1) Being injury prone isn’t too much of a problem if he only costs the Lakers the minimum.

2) Our second unit is faster than our first unit, assuming Webber would start. I do think our first unit needs someone who can feed Bynum…how Lamar should. I really think Webber would mesh well with Drew…

What have we got to lose? He can’t be any worse than Mihm.

What are the two key things the lakers do better this year? Play defense and push the tempo. Webber is a terrible defender at this point and is slow. And injury prone.

Let’s see what this roster can do, this is not last year’s team – fisher for smush, for one.

so, guys what do YOU think of CWEBB coming to the Lakers? seems like PJ(brown)’s not an option, and no further talk of Mbenga.
I think the addition of a player like this is worthy of it’s own thread, the timing of the move is also critical, why wait? right? we need to extra big body NOW. well, we could get by, but why not? we stay pat, we run the minutes up of our other (injury prone) bigs, so why not spead the minutes?
I think C Webb can be an addition, he can pass, hit the mid range, and one thing he can do-
HE CAN CATCH THE BALL.

How about those Clippers, huh? Couldn’t give that one away, I guess.

Back on topic, I gotta say, I was not pleased with how Kobe took over the offense in the last 7-8 minutes of the game (including OT). It’s not just that he’s taking a lot of shots–I understand that he’s the man, and he’s expected to take the lion’s share down the stretch. It’s more that he developed those shots strictly in a perimeter, one-on-one manner, without any inside-out, not even any swinging. This time it worked, but it just isn’t going to a lot of the time, and there are better ways for even Kobe to get a good shot in crunch time.

The Lakers are not a deep team yet, as shown by the performance of the bench since Bynum became a starter. That is partly due to the change in when Bynum and Kwame play, partly due to the injuries to Mihm, Cook, Vlad, Walton, and Turiaf, and partly due to the Cook-Ariza-Evans trade. (That trade weakened the bench, although I think that it made the team stronger overall.)

They could turn into one, with additional development by some players and the return to health by others, but at the present they don’t have any consistency from that group, with the arguable exception of Farmar. (Ariza is consistent defensively, but not yet on offense.)

When will this Bynum hysteria end? Shouldn’t we expect a more realistic assessment from those who have had a chance to watch the games?

The Lakers are a team. When Kwame was sent down against Chicago, the Lakers did not have a good road trip WITH Bynum It took the team time to adjust to Bynum as a starter.

It may not take them as much time to readjust to Kwame as a starter, and Ronny as a backup.

I think that Laker goals and dreams might even be raised, not lowered, as they prove once again that they are a very good team–and a deep team once they get healthy again.

Let’s keep focus. Our next game is against a Phoenix team that we’ve already beaten twice. They won’t have Grant Hill–and they’re beat up.

We could win our series with them tomorrow.

“LeBron is fantastic,” Memphis coach Marc Iavaroni said. “I think he’s got more passing ability than Magic [Johnson] because he can put it on a dime and with zip. It’s a function of his ability to score. He allows people to get free. He’s 6-foot-9, and he can see.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=280115029

If people want to compare Lebron and Kobe, fine. But to say that Lebron is a better PASSER than Magic? Iavaroni should be banned from the nba for life.

“I don’t think it’s something that he is looking to do,” Mark Bartelstein said by phone. “There are a bunch of people inquiring about him, but there is nothing (in terms of his interest) right now.” — Riverside Press-Enterprise

Why do I like this comment? How many other conference contenders have been dismissed as an essential non-threat? This puts little pressure for opposing teams to bring their A game against he Lakers. Without Bynum, teams may be preparing for their next opponent such as Phoenix, San Antonio, or Dallas who they perceive as a bigger threat and those must-win games.