<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kobe2mike:</div><div class="quote_post">The Lakers have a real shot at getting these guys.</div> Yao is overrated and and Peja is a pure shooter which might fit into the Laker line up...Kobe drive and kick to Peja would be nice. I would prefer to see us pick up Amare Stoudamire over both of those guys... Kobe a sg...Odom at sf...Amare at pf would be a nice trio....with Caron off the bench as there sixth men it is a strong squad.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kobe2mike:</div><div class="quote_post">How could we get Stoudamire?</div> We Can't lol. Very slim chance i would love to sign Peja. Vlades here might happen. Double team on Kobe Kick it out to Peja Automatic 3 points. And once they start guarding Peja KObes percentages will go up and the team will come together.
I would want Peja if I were you guys but why would you want Yao? He is a overated pansy that doens't belong in this league. As for getting Peja, I think you have a 70% chance of landing him. If he comes here, he has a shot at a ring and he gets to play with his best friend, Vlade Divac. That would be a sic lineup if you got Peja because like TheNextJordan and Billa_Bong said, automatic threes and a higher percentage for Kobe.
The Lakers won't be getting any of them...because we'll still be over the cap by 2007. We can't just go up until then and not re-sign guys. Kobe, Odom and Grant will take up nearly the entire cap as it is...and Butler will have a bigger contract soon, as well as Walton, Cook, Jones, Mihm, etc. Amare is staying with the Suns...they won't let him go anyways. Who knows about Yao...and I wouldn't want Peja at all. His defense is terrible, he can't do anything a real 6'9" or 6'10" player should do...and all he really does is shoot the lights out. The only way we could get them is to trade for them...and the only guy I'd take is Amare, but unless he wants the minimum, he's not coming to LA.
Haha, this is the funniest thing ive seen since 1997 when my friend accidently burned his homework, the rockets would never give yao to any team , thats like trading tracy mcgrady for kareem rush before he got sent to the bobcats. Also I would love to see peja and divac play together again but in Los Angeles Lakers would be one of my favorite teams, its like yeah peja stojakovic jus got sent to the lakers ok we made his jersey this is what it looks like:http://store.nba.com/gp/preview/jersey.jpg...er=16&view=back
Yea, I don't think the Rockets will give up Yao. They will give him max, just because of how rare good centers are. The suns definitely will not let Amare go. I also don't believe Amare will want to go. Peja however, that is realistic and could seriously improve your team. I'm not sure if you should go for peja or a real point guard. PG? Kobe Peja Odom Divac / Mihm Lets say that you don't get another pg, and keep atkins. Then everyone on the floor except your center would be a 3-point threat.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting SkiptoMyLue11:</div><div class="quote_post">Yea, I don't think the Rockets will give up Yao. They will give him max, just because of how rare good centers are. The suns definitely will not let Amare go. I also don't believe Amare will want to go. Peja however, that is realistic and could seriously improve your team. I'm not sure if you should go for peja or a real point guard. PG? Kobe Peja Odom Divac / Mihm Lets say that you don't get another pg, and keep atkins. Then everyone on the floor except your center would be a 3-point threat.</div> If we did run that line up I would think we would move Kobe to point guard....Caron plays shooting guard(defensive purposes)...Peja is the autococker shooter on the outside(we have that 50% of the time and we saw that fail as in the nuggets game last night...with Peja are offense will be garentee'd good)......Lamar is doing a surprising job guarding power fowards and I think he can hold his spot in the West at the power foward(Did you see his defense agaisnt K-Mart's post ups...he was stopping him 9/10)...Mihm at center is not a bad team at all. Kobe/Caron can pull up the slack Peja doesn't have defensively and when we get the Parkers well maybe its time to let Bobbit have some playing time and Tierre. Peja would not be a bad aquisition at all right now..we need a garente'd 2nd scoring option and he would fill that. He would draw a lot of attention off Kobe also.
