Originally Posted by
wantitall4moi
hatred? where and how? I tell it like it is. I told people lakers would stink last year and they did. They had an inflated win record because they stayed healthy and played alot of teams that had injured players. once they made the playoffs (the REAL season) they got their asses smoked. Barely made it out of the first round and for all intents and purposes got swept in the second.
Guys on that team also played over their heads most of the season, despite what people want to try and remember. Gasol played well until the play offs, Bynum was pretty dominant when they used him correctly, and ron artest actually played well which was a mjor shock. Lakers played a near perfect game last year and still werent close to good enough.
Now they add a 40 year old guy, who is still good sure, and a damaged goods guy who might be a step backwards in some respects to the guy they essentially traded for him and people think theyre light years better? THOSE people are the clueless ones.
Bynum was 26 years old and showed he could dominate a game if used properly. Howard is a misfit crybaby who stood around in the paint and grabbed misses and if he got a chance might dunk the ball his offensive skill set is almost zero. That is something Lakers will have to address unless they are happy with him standing around and getting rebounds and an occasional dunk.
Howard might be one of the most overated guys in the NBA, and that was when he was healthy. Guys like him who find excuses and whine and piss and moan about everything arent the type of guys who should be coveted. If he was really al that why didnt he get moved earlier? Because of some make believe 'he wont play for anyone long term' bullshit? Well Orlando basically gave the guy away. Which I suppose is what they were going to see happen anyway. But lakers were the only team DUMB enough to take him and HOPE to hell he signs a deal with them. Hubris is a terrible thing.
There are simply way too many negatives in this deal, and really only one or maybe 2 possible positives.
I love it because in the end the odds of something bad happening are much more likely than something good.
The perfect storm would be the Clippers winning the Pacific, Lakers being a 5 or 6 seed and then being eliminated by the Clippers in the play offs. But that probably wont happen. I figure if Howard is healthy OKC will be the team to eliminate them, although Clippers and Denver will have some major talent and depth not sure their coaching is good enough to do it.
But Mike brown isnt that good and he has already shown he cant handle guys with big egos and we have also seen what happened in Orlando to a coach that couldnt handle dwight howard. Exactly like the lebron james situations, they axed the coach hoping the star player would stay, but that wasnt good enough. so orlando learned a lesson, rather than watching another press conference by a self absorbed asshole they just traded him to anyone that would take him.
Like i said there are a lot of ways this could end badly, I am sure we will see them play out as the year goes on.
first one has already started, howard is going to miss the start of the season due to his back. So how many games is that? If he sits stil Christams and misses 12-15 games then what? It will take him another 10-20 to get into shape so theres half the season gone on a guy you dont have a contract with, and what if he decides to take it easy so not to hurt himself before he can sign with a team he really wanted to play for? That is just one possible scenario that stems from an already known aspect of this move. Lakers only had 4 games without bynum last year so transpose that to this year and howard how many games without him to start? How good are they without him (or bynum)? If he misses 20 games and they start 10-10 or worse then what?
Like i said will be interesting.
Fans or deluded people only want to see the best of any situation,they are never willing to look at all the possibilities. I just know that eventually the lakers will be a great fade, not sure how not having him works but it will surely make for some interesting futures.