There's no way they shut down Lebron this early. They're still only 4 games back from 8th seed and both the Spurs and Kings have been losing lately
Orly?
I like Walton and if Sean Miller gets pushed out at Arizona I'd like to see him try to right the ship. Miller's 2019 class is a monster though, so I'm guessing he'll get through it.
No way to know this. Their first half schedule was one of the easiest in the league. Their second half schedule is one of the hardest.
They went with flashy has been names to build excitement around LeBron rather than continue building on what was working the year prior. I think LeBron had a hand in that, if you don't, well that's also a fair opinion to have.
They picked the has-beens they did, for a specific reason, but it wasn't to be "flashy." They made a gamble, and went bust, in a big way; the gamble being that surrounding LeBron James with a bunch of ball-handlers would somehow make it easier for him than surrounding him with guys who can shoot. I don't know why they thought that, but it's clear to me that that's what they thought. I think that they'd be in a lot better shape right now, had they opted to keep Brook Lopez over signing JaVale McGee, but I'll stipulate to sleeping on Lopez, myself; I thought that, with the way he played for basically his entire career, that the game had passed him by, and I was not willing to believe that he was capable of re-inventing himself in the way he has at this stage of his career. But, Julius Randle was gone, regardless; he had already made up his mind that he was leaving Los Angeles, no matter what, and LeBron didn't have anything to do with that. Without Randle, any plans to "continue building on what was working the year prior" weren't going to work, because what was "working" was a system where Randle was the workhorse/glue guy of the team.
That's cool, and everything but, objectively, Luke Walton is a mediocre-to-bad NBA head coach. And everyone agreed on that, until LeBron got there. Now people are trying to say that LeBron is trying to get him fired which, maybe he is, and maybe he isn't, but I still haven't heard an actual argument for why Luke Walton should get to keep his job. That bugs me. I dunno... maybe he'll be better in college; some guys aren't cut out to coach professionals.
Let's stipulate, for the sake of argument, that I agreed with you. That doesn't change the fact that Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka are not LeBron's guys: they're Jeannie Buss' guys. It's not "LeBron's front office," it's hers. And, if we're keeping it a buck, if I'm LeBron James, and the GM tells me that they're trying to get Anthony Davis, I'm telling him to move any and everybody they have to but me, to make that happen, and I'm not going to lose a wink of sleep about whose feelings get hurt over that.
It feels like he over-achieved with the Lakers last season after taking over a mess and the only other thing we have is that he did very well running the Warriors (yeah yeah) in Kerr's absence, though he arrived at the same time Kerr did so perhaps he also helped those first two years more than he'll ever get credit for. I don't think there is any fair book on him at this point. Would I want him coaching the Kings at this stage? Pass. Would I prefer Miller gets to coach his top recruited class in 2019 at Zona? Yes. But I think he's getting a raw deal in this saga and I hope he rebounds some place else, far, far away from LA.
Must be, since there's no logical reason.
It's not a question of understanding, it's a question of belief. I don't believe you.
What his teammates "seem" to know... Well, hell, I guess there you have it. Who can refute an argument that strong? You sure you don't want to throw in a "Many people are saying...", while you're at it?
