The Trade to do

jjin28 · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 1541 Location: Los Angeles, CA

Hear me out. I know our record with Gasol in the line up has been spectacular. But also consider that before bynum went down, we had a pretty good record with odom and bynum as our frontcourt. Lets try a different angle instead of all these rumors of trading odom. Lets trade Gasol (I know - blashpemy), and just build on what could have been a really good line up last year had Bynum not gone down.

Farmar (we'll probably lose him next year anyways, or if we resign him, our payroll is gonna be off the charts cuz we have to sign bynum the max)
Vlad (shed a long term contract)
Gasol

for

Alston
Scola
Tmac

I think Alston and Scolal would bring a lot of defensive intensity to our team.
And Kobe and Tmac combo is >>>> than Pierce and Ray Allan. And with this line up, most of the contracts expire in 2 years, so you can rebuild for bynum for the future and in the short term give kobe a legit 2 year window frame to get it done. Just imagine what Kobe, Odom, Bynum were able to do last year without Gasol, and now you're adding McGrady. And Scola replacing the loss of Turiaf.

Lakers
Alston / Fisher
Kobe / Sasha / Karl
Tmac / Ariza / Walton
Odom / Scola
Bynum / Mihm / Mbenga
(Assuming Sasha and Mbenga resigns for cheap)

Houston does this b/c they need to try something new. Tmac and Yao is not kobe and shaq and its not gonna work. They will have the best front court in the league with really good sharp shooters surrounding these bigs.

Houston
Farmar / B Jackson / Brooks
Head/ Brent Barry
Battier / Vlad
Gasol / Hayes / Novak
Yao / Landry
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SignPippenNow · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 2263

who would play center when your maxed out Bynum goes down with another injury or food poisoning? They would be fools to trade Gasol

Whatthef? · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 354 Location: SactownLaker

Take another hit and go back to sleep dude man13

davriver290 · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 2909

yes Houston's defense would really want Farmar and Vlad in there group...
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JoeHeff · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

I don't like it.
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DahaDan · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 134

The idea of T-Mac and Kobe together is mind boggling... If this was five years ago.... EVEN BETTER! man9

therealdeal · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 245

why the heck would we trade gasol? for anyone?? it doesnt make any sense what so ever. we have already decidedly built ur team for him and koe to take over the next few years. T-Mac is a B level superstar that needs the ball to dominate a game. we have an A level superstar that needs the ball to dominate the game.
bad bad idea

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