Now that our season has finally ended, it is time to move our focus to the offseason, Lakers fans. It was a tough season from start to finish, but the Lakers WILL be back and it all starts in the offseason. Go Lakers!
Post offseason related things in this thread.
Wow, just the thought of how much this thread is going to be used lol.
Aww, new fresh thread. 
D'Antoni to Lakers fans: "Hang in there. ... This organization has always been the best."
Read more: http://hoopshype.com/twitter/tag/los_angeles_lakers#ixzz2RoVIApC4
Kobe declined comment. "I've got an exit interview (with reporters in a day or two). I don't want to talk to y'all twice."
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It will be needed. Trust me lol
I think Dwight stays.
Metta, Blake, Duhon, Ebanks and Jamison are gone.
Pau will be traded at the deadline.
I'm pretty happy this season of misery is finally over. Let's get this thread started, it's gonna be huge!
We need to trade Pau in the offseason. We have saw what rumors can do to players. We need our players to play with confidence and stay focus. If we wait til the trade deadline then it will most likely ruin our chemistry.
Can anyone read D12's lips?
Pau: "Whatever happens is out of my reach: out of my control. There's different possibilities."
Pau: 'It's up to ownership and management. I'd like to be a part of another championship team here."
Lakerholicz @Lakerholicz 26s
RT @mcten: Pau is tearing up while talking about the standing ovation he got with 3 minutes remaining
Pau on Lakers' future: "I would be surprised if there were no changes."
Antawn Jamison: "We just never had any chemistry. We could never figure it out."
Pau: "We've done our best. We fought our way through it. We still competed as a team & we stuck together & that's the thought I'll keep."
Pau on Dwight getting ejected: "I didn't want to see him get ejected," - says he doesn't agree with second technical call, argued with ref.
Agree. RT @SerenaWinters: For the record, I don't believe Dwight was saying anything to Mitch, he wasn't even looking at him.
Pau: "I would like to be part of another championship team here, but it's not totally up to me."
Pau asked the ref why he didn't give Dwight a warning instead of 2nd T. "It was an emotional game."
Pau said his relationship with Dwight is good; felt they started to click due to injuries and had the ball more to grow together.
Pau: "It's hard to be more vocal because my role on the team was 3rd, 4th, 5th option. I even came off the bench."
We need to get young, athletic, and defensive. Amnesty Metta, don't resign Ebanks, Duhon, nor Jamison, as mamba24 says above. There are a few people I wouldn't mind seeing with us next year.
Point Guards
Devin Harris
Jarret Jack
Mo Williams
Nolan Smith (2nd string)
Shooting Guards
Kyle Korver
Marco Belinelli
Tony Allen
JJ Redick
Nick Young
J.R. Smith
Small Forward
Corey Brewer
Dorrell Wright
Power Forwards
JJ Hickson
Centers
Zaza Pachulia
We need players who can create their own shot and hold their own on defense.
Looks like he is saying, "Mitch, these refs are outrageus man!"
Yes it should be a very interesting off season for the Lakers.The pieces just never fit properly and the end result was a bad sweep in the first round.We'll see what happens.
http://sulia.com/channel/la-lakers/f/6faa43c0-b0f7-4fa1-b77f-69c3e84cc20f/?source=twitter
http://sulia.com/channel/la-lakers/f/6faa43c0-b0f7-4fa1-b77f-69c3e84cc20f/?source=twitter
That's understandable.
Tim Duncan on Pau: "I see him playing the way he's been asked to play. I don't see why he doesn't have many years left in him."
Earl Clark told me he wants to come back to Lakers even if they can only offer less money, fewer years compared to other possible teams
https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina
Good to hear.
Dwight's exit meeting with Lakers management is set for noon Tuesday. Also Tuesday are Gasol, Morris, Blake, Jamison. Others Monday.
Earl Clark told me he wants to come back to Lakers even if they can only offer less money, fewer years compared to other possible teams
https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina
Good to hear.
Good to hear,i will hold him to that LOL.I like Earl for a small deal and development type of situation.He can be a good player with good training and hard work and dedication to the game of basketball.Good news.
Kobe is not scheduled for an exit interview tomorrow or Tuesday.
The Lakers just sent out the exit interview schedule for the next two days. Kobe is not on it.
MONDAY
10:30 �" Chris Duhon
10:45 �" Metta World Peace
11:00 �" Steve Nash
11:15 �" Earl Clark
11:30 �" Devin Ebanks
11:45 �" Andrew Goudelock
12:00 �" Robert Sacre
1:45 �" Jodie Meeks
4:00 �" Jordan Hill
TUESDAY
11:00 �" Pau Gasol
11:30 �" Darius Morris
12:00 �" Dwight Howard
1:15 �" Steve Blake
4:00 �" Antawn Jamison
Mitch Kupchak will speak to the media Tuesday afternoon.
