NBA: Rank these Cs..

[TheSanityAnnex]

Cry Havoc doing the Lord's work.

[Proxy]

I'd take the high IQ player.

[Splits]

[GuerillaBlack]

Dwight
Boogie
Gasol

Howard
Gasol
Cousins (way too immature and not nearly as seasoned defensively as the other 2)

Idk, Cousins has matured a lot. Big change happened around the turn of the new year last season.

[DAF86]

For instance swap Gasol with Dwight on the Lakers a couple years ago, and the Lakers probably win it all in 2012.

First of all: you mean 2013.
Second: Please explain me how swapping Gasol for Howard would make that train wreck that was the Lakers go from getting swept in the first round to NBA champions?

[Phillip]

First of all: you mean 2013.
Second: Please explain me how swapping Gasol for Howard would make that train wreck that was the Lakers go from getting swept in the first round to NBA champions?

Howard and his poor at ude was a huge part of the train wreck.

Get rid of that, and things look a lot different on the team. Kobe, Pau, and Marc? Hm, kinda similar to a trio that won back to back championships, only Marc >>> Bynum. So it's not exactly difficult to think that they would have had much more success in the playoffs than they had. Perhaps winning it all is a bit of an exaggeration as Miami would still have been tough to beat, but point is, they would have been far superior.

[DAF86]

Howard and his poor at ude was a huge part of the train wreck.

Get rid of that, and things look a lot different on the team. Kobe, Pau, and Marc? Hm, kinda similar to a trio that won back to back championships, only Marc >>> Bynum. So it's not exactly difficult to think that they would have had much more success in the playoffs than they had. Perhaps winning it all is a bit of an exaggeration as Miami would still have been tough to beat, but point is, they would have been far superior.

You do rember that Kobe was injury for the playoffs do you? Nash too. And Howard wasn't the main guy, those guys just didn't mash toghether. D'antoni style didn't help either. They would have been more or less the same mess with Gasol instead of Howard.

[Phillip]

You do rember that Kobe was injury for the playoffs do you? Nash too. And Howard wasn't the main guy, those guys just didn't mash toghether. D'antoni style didn't help either. They would have been more or less the same mess with Gasol instead of Howard.

I won't deny that my wording of the initial post was poorly chosen, as it didn't account for the injuries, but fact is, healthy or not, that team was going to flame out early, because as you said, they didn't mesh together, and a large part of it was Howard and his general lack of skill/versatility. They would be a much more well built squad with Gasol as opposed to Howard.