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Lakers got Ayton and LaRavia with nothing to give, this is a good addition with the LA, but not enough.

I think people underestimate what Ayton can do for the Lakers. While he's not as impressive as the other big man.

But at these times, it's wise for the Lakers to get big man for someone to post in the paint and at the same time also can score, he's the man. JJ could utilize him under the ring.

They wouldn't take someone and just give a contract to do nothing. Maybe for Laravia but I guess with Ayton, JJ has got some plays and important roles for him to play, let's give them a chance though.

I think Ayton has a ton of potential. He almost delivered a championship to the Phoenix Suns and got no credit for it. He has some real personality issues I think, but hopefully being around LeBron’s team gets him set on the right path. This will either go really well or really bad. LeBron could get really frustrated with him.

Ayton may have potential but we haven't seen it yet, and maybe we never will.
I think real star players show themselves early on. I don't think Ayton has star potential. He never will.
He can contribute to the Lakers but he won't be a star. These are my thoughts.

He has decent stats ever since before and he's double double machine which he can still improve if he mature enough to deal with certain issue inside the could. See his stats here https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aytonde01.html

Maturity and work ethics is important is needed since if we see him acting like a child even if he's in Lakers now then there's provably no chance that we could see those potential that people looking at.

But his addition on Lakers is really good since we can see that Lakers somehow got a reliable big man now.

We will see this this season, let's see if he is a really great man or just an average player.
My personal opinion is this and I think it will continue like this.
His statistics may look good but everyone expects more from Ayton, that was the reason why he was drafted first in 2018 but I think he never showed the expected performance.