re: "I didn't appreciate playing with Shaq until I played with Dwight" - Kobe

Don't worry Dwight won the dunk battle








Then made Kobe hold deez nuts

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I love how Rocket fans keep pointing to Ty fricking Lawson as their savior

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Well, let's see.

Ty Lawson averaged 15 points, 10 assists last season. He averaged about 18 points and 9 assists the year before.

He's a top-10 PG. Him and a group of others could all be considered in that 8-13 or so range of PG rankings.


The Rockets made it to the Western Conference Finals last season, and yet they were missing something last year. I'm not even counting the fact that their starting PF and PG missed the entire playoffs. The whole year they were missing something.

And it was on offense.

Surprisingly, their defense was very good last year. Offensively they were missing another play-maker besides Harden. And, they were lacking at the PG spot.

Now, they've filled both needs. They have a true starting-caliber PG... a fringe all-star caliber player. They have also filled their huge need for another play-maker.

Lawson and Harden were both in the top 10 in points created by either scoring or assisting. Now both are on the same team. And there will be no lulls when Harden rests, because Lawson can still be a play-maker on the court.

And not only was the starting PG spot improved greatly, but now Beverley will be coming off the bench, improving the bench spot greatly as well.

They also picked up Marcus Thornton, who is a scorer who can get some minutes to score some points on offense if they need another scoring option.

Their defense last year was one of the best in the league... and now the offense next year will be one of the best in the league. If they can maintain their stellar defense from last season.. and there is no reason why they can't.. then they could potentially have a top 5 offense AND a top 5 defense.

Teams who are top 5 on both sides of the ball historically have won titles.