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Tank? How? Houston has NOTHING of value to winning next year that they are willing to give up. The only thing they have is Harden. But the whole reason Howard would go to Houston is Harden, so that's out the question. So if Howard picks Houston, then you get the most value out of Howard you possibly can. You tell Houston to get some trades for some first round draft picks in 2014, and you say then you can have Howard, so Houston will have to trade some players that they wanted to trade to LA to other teams for their draft picks. Because you are NOT winning a title next year with Lin as your point guard. After that you sign some vet big men to one year deals, as in 2014 the Lakers will have a TON of cap space and you don't want to mess that up. This is about maximizing having Dwight Howard. If the Lakers gave up Andrew Bynum for Howard, then why not maximize this position. Look at the Cavs when they lost LeBron, they ended up with many draft picks. After 2014 the Lakers will be dumping huge portions of this roster, it's time to put pieces together to reload. After all, the Lakers never rebuild, they reload.
Quote from: M Dogg™ on July 03, 2013, 01:31:48 PMTank? How? Houston has NOTHING of value to winning next year that they are willing to give up. The only thing they have is Harden. But the whole reason Howard would go to Houston is Harden, so that's out the question. So if Howard picks Houston, then you get the most value out of Howard you possibly can. You tell Houston to get some trades for some first round draft picks in 2014, and you say then you can have Howard, so Houston will have to trade some players that they wanted to trade to LA to other teams for their draft picks. Because you are NOT winning a title next year with Lin as your point guard. After that you sign some vet big men to one year deals, as in 2014 the Lakers will have a TON of cap space and you don't want to mess that up. This is about maximizing having Dwight Howard. If the Lakers gave up Andrew Bynum for Howard, then why not maximize this position. Look at the Cavs when they lost LeBron, they ended up with many draft picks. After 2014 the Lakers will be dumping huge portions of this roster, it's time to put pieces together to reload. After all, the Lakers never rebuild, they reload.if u think asik, parson, and beverly wouldnt be valuable to use, then ur very much mistaking, my friend. anyways, i think ur plan sucks...chasing draft picks are for teams like the cavs and raptors. were not getting lottery picks, so u can forget about it...were after the nba-ready players, as we should be.
I said career wise. And Hack nailed it, he's playing with the biggest ballhog in the leagues history. Guaranteed he'd go back to a 20+per game on any other team in basketball. You're just bitter towards dude. And he's still a better rebounder and defender than all of them.
"In Orlando they just set him up to 'appear' better by setting him up with a supporting cast perfect to fit his style of play. So perfect he made it to the NBA Finals."...how stupid of me. What kind of second rate organization completely builds the team around it's stars strengths in order to be a contender. Orlando should've just put an average group of shooters around him and made him develop his post game in order to win. "Since Al Jefferson can create for himself, despite averaging five less PPG in his career than Dwight, he's so much more valuable on offense". ...yeah. I should of figured after you think Kobe shooting a fader over three defenders is more valuable than LeBron overpowering defenders in the paint that this would come out of your mouth."Dwight isn't better than any of them on defense despite winning defensive player of the year three years in a row. He had an off year because Kobe is one of the worst teammates a man could ever dream for, but since he didn't get any accolades (the same accolades that are irrelevant in Kobe/MJ convos when I feel like it) he is an awful defender". Yeah, you're not a complete moron.