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I think with Dwight, the Lakers got more then a little better at the center position, in Nash the Lakers got a little better at the PG position, with the additon of some of the bench players, they got a little better bench now. With all those "little betters" adding up, it just might be enough to overtake OKC and maybe Miami Heat too!! We'll have to wait and see.
The big question marks will be:
1) How do all the new pieces gel together. Note that it took Miami a while to work out their rythm.
2) Injuries.
3) Degrading skills due to another year of age? Look at Jamison for example. His game has fallen apart since he turned 34.
4) How much better will a young OKC team be this year with the additional experience of a visit to the finals?
1) How do all the new pieces gel together. Note that it took Miami a while to work out their rythm.
2) Injuries.
3) Degrading skills due to another year of age? Look at Jamison for example. His game has fallen apart since he turned 34.
4) How much better will a young OKC team be this year with the additional experience of a visit to the finals?
No one will ever know till we seem them on the court, but unlike Miami and their big three, the Lakers have different players for each position. Many people thought that moth Lebron and Wade were essentially the same type of player. So that is why it ook longer to win there first championship.
As for age and injury, no one knows but that is a issue everyone has to deal with gran you it might be more of an issue with age.
OKC might be better next year, again we will only find out once the season starts. But on paper, the Lakers did improve, and we will see if they improved enough. My opinion is yes.
I just don't understand why Laker haters like to give the Lakers a hard time because they have great resources and actually like to use them? What's the crime in that? So, the Lakers play in a large market, have built a successful franchise and brand, are rewarded with various revenue streams, including a lucrative TV deal, and they shouldn't be allowed to use them because they have to feel bad for smaller mediocre markets? Really?
It's not the Lakers faults that people aren't moving to Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Cleveland, or Sacramento in droves, thus not allowing the teams in those markets to get lucrative deals. If the Lakers want to spend they should spend. Fans of those teams complain, but if things were reversed, and their teams had better resources, would they be complaining about getting the best of the best talent?
I just don't understand why Laker haters like to give the Lakers a hard time because they have great resources and actually like to use them? What's the crime in that? So, the Lakers play in a large market, have built a successful franchise and brand, are rewarded with various revenue streams, including a lucrative TV deal, and they shouldn't be allowed to use them because they have to feel bad for smaller mediocre markets? Really?
It's not the Lakers faults that people aren't moving to Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Cleveland, or Sacramento in droves, thus not allowing the teams in those markets to get lucrative deals. If the Lakers want to spend they should spend. Fans of those teams complain, but if things were reversed, and their teams had better resources, would they be complaining about getting the best of the best talent?
There are a small number of people that make that complaint around here but they generally don't understand that there has been a semi-hard salary cap (for years) and a new extremely nasty salary tax kicking in after this season.
The Lakers were able to attract Dwight because their management has had thier Sh*t together for years, unlike Orlando and so you can have some degree of faith that they won't screw things up like other franchises have repeatedly (Knicks etc.) I mean look at the Knicks, they have all the advantages that LA has but are badly run....it's not about the money.
The majority of us being labeled haters are the same guys that pointed out that last years thread about Sessions being the missing piece of a Lakers Championship was "crack talk". Some of the people crying about "haters" were guys that just last year were telling me Bynum was as good as Dwight and I was a Laker hater for arguing otherwise. Pointing out Nash is 39? Hater. Pointing out the Kobe was has aged? Hater. Pointing out Bynum and especially Gasol were not the big problem in the playoffs? Hater.
It just seems that we get a flood of very young casual fans flooding in everytime a move is made by the Lakers and when the more serious fans point out problems with thier thinking, they get butt hurt and scream hater.
I even have one passive aggressive coward that leaves me anonymous reps calling me names lol.
The bottom line is that the Lakers don't neccessarily have better resources, they are merely very well run.
God, just look at how bad the Dwight trade was for Orlando. What a bunch of morons lol....and they are still paying gilbert Arenas 25million this year...bwah hah hah hah hahhhhhh.
and for the record, being called a hater when someone doesnt agree with your point of view? come on i hope you better then that, but most lakers fans are not better then that.
and for the record, being called a hater when someone doesnt agree with your point of view? come on i hope you better then that, but most lakers fans are not better then that.
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I'm totally with Smith on this.
Bynum was inconsistent; he should have been even better than he was. Maybe with Philly he will be. And he can't run the floor.
I wanted him to be traded all year last year.
Yes Howard will be out for almost half of the season and I don't know if the Lakers are a championship team yet.
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....and this is wishful thinking and conjecture, but Kobe's retirement (if he retires in 2-3 years) coincides with the end of LeBron's contract....! Sure the media wanted Mike Brown and LeBron's relationship to be rocky, but , 1. I think it would ultimately be fine; I don't think their friends, but I don't think they're enemies either, 2. The Lakers could get a new coach 3. The Lakers need another superstar. The Lakers could pay him less than Kobe for arguably a better player.
I think this is what the Lakers are building to.
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