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Lebron, Wade and Bosh are bent over in laughter at the thought Bynum/Gasol/Kobe is a better trio.Yeah with all their accomplishments and all, I'd be laughing to.
In fact I think Durant/Westbrook/Towel Boy in OKC are getting a good chuckle tooUntil the day Westbrook decides to act like a Pg, him plus anyone will never accomplish much other than a few playoff series wins.
did you see murphy last year with the Celtics?? he sucked so bad if we had scalabrine on the team he probablly would have been behind scal...
Kind of hard to shake it, I think if you get Blake, Barnes, Murphy and Roberts to play at their highest level they aren't the worst. They still certainly are in the lower half of the league, but it could get better.
Yeah, that 4-13 is pretty bad. The bench has been killing us too. The worst part is that the bench doesn't even have to be THAT good for the Lakers to win a lot of games and be a contender. In the Lakers last 2 losses, the bench was outscored by over 30 points in a game that was lost by 10 and by 16 in a game that the Lakers lost by 5. Even slightly below average bench production would have resulted in wins.
As far as the 4-13:
McBob - Keep him. He's an energy guy and can play a Rambis role.
Murphy - Get rid of him.
MWP - Use the amnesty and get rid of him. He's not even tradeable because he has a really bad contract. The rule changes have severely hampered his ability to defend and defense is why the Lakers got him.
Matt Barnes - Keep him. I like his toughness. He just needs to stay within himself and concentrate on defense.
Ebanks - Get rid of him. He might be an okay piece in a trade to a team that will play him.
Kapono - The Lakers are building around defense. The next time he plays defense, will the first time. If his 3 isn't falling, he's worthless.......and his 3 isn't falling.
Fisher - Have to keep him. He needs to retire as a Laker. He's done too much for the organization and still seems to come up with clutch plays when needed. Besides, he's the only one on the team that can keep Kobe in check.
Goudelock - Keep him. He's young, quick and with some work, might develop into a pretty solid player.
Steve Blake - I'd like to keep him as a back up to another point guard (D. Williams? Sessions?), but he would likely have to go in order to keep Fish.
Even if the Lakers were to just add a quality point guard, it would make a big impact on this team. I heard someone say that the Lakers are the only team in the league with a point guard that has to have someone else set him up to get a shot. That person was right and it speaks volumes as to the Lakers issues on offense.
I think if the could land a quality point guard and move Fisher to the bench, it would improve the quality of the starting lineup. I think that Fish's steady hand would help to make the bench a little more efficient.
Lebron, Wade and Bosh are bent over in laughter at the thought Bynum/Gasol/Kobe is a better trio.I'd say that all are pretty equal and that the Lakers trio is a more "playoff ready" trio. No other trio boasts two seven-footers with such different skill sets (just ask the Celtics). This provides a big advantage in the playoffs when the game slows down and becomes more half-court oriented. When you consider that the Lakers trio has arguably the second best center in the league in Bynum, the most skilled overall big in the league in Gasol and that Kobe, while no longer the "best player on the planet" as some still try to say, but is still a top 5 player, that is a really tough trio to beat. Especially in the playoffs.
In fact I think Durant/Westbrook/Towel Boy in OKC are getting a good chuckle too.
I have an honest question for you as fans... except Jefe bc he knows no way to disparage the Lakers: Is the Lakers 4-13 the worst in the league?First things first: The Lakers 4-13 > The Heat's 4-13
Could a 9 man rotation of:Maybe not 3G, but here's the thing - those teams that don't have a dominant "big three" have to have better players 4-13 by design. When you have veritable blue-chip talent 1-3, as the Lakers do, the trick is surrounding them with the right mix of talent in role playing functions. If there Lakers role players do what they are supposed to; McBob hustling and rebounding and altering, Troy and Jason spacing the floor by knocking down open perimeter shots, Metta playing lock-down defense, Barnes slashing, Fish making smart plays and hitting clutch shots, Blake getting the Lakers into their offense earlier in the shot clock, G-Lock creating his own shot, Devin doing whatever Devin does - I'm not really sure what that is at this point - then the Lakers are a great team and the 4-13 players are great within the context of how they are designed to compliment Kobe, Pau and Bynum.
Josh McRoberts
Troy Murphy
Metta World Peace
Matt Barnes
Devin Ebanks
Jason Kapono
Derek Fisher
Andrew Goudelock
Steve Blake
Beat a 9 man rotation from some of the worst teams in the league? I mean could you put that 9 up against the Bobcats, Pistons, Raptors, Suns 4-13 and feel confident?
