Our offense is so static without Kobe, we probably would contest for the worst team in the nba if Kobe is injured. I don't know how Mitch doesn't see the flaws in our team and doesn't do crap. Please...trade George, Walton, Odom, Kwame, or Sasha...I hope the Wizards are happy with Caron Butler...gahhh.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting phiLA:</div><div class="quote_post">well, now i guess we all realize how valueable odom really is to us. lol.</div> Not really, the Lakers still scored 102 points and out rebounded the Bobcats 46-39. The problem last night was the piss poor defense and sloppy ball handling. Jumaine Jones scored 31 points last night against one of the Lakers best defensive players, Devean George. I was waiting for PJax to put Kobe on JJ to slow him down, but instead he tried Luke and Cook on JJ. Neither did anything to slow JJ down. Then you have Smush Parker playing matador defense against Brevin Knight. He didn't learn a damn thing from the first time these teams met. He kept getting caught on Knight's hip, and once Brevin excelerated Smush either had to foul, or fell on his face from not having any balance left. Odom wouldn't have made a difference at all last night, but Ron Artest sure would have.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Jones then headed over to see Bryant, who stopped his postgame interviews to praise his former teammate. "That's my guy," Bryant gushed before exchanging hugs with Jones and giving him an autographed pair of his game shoes. "I hated to see him go. That's my man. I love him." Jones played the entire game as if he was trying to show Los Angeles what it let get away. He made all six of his shots in the first quarter to help the Bobcats open a 40-25 lead they never relinquished. He shot 13-of-20, made five 3-pointers, and had nine rebounds to pace Charlotte. "He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was." The Bobcats had a plan to contain Bryant, and did it when it mattered. Although Bryant finished with 35 points, he didn't make a basket in the fourth quarter. He went 0-for-3 with the game on the line, scoring just four points in the quarter on free throws. Bryant also had seven turnovers in the game.</div> Source Comments like that really piss me off. Obviously the person evaluating talent, Mitch Kupchak, has no idea what he's doing. JJ was a great energy guy off the bench last year for the Lakers. He's a lot more consistent than Luke or Cook, and he's capable of playing either forward position.
I was pissed off when we traded him to Charlotte, expecially just for a few lousy picks. If you couldn't see what kind of talent he had with us last season, you shouldn't even be working for an NBA organization, let alone be the GM. He was our best bench player last year, playing big minutes down the stretch and hitting big 3's. I knew Mitch was an idiot, but he continues to amaze me on how many stupid moves he can make.
