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Will Kwame Brown & Lamar Odom become an elite PF/SF combo alongside Kobe Bryant?

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eS El Duque:
Odom is a great player

Kwame just sucks as of now...until i see him perform in the regular season



So no

Juronimo:
I would have to say yes, they will become an elite combo and it's one of the few things that will give us Laker fans hope for the coming season. Kwame will actually get some minutes so he will have plenty of opportunities to be productive. Odom has a tougher role as he has to be the initiator. That's why you don't see him scoring much in the preseason. He has to learn the offense and then initiate it, which is a lot of work. It will take him some time to master his new role but when he does, he will be a much more effective player for it.

Phil knows what he's doing and he'll get the best out of those 2. I'm not worried about them at all.

Now_Im_Not_Banned:

--- Quote from: Antonio on October 23, 2005, 02:38:38 AM ---It all depends from the circumstances. Like i've said thousands of times, both Odom and Brown have the skills to be considered impact players, but they are menthally wack, and it's a long run to turn them from players who never reached their potential to superstars. If it wasnt that hard, Kwame was still in Washington, and Lamar was still in Los Angeles. I've seen 2 preseason games, and Odom is still doing the same mistakes. In the last match he went 0/7 from the field. Horrible. Because he took only 7 shots. And because he missed them all. He's averaging less that 10 ppg (less than Bryant, Brown, George and even Smush Parker!) and he's shooting extremely bad (he's 2/14 from 3pts and he's shooting with .351 from 2pts and, for a player who's main goal is to use mismatches to make easy basket it's a pretty bad stat). Plus he aint impressing nobody (i've heard Phil might move him back to PF). We will see, i'm not a wizard and i can't predict the future, but right now we still got a problem. Brown is playing pretty well. I mean if you make an alley-hoop, he can dunk with energy. And if you give him the ball when he's in front of the basket, just under the basket, he can finish it hard. But i've seen no footwork, no post moves, no jumpshots, none of those things. Brown is a 4 years prospect, it's different than Odom. Odom has no excuses, while Brown is still 23 years old, so there's still space to improve. Anyway, to reply to your question, i think the Lakers will start with Parker, George, Bryant, Odom and Brown. So no PF/SF combo. Maybe PF/C. Check Phil's interviews after the game against the Bobcats.

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First of all, LMAO@you judging Lamar Odom by his pre-season games...Obviously, star players are way better than what they show in the pre-season, that's a known fact...Second of all, Phil speaks out of his ass a lot. He's discussed many possibilities, including starting Walton, Smush, McKie, & George...This is how the roster looks so far:

Smush Parker...Aaron McKie/Sasha Vujacic/Von Wafer
Kobe Bryant...Laron Profit/Devin Green/Tony Bobbit
Lamar Odom.....Devean George/Luke Walton/Jumain Jones
Kwame Brown.....Brian Cook/Slava Medvadenko/Corie Blount
Chris Mihm.....Andrew Bynum/Adam Parada

The plan is to have Kobe, Lamar, & Kwame playing the roll of the big 3, while Smush & Mihm will be key role players. Then we'll have a nice list of players coming off the bench like Devean George (6th man of the year candidate?), Aaron Mckie, Brian Cook, Luke Walton, etc. I mean, I never said the Lakers are currently for sure championship candidates, but I think they have a good shot at being a strong team...I have faith in Showtime.

acbaylove:
Ok and the point of your reply was? That i have to change my opinion judging Odom by the "potential" you see in him and not by judging what he has done in the previous season and during this preseason? Dont you find it a little pointless? Everybody know he has a good potential: his only problem is that he never showed it. And he's still not showing it. I say what i see. And i'm seing Odom doing bad numbers and being everything but our 2nd best offensive weapon (right now he's listed at number 5 in that list). If he'll do great numbers i'll see it and i'll praise him. The "role" of a fan is to support him, not to dickride him like you do. You see monkeys flying.

Now_Im_Not_Banned:
LOL...You sound like one of the Laker haters, throwing around words like "dickrider" when people defend Laker players. How am I dickriding Odom when he's not even one of my favorite players?...Then you got people who don't even like the Lakers saying shit like:


--- Quote from: 05/06 Favre on October 23, 2005, 11:40:49 AM ---Odom is a great player

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--- Quote from: PLANT on October 23, 2005, 10:27:07 AM ---I think Lamar is a great player. For his size, he's as versatile as they come.

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...which makes you look like a fake ass fan. Odom is already considered a really good player, easily the second best on the Lakers. Now the test is whether he can perform at superstar status, cause whether he can play or not has already been proven...You seem to be the only one who has it twisted about that though. :-X

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