Congrats to the San Antonio Spurs for drafting my boy Blair

[mystargtr34]

Right now its clear the Lakers are the best in the West. As good as they were, they did rely on injuries probably more than any other champion in quite a few years, and were still tested alot, so theyre not this indestructable force by any means. In terms of their matchup....

Parker - Fisher
Manu - Kobe
Jefferson - Ariza
Duncan - Gasol
MLE Big - Bynum/Odom

From positions 1 through 4, if healthy the Spurs are clearly better than the Lakers. Jefferson may not be a perrenial All-Star, but having him over Michael Finley, well its almost like the equivalent of adding an All-NBA First teamer. Thats the type of improvement the Spurs can expect from the position that so often killed them last season.

The biggest question mark will obviously be the MLE Big. The Bynum/Odom combo just kills the Spurs. Even a sevicable big who can play D and more importantly rebound, will be huge upgrade over Matt Bonner, a guy like a Rasheed Wallace or Antonio McDyess, both better than servicable, will cut out a serious amount of that advantage Bynum and Odom have over the Spurs.

But, its better to compare after seeing what the Spurs do with their MLE and LLE.

[Spursfan092120]

And guess what? The Lakers won it all.

And your team didn't. In fact your team got embarrassed by the _allas Mavericks.

Next.

Guess what? That was last season.

[Man In Black]

All that talk from DocMouse, the guy that jumped off his team's bandwagon during the Rocket series.

What The Ever!
He keeps talking about Dallas, when he knows(but won't post) how hard it is to win when you know going in, you're down 1 (as Kobe says) Bad-ass 2 guard.


Seriously, were you talking this much when your Lakers were up 3-1 to Phoenix only to get booted out in the 1st round?