19 Burst results for "Wayne Ellington"
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"I think Deandre Jordan is the big one where you say that like what was even the thought process there. You look at Ken bazemore Wayne Ellington, Trevor ariza and Trevor risa, you know, he was injured, but that's part of it. He's been an injured guy. So to sign him thinking he'll be a huge contributor, probably was a mistake. So yeah, I think one of the biggest indictments of this off season is they put their faith in guys on veteran minimums who were just not trustworthy and they could have gone in different direction. And of course, we're talking about their physical performance on the basketball court. Not necessarily their character as people in terms of trustworthy there. They're all great, actually. Trevor Reese is fantastic. One of the NBA's best, just not a contributor on the floor at a high level anymore. He's 36 and he's got an injury history. Yeah, I mean, he's coming off of ankle surgery. So we have to make sure we note that. But yeah, so when we look at this and Dwight Howard, by the way, maybe shouldn't be in this group because you know that any time that the Lakers are going up against a big, like, we probably see him in the next game against the 76ers. They're probably going to use it against Joel embiid. So Dwight Howard is a guy who very easily could be in the rotation, but on the surface, when we talked about the Lakers did, given that they were limited to veteran minimums, you thought, hey, Trevor ariza. That's a big three and D wing. You got a shooter in Wayne Ellington. Great, this guy was like 40 plus percent from three last season fantastic. You signed these guys that you thought were going to be able to come in and help Kent bazemore did some things defensively. His advance stats on the defensive end looked pretty good for the warriors last season. I talked about this a lot in the off season. I said, during the off season, everything is sunshine and rainbows..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"They're not doing that. Can we all do a fundraiser for the Lakers for whatever they need to free us from rusty? I don't think the Lakers need a fundraiser. All right, let's do a couple more. And then we'll call it a night here. Westbrook isn't just a problem now, doesn't he also have an option for 47 million next year? Yes, he does have a player option that he is likely to pick up next year. Trevor, when can we have an honest talk about Ellington? 7 for 22 from the field over the last four games and other ways of assigning CRISPR a shooter Wayne Ellington has not been shooting the ball very well. And he's had moments where even defensively. I went, yeah, that's better than I expected out of him, where he's been one of the guys to hustle back to get into a play or to make the extra effort. I've seen some things I've been pleased with. But the Lakers really signed him to be a consistent shooter. And unfortunately, he hasn't really been that. But it seems like everybody, when they put on a Lakers Jersey, they're shooting ability to just seems to fall by the wayside. But I've heard you make this argument before too. So if you got a guy like Ellington, who is not a defender, per se. And you know, like, yeah, put in some effort, but really he's one of those guys where if he's not pulling his weight offensively, he's kind of a net negative still on the floor, I think. So like, I don't know, unless maybe he's played better defense than I either know about or remember. I know he had a previous thing with us, but I know Ellington's been mainly regarded for his offense, so I don't know, man. It's the list just keeps going. I feel like we could just put anybody on this list with a question mark, like, what did we do with this? Why is this guy playing like this and like, you know what I mean? Like, Ellington's just another one. Just to add to it, you know what I mean? Everybody hasn't been terrible. I mean, granted, you know, I don't know. I mean, it's honestly I'm scatterbrained talking about all this at this point. I need you to make sense of it. Well, it's because.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Monk AD Dwight. As your starters, that's what Joel Hernandez is suggesting that the Lakers go to. Now that LeBron James is out, Russ, Wayne Ellington, Malik monk, Anthony Davis, Dwight, Howard. Not bad. I mean, he gives you the floor spacing. We certainly saw. I think this was one of the keys to the second half. Was that particular lineup? Why it worked? Dwight doesn't give you floor spacing, but monk and Ellington are dangerous enough as shooters behind the ark that Russell Westbrook gets driving lanes. And that made such a big difference for his game. He had opportunities to get to the rib, and then when he was a threat to score at the rim, guess what he started doing, kicking out to shooters. He had the one where he did kind of a 360 in the air and kicked the ball out to. I believe it was Wayne Ellington who knocked down the three makes a big difference. When you put shooters around Russell, Westbrook, who to thank it. Arsenal law from YouTube said, did you hear? Yes, I was just reading this. I believe it was Dan wakey, was just tweeting about this. So he said, did you hear someone bet the kings would win, but $265,000 that the kings would win and it was the king's plus 5 at the time because we didn't know that LeBron was out at that point. And the kings would end the point total will be under 227 for $235,000. That person still came out ahead because they hit on the under bet apparently. So that worked out for them. But lily's according to Dan wiki. But yeah, look, if you've got that much money to throw around on a basketball game, you're really gonna bet it on a Lakers kings game. On a Tuesday night, I guess if it makes the game more interesting, you can go ahead and do it. But they lucked out and were able to still come out ahead even though the Lakers wound up winning and they bet on the.
