Andrew Bynum Doesn’t Agree With Benching, Will Shoot More Threes

Come on now, as a Laker fan, I’ve come to expect this drama from them every season. Maybe the team likes to keep stirring the pot……..maybe those old legs need some adrenaline overdrive sometimes during the season lol.

@Caboose, Cousins.

@albie, as a Laker fan, I’d rather he become a versatile and sound post-player first.

i think he just wants to be shooting 1-legged fadeaways 3′s like a fellow 7 footer named Dirk.
at least that’s what the other 29 teams are hoping for.

I’ve compared Cousins to Derrick Coleman for a while now. Big guys, more athletic than you’d think, talented, good numbers, but their attitude just hurts teams so much, that they really aren’t valuable to other teammates.

Sorry but Bynum bugged out with this one… If you could fined for hard fouls, you should be able to get fined for stuff like this. You hit one 3 and think you have the green light? Stay in your lane Drew (LITERALLY)!

mike brown will be the reason the lakers can’t win a championship.

Nick, I bet AQWord has no respect for you. How does that make you feel??

I already said on another thread that Bynum looked more interested in scoring than rebounding and defense.

I saw the game yesterday and the three wasn’t the worst of it. Bynum was doing nothing (except shooting of course) not even running the floor. If you look at the play, Bynum takes the three at the top of the key because he’s the LAST laker to cross midcourt.

And what does he do when he FIRST touches that ball? Launch a three with 16 seconds left on the clock, I understand why Brown was pissed.

Nevermind the “3″ he took…his attitude and him not getting back on D really lost my respect for him…

Umm, people do realize that every comment made on this site is pretty much made by a nobody who will have zero impact on the subject of those comments, right?
Just checking.

Damn. We already got a center who can actually shoot good in the free throw line, andrew doesn’t need to go and make the 3 pointer a part of his game

-Almost everyone realizes that Allen. Almost.
-I will counter you on the “undeniably worse than last year” quote though.
The Lakers IMO are better suited to win it all this year than last year. Reason: Ramon Sessions. Odom was obviously important. I’d love to have him back, but we all know rotations will be short in the post season and having Odom was a bonus, not a must when they won. Sessions gives them more than Odom. Coaching has been the biggest fall off. Jackson wasn’t great last year, but he had already set the tempo and offense up in year previous. Brown does need to start doing his job a little better. Like I said, I like him, but he is not a very good coach offensively. (Being polite here)
-Nick, you’ve had a mediocre to solid Slam career. Same as Kobe in the NBA

Funny, cause Pau has taken several WTF? 3′s this year, but nobody blinks an eye at those…

Pau is known for being one of the better 7 foot shooters. Typically to about 18 feet, but he extends to the three on average once a game. He’s knocked down a few this year… And I assure you, eyes blink when this happens. Everyone’s always talking about the Lakers huge advantage on the block and in the key, yet those two guys are shooting wayyyyyy to many jumpers and it needs to stop.

If you honestly believe Iverson was more stubborn and selfish than Kobe, then you didn’t watch the 2004 Finals. Seriously.
And Lakeshow they just signed Ramon Sessions. They were third in the West before they got him.
You all now bring McRoberts and Troy Murphy off your bench to replace Bynum and Gasol. That is such a horrible drop off it denies explanation. There is no way you can ignore how much Odom shored up the Lakers bench. Seriously, having the rotation of Bynum, Gasol and Odom is what made the Lakers extra dangerous. Odom was finishing games AHEAD of Bynum last year. Losing him was huge. Derek Fisher getting older was huge. Artest decaying even more was huge.
Yes, there is a big dropoff from Phil Jackson to Mike Brown, but in reality the real problem is that before you all signed Sessions your roster had gotten so much worse it was laughable. In a League with a good to great point guard on almost every team, the Lakers had the worst point guard rotation by FAR.

Kobe may not care about AQWORD’s lack of respect for him, but kobe’s slam groupies sure do.

Maybe it was laughable to you. I wasn’t laughing. Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum is a top 5 Trio in the L. Yeah they had little to no help, but the Lakers don’t need Odom’s play making any more since they got Sessions. Odom was inconsistent to the point where it was, play him if he is doing well, or bench him if he’s having a dud night. Artest has not fallen off one bit since last year and barely much since 2 seasons ago when they won it all. He is still a top 10 defender in the L when he puts his mind to it. Barnes is playing twice as good as he ever has in a Lakers uni. He is back to his old GS days by how he’s been looking lately. Blake is a terrible starter, but now can finally play his real position of back up point guard.
This team is slightly less talented, not severely less talented than the team that won 2 chips.
No it’s not like saying “Antoine Walker is the greatest fat, out of shape basketball player in the world.” Gasol is legitimately a good shooter for a PF or Center. He’s not great, but the Lakers need him to spread the floor a little bit for Bynum. He can do that. I don’t like how many jump shots he takes, but he has earned the right to take a couple.

Allen, don’t you know that Kobe hired Lakeshow and the others to be the Kobe Bully-Busters around here? You can’t “gang up” on Kobe.

Because if Kobe were to visit any of our neighborhoods we’d be running to meet him. Even bAQward. You to Allen. Then he’d dunk on your mug and you’d never wash your face.

Search your inner feelings…

Four years ago, Nike hired my firm for a campaign. Kobe was a jerk to our entire team. I’d never give that a-hole the satisfaction of aknowledging his presence ever again in life unless I’m being paid to.

like my ex girlfriend

imo, Allen and Lakeshow are both right. The Lakers are better suited to win the West (not the finals) this year because of their shoring up the PG position. But they are also a worse team (before we talk about coaching) because they lost almost all of their bench depth – Sorry but McBob, Murphy, Hill, & Steve Blake don’t hold a candle to Odom, Brown, & a not dead Matt Barnes.
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Lakeshow is right in that the coaching drop off is the most significant aspect of all of this, Mike Brown isn’t a “horrible” coach, but he isn’t in Phil Jackson’s Solar System.
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This is my opinion if I have to say that, don’t want people over-reacting to what i’m saying.

I remember watching the games before they got Sessions and just being appalled at the talent level. Now, the coaching was bad, but it was the talent that shocked.
And I made it clear that I was talking about before they got Sessions, when they were playing Fisher, Morris and that that dude with the funny last name.
And that team was still in the hunt thanks to Grimace.