Comments on: Turiaf, And More Summer League Thoughts

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:32:08 +0000

Heres my deal, I don’t think the Lakers absolutely need either of these guys, but I really like both of em. But if I really had to figure out which guy would be harder to replace I would go with Rony. The Lake show is up to their neck in streak shooters, and for all his heart Sasha takes bad shots and other than hustle is limited on the defensive end. I am not saying I dont want him, what I am saying is that Rony to me seems a little more irreplaceable, you have the ultimate team guy, he brings good things out of Kobe. Having said that for all his fundamentals, hustle and shot blocking I also understand why the Lakers didnt pay him, the guy is a terrible rebounder. I still think if I was gonna pay either of the two I would rather have the ultimate team guy, and insperational story on my bench, good things tend to happen to good people. You want them around.

By: matt.

matt. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:10:20 +0000

Why don’t we just re-sign Mbenga and give him Ronny’s 10 min. a game. We don’t need an impact big, just a fill-in.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:22:28 +0000

101. I think Sasha is a much more rounded, useful player than Gibson. He should make more. Rumor is the Cavs just kept Boobie around because LeBron likes him (and what the King wants, he gets).

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:21:15 +0000

New post up, wrapping up summer league with some Lakers stats.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:56:15 +0000

Bingo’s #92 hit the nail on the head.
Bynum,Mihm,Gasol and Mbenga can all man the C spot,so there is plenty of depth there.
At the 4,it’s Gasol and Odom-which incidentally is why he’s NOT getting traded this yr-and…? When Gasol has his annual 2 wk injury “vacation”,what happens if Lamar gets in foul trouble? Do you really want Radman or Walton guarding Duncan,Amare,West,Boozer,Aldridge,Dirk,etc ?

By: chibi

chibi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:55:42 +0000

Boobie Gibson signed a 5 yr, $21M deal. That’s more or less what Vujacic is worth.

By: drrayeye

drrayeye — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:04:25 +0000

It’s difficult not to speculate about replacing Turiaf, but the Lakers are best off by playing the waiting game. Of course, that doesn’t mean the Lakers shouldn’t sign affiliated player Sasha right now, sign Coby Karl, and look to sign Sun Yue. That takes the Lakers to 13 players, perfectly positioned to do “something.”

Meanwhile, unsigned restricted free agents without offer sheets are common, newly signed rookies make other players redundant, and some unhappy veterans get more unhappy.

One “cure” to luxury tax suicide remains the expiring contract. For example, if Atlanta signs Childress and Smith for one year at the qualification offers, they may wish to trade Childress for an expiring contract this year so that they have enough non luxury salary next year to sign Josh Smith. Otherwise, they might lose both free agents when they become unrestricted. The unthinkable happens: Josh Childress is offered in trade on reasonable terms.

“Doing nothing” with a well formed team in hand could allow the Lakers to wait out Sacramento, who may find the value of Artest dropping like a rock.

Sometimes, the most difficult thing to do is nothing at all.

By: rohan

rohan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:56:46 +0000

91.- sT, you need to realize that the bench is not as important in a playoff series as it is in the regular season. Minutes for teh regular starters are way up in the playoffs ( gasol went from 35 mins to 40 ).Thats why turiaf played just the 10 minutes.

By: sT

sT — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:41:37 +0000

I can not even come close to FB&G’s nomuskles, but here is what I have for KB08 81 point game.
Kobe was in his zone.

1st half – 26 points, Lakers down by 14
9:20 3rd – 30 points 12 for 22 shooting
6:20 3rd – 41 points
9:47 4th – 53 points
6:01 4th – 63 points
4:24 4th – 72 points, most points in a game for Kobe 17 of 42
0:43.4 4th – 81 points, 2nd most points in a NBA game 28 for 46 (Wilt had 100 of course)

Mihm looked real good before his ankle injury, if he and Bynum return to pre-injury form we are set at the center position.

By: chris h

chris h — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:25:49 +0000

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=9531

nice article from EP on Ronnie.