Nash now a Laker

[cakes44]

Not far off. Looks like Grant Hill is coming with him.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by cakes44

Not far off. Looks like Grant Hill is coming with him.

IF that does happen, the Lakers will become the favorites to win the 2005 NBA championship.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

IF that does happen, the Lakers will become the favorites to win the 2005 NBA championship.

I dont know the Knicks signed JKidd...might give them a run since Bynum will be 16.

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[dalakhani]

I'm not so quick to dismiss this trade. From a defensive standpoint, it obviously doesn't help but I don't see how the lakers aren't vastly improved with Nash at the point in place of Ramon sessions. They still have one of the biggest frontlines in the league along with Kobe. Nash averaged 10 assists per game last year.

I'm not saying that this pushes them past okc but it certainly makes the series much more interesting and I don't see any other team in the west being any better.

[RockHardTen1985]

This trade does not make them better then OKC or Miami, hell they can't beat Boston in a series as the rosters sit right now.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

This trade does not make them better then OKC or Miami, hell they can't beat Boston in a series as the rosters sit right now.

That would put them as one of the four best teams in basketball which is about right in my opinion. I realize that OKC beat them in that series but its not like it wasn't competitive. If Nash was in there this year over Sessions, could that not have made the difference? Maybe not but i don't think one could answer that definitively considering how close the games were.

Nash averaged 10.6 assists last year passing the ball to a bunch of stiffs. What does that total look like when Kobe, bynum and Gasol are taking those shots? How much does it help Kobe if he has a two time MVP getting him easy looks? How much does it help the lakers spacing when you have a credible shooter spotting up from three point range? How much does it help Gasol and bynum when they have one of the best pick and roll point guards in history to work with instead of watching kobe jack up another 20 ft fade?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

I'm not so quick to dismiss this trade. From a defensive standpoint, it obviously doesn't help but I don't see how the lakers aren't vastly improved with Nash at the point in place of Ramon sessions. They still have one of the biggest frontlines in the league along with Kobe. Nash averaged 10 assists per game last year.

I'm not saying that this pushes them past okc but it certainly makes the series much more interesting and I don't see any other team in the west being any better.

Obviously 30 minutes of Nash is better than what they had but Kobe, Nash, MWP and even Gasol are all in various stages of decline. The elephant in the room in LA is Kobe is not the player he was and one of the Lakers issues in the playoffs was they ran out of gas because Brown overused Kobe, Gasol and Bynum in the regular season. Nash isn't going to help in that area and they simply have no depth especially on the wings and have very little room to maneuver. The window for them is really narrow because they have no young legs and the decline in the key players isnt going to reverse itself. Of course if they get Howard for Bynum then it changes everything because all of a sudden the defensive issues go away for the most part.