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Originally Posted by kidcolin
how can you agree with the Lamar point. It's so absurd. He had his best year by a pretty decent margin and fans were enthused that he could just do his thing and not worry about the pressure.
I don't recall any Lakers fans bitching about Lamar at all this season, until the Finals at least but they were butthurt about everything then. It was the previous 3 years when he was one of the most frustrating players in the league.
I am a laker fan in LA. We did not want odom traded this year at any point.
Last year was a different story, we wanted everyone, even possibly kobe traded because we needed a change.
How can anyone say the dream is not the best center in this draft. He repeatadly beat up on the other top centers, even when the other centers had great teams. He absolutley embarrassed shaq and robinson. How many of us seen the highlight with robinson getting put in the popcorn machine twice in the same move by olajuwon.
Not only that but hes got great help on this team, hes got glen rice and david west odom and strickland, with strickland being the weakest link.
Someone said he is only gonna have 1 great shooter in the game at any point in time, but thats all he needs when that shooter is glen rice. Rice doesnt need the space and time to get a shot up, all he needs is half a second of the defense being out of position and its money. Odom although is not a very good shooter is very compitent with the ball, if he catches it at the top of the key with the defense off balance you cant stop him from getting to the hole. David west knocks down 20 footers in his sleep. If shooting becomes too much of a weakness he can always bring in hodges for strickland and thats that.
Defensively his guard play is not good, but hes got olajuwon taking care of a big area, the dream is one of few centers in history along with Robinson to be able to cover big areas on the floor and not just the paint. Odom can guard 3 positions effectively and david west is solid. Hes got size and mobility.
Head to head against any other team with dominant big men big chipps wins every time. It gets complicated against teams with dominant guards. He is gonna have trouble with
The reggie miller team
The larry bird team.