C Divac/Mihm/Grant PF Grant/Medvedenko/Cook SF Odom/Butler SG Bryant/Rush/Vujacic PG Atkins/Vujacic The SF position is solid and the SG position is good. I say "good" and not excellent because Rush is still unproven as anything but a spot-up three-point shooter and Vujacic is totally untested (though intriguing as a guy who can play the point, the 2-guard and the small forward position). Still, he can shoot and has a pass-first mentality (a must on a team with Kobe as the main guy). The PG position could be better. No disrespect to Atkins but he's going to have some troubles and Vujacic is. They could use a veteran backup. Mihm (who can hit the 15-footer, block some shots and rebound but is not a hot player, nor one that is going to dazzle with his improvement). Then you've got Grant, who's undersized, getting up there in age and takes a beating every night. He's good and a hard worker but he will have major difficulty out West. The C, PF and PG positions are going to be attacked on a nightly basis. Bryant, Odom and Butler are going to have their work cut out for them as the main scorers. Question: Who in the starting lineup is the third option? Divac isn't much more than a 10ppg scorer anymore, that's about Grant as well, Atkins could put that up... It looks like they are going to have to rely really hardcore on Kobe and Odom, with Butler and Rush/Vujacic providing punch off the bench. The Lakers are missing low-post offence. Grant isn't a low-post scorer, he does most of his damage with baseline 15-footers.
