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Tim Thomas- 3 point range, nice size, and can play both forward position. With a loaded team like the Suns in 2005-06 season in 24.4 minutes Thomas put up 11.0 ppg/4.9 rpg/43.5 FG%/42.9 3p%. That was with him playing with Nash, Bell, Marion, and Diaw in the starting line up and Barbosa coming off the bench. Playing with players like Bryant, Gasol, Artest, and Bynum will get him all the open shots he'll need. He'll be able to spread the floor better than Odom as well.

Lakers:
SF:Artest/Walton/Morrison
PF:Gasol/Thomas/Powell
C:Bynum/Mbenga
SG:Bryant/Vujacic
PG:Fisher/Farmar/Brown

Fisher/Bryant/Artest/Thomas/Gasol would be nice on the floor to finish games off

can we think about odom first?

LO needs to think Lakers first. He seems to be playing 2 sides to get a deal.

am sick and tired of the odom stuff, am condiering him out till further notice

I think Thomas may be a good option for you if LO doesn't come back. He has his detractors, but I always thought he was decent.

joe.linnen wrote:Tim Thomas- 3 point range, nice size, and can play both forward position. With a loaded team like the Suns in 2005-06 season in 24.4 minutes Thomas put up 11.0 ppg/4.9 rpg/43.5 FG%/42.9 3p%. That was with him playing with Nash, Bell, Marion, and Diaw in the starting line up and Barbosa coming off the bench. Playing with players like Bryant, Gasol, Artest, and Bynum will get him all the open shots he'll need. He'll be able to spread the floor better than Odom as well.

Lakers:
SF:Artest/Walton/Morrison
PF:Gasol/Thomas/Powell
C:Bynum/Mbenga
SG:Bryant/Vujacic
PG:Fisher/Farmar/Brown

Fisher/Bryant/Artest/Thomas/Gasol would be nice on the floor to finish games off

Rather have him that Walton, Sasha, Morrison.

joe.linnen wrote:Tim Thomas- 3 point range, nice size, and can play both forward position. With a loaded team like the Suns in 2005-06 season in 24.4 minutes Thomas put up 11.0 ppg/4.9 rpg/43.5 FG%/42.9 3p%. That was with him playing with Nash, Bell, Marion, and Diaw in the starting line up and Barbosa coming off the bench. Playing with players like Bryant, Gasol, Artest, and Bynum will get him all the open shots he'll need. He'll be able to spread the floor better than Odom as well.

Lakers:
SF:Artest/Walton/Morrison
PF:Gasol/Thomas/Powell
C:Bynum/Mbenga
SG:Bryant/Vujacic
PG:Fisher/Farmar/Brown

Fisher/Bryant/Artest/Thomas/Gasol would be nice on the floor to finish games off

Rather have him that Walton, Sasha, Morrison.

The only part of his game that is appealing is that he is a shooter, He can hit the 3 and spread the floor.
I'm not sure that's what the Lakers need from that position.
They need defense and rebounding, and Thomas does neither of those.

Lakers:
C-Bynum/Mbenga
PF-Gasol/Powell
SF-Artest/Kleiza/Walton
SG-Kobe/Vujajic
PG-Fisher/Farmar/Brown

you guys need bench scoring when artest isn't up the par, not that it's very likely to happen. but kleiza has huge spurts when he takes over when needed, i.e. 41 pts during kmarts absence..

Kleiza wants more money than the Lakers can offer. They can only offer the Vet minimum and he wants a lot more than that.

Thought you guys hated 'the hand/face wave'

I brought up Thomas as soon as he became available, but people in here mostly shrugged at the idea for whatever reasons.

If Thomas came in for Bynum or Gasol into a game, then whatever player is left from that pair would get full post-up duties, which means that Thomas would be a very good complimentary player at that point being that he obviously prefers to do his work from the perimeter. Thomas, like I said before as well, is a better shooter from the outside than Odom. I'm not saying that Thomas is an upgrade, because Odom overall is the better baller, but looking at it from a pure shooting point of view Thomas is the better player and his offense would flourish in LA tantamount to what it did in Phoenix.

I think Thomas would fit in perfectly given his unique skill set (shoot threes, board, decent handles, length, decent IQ)... Bynum (32 minutes) and Gasol (16 minutes) will cover he center position with DJ picking up the scraps... Obviously, LO brings more to the table but you are talking about a player making $8 to $10 million a year for multiple years in contrast to a player taking $1.3 million for one year... I would support the move... Love it...

He just signed with the Mavs.

Tim Thomas=Garbage (warm and getting warmer)