Re: Lakers snag Vladimir Radmanovic.

Alson Wong wrote:

"MB" <PoetUNoet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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the Lakers signed the best player available (who could be had for the MLE)
rather than signing a player based on need, which presumably would have
pointed them toward Banks or some other PG.

I think that the team found itself in somewhat of a desperate talent
shortage, and what this does is increase their ability to improve the team
via trade - not that the signing was necessarily made with a specific
trade in mind. I think they just signed talent, which would either help
the team directly, or open up possibilities down the road. Signing for
need (Banks or whoever) limits options down the road.

http://tinyurl.com/z4lwu

From Mark Heisler of the LA Times:

Unhappily for the Lakers, they're no longer the Lakers, nor are they likely
to be in the foreseeable future.

If it's only beginning to dawn on them, the handwriting was on the wall from
the moment they traded Shaquille O'Neal, after Jerry Buss didn't hire Pat
Riley in a last-ditch try to keep O'Neal and Bryant together.

That left only a lose-lose choice between Shaq and Kobe. The No. 1 priority
should have been to avoid having to choose.

Predictably, the Lakers lost. Signing Radmanovic makes it official.

That white handkerchief you hear flapping is Buss abandoning his salary-cap
strategy . and his tradition of putting it all on the line to be great.

After all they've been through, their crushing first-round loss to Phoenix
after leading, 3-1, the Clippers' ascension into the second round, Shaq
winning a title, with two more seasons left before they got cap space and
James set to sign an extension, the Lakers put it all on the line just to be
better.

(Not that I think it was working the other way. That was the problem: Heads,
they lost. Tails, they lost.)

Agree, they were in one of those lose-lose situations.

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