Very surprised and confused as to why they passed on Rubio, but I still think they picked up three very good players in Evans, Casspi and Brockman.
PG: Tyreke Evans...Beno Udrih...Sergio Rodriguez
SG: Kevin Martin...Francisco Garcia
SF: Andres Nocioni...Omri Casspi...Donte Greene
PF: Jason Thompson...Jon Brockman
C: Spencer Hawes
They should try to deal KT's expiring along with Donte Greene for an expiring big man. Any team looking to take a chance on Greene would do it. Sending him to Minny for Etan Thomas would make sense.
Also, I wouldn't mind sending Adam Morrison and Jordan Farmar to the Kings for Udrih. They've clearly selected Tyreke Evans to be their future PG, so they'd have Farmar and S. Rodriguez to back him up for a year. Udrih would be a 28-30yr old PG for the Lakers for a few years who can consistently get 11ppg and 4apg while shooting 45+% from the floor and 80+% from the line.
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The 2009-2010 Los Angeles Lakers
PG: Derek Fisher, Jordan Farmar
SG: Kobe Bryant, Shannon Brown, Sasha Vujacic
SF: Ron Artest, Luke Walton, Adam Morrison
PF: Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, Josh Powell
C: Andrew Bynum, D.J. Mbenga
Good pick, although I would've went with a more defensive minded point to throw next to Martin.
Rubio won't be a great defender, and has no jumper, at best, he's a slightly better Jose Calderon, while, Evans could end up being a 19 point scorer while dropping 8 dimes or so. Holiday would've been the perfect mate to Martin, as would Maynor, but #4 was too high for them. I am surprised they didn't deal down to get multiple picks.
i always thouht evans was the best pg of this class. you can't teach size and he's been a winner at point. memphis went 25-1 with evans orchestrating the team. rubio has a lot of hype but evans seems like the real deal. 6'5, extremely athletic, long, and very strong. you can't ask for a better athlete at the 1.
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it doesn't. but tyreke is such a magnificent athletic specimen that he's probably going to be a better player in the pros than he was in college. guy knows how to play.
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Kings Take Tyreke Evans
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