the Cavs and Lebron

A lot of people compared Kobe to Lebron is the only thing can I say is really, come on be serious. Kobe is a winner and Lebron, well he just puts up numbers, very impressive numbers. But he does not put up banners like Kobe has done and will do. Lebron had a team this year that had the best record and only lost two games at home the whole season, but he simply could not do the same in the playoffs. With Kobe the only thing in which he really cares about is winning the NBA finals, something Lebron has never done in his career, a matter a fact Lebron has never won a NBA finals game. What else does Lebron need another all-star; he had that in Mo Williams. The Lakers have the best closer and the best winning player in Kobe, while the Cavs have the best player. Sure he is the best player in the league but he is definitely not the most valuable, Kobe is. Kobe has carried the Lakers over the years and this year Kobe going to carry the Lakers towards a ring.

Now the Lakers will face the Magic, the new and improved Magic with Dwight Howard.
Just to think a few years ago the Magic were not even in the playoffs. But this year is the Lakers’ year. I will talk about more about the match-ups on my next blog. The cavs arguable had one of the best supporting cast and still were not able to make it to the NBA Finals. Lebron has no more excuses, champions never have excuses, they just win.The NBA Finals will be a joke, the magic are too young and are too inexperienced to compete with the Lakers.

the real MVP's

The bench is the difference. Just like in any sport role players are the most important member on the team. Kobe could score 65 points but other people need to score 40 more points for the time to have a legitimate chance. People like Andrew Bynum, Jordon Farmer, Luke Walton, Trevor Ariza, Derek Fisher and Lamar Odom will decide if the Lakers will win a championship this season.Even if Kobe has a ineffective game, the Lakers still have a good chance to win if the supportive cast comes to play. As seen in game 5 of the western conference finals if Lamar Odom plats well the Lakers are very likely to win the game. In the Lakers supporting cast, they are about 6 players that could score double digits. Lamar Odom can have a double- double on any given night. Derek Fisher, Jordon, Sasha, Andrew, Pau Gasol, Ariza, Luke Walton all can have a double digit scoring nights.

What other team has a better supportive cast than the Lakers, no body else in the league. The Cavs cant compete with the Lakers, they cant even compete with the magic. And the magic are not ready for the Lakers yet. Who is going to guard Kobe on the magic, no one. When the Lakers won three pervious championships they had a solid supporting cast in Fox, Fish, Glen Rice, and Brain Shaw. Kobe can not be a one man team, he needs more support and if he gets it the Lakers will win a Championship this year for sure. As we all are seeing, even with great individual players you still need a team to win a championship. As seen in Game 5 and 6 with the role players playing the way they did it will be nearly impossible to beat the Lakers. People I cant wait for the NBA Finals to begin, this year is our year.

The machine is broke

Susha Vujacic is the worse player that has ever put on a Laker uniform, Mark Mason was a better player than him. Vujacic had a terrfic run last year with the Lakers in the playoffs but this year is just horrible. He cant hit open jump shots, he is shooting the ball way too much, and stoping the offense from moving the ball. Not only that he cant guard anyone, when he is on the court the team automically has to help him out. This causes players to get open on other teams. Vujacic in the playoffs is shooting a pitful .275 from the field. Phil Jackson please Bench him. Usually with shooters you let them shot out of their slump but not in the playoffs. The playoffs mean much more than the regular season and this year for the Lakers it is a ring or bust. Everytime he shots the ball I get one more gray hair. The soultion is simple let Jordon Farmer get more playing time. He is a better player than Vujacic and brings an element of speed, something that the Lakers do not have.

Vujacic can not guard any quick guards; this makes him very variable on defense. Players like Jordon Farmer and Luke Walton need to take Vujacic’s playing time. Walton has a skill set that is designed for the triangle offense. He is a passing forward, and has a unbelievable ability to identify mismatches. It is time for “the machine” to be disarmed because it is simply broke right now, and there is not enough time to fix it. He takes too many shots that could be given to Kobe Bryant. Who whether you have touching the ball Kobe or Vujacic? That is what I thought.

