And I doubt we can find many eight game stretches where Bynum played at all. Talk to me in February about the All-Star game.

Your post is just too biased to be taken seriously. The Hawks gave them a “scare” at the staple center? Is this the same game where the lakers were up by 24 or so points in the 2nd half? The game where the hawks big scare was to cut it down to like 10?

Bynum is a shoe in for this year as the starting center. When Pau gets back that just means less double teams for Bynum, Odom moving to the bench to strengthen the weak link, and Kobe having less post plays.

If you still cannot see Bynum’s talent, then it is pure bias doing the talking. Let’s just go over a few of his numbers. Sure the 21 points, 12 rebounds, 2 blocks and almost 1 steal per game are impressive. But what really shocks is his efficiency. This guy has a TS% of 63%. That is absurd. Just as a comparison, Duncan has never shot above 58% for an entire season, and Duncan is also absurdly efficient.

I don’t know if you remember, but i was behind you 100%. Of course i am a lakers fan, but i think you needed to be a lakers fan or a very serious NBA fan, to understand the impact Bynum could and would make.

The reason most fans, including Spurs fans, were laughing at the thought of an All-Star Bynum over the offseason, was because they judged him based on his playoff performance. He came back with 4 games to go in the regular season and was still playing on 1 leg. Of course he was going to have a sub-par playoffs.

Bynum has shown this ability 2 years ago. He has had freak accidents which put him on the sidelines and thus retarded his growth. But now that he is healthy, Bynum is showing everyone that it is not all about POTENTIAL. That when healthy, Bynum is the best pure center in the West!

There are enough reasons to fear the Lakers without jumping on the Bynum-is-the-next-Rondo speculation wagon.

Honestly, they probably need one more big, which is why Spurs fans should be rooting for the Clippers to continue to struggle. If they do, then expect Camby (expiring contract) to be put on the market. With the Spurs’ cadre of expiring contracts plus a 1st round pick, they could make this work.

To me, he’d be perfect. He’s an actual center, is on an expiring contract (meaning he could bridge the gap until Splitter’s presumed 2010 arrival), is an excellent help defender/rebounder/shot blocker, a competent mid-range shooter/passer and would allow Duncan to go back to playing the majority of his minutes at power forward.

In the playoffs, the Spurs could go with a three man big rotation of Duncan-Camby-McDyess and do away with this nonsense known as “small ball” once and for all.

I’m certain Duncan’s current lackadaisical interior defense is both intentional and temporary. I am not worried about him and McDyess matching up against any post tandem come playoff time, nor am I worried about RJ matching up with any 3 (including Odom/Artest) or Blair handling the West’s selection of backups. But it’d really be nice to have a true big who could eat regular season minutes and let the senior citizens rest. Playing Timmy 35 minutes in back-to-backs is no ones idea of proper tendonosis management.

The last Spurs title team used Oberto, Elson, and Horry for interior defense. Not too lofty a standard, no?

I’m not necessarily endorsing any of these possibilities… but if Camby is our missing link for this season – why wouldn’t we do it? If mgt doesn’t, yet believes we don’t currently match up, wouldn’t they then be pushing our chips in for next season? (and going against everything this season was supposed to be about.)

Spurs have Mason, Bonner, and Finley all with contracts that are expiring after this season. If they can find a desperate team wanting to shed some cap, it’s possible.

I still wish Malik and Marcus would get some play early on to see if they could help. They both possess athleticism and give some more versatility. Marcus is still a big question mark of course with little preseason play. And Malik, well he’s just getting severe rookie treatment.

Spurs advantage over Lakers will be a better all around team with the strong bench. However, I don’t believe with all the guys they have currently on the active roster, they are ready on the defensive end, at least.

Go Spurs Go!