anthony Davis gave the Lakers a revolving door of rim protection, but when they lost that game, it scared them from playing the way that earned them a top seed in the conference. They never really went back to it the rest of the playoffs, and that style of play eventually was so unappreciated that management didn’t work to bring it back.
I would have much rather seen what happened with the great Lakers role players, since it was more than just Caruso. Rajon Rondo also came up big in the playoffs. Thinking they could simply replace him with Schröder was so stupid.
Good content my man! My only critique - speak louder/more clearly into the mic and you'll be golden.
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Blame Jeanie Buss. She signed off on everything.
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Thank you my friend! Here’s to hoping 🙏
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Won’t be breaking down his mind but something similar is the next video!
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top notch i never considered meme material lebron doing a curry 3 vs houston was the start of the downfall that the lakers still has not overcome despite reaching the wcf after the westbrook era.
They need a traditional center to allow AD to do his thing more freely, healthy AD is the #1 or #2 two way player in the league, his output is compromised by him having to play Center.
Great video! You’re going to be big time don’t forget me homie
Thank you so much 😭🙏
Rob Pelinka really messed up in the 2020 off-season instead of running it back you decide to blow up the championship team and since then we haven't been able to get to the finals SMH these off-season moves all these years haven't been good
Your content too good not to blow up. Start researching some SEO on these my guy.
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It’s unfortunate but I’m somehow still optimistic about next season even tho we went out in the first round the year before 💔. It would be cool if you made video about the downfall of Darwin Ham and how he lost the locker room.
Great idea! Definitely will consider it
Buddy was always the right choice goddamnit
13-3 in 26 games is a crazy record
The Lakers have had the worst Front Office in sports for the past…maybe 15 years. We lucked out getting LeBron, and AD deciding to join him. But the problems we had-the problems that killed our chances of getting Kobe a competitive roster late in his career-remained still.
We won a chip, then decided to go for a retool by gaining two guys that we didn’t need, and one which was just a horrible fit. Complete identity change, but it still kinda worked.
So then we get injured all year in 2021 and it causes us to lose in the first round. Okay no problem-except the Lakers FO decided to blow it up including trading for Russell Westbrook and letting Caruso walk for Luxury Tax money.
We have the worst year possible, and we fire our championship head coach the next year because he couldn’t make Russ work. On a Lakers team with LeBron James.
Who do we trade for? The worst coach in the NBA m, as he would prove to be.
I started watching basketball in 2020, and im from California so lakers was a natural choice for my fav team. I loved russ in la I genuinely feel like if they kept caruso and Schroder that first russ year and bron n ad didn’t get injured they would’ve been amazing. Most People forget russ was averaging 18/7/7 yes russ has always had a below average 3pt shot, but a backcourt or him and Caruso would’ve been an amazing fit. Caruso doesn’t need the ball in his hands to be impactful his defense is Elite and his shoot he spaces the floor. I still dont get why they let him walk knowing they were bringing in a guy who lets face it couldn’t space the floor consistently.
Trading/losing Russ and Caruso were terrible decisions
The really chose THT over Caruso 😩
Here before this blows up
Thank you 🥲
Would be hype if you investigated the 'young Lakers'-whether the organization actually did a good job of developing their picks (DLo, Ingram, THT, etc) OR if they should have traded away the 2018 core for Anthony Davis instead of waiting a year for him to come in free agency.
They let go of rondo, Dwight , javale, and Danny green thanks Rob😂
Danny green was the biggest piece to that team.
The front office of the Lakers has been abysmal. I blame Kobe. It’s was his agent that Jeannie fell in love with and kicked Magic to the curb. Jerry West gone, Dr. Buss gone, family feud ensuing, Rambis infiltration, complete lack of leadership and the ultimate tell Magic had enough. Jeanie Buss should sell the team. She’s a poor manager and horrible leader. Very likable but even the bubble chip don’t count…sorry. Magic should become the new owner and kick Rambis, Rob, and Jeanie to the curb. There are no championships for the Lakers in the foreseeable future. It may take a decade…
The Alex Caruso decision changed the entire decade.
Great video I feel like the tittle should be how the lakers destroyed a championship team
Great suggestion
Mr. Wu, you'll blow up very quick
I hated AC leaving. Imagine if we had AC and AR
A lot of those contracts were expiring if I remember
4:22 LeBron injures his ankle so badly that he’s writhing in pain and has to crawl off the court
4:36 Walks off the court like nothing happened
Lol, for real, he was putting on a show. :D
Lediddy did it
The only way bron and AD was gonna work with russ was if both guys planned to shoot more. They didnt. It was a stupid trade if that was the case.
The nets would’ve advanced to the eastern conference finals, but I get what you’re saying
this video said it all
Short answer: Don’t fix what isn’t broken.
Where is the actual investigation?
That was arguably the toughest championship in some ways.
The title of the video should be "Why Lebron traded players from the Bubble Chip?"
He didnt goofy
@@Ejp23_ He's the GM clown!
@@delconagher12yall really believe that
@NNOutBurger_Gaming Lebron has traded the most players in the NBA. More than any GM in history. Wtf are you clowning about? You want some honey to glaze Lebron?
@@delconagher12 How can a player trade another player. Only GMs have that power. Are you saying LeBron is the first active nba player and GM in league history?
It's easy. They got afraid of Brooklyn at that time.
Suns had the luckiest run to the finals ever
the more i watch this the more it fking kills me
lol I don’t understand how you win the title and not try to keep that roster
What was so impactful about that shot
turn your mic 90 degrees, reduce the air
so sad we got rid of that squad man
Everything went downhill after Magic Johnson stepped down as president
Traded Zubac for Mike Freaking Muscala because a certain somebody wants all the 3 pt shooters around him.
Zubac has blossomed into a solid nba center. Still on the clips.
Here's the thing they were actually better in 2021 injuries just happened
Lebron signed off on trading everyone so he can pursue the hottest girl on the market in Westbrick. They really thought that big 3 alone would drag any roster to a championship.
Kyle Kuzma got shafted too
If lebron could get his sorry son a guaranteed contract he could have gotten thr other players to stay just as he did with jr smith and Tristan Thompson
I keep telling this to people Anthony Davis isn’t good at playing the 5 long term, he’s good at playing power forward.
Ad been telling us this but we keep forcing him to play the 5
Lakers win title in 21 if not for Davis getting hurt
LeGM did
Suns had the luckiest run to the finals
Suns were the best team in the league that year 😂 y’all get caught up to much with name value over an actual good team. Even when CP3 was hurt, they were winning games.
How’d they go 13-3 in the next 26games? That math don’t math
Kobe Bryant all day
i miss carushow
Because he joins teams, guts them of picks and prospects, then leaves. Then he and his fanboys complain he doesn't have enough "help" every year when he loses.
I like your content but why use lullaby songs. I'm at work already, don't make it worse
ppl in here blaming the laker front office when all they did was do what bron wanted and would have complained about had he not gotten it i really dont understand how its their fault and not bron n ADs for tryinh to make a trio to compete with another conference team when your not a lock to even win your conference lol
This so much.
If bron wanted to, he would've got them all paid like Tristan Thompson and JR Smith.