OT: Possible huge rivals LA vs LA?

[NOODLESTYLE]

I'm thinking the Trailblazers would be more of a rival when they get Greg Oden back.

On the other hand, the Clippers would lose the one thing that may play a huge factor for many teams.. "Home court advantage" against the Lakers.

[Chubby Chaser]

Mayo is overrated. He hasn't shown anything in college. He doesn't show up for big games, then gets shut down by westbrook. Thornton is going to be the next big thing if the clips can hold onto him. What a great steal he was for them. He's going to be special in a couple of years.

[O.C Brandon]

Russell Westbrook is said to have potential for the next level but you guys don't think Mayo does?

How many times have we seen a player do a lot more in the NBA than in College?

Mayo averaged 21ppg, 45% in his 1st year. Give him a chance.

[timebandit]

Maggette will opt out and bolt the clips this coming offseason.

Possible huge rivals LA vs LA? Dude are you a clipper fan? If you are this is not the dream forum this is the Laker forum!!
Lakers being mentioned in the same breath threads shoud be auto locked!! And this quote up above Maggette is gone true that, he does not like the Clipper coach thinks he is a joke! The Clippers again will fall apart.

[Dexmor]

Well Rose will go first imo and I think Mayo should go 2nd and Beasley 3rd. Beasley is kind of like Melo. Melo is great don't get me wrong but Rose is like a guy who could be better then Wade and or Paul/Wade level. Mayo will be on that level to. The worst he would ever be is a sane Gilbert with some height who is won't be a tweener.

Anyway no I am not A Clipper fan but I regocnize up and coming teams and the Blazers and the Clippers are those teams. Next year they will be adding a new player who could be OJ and add that to Thorton being in his second year (they don't need Cory with AL).
Tell me Kaman, Brand, Thorton is not an opposing frontline? Now just imagine you add Mayo to that?
I know the Blazers will probably be the team we have to worry about in the future but the Clippers can be a squad.

[milesfides]

OJ Mayo played just one year in college. It's tough to gauge how good he'll become, because he still needs to work on fixable problems in his game.

His passing and decision-making isn't great - not natural talents for him. He'll struggle as a point guard in the NBA, unless he works on it like Chauncey Billups did. Not a given though, since Billups is one of the rare combo guards to eventually develop into a point guard. Right now he's more of a 2-guard.

As a 2-guard, he's not a spectacular package. The shooting guard position in the NBA is the deepest, most talented. His size, somewhere around 6'4" to 6'5", isn't remarkable for a shooting guard.

His athleticism isn't out of the world for a shooting guard either. His explosiveness, strength, speed, and agility haven't been special for a top guard prospect.

On the flip side, the guy has some first class talents. The guy is an excellent outside shooter. For a freshman, he's shown he's got NBA-type range. That's rare, since many of these athletic guards who declare in the draft can't shoot.

He can also defend, he wants to defend, and that's extremely rare too.

In sum, it's really tough to predict what kind of player OJ Mayo could be. His game in uneven. If he stayed in college 3 more years, he might have developed his game like Brandon Roy.

As it stands, he's a bit of a gamble. As a Laker fan, I think he'd be great for the Lakers. The triangle would play to his strengths. He'd immediately be a good fit, due to his ability to shoot and defend, while his ability to create and finish would make him the all-around guard that our team is missing.

On most other teams in the NBA, he'll probably struggle a couple years, until he decides what position he's going to play, and works on his game enough to succeed at it.