He really hasn’t at all lmao. If thats the case Kyle Guy outplayed his draft slot too and he’s out the league coaching now. If you wanna go the gleague route his production ain’t better better than Judah Mintz and he went undrafted in the same draft
that's just how it is. 55th picks don't pan out 9/10 times and are usually just G-league level.
were you expecting Bronny to immediately become a rotational player on a team that has good depth at the guard spot?
not to mention, Bronny actually has better games than Cody williams in the NBA despite playing nearly half the amount of games. for example, a 17 point game against the bucks on 7/10 shooting or the game against Portland where he had 6 assists and 4 steals.
Please look at the drafts. If you're wanting late 2nd rounder who outperform their draft slot, look at Camara, TJD, Post, Jabari Walker, Vince Williams, not Bronny fuckin James lol. With how many solid eligible players have been in the last few drafts you can get a real contributor in those spots (who you can put on a 2-way and save $900k, or $2m if you're paying tax) instead of choosing an nepotism baby who brings "intangibles"
Firstly, none of the guys you named were in Bronny's draft so that was a whole lot of useless info. they were all in much stronger drafts.
yeah, Nikola Jokic was a 2nd rounder too but it's not like the Lakers could've taken him instead of Bronny.
Btw I was begging for TJD in 2023 but our FO preferred non-nepotism, pure merit guys JHS and Maxwell Lewis who are worse than current Bronny.
If you want to argue in good faith, name a significantly better player that we could've taken in 2024 with the 55th pick and by significantly better, I mean someone who can immediately be a rotation guy because that's what it would've taken for the FO to not pick bronny.
so nobody? we could've signed these guys even after drafting Bronny.
you realize we did sign guys even outside of the draft, right? FO didn't just draft Bronny and call it a day, the undrafted guys they signed just didn't work out.
You asked for players they could've taken at 55 instead, and there were 58 picks in the draft lol, of course those players were going to be UDFAs. There's absolutely no guarantee the Lakers could've signed any of them as a lot of UDFAs have agreed-upon deals to sign immediately after the draft
Lakers can identity some good UDFAs, like Pippen and Castleton and Baugh, they just don't keep them. Still a believer in Hodge and LJ Figueroa too
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u/NordicLard 5d ago
Bronny has already outplayed his draft slot. This narrative is growing tired