....couple of things I'd like to add to this lil lakers love fest. First of all they will be very talented and young next year but before we all get on our knees prematurely....Sean and Keith lol...I think we need to really look at this.
First of all I know the idea of 2 7'0's in the frontline sounds great but with the league moving faster 2 7'0's may not be something that will win a championship this day and age. Given the 2 7'0's they have are rather quick and athletic helps vastly, Gasols ability too step out and hit 15 footers will need to continue and improve as Bynum will be clogging the lane for him as shaq did for the Suns for it to work IMO.
Secondly they don't have any leadership...I expect flames for this but Kobe is not a leader in my eyes. He can call his teamates brothers all day long he is a bitch when they make mistakes he rails them and takes the game into his hands as he continued to huck em up downt he stretch lost game. I thought he has learned after the Utah series when he single handedly lost them the overtime game in Utah but apparently not. Talk about his maturation process all you want it is all a facade, this was the same guy that said he'd rather play on pluto at the beginning of the season and said to ship Bynum out for Kidd(which would have been a shit trade ps). Also his defense on Paul Pierce and Ray allen have been suspy as fuck the whole series and no one talks about it. I've seen many a plays of Kobe getting his ass handed to him by both players.
point 2 1/2 there are still very very few SG's who have ever led a team to a championship the only 2 that stand out to me are Jorday, and arguably D-Wade. Other teams were lead by Duncan, Shaq, Hakeem, Bird, Magic, Thomas etc etc.
All that being said I think in the end talent may prevail for the Lakers and they may win but call me crazy they seem like a disjointed team of members who don't truly like each other outside the court that much. I think Kobe still has some growing up to do as well as the Lakers bench to overcome that last hurtle.
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