Odom: Clips are deeper than championship Lakers

[SpecialQue]

http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/...ionship-lakers

Los Angeles Clippers forward Lamar Odom says he thinks the current Clippers are the deepest team he has ever been on, and yes, that includes the Los Angeles Lakers teams he was on that went to three straight NBA Finals and won back-to-back titles.

"No," Odom said Friday when asked if he has ever been on a team as deep as this season's Clippers. "I've been on good teams. I've been on a team that went to the Finals three years in a row. You have to be pretty good to get to the Finals. But championships aren't won by just talking about a team and looking at a roster. We've all seen good rosters before and teams that we think should win, but this team is built to compete against the best teams in the NBA. If we were to play a seven-game series right now against the best teams in the NBA, I would expect us to compete."

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Rest of the people:

[kNIOKAS]

[TheMarkMadsen]

The only thing deep about this team is Lamar Odom's gut


Honestly though those Laker championship teams had a HORRIBLE bench outside of odom so I don't see how this is supposed to mean anything?

[kennethgriffin]

they are deaper than either championship laker team from 2009 or 2010

kobe had 1 other allstar and his 3rd best player ( odom ) never made an allstar team

bynum was f*** all in the playoffs ( 6ppg and 8ppg? )


so yea kobe won with less help than people think


but the thing about it is... not only are the clippers deaper. today there is 5-6 teams that are deaper than those laker teams because it takes allot more stars to win these days because of the heat douche bag colluding idiots ruining the league


so it doesnt automatically mean this clipper team will win a title.


and ontop of all that... deaper doesnt always mean better... hense ( lakers beating the celtics in 2010 )

[All Net]

08 team bench was good but the two titles the depth was very poor outside of Lamar...

[SpecialQue]

Honestly though those Laker championship teams had a HORRIBLE bench outside of odom so I don't see how this is supposed to mean anything?

Yeah, this is one of those little things that people who hate the Lakers tend to ignore when discussing the championships. There are several teams right now that are deeper than the championship Laker teams.

[ZeN]

Yeah.. That's not saying much.. Those Lakers teams had good team chemistry and maximized the efforts of who they had.. But depth was lacking.. Fisher, Farmar, Sasha, weak Bynum, Joe smith, etc.. Not a worthy thing to boast about..lol

[daily]

After Odom's disappearing act last year does anyone really care what he thinks.

[CoolBreeze0840]

Yes the Clippers are deep but the Lakers have the better starting 5 and come playoff time the Lakers will probably only run a 9 or 10 man rotation with the starters and the sixth man getting more minutes than in the regular season so being deep doesn't matter if the second unit will be facing the starters. Lamar should know that.

[KeyNote]

the clippers have bledsoe and crawford which is nice backcourt depth off the bench...but you lose evans and martin and now you're banking on fat odom to return to form and grant hill to stay healthy and not show his age...clippers depth is being overrated

[SourPatchKids]

That's horrid.

[Raider007]

Khloe is making him kooky

[longtime lurker]

This doesn't sound good for haters that say Kobe only won because he had the most stacked teams in the league.

[BlackVVaves]

He's right.

The Lakers team that won in 2009 and 2010 was anemic in depth quality.

Certainly a testament to how futile bench depth really is in the larger scheme of things in terms of championship achievement, and also a very telling tale of how much the top talent of the Lakers those years (Kobe, Gasol, Odom on a good day) truly carried those teams. Three Finals appearances in a row, in the mightily tough Western Conference, is a revered feat only a small handful of teams in the NBA's entire history can boast.