The Lakers a better team after free agent signings + Is Lillard a better fit for the Heat or 76ers? | Get Up
The Get Up crew discuss NBA free agency moves, the Los Angeles Lakers free agent signings, Damian Lillard requesting a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers and more.
0:00 Free Agency grades
3:00 How much better are the Lakers after free agent signings?
6:25 Brian Windhorst on landing spots for Damian Lillard
10:30 Would the 76ers or Heat be a better fit for Lillard?
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46 Comments
These media people are so stupid, lakers turned it around after the trade deadline and went to the western conference finals, Denver didn’t even blow them out all games were close. Lakers now have a whole preseason to gel. 7th in the west play in to conference finals in the west give credit
Tim is hating so bad
Banes and grant are smiling 😂😂😂…but yah nuggets shouldve kept the same core man…and btw dame aint gonna be the golden ticket for phila
Short guy in the blue suit is a degenerate
LA is not better, they’re basically the same. Not necessarily a bad thing. Having a full season together is going to go a long way
Wendy and the other cornball needa wake yall’s a$$ up !! Lakers got WAY better… quit being nerds and read the room. The only on that’s making sense is the only one that HOOPED in his career. The rest needa sit down
Leave Elton out that group. He gave Harris and horford 100 mil
ESPN need to hire my folks back 😂
This man just say Gabe Vincent and Schreuder are basically the same…? Dennis was great for us in moments but bro stop joking yourself
What would it take for the Lakers grade to be an A? Lol…. If they did what?
Everyone hating on the suns thats funny
yes the lakers got better, adding prince + vincent + hayes + reddish + retaining rui, reaves, dlo and vando.
Lakers' problems during the playoffs were shooting. They're good on defense, which is primarily been utilized with schroder, vando and rui. They lack shooting/scoring since they cannot rely on schroder, dlo or reaves alone.
Reddish, prince and vincent = can knock down 3s which is consistent
So, Race Baiter Extraordinaire Kendrick Perkins kept his job, huh, ESPN? Got it!
lol who pissed in bros coffee? why was he so salty?
These guys love talking about the Lakers, but HATE giving them credit. These guys are laughable. Get KP on the phone!
Let Me Vent: I'm not happy with some of the people yall let go. But the show must go on
The Lakers needed more shooting, another athletic big, and more bench depth overall. They did all of it.. why isnt this an A??
Lakers got their players back for peanuts while other teams signing players throwing their kitchen sinks 😂 TF A+. Imma business minded i got a high value real estate property that i can sell for in the future in guaranteed higher value . Thats what the Lakers did. Yuta Watanabe is sneaky good signing for Suns too
yeah ESPN IS TRASHHHH
The Suns hate is ridiculous 🤣 Bro give them a D
You can feel the hatred from this tim guy sheesh
This is what happens when you fire 20 people you have all white people speaking about black athletes
Lakers All Day 🔥
If Heat will give up Bam for Lillard they are doomed. Love and …. ye Love solo gonna carry the Center position. Even if they get Nurkic, there is no way they wont allow 445445points under the basket
Congrats to the 2024 champions! Let’s just give LA the trophy now. Good god
Okay. Giving the Suns a D because the only player that guy knows is Eric Gordon is enough of a reason to understand why ESPN is dying.
Tim is all time lakers hater 😂
Without Bruce brown and Jeff green with Lebron healthy, Denver is trash 🗑️
Denver won it because Lebron has a injured ankle 🗑️
“I don’t know these players, you’d have to explain it to me.” Bro that’s your job.
Windy again proving why he’s on another level compared to his peers.
This is basically the same sorry 500 Laker team as last year. It's all bout how much help the nba officials give them.
👑LAKERNATION HAD A GOOD FREE AGENCY ..
is trading not part of free agency lmao
How tf yall gonna let off people who know basketball like jalen rose and jeff van gundy and let these bozos stay and talk basketball they know nothing 😤 (except for windhorst)
As a Portland Native, I wanna see Dame in LA with Lebron and AD. Dame-Time = Showtime!
This is a wild take from the staff. Denver lost Bruce Brown, a key piece in their run.
The Warriors didn't get any better, the Grizzles didn't, and Phoenix lost all their depth for monster trades. I would now rank Denver #1, the Lakers #2, and the Kings #3 in the Western Conference.
Also, Jaxson Hayes can develop into a monster with the Laker's staff. He is more athletic than AD and is just 23 years old.
Imagine guarding Hayes and AD with a Pick and roll?
He is correct, the lakers are essentially the same team. A playoff team but no to win the finals
Soon as bontimps said Dennis & Gabe are the same level of shooter I was done
Yooo tell the dude in the red tie to relax. Probably told the guy off air "If you EVER talk to me like that again on national TV, I WILL END YOU" (finger pointed in the mans face)
The Lakers got marginally better by not only keeping their key role players (Reeves, Hachimura), but I do think Gabe Vincent is an upgrade to Dennis Schroder… even if on paper they're very similar, Vincent seems to show a little more toughness. All of this ultimately doesn't matter if Anthony Davis can't be consistently great in the playoffs and if D'Angelo Russell has too many unproductive minutes. The Lakers would immediately be one of the 2 best teams in the West if Russell could just play to his potential… what a weapon he is when he gets going, but he shies away from the big moments way too often. Needless to say, Denver is still better at this exact moment and we never know if this is going to be the year LeBron finally significantly regresses (though I wouldn't bet on it). I'm also interested in what a healthy Clippers team could do, though mentioning Leonard, George, and "healthy" in the same sentence has become a joke at this point.
is just me or draymond green is deeply overrated
ESPN bout to be kinda dry with the layoffs they had.
Trade for javale McGee or go get Howard let AD play the 4
I think the key thing missing from the Lakers discussion is how fast this team was put together and how they drug themselves to the 7th seed only playing together for less than a few months. This team will be better just on the merits that thwy will have a full season and off-season with each other
Alan Hahn is smart one,Tim u-haul forehead is dumb said Cam Reddish 10th pick an 2way player that’s 6’7 to 9 23 yrs old “sucks” Lakers goal was to keep AR15 Rui Jared they did than sign Gabe Hayes Prince energy guys. Cam reddish rarely got playing time on the Hawks n Knicks he definitely gonna play for the Lakers
Nuggets lost Bruce Brown & Jeff Green
We still need shooting.