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"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Can happen in transition. But as far as the lineup change itself, let's talk a little bit about that. Let's talk about Kent bazemore. Because I'm getting a lot of comments on him. Oh for four tonight zero for three from three zero points. Looking at the game log here for him the last few games. So the last three games Kent bazemore has scored two points. And he has shot one for 12 while doing so. The last three games. He has not made a three in he has not made it three since November 2nd. Since the beginning of the month. That's the last time he made a three point shot. So a lot of people have been talking about Kent bazemore, does the Lakers starting 5 need to change? And well, in this one, it did change. They changed their starting 5. They went small, they went with 80 at the 5, but this is not what we typically want to see when we talk about the Lakers playing smaller with Anthony Davis at the 5. See the Lakers the great thing about Anthony Davis is you can go small and I'll say small with air quotes because you go small, but you're not really that small. Because you have you're just going more versatile really. When you put Anthony Davis at the 5, he's still a big dude. And then you've got say LeBron at the four. Okay, so technically that's your small lineup, but LeBron 6 8 AD is a true big, that's not that small of a lineup. In this game, they went small and they went really small. It was Anthony Davis and four guards, right? Wayne Ellington went into the starting lineup along with Bayes more Avery Bradley Russell Westbrook. That is a very, very small lineup. So when the Lakers prefer to go small, though, it's when they don't really give up that much size and they've got more versatility. That's what Frank Vogel has talked about. Now part of the reason why we haven't seen more AD at the center spot is because they haven't felt like they could truly capitalize on it by having a LeBron out there. Ariza out there. Someone like that. You might say Carmelo Anthony, yes, he does have some size, but they really seem locked in on him coming off the bench. So that's what the Lakers decided to do in this one. Was go small with all these guards. Kent bazemore being part of it, I don't think that's going to last much longer. I really don't. And here's what I'll tell you.
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"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"So Avery Bradley was the only Laker who is healthy to not play LeBron James, Wayne Ellington, both not only technically Wayne Ellington was available to play, but Frank Vogel said unless it was a complete emergency. He wasn't putting a man. He still recovering from that hamstring strain. So the only truly healthy Laker to not play in this game, Avery Bradley, and this was a game where I thought the Lakers could have used some defensive help. So what gives? Matt, why do you think Avery Bradley was not part of the rotation tonight? Well, I don't know if you saw this flying around or floating around on the Twitter side, Trevor, but Avery Bradley actually put up no counting stats the last time you played with 20 plus minutes. That's hard to do. That's hard to do. It's like you're just getting cardio. Just getting your steps in for that day. But no, seriously, though, I think Frank looked at this game and said, you know, Austin Reeves, who I'm sure we'll also talk about was having a solid two way game for the most part. I thought he began was another spark, played a lot of minutes tonight. How many minutes he played? He played 30 minutes on the night tonight, Trevor. Quite a bump since the first game, right? And then also Malik monk just had it going. I thought he was really good connective tissue offensively as far as scoring from outside, PNR, you know, we have not given Malik monk enough praise for how he's handled the playmaking duty as a secondary ball handler. I thought he was fantastic tonight. He thought it was a really mean pocket pass and it made sure to tweet that out because I thought it was really impressive. Didn't always end up with an assist, but I think that having playmaking chops on a night where you're missing LeBron James is very important. So I think you know those two Reeves and monk proved that they deserve the lion's share of the minute. I did think there was some instances where we could have used Bradley, especially over rondo. The Westbrook and Rajon Rondo pairing was not my favorite of the night. If I had a critique Vogel tonight, that was definitely one of them where to me, it's a spacing issue. It's a defensive issue. So if you know if you're going to have two non shooting guards out there, I would at least prefer one of them to be a defensive minded one. So in that case, I could have definitely seen Avery Bradley as far playing over rondo in those kinds of minutes. But, you know, to tell you the truth, I really just think that Vogel wanted to make sure that the spacing was pristine for Russell Westbrook down the stretch. And I do think that reef showed enough playmaking and shooting to warrant those minutes over him..
