Posts Tagged ‘Gerald Wallace’

With the recent struggles, a lot of fingers were already pointing in the direction of their PGs, Fisher and Farmar. Now, Farmar needs to go under the knife to repair a torn meniscus. Not good news for the Lakers, who had to use Sasha Vujacic as the backup PG in Saturday’s game against the Magic.

A recent rumor on Hoopsworld has the Lakers looking to trade Lamar Odom, possibly for Gerald Wallace. This trade both makes sense and doesn’t at the same time. Odom is a huge part of the Lakers, both offensively and defensively. He has the ability to back down smaller guys and then take a bigger guy off the dribble. On the other end, his length this year has led to him playing the passing lanes more and igniting the fast break.

Gerald Wallace is definitely an upgrade on both ends. Think of him as Trevor Ariza with more scoring ability… but also more injury prone.

This trade doesn’t make sense for the time being, especially with the Lakers being thin at the PG position. This trade would make sense if the Lakers somehow managed to get both Wallace and Felton in the deal, but with Augustin being injured, it’s highly doubtful that the trigger will be pulled.

Another possibility is trading Odom for Wallace, and then signing a PG. Possibly someone like Jannero Pargo, who already knows the Tri. Or maybe somehow somehow somehow getting rid of Puke Walton and his disgusting Mitch Kupchak sized contract for a worthy backup PG. But PLEASE… no Starbury.

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