Comments on: I Shot the Logo

By: Craig W.

Craig W. — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:54:58 +0000

WarrenWeeLim,
We have waited two years on Andrew; it would be a shame to give up at the critical time, just to get Chris Wilcox. Wilcox won’t make us immediate contenders either and I see not reason to part with Andrew for anything less.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:22:31 +0000

PG in that U’16 tournament team were Carlos Cabezas and Raul Lopez, Jose Calderon was suposed to make the team but was injured and stayed home that summer. JC Navarro made the All-tournament team at the SG position and MVP of the finals
by then, gasol was a bench player, now he’s the leader of the same core of guys, but grown and playing at the senior level.

maybe you saw Navarro bringing up the ball (many SG do it at some point of the game) but he has no PG skills, neither D.
in the other side, if you want him to score some other than Kobe will wow you with his impossible shots if given the confidence and allowed to shoot

that said, I dont really think the lakers can and will land Navarro

By: Renato Afonso

Renato Afonso — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:59:24 +0000

I remember seeing NAvarro play the PG as a junior in the 1999 world championships… maybe he hasn’t played recently though…

By: WarrenWeeLim

WarrenWeeLim — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:13:41 +0000

Coby Karl is an insurance in case any trades will go down. At this point, its hard to imagine him actually being IN the roster.

Now that KG has finally settled (I believe the rumors BTW), the Lakers will now have a better perspective on what to do. We should not be superstar-gazing at this stage, instead, we should be considering getting better. A lot of players can improve this team considerably without necessarily being superstars at this stage.

Why not trade for Chris Wilcox? He can play PF as Odom slides back to the 3. Seattle is in no position to be contending anytime soon anyway… They can afford the wait for Bynum to go along with Durant and Jeff Green.

Bynum + Cook + Sasha
– for –
Wilcox + 08 1st from Phoenix.

Farmar / Fisher / Critt
Kobe / Evans / Karl
Odom / Walton / Radman
Wilcox / Turiaf /
Kwame / Mihm

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:52:06 +0000

34. This is a non-guaranteed contract, it means he gets a tryout and nothing else. Good for him, but it’s still a long shot he makes the team.

By: Craig W.

Craig W. — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:39:42 +0000

I think we signed Cobe as insurance in training camp. If we do a trade and lose a PG he becomes more valuable. At best I think he is a DLeague player this year. Since he has just recovered from cancer surgery I expect him to gain strength over the coming year and may be a real prospect next year. This would be the advantage to having him play the triangle in the DLeague for the entire year.

By: Mike in the Mountain West

Mike in the Mountain West — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:24:24 +0000

What does everyone think of the Coby Karl signing? Any idea how much we signed him for?

By: Xavier

Xavier — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:16:45 +0000

forgot to remember that Navarro has never NEVER played the PG… he’s a short SG no matter what you’ve heard

By: Xavier

Xavier — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:12:44 +0000

im sorry but Navarro can’t go to the lakers
i love him
as a person
and as a player

but Navarro CAN NOT BE A LAKER, for some reasons:

a) Navarro can’t play D. he’s a scorer, a killer in Europe as Dajuan Wagner was in HS. but had problems defending smaller and slower guards in europe, what would the parkers, pauls, williams of the west do to him?

b) financialy it doesn’t work. Navarro will ask far more than 1M the lakers still have from the MLE. remember he has to pay 2M from the buy-out so he might want arround 3-5M per year.

By: skigi

skigi — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:07:59 +0000

http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/070730_signkarl.html

Lakers sign Coby Karl