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They will get Howard tbh. This year or next, they will have him.
Thanks phoenix for getting worse and for sending one of the worst defensive players of all-time to a Laker team who have enough trouble defending TP. All the while they still have a defensive-minded coach who won't know how to mask Nash's big weakness. Funny ...unless they manage to get Howard still.
They will get Howard tbh. This year or next, they will have him.
Seems like a good pickup for them, but who knows
Nah, something tells me no one wants to hook them up this time. They traded alot of draft picks for Nash...and Orlando surely wants at least a couple good draft picks too. After seeing how the Lakers succeeded once they got Shaq, I have to believe Orlando doesn't want to hook them up again.
Good pickup to beat many teams in the West but not the top ones, especially us and the Thunder.
Because any time you can trade 4 picks for a soon to be 40 year old pg who may increase your defensive issues at the position, you have to do that.
TP usually gets a hard on anytime he faces the Lakers...imagine how he's gonna feel about playing them now!
I think that Orlando is less concerned about the success the Lakers might have and more concerned about the assets the Lakers have to offer them in return. And they have quite a few, despite the moves they made to get Nash.
The thing is, Nash is an upgrade to anyone they have now.
What assets? You mean ONE asset, a temperamental knuckle-head who cares more about himself than the rest of the team and would rather chuck threes just to piss off a coach. Yeah, sign me up for that nutcase.
The Lakers would have beaten the Spurs last year without Nash.
The Spurs are too small for the Lakers.
The Lakers would have beaten the Spurs last year without Nash.
The Spurs are too small for the Lakers.
No, not in the playoffs when it's all about matchups. And if they match up with us or the Thunder next year, they're in deep .
Only two teams were better than us this past season, the Thunder and the Heat. We would've taken the Lakers out, no doubt about it. Pop would've out-coached Brown and the Lakers can't defend the pick and roll...much less so now with Nash at the point.
San Antonio will have absolutely no chance to defend the Lakers now. Zero.
We won't need to, we'll simply out score them at will with the worst player to ever defend the point in the history of the game.
Spurs won't be the number 1 seed next year.
Mark it down.
Nope. The spurs were too soft on the frontline.
WTF is up with the closeted Laker fans here. Nash is pushing 40 and a putrid defender, calm the down. They're not a danger unless things are rigged for them to get Dwight.
yeah its crazy how good we are at running the pick and roll compared to how notoriously bad we are at defending it.
Nash is a capable team defender and I expect having Bynum behind him will help.
When the Lakers trot out Nash, Bryant, Artest, Gasol, Bynum - they won't be easy to score on in a playoff environment.
Again, Nash is a putrid defender and is pushing 40. I don't get the Laker fandom coming out of Spurs fans here.
Yeah, it's frustrating.
I'm thinking that it's probably because you don't have to be athletic to dominate using a pick and roll offensively, but having nice lateral movement and the ability to hedge and recover with length and quickness can really help when defending the PnR.
Notorious Laker homer J.A. Adande just said on ESPN that the Spurs and Thunder are still better than them because they are the deeper team and 'cuz Nash can't hang defensively against their PGs. He still has hope they get Howard, though.
No doubting he is a defender, it just isn't going to be as much of a liability with LA as it was with Phoenix.
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