Who are the Nuggets?

Who are the Nuggets that is the question. They have a superstar in Melo and a clutch shooter in Billups, but who have they played in the playoffs. I have been hearing a lot people say that the Denver Nuggets will beat the Lakers this year in the playoffs. The Nuggets went through the Hornets and the Mavs to get to this point. Who are the Hornets and the Mavs, they are not an good. Look, the Hornets were a team on the decline when the Nuggets played them and Chris Paul had the worse playoff series of his life. I am surprised that that Nuggets did not swept them in the series. Big deal the Nuggets beat a team that was losing its confidence, losing its way, and the best player on that team never showed up aka Chris Paul.

Now let’s talk about the Mavs. First of all, many people argue that the Mavs should not even be in the playoffs but anyways. The Mavs beat a wounded team in the Spurs. The Spurs only had one and half players in Tony Parker and a one leg Tim Duncan. There was no bench support that came from Spurs resulting in a easy series win for Dallas. So the Nuggets faced the Mavs in the 2nd round, by the way the Mavs should have really never been in the playoffs and the Mavs beat a team with one and half players on it. This shows you the type of competition the Nuggets have played against in the playoffs. The Nuggets won the series in five games, they really should have lost game three but the referee made a bad call causing the Nuggets to steal the game.

I hate it when people overrate a team based on the team destroying weaker competitors, especially competitors that should have not been in the playoffs and teams that were debilitated with injuries. Now the Lakers belong in the playoffs, they belong in the conference finals and they belong in the Finals. The Nuggets are just a overrated team that has played bad teams in the playoffs. The Lakers will win the series easy, my prediction is in 5 games.

His back

In game seven of the western conference semifinals, Andrew Bynum showed what he is capable of doing and how much of a positive impact he can have on a game. His final line was 6 for 7 from the field, 2 for 2 from the free throw line resulting in 14 points, 6 boards and 2 block shots. A very impressive game and a game in which he the Lakers needed to beat Houston. Although Bynum has struggled throughout the playoffs he is coming back from a knee injury and will need time to adjust to game speed. The only way Bynum will get accustomed to game speed basketball is by him getting playing time. As a said in my previous post, that the Lakers are nearly unbeatable with both Bynum and Pau Gasol playing well. That theory was proven to be correct in game 7. Even with Kobe’s struggles in that game, he only scored 14 points, the Lakers were still able to win easily.

With every good performance that Bynum has, his confidence will only grow causing his play to get better. For all the critics of Bynum, yall are simply haters, his only 21 years old and improving with every passing moment. If he continues to develop Bynum will be one of the premier centers in the league.

Andrew Byuem

Bynum is only 21 years old, he has become a predominant player in the NBA and he is the main x-factor for the Lakers to win a championship. The Lakers have a unique situation in which they are dealing; they have two very different seven-footers. Pau Gasol is the perfect piece for the triangle offense and Bynum who is a perfect fit in their defensive need of a imitating center. Last year, when the Celtics beat the Lakers, they were without Bynum and that toughness inside. This year the Lakers have Bynum in the playoffs and they need him to perform. When I say perform I mean they need him to block shots, rebound and imitated opponents. With Gasol and Bynum playing well together the Lakers are unbeatable. With their different style of play, the Lakers can beat you in so many ways.

Currently in the playoffs Andrew Bynum has averaged 5.6 points, one block shot, and 4 rebounds in about 15 minutes of play. In the season Bynum average 14 points, 2 block shots and 8 rebounds a game in 29 minutes of play. For the Lakers to be able to win a championship easily they need Bynum to perform and put up the numbers he did in the regular season. Bynum was the youngest player ever selected in the NBA Draft and the youngest player to ever play in an NBA regular season game at 18 years and 6 days old.