Ready for the Clipshow?1: Baron Davis
2: Eric Gordon
3: Al Thorton
4: Zach Randolph => Blake Griffin
5: Marcus Camby => Chris Kaman
Presumably they will do everything they can to dump Randolph and his 16 million salary next year (and 17.3 the year after that), so they can insert Griffin right away. The alternative would be to buy out the final year of camby's deal (9.6 mill). Personally I think they should do both and start Kaman, even if that guy is ugly as shit (am I right?). He is more reliable at this stage then Camby and this would give them hella cap space.
In any case if Al Thonton manages to improve his 3pt shooting above the .253 he posted this year and closer to the .331 he posted as a rookie, and they do actually start Kaman and Griffin as their two bigs, the clipshow could be a more athletic and versatile version of that golden state team we all loved to watch. I guess we'll have to see if Dunleavy is willing to coach a ballz to the wall Nelli-style shoot out.
"both teams played hard...good night and god bless"
It is a talented team, but as SG points out like 10 times in every column (when he runs out of things to hate on the Lakers for), they have quit completely on Dunleavy (as have the fans). What they need is leadership - which should be coming from LeBaron except he hates Dunleavy and doesn't try. With better direction and reasonably injury-free seasons from Caveman and/or Camby they should be a decent team w/ upside in a couple years.
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