Peja's defense isn't as bad as some of you guys are making it out to be. It isn't brilliant or anything, but he does play defense. I'd love to have Peja. Peja is a better shooter than Kobe, don't get me wrong, not half the player that he is... but because Peja MUST be guarded or he'll make every single shot, like almost everyone here has said, Kobe's field goal percentage would increase and hopefully his turn overs would decrease as well. The Lakers shoot WAY too many three-pointers most of the time anyways. We might as well just add a guy that can actually make them. But of course we'd have trade, not sure how that would work... but i'd love to get rid of Devean George and Grant anyday. (Salary reasons.)
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kobe2mike:</div><div class="quote_post">Is Peja's defense any good, because the Lakers need a lot of that?</div> i believe peja's defense is good. I know he gave kobe some trouble when he defended him. i believe peja would be a great aquisition for the lakes. But i highly doubt the lakers will get yao because i just dont think the rockets will let him go.
What's the point of getting Peja? Regardless of his defense, good or bad...it's just another shooter that we really don't need as much as we do a PG. Kobe would still be playing the point, because Atkins doesn't know how to penetrate and kick it out...
^Regardless of his defense? I think that's important, even if we do need a point guard. It's not like his defense is as bad as T-Macs or something. Atkins needs to work on penetrating... that's true, but he can kick it out very well, when he wants to. I think we could use another point guard as well, but not as bad as some of us do. I mean Atkins really isn't that bad. Rudy just needs to get him to shoot a little less and look for good passes before anything else on every possession of his. Yeah, having someone like Jason Kidd would be nice. But... you can flame me for saying this all you want (not you real deal), but i'd rather Peja.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">As for getting Peja, I think you have a 70% chance of landing him. If he comes here, he has a shot at a ring </div> Please explain.Pretty sure the kings have him for 2 years.This means the only hope of getting him would be in a trade.The only way a trade would even be considerable for the kings is for multiple players.Odom's stock isnt too high.If the Kings wouldnt trade Peja for Artest then why would they trade him for just Butler or just Odom,wouldnt they want both if at all?About him competing for a ring if he went to LA im assuming you're thinking hed be playing for a ring if the Lakers also acquired Yao,otherwise that makes no sense.As for Yao its the same thing.With what money would you use to sign Yao.All of it sounds pretty far-fetched,especially the "70% chance".I dont understand any of this...
Lakers be a much better team with peja and all the fans from yugoslaviA would start liking the lakers i mean peja would look real good in yellow. Here is a picture to show you how cool it looks
How do you plan on getting any of these guys? There's no way the Lakers can sign any of them, and who do the Lakers have as trade bait?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Cody 7k:</div><div class="quote_post">^Regardless of his defense? I think that's important, even if we do need a point guard. It's not like his defense is as bad as T-Macs or something. Atkins needs to work on penetrating... that's true, but he can kick it out very well, when he wants to. I think we could use another point guard as well, but not as bad as some of us do. I mean Atkins really isn't that bad. Rudy just needs to get him to shoot a little less and look for good passes before anything else on every possession of his. Yeah, having someone like Jason Kidd would be nice. But... you can flame me for saying this all you want (not you real deal), but i'd rather Peja.</div> When I said regardless of his defense, I also added "good or bad." To be honest with you, Peja's defense IS in fact bad. He's as tall as Odom, but Odom could burn Peja from the perimeter every time. However, that doesn't make up for how many shots he can land... But...the Lakers need a PG, and the Lakers need a defensive-minded PG at that. Then, they need a defensive PF so we can drop Odom down to SF. Priority-wise, we get this (in order): 1) Defensive-minded PG who has playmaking skills 2) Defensive PF who can crash the boards 3) Shooters that can hit shots (where Peja fits in)
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Real Deal:</div><div class="quote_post">When I said regardless of his defense, I also added "good or bad." To be honest with you, Peja's defense IS in fact bad.</div> Yup. Most people assume that Peja is around 6'7" based on his shooting touch, in actuality he is the same height as Webber. While we are talking about his faults, he can't create his own shot either. On a side note I've been gone for a while but I'm loving all these changes that have been made (frontpage, etc). Props to the staff.
