Just how thin are the lakers.this year

[Tracymcgoaty]

Just how thin is Realgm on topics during offseason?

[Benedict_Boozer]

Keep bron and ad healthy Lakers will be fine


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[triple_threat]

"Outside of LeBron, Davis all you have is..."

Dude, LeBron James and Anthony Davis is enough. That's a historical powerhouse duo. The best duo the league has seen in many decades. I mean, LeBron has never had a teammate as good as Anthony Davis, and he's had some impressive teammates over the years. And LeBron has taken thinner teams to the Finals.

So the thinness of the rest of the squad is like... so what? Good luck just trying to beat those two guys.

Those two can do it, but even shaq and kobe had solid two way role players., plus davis isnt shaq and lebrons going on 35.

Kobe was much worse than both Davis and LeBron.

Davis kind of is Shaq, and so is LeBron - and especially LeBron in the playoffs.

What I mean by that is both Davis and LeBron have the ability to match prime Shaq's PER. And in the case of playoff LeBron he can exceed prime Shaq's PER. The last time LeBron was in the playoffs (a little over a year ago, at age 33) he posted a 32.2 PER which well exceeds prime Shaq's best championship effort of 30.5 in 2000.

Kobe never had the ability to match or exceed prime Shaq in this regard.

So LeBron + Davis is like having 2 Shaqs on your team, except that one of the Shaqs is also Michael Jordan (i.e. LeBron James).

PER is one thing, but Davis isnt close to shaq imo

[Pennebaker]

Those two can do it, but even shaq and kobe had solid two way role players., plus davis isnt shaq and lebrons going on 35.

Kobe was much worse than both Davis and LeBron.

Davis kind of is Shaq, and so is LeBron - and especially LeBron in the playoffs.

What I mean by that is both Davis and LeBron have the ability to match prime Shaq's PER. And in the case of playoff LeBron he can exceed prime Shaq's PER. The last time LeBron was in the playoffs (a little over a year ago, at age 33) he posted a 32.2 PER which well exceeds prime Shaq's best championship effort of 30.5 in 2000.

Kobe never had the ability to match or exceed prime Shaq in this regard.

So LeBron + Davis is like having 2 Shaqs on your team, except that one of the Shaqs is also Michael Jordan (i.e. LeBron James).

PER is one thing, but Davis isnt close to shaq imo

I think Davis had been better through age 24. From ages 20 to 24 I think Shaq was underachieving. But after age 24-25 Shaq went on a dominant run and we havent seen AD much after age 25 yet, so... we shall see.

But I think you're underrating Davis. He is also a very rare and special talent.