How do you rebuild the Lakers?

[Kiddlovesnets]

Trade Kobe, Gasol, Bynum or Odom? This team has no salary space to sign any quality players atm, so a hard fix(rebuild) is the only feasible way to me. With Phil Jackson likely to retire after an embarrassing sweep, the Lakers will not be competing for the next five years. Maybe they will rebuild around Bynum and manage to clear up salary space to sign a good SF/SG/PG in 2014 or 2015? We will see for this.

[skaterbasist]

You keep your core: Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, and Odom. And get rid of everyone else.

Why would you get rid of one of your best players?

[2LeTTeRS]

Why does the team have to be re-built? The Lakers are the only team in recent memory that after winning 2 straight titles and making 3 consecutive Finals automatically need to be blown up after losing one title.

Sportsfans/media members are idiots.

[ICanDunk]

They have too many defensive liabilities throughout their roster at this point.
Fisher and Blake are old and were slow even when they were young. Shannon Brown doesn't move his feet to stay in front of people. Pau Gasol doesn't move his feet or play physically on defense or even box out for rebounds.

Kobe, Artest, and Barnes are aging so they look slow at times, but they do their best to make up for it with physicality.

Bynum isn't fast, but he's still a good defender because he is big and he plays hard.

Odom is our only defender without a big weakness I'd say.

To fix it I think we need to get a guard or two who are quick on defense, and we need to start Odom over Gasol. It would also help if someone convinced Shannon Brown to actually use his athleticism and stay in front of people.

I'd actually like to get rid of Fisher and Gasol altogether but I'd feel sort of bad about Fisher because he's helped us win 5 championships.

[G-Funk]

Trade Gasol + Filler for CP3

Trade Bynum Odom for Dwight


prophet???

[Kiddlovesnets]

Trade Gasol + Filler for CP3

Trade Bynum Odom for Dwight

Then you got another team with no bench players. XD

[jb220]

Then you got another team with no bench players. XD

Best team in the NBA the Miami heat.. Have "no bench"...

[J-Futuristic]

Gasol for Al Horford and filler

[Dengness9]

Best team in the NBA the Miami heat.. Have "no bench"...

nice try.

[ICanDunk]

Then you got another team with no bench players. XD

Just sign some undrafted rookies who can move well laterally (aka play defense), box out, and knock down wide open shots and that would be an improvement over what our current bench is doing. People who don't get drafted tend to play hard to earn their time in the league.

[Doranku]

Bynum/Odom for Dwight.
Gasol for some serviceable role players with a defensive mindset in a multi-team trade.

Instant contenders.

[widowmaker]

Trade Gasol + Filler for CP3

Trade Bynum Odom for Dwight

we dont want gasol

[Sarcastic]

Go through about 5 years of mediocrity, like they did in the 1990s.
Remember Sedale Threatt, and Cedric Ceballos?

[TheAnchorman]

So if the core lineup stays the same next year would the Lakers be perceived as underdogs then?

[JustinJDW]

Don't be stupid. Lakers don't need to "re-build". They just need to get a real PG who can actually run an offense and isn't the biggest defensive liability a championship team has ever had. Fisher and Blake are too old, inconsistent and can't stay in front of a stationary rock, and Brown isn't a real PG and is just a small SG who chucks a bit too much and thinks he's Kobe Bryant of the Bench.

- Get a pure quick defensive minded PG
- Get a little younger on the Bench

They'll be fine. Their core (Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, Odom) is still Championship worthy. They're still dominate and big as **** in the paint. They just to get quicker and more consistent on the perimeter, and that starts at PG. Look at Dallas, they ain't winning in the paint obviously. They're winning on the perimeter, and that Lakers overall perimeter defense is their biggest weakness.