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"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"That I would say off the bat is my biggest worry. Yeah, see, when I look at this team and I caution this a bunch during the off season, I said, look, right now, you look at the team and we tend to, as fans, right? We tend to think everything is going to work out perfectly. And every fan base does this. This is not unique to the Lakers. Everybody looks at it and they say, oh my gosh, what a great signing this guy is gonna be phenomenal. This guy's gonna be great. Wow, they signed all these great players. It doesn't always work out that way. Think about the stretch that Wesley Matthews had last year where he wasn't even playable for a decent chunk of the season because he was that bad. And you wouldn't have expected that during the off season, we talked about him being such this big addition for the Lakers. And you couldn't even put him on the floor. I do wonder about that defensively. For example, Wayne Ellington. Is he playable? In the preseason that answer was no. He wasn't hitting threes at a high enough rate now it's a tiny sample size, wasn't hitting threes at a time at a high enough rate to make up for getting burned constantly on the defensive end of the floor and Malik monk. I think he was. But I think the Lakers as much as we talk about their depth, they may be in a situation where, in the bench unit, you can play Malik monk or you can play Wayne Ellington if you play both of them, your defense is toast. And that's something that's got to be a concern for a defense first head coach like Frank Vogel that he's got a lot of guys that are good shooters from outside. He's got some guys that are good defenders, but most of the time those aren't the same player. You've got a guy who can shoot, but not defend you guys who can defend but not shoot. And so that's going to be a struggle, particularly when we look at historically, the Lakers path to success if we look at the 2019 2020 title team has been to find guys who do both, right? Danny Green, kentavious called the Pope, Avery Bradley to a lesser degree at that time. These are all guys that can play on both sides of the basketball and I don't know if they've got enough of those guys this year. Again, I think they've got enough to get to the final. So I'm not saying they're bad. But that's a concern to watch out for for this team. Yeah. And so I think Frank Vogel not only is he can have his work cut out for him in terms of getting together a good defensive team, building everyone up to be good defenders. He's also going to have his work cut out for him and figuring out lineup combinations that don't sacrifice either side of the floor. So like you said, you probably will never see Malik monk playing alongside Wayne Ellington this season because if you play both of them, you're not going to stop anyone. The same can be said of on the flip side..
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"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Earlier today, all about the closing line of the starting lineup That might look like the Lakers don't have a clear-cut closing line up. I mean, I think it's very easy to sneak. Okay, R Us a d LeBron. Those three are going to be on the floor but Skyler, who are the other two were the other two that Frank vogel's going to lean on to close out games. To close out games. We're not talking about starting. No one can close out closing out. Honestly, if you can in some cases, I think you go with the five Hall of Famer lineup and you put Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony in there. Oh, okay, to close out games as you got four, guys who can hit absolute buckets. Then again, though, then again, I was getting a little bit, starry-eyed with the five Hall of Famers on the floor. She might have to rescind Dwight. Howard at the end of games. If we can get Anthony, if we can get Anthony Davis, playing the center role. Otherwise, I think you want to go with whoever proved to be the best three-point shooter. We added. Which, at this point I might be most comfortable with Wayne Ellington. I do think you walk Carmelo on there. So I think the Russell Westbrook Wayne Ellington at the to Carmelo at The Three Little Pigs before and a via the five. It could be a real death lineup for the Lakers. I like that. I like that. I do think there's going to be some flexibility here. I think there's going to be some flexibility for exactly. Yep. I've got plenty of guys, you can turn to you. So Frank Vogel who likes to ride the hot hand? He can certainly do that here. I think if you're really, if you're going to really go defense, a d is at the 5,000 Branagh Westbrook on the floor and I am putting Bazemore in a reason with them. And that's that's my defense first lineup. That's how I'm going to if I'm looking at. Hey, I've got a five point lead and there's two minutes left and I want to close this thing out..
Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
"They're gonna remember him. Is the guy that average a triple double four years. Just like we remember oscar robertson as the guy the average a triple double not so much. The god wants a championship with lou. Al cinder cream. I'll do jabbar. Iso resumes iconic. There's no doubt but you brought up what he did in washington last year with the driving to the basket which he did he did in a houston too but what how did he do it. When the paint was wide open when the floor was spread. Now maybe the lakers maybe mark the saw will start alongside these three. The big three and that'll help you space the floor and then you put kip as more wayne ellington. Whoever the other guy is so you facing but they gotta make sure they have spacing because if russ doesn't have that spacing and that middle is an open that's when the all that drive to the basket will be on the see. Nothing is changed for cam. newton. He's still the starter in new england even after the patriots drafted jones. That doesn't mean kim's job is safe. as bill. belichick made it clear. Both guys eight healthy battle the six times super bowl. Winning coach told reporters quote competition..
