Last season the Jazz went 38-44, but they were much better than their record indicated. Those included in the process are asked to determine both the quality and quantity a player’s ability to successfully impact his team.
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Luckily for the Clippers, if Bryant does wind up a scenario where he chooses to continue his career and the Lakers choose to go on without the star, focusing on their ongoing rebuilding around the likes of Deangelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson, and Julius Randle, he’d be far outside of whatever price range is available to Doc Rivers in 2016, aka a blessing in disguise as it stops Doc from possibly doing the inevitable.
“Just play the game that’s right in front of you”, said Bryant, who has made it clear he’s unsure whether he’ll retire after the season.
If Bryant makes it through the season healthy and is looking for a new contract, there’s no doubt the Lakers and other teams will be interested.
As the losses continued to accumulate at a violent rate, the fanbase had no choice but to focus on individual positives in order to maintain their sanity. “He’s getting a lot of things right that we talked about on both ends of the floor”.
Clarkson won Western Conference Rookie of the Month in March and earned a spot on the NBA’s All-Rookie 1st Team.
Los Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell (1) is is escorted off…
While preseason results are generally immaterial, it was great to see the young Jazz successfully navigate one of the more physical preseason games you will see and do so without injury.
The Raptors will fly home Friday morning and then take the remainder of that day off before reconvening in their own gym and getting back to work on Saturday. First, number two draft pick D’Angelo Russell left the game with a bruised glute muscle and is now not expected to play against Toronto. Lowry had a dominate 20 point display against the Los Angeles Clippers earlier in the pre-season. Take that away from him, and you concede, to him, that he’s no longer the player he used to be, which is where Bryant draws his confidence. Age? After practices, Bryant has made small talk with his teammates, most notably Russell.
The question is, can he evolve into the player Los Angeles needs to be along a crowded perimeter?
LAKERS: Lou Williams scored 19 points against his former team. Brandon Bass sat out due to a sore left knee, and Marcelo Huertas missed his third straight game with a hamstring issue. Russell’s versatility allows Lakers head coach Byron Scott to explore multiple pairing options.
Fresh off their trip from Hawaii, the Los Angeles Lakers returned back to California to host a game at the Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario against the Toronto Raptors.
Bryant also shared that he is still clueless on the plan of the Lakers to reach the championships.
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It didn’t seem so much that it was the Jazz pounding the Lakers, but more of what we saw last season in respect to feeling like the Lakers were really shooting themselves in the foot. “I think a lot of that”s just a product of playing and gaining a few experience not only past year but in the summer league as well.”.
