Well about one quarter into the new season and a few observations can be made. For one thing, it looks like those big deals bringing Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to the Lakers have been a little less than successful. There were two good reasons to be a little doubtful of the initial rush to claim new Laker superpower status. One, there's the matter of age. The Lakers are getting old, and Nash, in particular, is nearing forty. Not only that, he's been sidelined for almost a month. But even when he was healthy at the start of the season, the Lakers still looked less than overwhelming.
Another reason to doubt was the matter of chemistry and the lack of star reserves on the Lakers bench. Bryant works best with the ball and so does Nash. How are they going to resolve that problem? The Lakers can still be a formidable team if Nash and Pao Gasol get healthy, but it sure looks like the Lakers aren't the shoo-in for the title a lot of "experts" thought they were befor...
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PLAYERS:
Steve Nash,
Dwight Howard,
James Harden,
Jeremy Lin,
Jonas Valanciunas,
Kyle Lowry,
Jose Calderon,
DeMar DeRozan,
Andrea Bargnani,
Aaron Gray,
Bill Russell,
Ed Davis,
Landry Fields,
Amir Johnson
TEAMS: Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors
TEAMS: Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors
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