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LeBron James Deletes Fiery Tweet Calling out Lakers Haters
"Let's get to LeBron James. So LeBron James has tweeted. All right. Well, then he took it back. So we all know that the Lakers partially out of desperation, They've had to retool the back end of the roster because they've got no money. They've got no financial flexibility with the three guys making the money that they are with LeBron a DNA Russell Westbrook in the mix, so they recently added Carmelo, who is 37 Trevor, reasons 36 Dwight Howard is 35 Wayne Ellington, who's a young buck. He's 33 get baseboards. 32 Westbrook is 32 as well, but he's got the big money. So LeBron wrote, just tweeted this out, and he said Keep talking about my squad. Our personal ages. The way he plays, he stays injured. We're past our time in the league, etcetera, etcetera. Do me one favor, please. And I mean, please. He's going caps and exclamations. LeBron must be serious. Keep that same narrative energy caps when it begins, exclamation. That's all I ask Hashtag. Thank you. Then he deleted it. Yeah, because we will you deleting it for that? We will keep it that way. When it begins. We are fair on this show. We will. But why are they the leading? They play Great. Then go say we're wrong.
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"wayne ellington" Discussed on Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
"And i look at the field is so crazy to think that having a true off season rest coming out of the bubble and getting another season you go out of the playoffs relatively early so now you've got a real restful time as lebron. Ad changed this trainers training staff. So he's doing things that he can do to make himself physically better prepared for the season. I just don't think it's just to look at this team and say they're too old so i'm gonna take the field and maybe it's by default broussard. Maybe i'm looking at the rest of the field and i'm saying no one definitively made a move that says to me. Oh my gosh. Like you've got gotta worry about with them. You got to worry about this team. There's no one who has done that. That set themselves apart. So i look at the lakers. As saying they addressed it the way they needed to in order to be as competitive as they can possibly be for one season in one season alone. So people don't think. I'm totally pro lakers. You're there are some weaknesses right lavar. I mean i'm not really worried about the workload on the bron more worried about the team doctor tending all these elderly gentleman on the roster but in all seriousness the rim protection could need a third guy. Okay we as you said. Anthony davis usually missing fifteen. Twenty games a season dwight howard. He's an ancient guy out there. They need a third rim-protector cause tooth be told when carmelo anthony is on the court you know people are blow by pretty easily and wayne ellington not known as a great defender malinche monk ranked one hundred fifteen out of one hundred sixteen shooting guards in defense of plus minus so third..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"You know, when Here's the other thing, when I'm looking at this Lakers roster, right? And I get a lot of the comments, and I've even seen him here tonight. People are saying you guys are too focused on threats. It's not threes, it's not so much. The threes, it's the threat. Like I'm not the person saying I want the Lakers shoot Xmas every single game. I don't think you have to be an incredible three point shooting team in order to win to this NBA. I've got so many people right now. I've seen it all over social media running around saying, all of the Milwaukee Bucks, just wanted them to shoot threes, the Lakers a couple of years ago. They just they wanted, they didn't shoot threes that. Well, you've got to terrible three-point shooting. Team to just one. Why do you care about three point shooting? It's not that you have to be able to get off points from 3 or shoot a high-volume from Three's. You have to be able to threaten from 3. Once you can have is guys out there where teams don't have to guard them, the Milwaukee Bucks, do they shoot a great percentage? No choice. But they shall well enough. The teams would have to defend them. That's what matters. That's where you're spacing. Comes into play. Look at what the sons did the Lakers. They knew, they couldn't hit threes. So how many times did we see five Sons? In the paint and the Lakers trying to get something going to the rim, and it's all clogged up because they didn't have anybody. That was a threat to shoot or even the guys who were threats to shoot were not shooting. Well, that's what these three point talk about Ron, Matt myself. We're not saying the Lakers have to shoot a high volume of Threes. We're saying you have to have guys who will threaten from 3? Because that opens up your insides a game. These things are all connected. I'm not, the kind of guy who says, you need to shoot a ton of Threes to win in the modern NBA know you don't but you have to be able to threaten E, hundred percent. Think you summarized in pretty good, the Lakers have no space to operate in the playoffs, lo and behold. They've signed a couple, guys. I can hit threes. So, you know, in theory, the spacing will be better off and LeBron Russell Westbrook. Etc will have more room to get to the pain and