D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt to Lakers

[cheese318]

Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic is what this trade feels like.

Does a ball-dominant DLo, who is also defensively-challented, too, really fit in with LeBron and AD?

Does Vanderbilt start at power forward, and if this happens, does AD move to center (BTW, I do like Vanderbilt as a complimentary player)?

If this trade does happen, do the Lakers give up 130 pts on defense every time they step onto the court?

“ Since the NBA trade deadline, the Lakers have the best defensive rating in the league (108.9) and are allowing the second-lowest effective field-goal percentage to their opposition (50.6%).” Quite interesting the LAL have the best defense since the trade deadline. Curiously is that more schedule based they are playing over inflating the statistic they do have one the easiest schedules to end the season

[yitur]

We have an easy schedule but we also don't have LeBron and even if he is much less engaged on that end, him next to Vanderbilt and Davis would still be a scary frontcourt just because he can help the defensive rebounds and fly from the weakside while they recover to the rotation's rotation.

This trio is really the poor man's version of Curry Klay Green. They are not close in talent but they bring the shooting and ball movement and Vanderbilt gets the defense going next to AD.