My Lakers 2011-2012 Upgrade Plan





Story by L.T.Willis





Dirk Nowitzki Photo by Eric Wade EW/Gems Images.





                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Reflecting on the Lakers'season a quote was on my mind from the Batman Move Dark Knight when Commissioner Gordan said when he was driving Batman's man car," I've gotta get one of these" we need a Dirk Nowitzki a big man who can light it up from the outside to keep teams out of the zone defense. I don't care if we have to travel to France, Spain or Europe and of course money would be no object. Second we need two Ray Allen type guards one as a starter and one to come off the bench. Two shooter who don't care if you can get close enough to take their DNA they will still make shots and must be able to play defense.



Ray Allen Photo by Eric Wade
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Tyronn Lue and Dwight Howard. Photo by Eric Wade
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The Lakers' defensive problems is not their big men in the middle, but stooping guards fro getting to the middle of the paint on defense and kicking the ball out to wide open shooters. For that problem we need Tyronn Lue type guards with speed and quickness that will allow players to stay with their own man and don't have to help on defense by rotating. Now i know people been saying we need to go after Dwight Howard i'm not sure about that move just yet till we address our problems with our bench on offense and defense.



Paul Pierce
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Also we need a player like Paul Pierce who will come in a strike fear into the defense heart, a player that can take you off the dribble, pull up fro a jump shot and play solid defense. Now if we can get these type of players on our roster by next season, we still have the best finisher in basketball and that is Kobe Bryant, and even Kobe needs help to win more championships. Now the last part of my upgrade would be hiring Brian Shaw as the new coach of the Lakers. Don't know why the Buss Family and Mitch Kupchak are looking at a list. Brian Shaw has championship rings on his fingers and how many coaches can say that on their list.