Comments on: Lakers shuffle off to first exhibition contest http://thelakersnation.com/blog/2008/10/07/lakers-shuffle-off-to-first-exhibition-contest/ The #1 Source For Everything Lakers Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Zen Master http://thelakersnation.com/blog/2008/10/07/lakers-shuffle-off-to-first-exhibition-contest/#comment-51958 Zen Master Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:41:12 +0000 http://thelakersnation.com/blog/?p=5676#comment-51958 Yes, Jonathan, Odom will be tried as a point guard. His size and length will make up for his slower speed against other point guards. To add to that, the position shifts will mostly be for offense most of the time. They'll just go with what ever is are the best matchups on defense, obviously. For example, if the Lakers were playing the Spurs, Odom would have to post up or facilitate the ball against Tony Parker and guard Tim Duncan on defense. This strategy is still a question mark. Although Odom might seem like a slow small forward to many people, let's not go that far. Small forwards are either really athletic medium-sized players or just some shooter. If you think of all the established small forwards out there, Odom doesn't really struggle at the SPEED category. What matters is whether he "slides" his feet. Think of Kirilenko, Stojakovic, Posey, Hill, Sczerbiak, Josh Howard, Artest, Battier, and so on. Those aren't lightning quick SFs. They may be fast as SF, but not too fast for a guy like Odom. Then there are a few that can't be stopped like Anthony, LBJ, Carter, and who ever I'm missing. So what puzzles me in the end is why people worry that LO will have a hard time being slower than other SF. At least 3/5 of all well-known SFS aren't even that fast. We now know he won't be play much defense on SFs anyway. If he has to, he'll go against SFs with average speed (which most of them are). If they are trouble, Kobe will take them. If Kobe rests, you got Ariza and Sun Yue the Monkey King. Yes, Jonathan, Odom will be tried as a point guard. His size and length will make up for his slower speed against other point guards. To add to that, the position shifts will mostly be for offense most of the time. They’ll just go with what ever is are the best matchups on defense, obviously. For example, if the Lakers were playing the Spurs, Odom would have to post up or facilitate the ball against Tony Parker and guard Tim Duncan on defense. This strategy is still a question mark.

Although Odom might seem like a slow small forward to many people, let’s not go that far. Small forwards are either really athletic medium-sized players or just some shooter. If you think of all the established small forwards out there, Odom doesn’t really struggle at the SPEED category. What matters is whether he “slides” his feet. Think of Kirilenko, Stojakovic, Posey, Hill, Sczerbiak, Josh Howard, Artest, Battier, and so on. Those aren’t lightning quick SFs. They may be fast as SF, but not too fast for a guy like Odom. Then there are a few that can’t be stopped like Anthony, LBJ, Carter, and who ever I’m missing.

So what puzzles me in the end is why people worry that LO will have a hard time being slower than other SF. At least 3/5 of all well-known SFS aren’t even that fast. We now know he won’t be play much defense on SFs anyway. If he has to, he’ll go against SFs with average speed (which most of them are). If they are trouble, Kobe will take them. If Kobe rests, you got Ariza and Sun Yue the Monkey King.

]]> By: Jonathan http://thelakersnation.com/blog/2008/10/07/lakers-shuffle-off-to-first-exhibition-contest/#comment-51914 Jonathan Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:06:53 +0000 http://thelakersnation.com/blog/?p=5676#comment-51914 what da f*??? odom pg?? lolll what da f*???
odom pg??
lolll

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