finish at The Rim or kick out to Shooters at. They're both really good out by the way. So, yeah, that's just kind of where it is. The Lakers shop close to 20253 s a game, which often it's about league-average. Even blow it off, top my head and they and they swore efficiently, that's all that really matters. We're not saying, hey shoot fifty-three is a game, it's just more like, hey, just give me guys that defenses. Have to respect a little bit. Yep, that's it. And I think that's even more important when you've got Russell Westbrook, who is at his best when he's getting to the rim. It's easier for him to give gets the rib when the floor is spaced. That's why the Houston Rockets said, okay, no more centers because they needed the Force Base, for Russell Westbrook to be able to get to the rim. Yeah, this is basically like the de facto Center and those lineups. Definitely kind of think about it ever. He averaged eleven and half rebounds per game this past season. I don't I feel like we're not talking enough about how ridiculous that choice. But yeah, a point guard averaged eleven and half rebounds per game over a whole NBA season. That's impressive. That's impressive. It's just so, yeah..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"One of the things that I want to bring up because I wanted to talk about the players that they've targeted so far, the word came out about Kent Bazemore, then he actually turned down a longer-term deal from the Golden State Warriors for more money in order to take one year from the Lakers and kind of baton himself that he would have a bigger role. What are your thoughts on that? And don't forget, Kent Bazemore back in the day, when he was a Laker wage was not happy with the Lakers that they didn't match an offer that he got. He wound up going to I believe it was the Atlanta Hawks and he held a million. Yeah he held some resentment to the Lakers and I felt at the time I remember being upset that they should have, they should have kept him but now Kent Bazemore comes back to the Lakers after turning down money elsewhere. Does that does that alter at all your perspective on on the camper signing or how does that make you feel? I mean, the the reason, well, the resentment that can Bazemore held towards the Lakers, I think that's obvious obviously, cuz he signed it's dissipated. But that was a completely different managerial group was going to say it's a whole different everything. So like this is a brand new thing for him. I'm okay. Like when I when it says, when they say bigger role, I'm anticipating that unless the Lakers go out and make a deal for healed, I anticipate, he starts. Yeah, right now, the starting lineup is probably looking like, Russell Westbrook, Kent Bazemore off or on Anthony Davis. Mark assaults kind of where it's leading right now if I had to guess and I'm okay with that as long as like I think there are probably better players out there than Kent Bazemore that they could still bring. In fact, I'm okay with that being a situation. He's a he's a solid Wing Defender. He's coming off a career behind the three-point line. All right with it. Yeah, I could talk myself into it. He, he started 18 games for the Warriors. Last season played 67 total. I believe he only played 20 minutes, but I think on this particular Lakers game, I don't think I'm going to be defending. You don't think, depending on Trevor, Ariza, defendant, or guards and wings for most of the game. I think most definitely go to Kent Bazemore actually especially just looking at the roster, how it's going to directed right now. So I think when you say big a role I think he's going to be in there for defensive purposes at least and so any guy that can shoot an open 3 is going to have minutes next LeBron obviously and so I think maybe that's where you know bigger role comes into play. I wouldn't be surprised to see him play. Close to twenty five, twenty eight minutes a night or so. Yeah, I don't know if that's idea we'll see but the other point I wanted to make here, you know, I don't know if they can base more winds up being the starter but when we look at the guys who signed right now, I know something like a fans are going. Well, this is an underwhelming, you're signing. All these veteran guys, they're all over 30 right? Bazemore in the reason and white and Wayne Ellington. But these are guys who they knew like, the veteran minimum is probably what they're getting whether they sign today, whether they sign for days from now, whether they signed two weeks from now, their best case scenario is probably the better. Minimum. That's that's just that's the tier of player. They are right now. Kent Bazemore. Now obviously he's, you know, he's hoping for a bigger payday next next year, right? But but the veteran minimum is probably what these guys were looking at. The guys were the Lakers are where we're going to see deals, where we say, wow, that was a bargain with those are the guys where the.