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Lakers close make history

MARIO SERRANO. 31.10.2010 - 09.48 h

"If you do not lose the hunger to win, Los Angeles Lakers win the title this season." It is, perhaps, the phrase that has been used more this season. But this year is not a championship either. There are two factors that can return to the Lakers hungrier than ever: First, to win to reach Boston Celtics as a team with more rings the history of the NBA other, if Kobe Bryant up his sixth trophy Larry O ' Brien (as it is called the Champions Cup) will be matched, nothing more and nothing less, than Michael Jordan.
If you add that to the Celtics are left with only this season to try to win the finals before his veteran team was broken up (and Shaq in their ranks) and in Miami have assembled a great team that scares around the natural replacement on the throne of Kobe Bryant, Lebron James , things are 'hot' even more.

Lakers this year could be at the height of the era of Magic Johnson
No one escapes them, moreover, if Pau Gasol won his third ring would equal Toni Kukoc (Chicago Bulls) and Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs) and the major European players with the most titles, and if the Lakers reach the final, his fourth in four years, and win, get team match more consecutive presence in finals in the history of the franchise, but in securities would exceed the growth, as the previous stretch, lying between 82 and 85 (with the Lakers of Magic Johnson) won two of four possible titles.
And what about Phil Jackson ? takes 11 rings (six with the Bulls and five with the Lakers). May be the last season (this time) of a legend on the bench in the NBA that has not been withdrawn because his battered body still has the strength to endure another year. All challenges this season. If all this is lacking hunger ...
With the signings of 2010, the staff is more than compensated previous seasons
A more balanced workforce

have been is Jordan Farmar, Adam Morrison, DJ Mbenga and Josh Powell. have come Matt Barnes, Steve Blake, Theo Ratliff, Derrick Caracter, Devin Ebanks. In short, the Lakers have gained. Mbenga, Powell and Morrison Farmar contributed nothing and has not reached the expected level needed to replace the veteran Derek Fisher. On the other hand, become Barnes (another of the "intimate enemies" of Kobe for his toughness to defend), Blake (a serious basis and get to grips with, inter alia, it 'suck' bench Sergio Rodriguez in Portland) Ratliff (veteranísimo pivot to give minute break to Pau and Odom, while Bynum is recovering) and rookies Character and Ebanks (you know how little trust in the young Phil Jackson).
Kobe's knee

If anything worries the Lakers this year are the knees. Of two particular players: Kobe Bryant leads three knee operations since 2003, most recently this summer right, he did get very very end of last season. Andrew Bynum of also a concern. In the NBA and were taken to joking Angeleno pivot injuries last year, reaching owner his umpteenth relapse as' No Bynum spring without injury. " If problems persist this year, the future of one of the top players with the greatest impact in the NBA can be so blackened that it would be weird to see him become a bargaining chip in a couple of seasons.
concerned about Kobe Bryant's knee and Bynum
The bench offers guarantees spare parts in almost all positions, but to be seen whether Shannon Brown longer just jumping to become an offensive threat minute break to allow to 24 for the Lakers. Pau
leader based on 'sticks'

The backbone of Lakers is made (not counting Bryant) by players of great quality and its sweetest moment. Phil Jackson is clear that there could be cases have Pau as the number 1 team if Kobe is injured. This summer, as on other occasions, the coach has returned to showcase your talents as a motivator . Gasol has already said everything in public, and not always good. Among the pearls of Pau are Phil " worse is the player who trains all I had , like a bourgeois" or the last one: "What is the ambassador of the world? The" Lord Peace ' ? (For the many charities he has done touring this summer.) Jackson know that Pau could be the team leader and is motivated on the basis of provocation. For now, the result is satisfactory, although it seems impossible, Pau is improving game by game.
Three things that no team
The Lakers have three weapons that do not have any rival this year

• The most versatile inside game : track count on Odom and Gasol at the same time makes Lakers big men have the best game viewing and more resources are added offensive. Like Odom gets two triples followed that up 15 rebounds or gets to the basket. Gasol is, today, the tall man who best understands basketball without the ball, something that the Lakers so much shout as he does not play.
• A template winner: no team in the league to collect as many championship rings. The starters (Bryant, Fisher, Gasol, Odom and Artest), along with coach, Jackson, added 26 titles.
• Two 'signings' luxury : Bynum and Walton. If both are retrieved bring more quality to a team without them has been able to get the championship. The first, without injury, is one of the best centers in the league. The second is of those players that do not twinkle, but Jackson was essential to create spaces in the 'triangle offense. "

If all the players already named Derek Fisher added (the 'ugly duckling' who always respond), Ron Artest or Vujacic (who must exploit this year if it does not look like Farmar), find a template without rival, unless Miami, Boston or Orlando can prove otherwise.
'Be like Mike' Kobe Bryant
knows better than anyone that if this year he wins, everyone will have to write that 'The Black Mamba' got at least the same qualifications as their idolized Michael Jordan . Perhaps the phrase that Bryant heard so many years, and became popular more than two decades ("Be like Mike ',' Be like Jordan '), stop pounding, forever, in your head. Taken from
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