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Lakers Draft Report
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| Jon Wyers |
| May 26, 2006 |
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Team href=/profile//> Name: href=/profile//> Los href=/profile//> Angeles href=/profile//> Lakers
Draft href=/profile//> Picks: href=/profile//> #26 href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> #51 href=/profile//>
Depth href=/profile//> Chart: href=/profile//>
PG: href=/profile//> Smush href=/profile//> Parker/Sasha href=/profile//> Vujacic/Aaron href=/profile//> Mckie
SG: href=/profile//> Kobe href=/profile//> Bryant/Jim href=/profile//> Jackson*
SF: href=/profile//> Lamar href=/profile//> Odom/Devean href=/profile//> George*/Luke href=/profile//> Walton
PF: href=/profile//> Kwame href=/profile//> Brown/Brian href=/profile//> Cook/Ronnie href=/profile//> Turiaf*
C: href=/profile//> Chris href=/profile//> Mihm/Andrew href=/profile//> Bynum
Background:
The href=/profile//> Los href=/profile//> Angeles href=/profile//> Lakers href=/profile//> rehired href=/profile//> Phil href=/profile//> Jackson href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> year href=/profile//> after href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> year href=/profile//> away href=/profile//> from href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> team. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> year href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> gone href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> Lakers href=/profile//> missed href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> playoffs href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> Phil href=/profile//> knew href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> wasn't href=/profile//> inheriting href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> type href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> left. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> Lakers href=/profile//> exceeded href=/profile//> everyones href=/profile//> expectations href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> year, href=/profile//> including href=/profile//> Phil's, href=/profile//> by href=/profile//> making href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> playoffs href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> giving href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> Phoenix href=/profile//> Suns href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> run href=/profile//> for href=/profile//> their href=/profile//> money href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> round href=/profile//> before href=/profile//> being href=/profile//> eliminated.
Team href=/profile//> Needs:
The href=/profile//> Lakers href=/profile//> are href=/profile//> roughly href=/profile//> $15.6 href=/profile//> million href=/profile//> over href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> cap href=/profile//> for href=/profile//> next href=/profile//> season href=/profile//> so href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> will href=/profile//> have href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> address href=/profile//> their href=/profile//> teams href=/profile//> needs href=/profile//> by: href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> draft, href=/profile//> trades, href=/profile//> signing href=/profile//> mid href=/profile//> level href=/profile//> exception href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> league href=/profile//> minimum href=/profile//> contract href=/profile//> guys.
1. href=/profile//> Starting href=/profile//> PF: href=/profile//> This href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> Lakers href=/profile//> most href=/profile//> glaring href=/profile//> need href=/profile//> specifically href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> player href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> can href=/profile//> become href=/profile//> an href=/profile//> inside href=/profile//> scoring href=/profile//> prescence. href=/profile//> Kwame href=/profile//> Brown href=/profile//> will href=/profile//> never href=/profile//> develop href=/profile//> into href=/profile//> what href=/profile//> everyone href=/profile//> thought href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> could href=/profile//> be, href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> potential href=/profile//> stage href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> gone, href=/profile//> so href=/profile//> everyone href=/profile//> will href=/profile//> have href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> face href=/profile//> what href=/profile//> you href=/profile//> get href=/profile//> with href=/profile//> Kwame href=/profile//> Brown href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> solid href=/profile//> PF/C href=/profile//> backup. href=/profile//> They href=/profile//> Lakers href=/profile//> have href=/profile//> two href=/profile//> nice href=/profile//> young href=/profile//> PF's href=/profile//> but href=/profile//> Brian href=/profile//> Cook href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> not href=/profile//> tough href=/profile//> enough href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> doesn't href=/profile//> rebound/defend href=/profile//> well href=/profile//> enough href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> start href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> NBA href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> Ronnie href=/profile//> Turiaf href=/profile//> showed href=/profile//> nice href=/profile//> hustle href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> rebounding href=/profile//> but href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> not href=/profile//> skilled href=/profile//> enough href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> start.
2. href=/profile//> Depth href=/profile//> at href=/profile//> Wing: href=/profile//> Specifically href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> need href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> add href=/profile//> an href=/profile//> athlete, href=/profile//> defensive href=/profile//> stopper, href=/profile//> or href=/profile//> three href=/profile//> point href=/profile//> shooter. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> Lakers | | |
