olive_triangurl wrote:Jordan Hill, Nick Young, Jeremy Lin, Carlos Boozer all are better than Smush Parker/Kwame Brown in my opinion.
Hill is basically Kwame Brown without being afraid of the world, or the ZOMGDONTPASSMETHEBALLOHNOEZ, deer-in-the-headlights issue Kwame had in LA. Boozer, even as he is now, is better offensively. My MOM is better than Smush Parker, so yes, Lin is definitely better. Nick Young... has like one night in five where he's a useful player and not a counterproductive moron, but yeah, he's still better than Parker. Kwame was an acceptable rebounder and an decent man defender for L.A. He just blew bits on offense.
This team is better than the 05 squad, for sure, but Kobe's older now. One can ask only so much of him before it's trying to squeeze blood from a stone. Hibbert will help defensively, and Lou Williams is a good addition. Better than anything Kobe had post-Shaq and pre-Gasol. But he just hit his career high when he NEARED 16 ppg, right? They're still lacking the pieces that would support a lower-volume Kobe, unless Randle gets going. It'll be a challenging year.