Kobe could be added, of course, but he has done his last couple exit interviews with Kupchak near his Newport Beach, Calif. home without doing media afterward.
http://sulia.com/channel/la-lakers/f/d112ae28-b43d-40bd-be85-345f0111d014/?source=twitter
We're coming back strong next year!! #IBelieve
But when you don't even believe, then you are definitely going to get steamrolled like this if you don't have your best guys.
Frank words from Andrew Goudelock now to that effect: "These (Spurs) guys have been together for seems like 15 years. They've been together since I was a little kid. ... You can't expect to come and have instant success against a team like that, especially since we haven't even been playing (together). We basically threw a team together."
http://sulia.com/channel/la-lakers/f/8aedb67a-d26d-469c-9ada-665dc15340a2/?source=twitter
I don't have enough words of appreciation to YOU, our fans, and everyone around the team. Thanks for sticking with us through everything.
I'm very proud of our team. We've stuck together & we've fought through all the adversity we've had to face. We couldn't done it without U.
watching it again, I think youre right
Trade Pau, Blake, And Meeks
Release Duhon, Metta (amnesty), Ebanks, And Sacre
Resign Howard, Clark, Jamison , Morris and GLocke
Sign Mo Williams and Kyle Korver
Nash I hope retires but I doubt it
Trade Pau to a team who needs him but also looking for an expiring contract. I personally like Granger and Hansbrough.
Then maybe Blake to Boston for Courtney Lee. Blake is expiring and Lee has 3 years left for about 15m I think idk but Lee is what we need plus friends with DH.
Nash / Williams / Morris
Lee / Glocke
Granger / Korver
Clark / Hansbrough / Jamison
Howard / Hill
We need a lil depth, we need players who can hit a consistent outside shot. Williams, Lee, Granger, Clark, and Howard is a lot more athletic lineup then Nash Kobe Metta Pau and Howard. Then I like Korver and Glock off the bench 2 great outside shooters. And Hansbrough is hustle and a good teammate. If Clark gets in the gym this offseason and just works on his game he can be quite the player. We need to keep him around.
-depth
-youth
-speed
-athletism
-consistent shooters
^^^you lost me when you said resign Morris and Glock 
Well Morris is insurance. He's good defensively. And Glocke is not a bad player he just needs the right system. He was Dleague MVP. Ya he's not a must but for cheap he is a nice player.
If lakers decide to remain with this squad and no Kobe. Ratings and tickets being sold will go down while paying a lot of money. Change will come it basically has too. The bobcats this year were possibly more exciting. Imagine no Kobe next year, this team will be so boring. Are option is to bring athletism in and get more uptempo. So we're gunna need to trade or sign highlighters. We might not be a playoff team again but Duhon, Blake, Metta, Pau their just not exactly must see exciting players and with those players other then Pau we will not win. Pau is are only option to bring in players. Go after expiring contracts like Granger. He fits great with Nash and Howard. He doesn't need the ball to be effective. Nash needs the ball, he will create open shots for this excellent shooter and he may help us win more games then Pau would. I'm done with the whole 2 big man thing and no players who can create for themselves. Mo Williams and Danny Granger is what this team needs
Didn't Jimmy Buss run a failed tennis league? He's an idiot and his father made a major mistake in leaving his team in the hands of his idiot son. He made a few key judgement failures this season. Phil was on and Steve Nash was two. D'Antoni's record in the playoffs for the last 15 games is 1 and 14. That's won 1 and lost 14. That's terrible. Dare we compare his record with Phil's? Jimmy Buss is a terrible owner thusfar.
If we do decide to invest in Dwight, we better see some hook shots and dream shakes next season.
Invest in dwight. And fire d'antoni , our franchise made a team to win now, but made a mistake of not bringing in a "real" system that would win now? Bring in d'antoni and a system that hs never proven to win or work nor duz it fit for our 2 7 footers. Bring in a real coach an a real system , bring in a young athletic wing_drive and shoot guy_lagit , impliment tha system over tha summer and well be good.
Haha did he really run a failed tennis league? That's a pretty funny fact.
D antoni needs to go, his system and philosophy to out score not play defense is garbage. Might of worked in phoenix for a while. But we saw what I did in NY. Get a new coach resign Dwight amesty metta (keep him if we can) I like metta lol. I say we trade pau to gain athletic players on the wings. I like Clark and hill as our PF and back up center
