What do we have here? A Look at the Los Angeles Lakers

Everyone knows Dwight Howard ran from the bright lights in LA because he was invisible in the shadow of the greats.� The fact is he didn?t live up to the hype.� He led the league in rebounding, after Anderson Varejao went down for Cleveland, but his offensive numbers were stagnant and his free throw shooting was hard to watch, and teams took notice.�� Was Dwight Howard a great player?� Yes, in 2010.� You wouldn?t call Anderson Varejao a great player because he led the league in rebounding, and he only scored 3 points a game less than Howard.� Howard had been slipping in performance since before his back injury, and after he was noticeably softer in the post.� So what do we have here?
Let?s start with the new men the team brought in.� First the not-so-new face Jordan Farmar, who won two championships with the Lakers as a quality back-up point guard with a little more speed than Steve Blake and Steve Nash, something the Lakers are drastically lacking.� Wesley Johnson and Nick Young, t...

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