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Did not see this coming at all.
The Lakers are my one guilty pleasure of a team to root for. I always cringe a little one I admit it, but I don't feel too bad because they weren't that good when I started rooting for them.
That said, with the Chiefs and the Blues as rooting interests, its fun having a team that is perpetually in a 'win-now' mode somewhere on your hierarchy. It sucks that my win-now team is in the back-asswards, corrupt !@#$ing NBA, but that's just the way it is, I guess.
Some folks are saying this means that they won't try for Howard; I'm on the other side. Now they almost have to pursue him. Their perimeter man defense will be abysmal, but Nash is actually a pretty smart positional team defender. Brown tries to run a defense that funnels play towards the middle and allows the big guys to clean up the slop. Well, with Howard's length and explosiveness as a defensive presence in the center, he would mitigate a great deal of Nash's defensive shortcomings. Moroever, Bynum is a 'skilled' big that wants the ball on the blocks and wants to be able to make moves to the hoop. His game doesn't need Nash's vision and frankly it's wasted on him.
Put Howard in there, however, to patrol defensively and pick up garbage buckets and put-backs alongside Gasol who is a perfect fit for Nash's game and suddenly the Lakers have a very dynamic inside-outside game.
It would be a clear contrast in styles against the Thunder and Heat, who will just put as many athletes as they can on the floor and try to outrun them. That said, I still think bigs and PG play are how you win in basketball and the Lakers would be without peer in that regard.
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