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Best friend, LeBron compete for a title. There are just too many benefits that I think outweigh the dollar difference there so if you want to go home to New York and and play for the next again and I, you know, right? Right another playoff berth, that way. I'm totally happy with that. But if you want to come to the Lakers it needs to come on the bedroom minimum. Yeah, I mean if it's good enough for Kent Bazemore, it's good enough for Carmelo Anthony. It's really that's cool. Well interesting to keep an eye on the Knicks vs. Lakers for the surfaces of Carmelo, Anthony. Come on LeBron. Get in his ear. Let's get this thing done. Bring Carmelo to LA and we've been circling this for like a decade, right? Like Carmelo Anthony. Della might even be more than that, at this point Carmelo, Anthony to Lakers. Let's just get this thing done. Already Fabio l. From YouTube, super chat instead, any chance we can bring back a c fresh by the trade deadline. Just kidding, keep up the good work, Lakers Nation for real. We missed the goat already. I know we will certainly bring Alex Caruso, but at the same time you gotta feel great for him, right? A guy who went from being undrafted, not quite the Duncan Robinson Story, were like three years after being undrafted he suddenly making ninety million, right? But, but Alex Caruso similar rate, undrafted places out. Duels de'aaron, fox in the desert during summer league, gets the first two-way contract ever for the Lakers and eventually turns that into thirty-seven million dollars. That's amazing. Right? That, that ended up self-congratulations to Alex Caruso. That's is so, so cool to see somebody succeed like See what former Laker Ben McLemore on the deal with the Portland Trailblazers? Oh, that just happened. Huh. Sure did. Okay. And that was something. Go ahead, Broadway. Same month that you're good. Okay, I got it. So, I was saying that that was something we speculated about with Wayne. Ellington that there was a talent duplication with Wayne Ellington and Ben Ben McLemore. So when the Wayne Ellington thing down, we said, you know, maybe this is a sign that Macklemore will not come back. And personally between the two I would rather have Ellington a little bit higher percentage. Three point shooter and his ability to come off a curls and check up firing is is it's a much higher level than what Macklemore provides. I like Macklemore do could be wrong, but I would rather have Ellington. So I think the Lakers if that was the truly the choice, I think the Lakers made the correct decision there. Yeah, and and going back to Career. So I got a weird a little bit of hate in my, in my replies for this on Twitter. I said that I was my, the Chicago Bulls were my new second team and I salon so that I as a Lakers fan, I should never have a second-team. I'm not, I'm not abandoning the Lakers by any stretch. I'm just going to watch Chicago Bulls, cuz that's a really fun and exciting team that features two of my favorite players, like pretty simple..
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"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Saudi fighter, 25, with the Super Chat from YouTube said, is it weird that we heard all the news? Like Carmelo Anthony is basically a Laker yet? No announcement. Also, Dennis is punching the air right now dead. Second part first, yes, it's looking more and more likely, the dentist router will be regretting turning down that for years. 84 million contract offer from the Lakers and perhaps, it's the Lakers will be a little bit off of that. He did turn that down, but it's like a little mini Nerlens Noel situation. But what do you guys think? Carmelo Anthony. This is not the only person who have asked about that. I've had a few people asking about Carmelo and do you still see a page for him on this team? Now that Trevor Ariza is is in town. I actually do, and there's a reason. Why is because I think that the Lakers are pretty sure that Carmella will come. If they call, but I think at this point, the guys that we've seen so far, I think they probably had more bidders. So, the Lakers needed to prioritize them first and that's why the news came out about their agreements. But as far as Melo goes, I think there's a radio wink wink agreement that once they've gone through their flurry of moves and the initial wave free agency. Then they'll then they'll go ahead and sign Carmelo so long. I actually think that you know she's there if they want him and I think he's just kind of waiting on them to finish kind of like how we saw last offseason with Jared Dudley ride, where we knew he was coming back. But he was one of the last ones to get announced was already a done deal of how I feel about mellow to. Yeah, I agree. I think that could be it could be the case. It did seem like not a certainty but like a 95%. He felt kind of like Dwight word White House. We felt pretty confident he was coming back and lo and behold he is he's coming back. So I feel like Carmelo, Anthony could still get a spot on this team but again, he he is no spring chicken either..