In his article, he mentioned how Toronto needed a true center… but what about the team trading its true center? It just comes out to me as strange that he would surmise something like this when we all know how much it wouldn’t make sense.

1. Chris Bosh wants the ball. Can he really handle being the 3rd option following 2 of the game’s most intelligent ballers?

2. Chris Bosh wants to get paid. We already have 43M committed to Pau and Kobe alone for 2010 and we would be adding another max player? Seriously.

3. Chris Bosh wants to be a superstar. If he is to be a 3rd wheel, he won’t be.

And in all this, I can see some fairweather fans getting excited about the possible exchange.

At the same time, I think we do need to keep things in perspective. All the issues that we are so quick to point out are problems that can be corrected over time, and that I think will be corrected, in time. If Phil didn’t know what he was doing and had a method to the seeming madness, he wouldn’t have ten rings as a coach.

Phil Jackson concedes battles if doing so will help him win the war. And those battles were as ugly last January as they are right now…

peter vecsey claims the lakers would give up Bynum for Bosh

There are problems with the team at the moment, but you’d think that the Lakers had just lost their 10th game in a row, rather than their 2nd. The fact that we’re forced to call 2 losses in a row “The Losing Streak” because we haven’t lost 3 in a row in almost 2 years now should cut this team a little slack.

Show me one other fan base that can have one of the best records in the league, avoid losing three in a row in nearly two years, and be disappointed in their team because it’s not good enough.

Only Laker fans…

Maybe it’s time for Kobe to consider getting that college degree he bypassed when he went directly from high school to the NBA.

Kobe pays a mental price for a stardom that unbalances him between “good Kobe” and “bad Kobe” from game to game and even from quarter to quarter.

What bothered me most about the Cleveland loss was that Labron played the team game I expected from Kobe, and Kobe played like selfish LaBron–not a good sign for the Lakers.

Kobe has a great model to follow in Pau Gasol. Long term watchers claim Pau deliberately keeps his scoring down unless absolutely necessary–playing whatever extra role the Lakers need to win a game: passing, rebounding, steals, blocked shots. Good Kobe can be all those things and more.

Kobe himself has said that this Laker team does not need him to carry the team on his back. Now he’s got to believe it and show it–with or without Pau.