I have to agree with what Bill Simmons said yesterday: Lakers will have a tough time making changes (during the season) that improve the team. Pau is the obvious choice but 2yrs/$40million limit his trade value. Can they trade him and get back players that make them better?
http://tracking.si.com/2012/07/22/kobe-bryant-pau-gasol-los-angeles-lakers-nba/ This has given me pause on the Lakers trading Pau. In my opinion, Brown goes first and they bring in somebody that changes the offense. Or they simply play through all the mess. I find it hard to believe that Kobe would make such a statement without knowing that Buss was going to defer to him on moving Pau. And Bryant appears to love the guy. I could see the Lakers moving Pau to either Atlanta, Minnesota, or possibly here if this statement by Kobe wasn't out there. However, I don't see that simply trading Pau for any player they could get that has a lower salary would make them a better team. Josh Smith is Howard's little buddy. But Smith simply is not as good a player as Pau. He can't shoot the 3. He doesn't make them better. I suppose Love would possibly spread the floor more and make them better. The chemistry would be there to run the PnR with Howard and throw it out to Kobe or Love. However, can't see Minnesota doing that deal. I think Minny wanted to pair Pau with Rubio and Love, not trade Love for him. I can see a coaching change very easily. Have a very difficult time seeing a trade involving the big 4.
I remember the statement but we should also remember Kobe is famously prone to change his mind. If Brown is let go, who can take his place during the season and put Humpty Dumpty back together again? That's a close-to-impossible task. Plus they have to get a couple of bench guys worth more than a dime.
PJax is somewhere in Montana, sitting by a campfire and singing kumbaya with a beer and a stogie and smiling.
Big news. This will set them back severely depending on how long Nash is out. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8588947/steve-nash-los-angeles-lakers-suffers-fractured-fibula LOS ANGELES -- Steve Nash has a small fracture in his left leg and will be out of the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup for at least another week. The Lakers announced the results of the point guard's MRI exam Saturday. Nash suffered to fracture to his fibula in a collision with Portland rookie Damian Lillard on Wednesday night. He missed the Lakers' 105-95 loss to the Clippers on Friday night, dropping the Lakers to 0-3 for the first time in 34 years. The two-time NBA MVP joined the Lakers last June for his 17th NBA season, agreeing to a three-year, $27 million contract before his trade from Phoenix. Nash's backup is Steve Blake, who had two assists and eight points in 39 minutes against the Clippers. The Lakers host Detroit on Sunday night.
From watching the Lakers' so far, their main problem is defense. Let's compare them to the Heat in 2010. Although the Heat struggled offensively, they still played defense. That was their foundation. And eventually Miami figured out how to generate enough offense to win, but defense was their bread and butter. The Lakers right now have zero defense. Dwight is obviously not the same Dwight physically. His defense has been atrocious. Now you compound that with a slow footed Nash/Blake + Kobe + Artest, you have trouble. Mike Brown is a defensive coach so its very surprising that their defense sucks balls right now. I think Dwight needs another month to get himself back to where he is normally physically, in order to have the defensive impact he once had. Once that is the case, the Lakers should be fine. But obviously, Brown needs to know how to utilize Steve Nash. Nash isn't DFish or Blake. He's Steve Nash. Big news. But it's early in the season.
Hmmmmm, Kobe only scores 13 but racks up EIGHT assists and Lakers get they first win. Coincidence? 4 laker starters in double digits
There's no correlation. This Pistons team is just the worst I've seen so far this season. They are last season's Bobcats bad.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Steve Nash could miss up to four weeks with the small fracture in his left leg, a Lakers source said. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23BadLakerNews">#BadLakerNews</a></p>— Mike Bresnahan (@Mike_Bresnahan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Bresnahan/status/265269487161454594" data-datetime="2012-11-05T01:49:08+00:00">November 5, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Much bigger news if true.
Tuned in to see the blowout and see Mike Brown putting his starting unit back in bc the Lakers bench couldn't score against the Piston's bench lol.
Yea they do suck, Lakers gettin some home cookin too, guess stern felt sorry for them and he and buss had a convo bout not wantin his fanbase to panic
Only a matter of time b4 the Lakers turn it up 1000 notches.... They make it look so easy, it was like watching an All Star Game...