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Now what do you think? What do you think about this whole situation? I mean this is this is a essentially though on the positive side, this is playing out the way the Lakers would want to play out in terms of Dennis Shooters. So that wherever you want to go, the teams that are left are probably in and nothing's for sure, but probably going to have to negotiate with the Lakers on a sign-and-trade if they want shooter. Yeah, as far as shooter goes, I honestly think that at this point shooters, best bet if he wants to make anything close to what he was asking for originally, it's going to come via sign-and-trade and it looks like Washington, Washington. Wizards might be the most landing, likely landing spot Jim in where all the money's gone just today, so I can definitely see that. And this is what I alluded to earlier the top of the show, where my my conspiracy theory really is that they let Alex walked because of the luxury-tax but because they do a deal for buddy hield that might improve Dentistry towards Washington. You know that's a really popular Theory right now amongst Lakers fans and the media so I'm still holding out hope for that. But as far as the other phrases go like DeMar DeRozan, I really think that I, you know, I still personally can't stand thinking that big of a pay cut where he's going to take the, the taxpayer mid-level exception. I do think that the Spurs might try to work a sign-and-trade somewhere, where that is I have no idea but at the same time I think it's likely. I really doubt that he comes to the Lakers or any other team with that taxpayer mid-level and he goes there so it's wild. I I was talking about it earlier but there are a couple of free agents that are still out there that haven't been signing off. I would have gone immediately. Yeah, there's still options out there on the market that's just it. This is just starting, this isn't the Lakers we see. Oh my gosh, they added four more players. Yeah. They still have six more spots to fill. They only had five guys on contract and we don't even know what's going to happen with Alfonzo mckinnie, right? Cruise is not coming back. Okay, so what happens now? Talen horton-tucker, he's a restricted free agent. You got to figure out what happens there. There's a number of other players that are out there on the market. The labor will have a lot of work to do so by no means is this done. And by the way, I also want to throw this out there. The guys we've seen so far. Most likely, these are all veteran-minimum signings, okay? Most likely they're all for the betterment of the Lakers the big bullet. They've gotten the chamber is the taxpayer mid-level which is just under six million. I don't believe they've spent that yet, so there's still more coming there, still something else, right? But I am getting a lot of questions right now in our chat. People asking what about the age, right? So far, every player they've signed talking about a reason Dwight Wayne Ellington can't log. More. They're all over. Thirty, Dwight Howard's. What thirty six races 36 way no intent. I believe I want to say it's 33 is 30 to 4:30 to 4 for baseball game and then Russ is going to be thirty-three in a few months LeBron is 36 going on 37? Anthony Davis at what 28 is sitting there looking around, feeling like the kid on the team at this point, 50 HD, she comes back..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Oh my goodness, what a first night of free agency. It's not over. Fingers crossed. We're hoping that something else might happen while we're live right here and we can break it down as it goes down tonight. So far, it's been a night of homecomings players coming back to the office hours. We're talking about, you know, Dwight Howard, Trevor Ariza, Wayne Ellington Kent, Bazemore all, former Lakers all now going to be current Lakers. And then, of course, the infection exit of the bald Mamba the bald eagle, the cruise show, Big boulder brand, if you will the goats Alex Caruso, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about. Who else the Lakers might be targeting. Will be taking all your questions and comments come in from YouTube, Facebook and Periscope joining me tonight. Matt The Optimist Peralta and Ron government Belgium lakersnation.com. Matt, we need your optimism tonight more than ever in the wake of the loss of a liquid or. So today is a rollercoaster Trevor and Ron today started off so strong and then the Alex Caruso news drops and my heart sunk just like every other fan of the Lakers today, off mystically speaking, or maybe this is me just hoping, but part of me wants to think that the Lakers just didn't want to pay the luxury tax bill because they've got another move down in the work somewhere. So that gave me hope in. But either way you slice it, it's just not a good. It's just not a good look to like build out. So when you really didn't have a reason to let him walk for nothing, Ron, what did you think? I know you had some thoughts on Alex Caruso. I know there was going to be a big luxury tax payment for the Lakers if they hung on to Alex Caruso at the price, like a difference of it was something like forty million dollars if they hung on to him. But I know you were still not thrilled, but the decision especially since it came out, same, except the athletic mentioning that the Lakers didn't even bother to count her. The Chicago Bulls offered Alex, which I felt was a pretty fair offer. Yeah, I mean, look for years..