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WESTERN CONFERENCE PACIFIC DIVISION Los Angeles There is Jeremy Lin at point guard. Kobe Bryant at shooting guard. And then that is where things start to unravel. The small forward would be a backup 2 guard on most teams. The starting power forward is past his prime, while the other five power forwards have not had a prime yet. The starting center, just like his backups, is really a power forward. And the coach is not really a modern NBA head coach anymore. More like a cartoonish drawing of an old-fashioned 20th century head coach. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your new Los Angeles Lakers, who have transformed themselves from Showtime to Slowtime in no time. DEFENSE These Lakers are not built for defense. Lin can challenge a player on D when he has to. Ronnie Price, a third-stringer, can get up for it too, in limited minutes as thirdstringers are supposed to do. Bryant could show you his All-Defense award collection, which would disguise the fact that he has turned into a -1.64 defensive Real Plus-Minus defender in his mid-30s. And so on and so on. These Lakers do not defend. Ed Davis would qualify as the one big who actually is a deterrent in the paint, registering 0.7 blocks in 15.2 minutes per game in Memphis last season, while Kobe Bryant


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