No team can stop a healthy Dwight in the post season

[Golabki]

Lakers grinded out some of their games, but during that stretch there was very questionable officiating. Spurs may be a good matchup for them, but I don't see them getting past them. How is Nash going to guard Tony Parker? Who is going to guard him? Duncan is going to do whatever he wants on Howard again too. Only hope for LA is Gasol.

My guess is that the Lakers will use Clark and MWP on Tony as much as possible.

[Ice Trae]

It was nice of Mike Brown to visit Kobe

[Golabki]

Please read and look at the evidence before making judgement. Even with Kobe out, I always knew that this team had enough talent for a title run if one of the major talents got injured.

Now before the trash talk comes recognize the evidence:

1) Lakers have the 3rd best record since the All Star Break with Kobe.
2) And while losing Kobe to injury the team just beat two big western conference playoff teams to close out the season. That is what we call, peaking.
3) Spurs could not stop Dwight even with the hack-a-dwight desperation move by Pop.
4) Dwight has the rebound title
5) Dwight is healthy and right now, is the best center in the nba, playing with Pau, the 2nd best center in the NBA
6) Pau and Dwight combined for 38 rebounds in their last meet
7) What wins championships? A good half court game, elite big men, and teams that can rebound. (history evidence: Duncan and David Robinson, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Shaquille Oneal, Wilt Chamberlin, Bill Russell, etc.)

Dwight Howard is serious and is eyeing the championship. He is very serious and his demeanor has absolutely changed. He's not smiling as much and has that killer instinct that Kobe has. For one the team dynamic and cohesion has changed for the better, and Dwight has bought in to the Lakers, even becoming good teammates with Kobe Bryant. Going from this:



To this:

Kobe Bryant ✔ @kobebryant

D12 was a beast. He stopped by the hospital twice yesterday to check on big bro that's luv #countond12

To add to this development there are also the hints that Dwight will resign with the Lakers next season:

Arash Markazi ✔ @ArashMarkazi

I asked Dwight if he agreed with Mitch and saw himself as the future of the Lakers: "Yeah, I do. We talked about it plenty of times."

Dwight has definitely got it going on the defensive end for quite some time now. But the effort is also going beyond the norm, and his offense is finally taking flight...against the 2nd seed Spurs at that scoring 26 points and 17 rebounds:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyxfiggBFEc&feature=youtube_gdata&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed[/youtube]

So you can see Dwight Howard has evolved. He is hungry, and that Spurs game really is a glimpse of how hungry and dominating he can and will be for the Lakers. The Lakers are almost unstoppable with a healthy Dwight, even Popovich's hack-a-Dwight by the 2nd seeded spurs just didn't work. Dwight is serious about a title run. And if the Lakers make it to the Finals, the Heat and the Knicks don't have the interior defense to handle Dwight, let alone a Dwight / Pau combination.

Maybe no team can stop Dwight, but Kobe taking 20 off-balance 3s per game would help.

[SweetTouch]

Only Kobe stopped Dwight this season

Feed him the ball, he won't be stopped