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"wayne ellington" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Obviously different player from Russell Westbrook, but it did allow them play a little bit smaller and still have somebody that could hold their own on the, on the, the glass. So that's important. Yeah. I think, I think one of the things about the Lakers is there going to be one of the best, if not the best rebounding team in basketball next year? Wage. Russell Westbrook is coming off a year where he averaged eleven and half rebounds, a game. As a point guard, that's incredible. Anthony Davis has a career average of 10 and 1/2 rebounds of game. LeBron is across a bridge of seven and half a game. Like the Lakers are going to dominate the boards especially if they go out and they get Dwight Howard like or someone of Dwight Howard's caliber they are going to dominate the glass and I think that's going to be really helpful because they in order for them to score points, they're going to need to get out and transition. And the way to do that is to get missed shots rebound, it and run and I think that's exactly what you get with with the three-star tandem that you have to sneak. That's and that's what they're going to have to rely on because as we can imagine like if you bring in enough shooting sure. But there's going to be some awkwardness in the half-court right in terms of speed and all that. So they're going to have to fast break and that's fun. I want to see fast break basketball. So I'm excited about that. DeSean bedok from YouTube said, do we have a shot or Wayne Ellington? Absolutely, absolutely wage. He's already been connected to the Lakers and the Brad Turner. Peace. You know look he's a shooter. I think anybody has been shoot is going to be connected to the Lakers but Wayne Ellington former Laker good guy. Yeah. Absolutely the Lakers have a shot if they if they decide he's the guy they want. Let's put it this way if they want him. I think they get them. Yeah, and look wait at leaton. He's been a guy that the Lakers fans and everyone feels like they wanted him back since the day he left. Yeah. So that that was like six years ago now and I, we still every single offseason. It's are we getting Wayne Ellington back this year? Like, is this year? We finally get Wayne Ellington back. I feel like this is the summer. We finally get Wayne Ellington shooter games are going to flock to the Lakers like the salmon of Capistrano That's what's going to going to happen. Because if you're a shooter, the Dumb and Dumber reference for anybody, who got that. But if for anybody who was a shooter, this is the ideal scenario, by the way, it's no coincidence that the Lakers picked up. What everybody in the league is saying, is probably the two best two-way guys right after the draft ended, right? Enjoy Ali and Joseph, Reeves the Lakers have something that a lot of other teams, don't they've got open roster spots and minutes right now. Shooters around the NBA are going to be salivating to get a spot with the Lakers. Imagine the pay day off to get because all season long. You're getting wide-open shots playing alongside Russ and LeBron and Anthony Davis. Hey go stand in the corner and shoot, okay? If you're a Wayne Ellington, you.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"wayne ellington" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"That kills me. You know, you just can't. I can't do anything. I'm just I'm in a booth right now. Yes. Yeah, see, but really something really inflammatory. Ray. Mom was pissed. That's what this thing is over. So Wayne Ellington of the Pistons came back on Sunday Quote. First of all, I think it's very unprofessional and definitely not classy. For somebody to attack Rodney's professional career the way it was attacked. Rodney have known him since we played in Miami together with the heat. He's one of the most hardworking, humble and down to earth guys in the league. So for somebody to try to attack him like that is very unfair, he says. And then guys call him. You know all this tough guy talking all this stuff. Rod has never ever tried to portray her act like a tough guy in this league. To be honest, the guy over there one. He's the one who started the whole thing. Raja's men respect I felt like he took a fenced Whatever the guy was saying to me in the first half, I was kind of laughed it off. But obviously it's stuck with Rodney is my brother. He took it upon himself to go check the temperature, and that's what men do. We talk to each other eye to eye. So the alibi goes on and on on, he says, from her dream on to sit up there and talk all that type of crazy stuff behind Mike. I think that's the fake tough guy stuff. To be honest with you do this one here yet we just It's Warrior thing is Pistons Warriors This time? It's real. I mean, this time, it's for Brighton. This time. It's real indeed, man who knew? I mean, you circle the calendar for Pistons warriors 2022. We've never had to have it like a piston concern you no, no, never even been there, done with each other for the year they played. That's too bad. It'll seem that Murph will seem in the finals. That's fine. We can pair of Pistons warriors. Bad blood I can beat this time. It's real this time. It's real. Anyway. There you go, guys. You're all cut up on your clay Thompson stuff was great, enjoyable chat. Monday morning. February's here Super Bowl is on Sunday. Pop culture Showdown looms, The forecast looms A big 12 men. It's all coming up on candy are one of 45 and six, a TV sports leader. You're listeningto Murph in Mac available now on your Google home. Smart Speaker. This is K NPR.
Del Walmsley
NBA, Wayne Ellington And Alex Abriners discussed on Del Walmsley
"News out of the NBA Shamsher any of the athletic uncovers. The thunder have waived guard, Alex Abriners an NBA insider, Adrian origin, Ascii reporting, Wayne Ellington has clear waivers Ed will sign with the