Which teams match up best with this new Lakers squad?

[ncrizzle]

[FONT=Arial Black][FONT=Times New Roman]In no particular order. Im mostly focusing on who matches up best against Howard ala frontcourts.
[FONT=Arial Black]Thunder- [FONT=Times New Roman]Youth. Durant, Harden and Westbrook are really the only ppl that need to score. Perkins, Ibaka and Sefolosha should be able to contain everyone except howard.
[FONT=Arial Black]Heat[/FONT]- Champions, enough said
[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial Black]Grizzlies - [FONT=Times New Roman]Their front court of Gay/Zbo/Randolph/Gasol is among the best. Have one of (if not ) the best perimeter defender in Tony Allen on Kobe forcing him into even worse shot selection. Bayless as back up PG with Darell Arthur and MO Spegiths being the bigs off the bench, we will sneak up on yall[/FONT]
Clippers- [FONT=Times New Roman]Chris Paul can destroy Nash. Much stronger bench. If Jordan can develop a better offensive game and Griffin develops a shot, they are dangerous. Odom should be on a vendetta when he faces his old team. [/FONT]
Warriors- [FONT=Times New Roman]If Bogut is Healthy , him and Lee could give Gasol and Howard fits. The young trio of Curry, Thompson, and Barnes could prove to put up a lot of points.[/FONT]
Knicks- [FONT=Times New Roman]It all depends on if Melo and Amare can mesh.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Black]Jazz- [FONT=Times New Roman]Great depth at 4 and 5. I think Favors is gonna emerge as a star soon[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Black]Celtics- [FONT=Times New Roman]Im not sure about them matching up well, but they are extremely deep and still have garnett and pierce[/FONT][/FONT]

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[AirTupac]

Lol at everyone other than Heat and OKC

[EnoughSaid]

Well the Lakers are only the third best team in the league, so I mean it's not like there is no one out there that can beat them.

[ncrizzle]

Lol at everyone other than Heat and OKC

I didnt say any of these teams are better. Just talking about who can give them the most problems.

[kennethgriffin]

92 dream team


probably the only one

[Freedom Kid7]

I think San Antonio will cause certain issues. Sure, they're old, but they're rotations are great, they have depth at all positions, have a good bench and with the good defense they have with Leonard, Duncan and some of the other guys along with their killer three point shooting, they have a chance.

Granted, they have flaws but I think they match up the best due to the incredible depth.

[kennethgriffin]

Well the Lakers are only the third best team in the league, so I mean it's not like there is no one out there that can beat them.

denial is a wonderful thing

[DuMa]

Philly lol

[scm5]

I think the only team that actually matches up against the Lakers is OKC.

Nash and WB - Both Top 6 PG's.

Kobe and Harden - Both Top 5 SG's.

Metta and Durant - Durant owns Metta, but Metta will make him work.

Gasol and Ibaka - Gasol is better, but Ibaka adds solid D.

Dwight and Perk - Dwight is much better, but Perk will make him work.

[bmulls]

OKC matches up very well with LA.

Westbrook is going to massacre Steve Nash and they have the shooters to space the floor.

On the other end, Ibaka can guard Pau and Perkins can at least body up Dwight.

[Rubio2Gasol]

Denver.

[Rubio2Gasol]

Well the Lakers are only the third best team in the league, so I mean it's not like there is no one out there that can beat them.

4th possibly 5th.

Boston and maybe San Antonio are still better

[Godzuki]

nobody's big enough with the guard talent the lakers have. so nobody matches up well with them, altho they'll still probably lose with kobe taking 20+ shots and them still living and dying by him....its going to be interesting to see nash mesh with kobe.

[Raz]

[FONT=Arial Black]Thunder- [FONT=Times New Roman]Youth. Durant, Harden and Westbrook are really the only ppl that need to score. Perkins, Ibaka and Sefolosha should be able to contain everyone except howard. They need to get rid of Perk.

Um, Perkins is one of the best Dwightfenders in the league. He frustrates the crap out of him.

[spree43]

Chicago