Trying to stay positive
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:43 pm
I am sorry but I am like Charles Barkley in the sence that I feel without Bynum the Lakers are a 8th seed at best. I think we will slip worse then last year even though this team is better then last years the west has gotten alot better.
So I am looking for ways to stay positive and I think I found them
1. We could have close to what happened to the Spurs in 96-97 happen to us were a really good team losses there allstar big man cause of an injury but not a serious lingering injury just one that makes him miss alot of the season and then we get into the lotto and although we probably wouldn't win odds are (Knicks and Heat will get 1 and 2 I think) we could end up with a top 10-14 pick mostly likely closer to 14 but that just might get us Kevin Love who would be a perfect Power Forward for us. All the stuff about him being to slow and unathletic will not matter. He is an extremely hard worker who is getting into really nice shape and is fundamentally solid as Tim Duncan. He can also play some C and PF. He is not only the perfect triangle PF but the perfect pf to put next to Bynum with his passing and outside game but also the perfect pf to put with Kobe with his passing because the man passes like Steve Nash. He will go down in history as the best passing big man ever.
Very slight chance Mayo slips past 5 and we get him or make a trade for him but could you imagine Mayo and Bynum along with Kobe and whoever we trade Kwame and Odom for?
2. Phil Jackson and Mitch and some of you who have blinders on will finally realize Kwame is absolutely garbadge and is a cancer and not because he is a ballhog or has a bad attitude but because he should not be in the nba. He is that bad and after seeing a real Center Mitch will get rid of him one way or another.
3. Mitch will learn another leason which is even though we were winning and even in first place we are not as deep as we would like to believe and we still need to make a trade and Mitch will in all likely make that trade.
4. I think with players having to step up guys like Farmar and Critt will get more pt because they are scorers and have potential to help them and will probably be brought along faster now. Fisher has been a godsend to get me wrong but I think a huge factor in his shooting %'s was Bynum and I don't believe the same can be said about Farmar.
5. If I am wrong and the Lakers do make the playoffs even though Bynum will be coming off an injury he is still more valuable then every other player besides Kobe combined and he will not hit a wall. He will have enough time to play his way back into shape for the playoffs and he will be fresh. He will probably also be doing alot of work on his upper body since he can't do cardio now so by next year he could come out looking like DHoward body wise and honestly you might think I am a homer but I believe Andrew Bynum is the most skilled Center in the league and if his body was like Dwight's we could be seeing next year a 21 year old Center who averages 25 points 15 rebounds and 3 blocks. Combine that with Kobe Bryant and we get another 3 championships at least.
6. We possibly get Chris Webber. Not alot of you are excited about Webber and there is a chance we don't get him but you should be excited about him. We need a pf and he is the perfect triangle player even slow when we play teams that make you play in the half court like the Spurs and the Pistons. When Bynum comes back if Webber is there we have an excellent frontcourt in every player except for Kwame Brown and Radman but Radman is really just like a huge guard we put out there sometimes.
7. This probably happened already but just in case it didn't it will now, Kobe Bryant will have more trust in upper management for not trading Bynum for Kidd which is something he probably would have never thought to be the case espially only a few months after. I don't think Kobe would approve sending out Bynum for Kidd. I think Bynum not only is the franchise for the Lakers for the next 2 decades but he comes close to what Jason Kidd would have done for Kobe by drawing defenders away from Kobe and being that big man. He makes everybody that much better and Kobe and Phil will really see that now and although I don't believe Kobe needed to anymore Phil clearly did because he was going to put Bynum back on the bench (idiot).
8.Ronny was getting no minutes. Now he will get as many minutes as he can handle and he will need to learn to stay out of foul trouble. Once this happens he will be a much better defender and when Bynum comes back when Odom falls asleep in the game Ronny can be put in and possibly become as good as Haslem.
So I am looking for ways to stay positive and I think I found them
1. We could have close to what happened to the Spurs in 96-97 happen to us were a really good team losses there allstar big man cause of an injury but not a serious lingering injury just one that makes him miss alot of the season and then we get into the lotto and although we probably wouldn't win odds are (Knicks and Heat will get 1 and 2 I think) we could end up with a top 10-14 pick mostly likely closer to 14 but that just might get us Kevin Love who would be a perfect Power Forward for us. All the stuff about him being to slow and unathletic will not matter. He is an extremely hard worker who is getting into really nice shape and is fundamentally solid as Tim Duncan. He can also play some C and PF. He is not only the perfect triangle PF but the perfect pf to put next to Bynum with his passing and outside game but also the perfect pf to put with Kobe with his passing because the man passes like Steve Nash. He will go down in history as the best passing big man ever.
Very slight chance Mayo slips past 5 and we get him or make a trade for him but could you imagine Mayo and Bynum along with Kobe and whoever we trade Kwame and Odom for?
2. Phil Jackson and Mitch and some of you who have blinders on will finally realize Kwame is absolutely garbadge and is a cancer and not because he is a ballhog or has a bad attitude but because he should not be in the nba. He is that bad and after seeing a real Center Mitch will get rid of him one way or another.
3. Mitch will learn another leason which is even though we were winning and even in first place we are not as deep as we would like to believe and we still need to make a trade and Mitch will in all likely make that trade.
4. I think with players having to step up guys like Farmar and Critt will get more pt because they are scorers and have potential to help them and will probably be brought along faster now. Fisher has been a godsend to get me wrong but I think a huge factor in his shooting %'s was Bynum and I don't believe the same can be said about Farmar.
5. If I am wrong and the Lakers do make the playoffs even though Bynum will be coming off an injury he is still more valuable then every other player besides Kobe combined and he will not hit a wall. He will have enough time to play his way back into shape for the playoffs and he will be fresh. He will probably also be doing alot of work on his upper body since he can't do cardio now so by next year he could come out looking like DHoward body wise and honestly you might think I am a homer but I believe Andrew Bynum is the most skilled Center in the league and if his body was like Dwight's we could be seeing next year a 21 year old Center who averages 25 points 15 rebounds and 3 blocks. Combine that with Kobe Bryant and we get another 3 championships at least.
6. We possibly get Chris Webber. Not alot of you are excited about Webber and there is a chance we don't get him but you should be excited about him. We need a pf and he is the perfect triangle player even slow when we play teams that make you play in the half court like the Spurs and the Pistons. When Bynum comes back if Webber is there we have an excellent frontcourt in every player except for Kwame Brown and Radman but Radman is really just like a huge guard we put out there sometimes.
7. This probably happened already but just in case it didn't it will now, Kobe Bryant will have more trust in upper management for not trading Bynum for Kidd which is something he probably would have never thought to be the case espially only a few months after. I don't think Kobe would approve sending out Bynum for Kidd. I think Bynum not only is the franchise for the Lakers for the next 2 decades but he comes close to what Jason Kidd would have done for Kobe by drawing defenders away from Kobe and being that big man. He makes everybody that much better and Kobe and Phil will really see that now and although I don't believe Kobe needed to anymore Phil clearly did because he was going to put Bynum back on the bench (idiot).
8.Ronny was getting no minutes. Now he will get as many minutes as he can handle and he will need to learn to stay out of foul trouble. Once this happens he will be a much better defender and when Bynum comes back when Odom falls asleep in the game Ronny can be put in and possibly become as good as Haslem.
