Well you only need to read this section of the recent article about him

Rob Pelinka, team president of basketball operations and general manager, commissioned a black T-shirt with a gold screen print depicting half of a lion’s face and half of Ayton’s face that he presented to the 27-year-old. Members of the training staff wrap Ayton’s water bottle in athletic tape and write “DA’s Crunk Juice – Drink this to unleash the beast” in black marker on it before games.

Let’s just say that if they Chris Paul’d him, I would be all for it.

There’s a lot of problems with this Lakers team and there’s nothing that will make them contend this season, but of all the problems, I think he’s the single biggest one on the court. And it’s really not close too.

Bad. It’s like having half a centre. Diet centre. Centre lite.

Either he’s not strong enough to compete for boards or he just doesn’t care. Or both. And there’s not much else he can do so…

Its an attitude problem alongside a seeming unwillingness to do the little things on the court that make big differences. Most people will tell you about his complaining or his very weak mental, but the guy also seems to be lost even when he’s seemingly trying.

He’ll set a good screen, roll to the basket, then just… stand in the paint and let his man walk in front of him. He’ll refuse to box out for rebounds, step out of the way of cutters, ball-watch while his man is open in the low post, have his hands up yelling for the ball when 2 guys are in the passing lane between him and the ball, etc. Just very little sense for the game or very little care to play it well.

He was actually pretty serviceable up until 2 months ago maybe

Actually you need a team of garbagemen around the margins to succeed. The Lakers just operate in this flawed mindset of “we need to bring in high draft picks who haven’t panned out and fix them” instead of “we need to find a bunch of cheap hard-nosed dogs who play good defense and shoot 3s.”

nah. only young fans would say this. I’m old enough to have watched prime Olajuwon in the 90s. they were very good