Nash now a Laker

[AlreadyHome]

OKC got lucky with the Lakers, And Kobe Needs help, Bynum sucks, he should be trade. plus their style of play now is set up for a point guard
and nash is perfect fit for that style.

No_more triangle offense

Lakers the Team to Beat in this Up_coming season

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by AlreadyHome

OKC got lucky with the Lakers, And Kobe Needs help, Bynum sucks, he should be trade. plus their style of play now is set up for a point guard
and nash is perfect fit for that style.

No_more triangle offense

Lakers the Team to Beat Up in this coming season

it was too easy to fix that.

i don't follow basketball at all but my friend who actually cares thinks they're improved but have too little on the bench and you can't expect the front 5 to carry them through the playoff's. he thinks they'll try to trade gasol for two guys who combined make about as much money as he does by himself.

[Indian Charlie]

They need some athleticism and energy from the bench, and badly need a useful backup point guard as well.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

it was too easy to fix that.

i don't follow basketball at all but my friend who actually cares thinks they're improved but have too little on the bench and you can't expect the front 5 to carry them through the playoff's. he thinks they'll try to trade gasol for two guys who combined make about as much money as he does by himself.

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[King Glorious]

I think Nash makes them better but not significantly. Not because he's not a huge improvement over Sessions because he is, but because I don't think he fits their style of play. For one, Kobe needs to control the ball too much and that takes it out of Nash’s hands and that defeats his purpose. Kobe has won five titles. James got one. Wade got one. Bird won three. Jordan won six. All of these guys were wing players that controlled their offense and won without a top level point guard. In fact, I believe you may have to go all the way back to Isaih Thomas in 1990 to find the last time an all star level point guard won a title. I suppose you could argue Parker and Billups, who were both finals MVP but neither was actually an all star at the time. But anyway, I just don't see Kobe ceding that much control of the ball to anyone. Nash is a good shooter but he's more off the dribble, not spot up. I don't think his style best fits that of Bynum and Gasol either. I think his assists numbers drop down instead of go up. We haven't even gotten to his defense. Offense wasn't the problem for LA. It was an inability to stop transition offense and penetration and Nash doesn't help that. So I think it improves them but not enough to put them over the teams ahead of them.