I'm sorry but............. The Lakers are a great team and a contender when healthy
people are blinded by last season and all the injuries. coach firings. coach/player fights. locker room beef
this team got rid of the distractive players ( howard/metta )
if everyone can stay healthy. this is a great team on paper
starters
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bench
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much improved athleticism at SF for the starting linup and bench with young/johnson
thats the one position you aboslutely need to have athletes to keep up with the durants/melos/lebrons of the nba
btw i left off jordan farmar cause hes a joke and won't get a lick of playing time
but other than that. this is a solid team. if clicking and happy they can easly make a run at the western confrence finals
i don't see anyone except maybe sanantonio and houston ( if howard bounces back ) as a threat to this team
okc is busted up. theyre goin in the wrong direction. all you morons thinking this is a year for LA to tank will be shocked when they win 50 games
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Beautiful. But where's the defense?
Also, Farmar's great.
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nash injured all year
pau injured all year
kobe misses playoffs
you think theres any real way to tell how this team will be next year?
you guys are really undervaluing the pickups of young/kaman/johnson
those were huge signings that might have saved the season
anything is an upgrade for a cancer locker room distraction in howard. and anything is an upgrade to slow over the hill washed up ron artest. but to get a solid big man who can hit free throws and was an allstar not to long ago is more than i could ask for in kaman. and nick young who when given the shots can average a ton of points
its obvious the lakers are in better shape than people think
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Im sorry but............... you are a fggt
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Their recent signings seem to have been made with scoring and chemistry in mind. They're not going to win shit this year, but they'll be entertaining and sell tickets.
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Re: I'm sorry but............. The Lakers are a great team and a contender when healthy
[QUOTE=kennethgriffin]nash injured all year
pau injured all year
kobe misses playoffs
you think theres any real way to tell how this team will be next year?
you guys are really undervaluing the pickups of young/kaman/johnson
those were huge signings that might have saved the season
anything is an upgrade for a cancer locker room distraction in howard. and anything is an upgrade to slow over the hill washed up ron artest. but to get a solid big man who can hit free throws and was an allstar not to long ago is more than i could ask for in kaman. and nick young who when given the shots can average a ton of points
its obvious the lakers are in better shape than people think[/QUOTE]
Come on dude. Their best bet is the 7th seed, and there's a good chance Nash and Pau will miss games this year too. Plus how do we know how Kobe is going to come back, how the new players are going to fit etc. They have no chance at WCF.
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I look forward to this being bumped even though it's obviously a trolling thread
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OP digging his own and Kobe's legacy grave once again:lol
bookmarked
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Oh shite. I just realized Kaman was an Allstar. Now that he's playing with Kobe he'll become a top 10 big man of all time lol
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[QUOTE]Pau Gasol @paugasol 2h
Welcome back to the team Jordan Farmar! Also welcome Wesley Johnson and @NickSwagyPYoung . Let's get ready for a great season. #LakerNation[/QUOTE]
Pau's pumped! :rockon:
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[QUOTE=KyrieTheFuture]I look forward to this being bumped even though it's obviously a trolling thread[/QUOTE]
If somebody remembered this thread 6 months from now I'd probably nicely suggest they eat a bullet for breakfast
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its quite possible that the lakers upgraded at 3 positions
kobe will be slightly less effective probably
but when you factor this
[B]pg - nash missed all last season. they upgraded just by nash being healthy[/B]
sg - kobe will be about the same when recovered
[B]sf - nick young at this point in his career is better than ron artest [/B]
[B]pf - pau was injured all year. they upgraded just by gasol being healthy [/B]
c - lost howard. picked up kaman.
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I agree, Lakers win AT LEAST 50 games. No way Kobe's slowing down, Nash will be healthy, Pau will be healthy. Pau will play C on offense and Kaman will be shooting jumpshots as a PF. I don't expect Sacre to play much, Lakers will probably run a 3 man rotation between Pau, Kaman, and Hill. Lakers are offensively unstoppable, they just need to find some kind of defensive identity and they'll be a top team.