This morning, I was going through my usual round of sports blogs and came upon this.
It’s a guard-driven league, and that Lakers don’t have a great point guard.
Unfortunately, the proper angle has never been given to this topic. While it’s true that the Lakers have not had an All-Star at the point guard position since Magic Johnson, it’s not true that they’ll lose because of it.
We see the same stories year after year. When the playoffs start, the Lakers, no matter what round they’re in, always play against a top 10 point guard. If journalists and columnists wanted, they could save their drafts and replace the point guard from round 1′s name with the point guard from round 2′s name and pump out the same exact article, with 81% of it still being true (It’s not an exact science. Yet.).
I never thought about it in this sense, but dude brings up a good point in that we have played some of the best PGs in every round of the playoffs for the past 3 years. And even though they tend to have our way with us (hell, even the scrub PGs do), our team is set to succeed against the usual competition we face.
So, what do you guys think.. Is it that bad of a weakness? With our length and size, I don't think we should be too concerned with upgrading our PG position just yet.
