The Christmas day win over the Celts was one of the biggest regular season wins in Lakers history. It showed that this team can compete with the C's. This definitely was not true last season. But with the addition of Andrew Bynum and Treavor Ariza, coupled with the Celts loss of James Posey and P.J. Brown, levels the playing field between the two. Now we'll have to see about where we are versus Cleveland.
The Shaq experiment in Phoenix has been a complete failure so far. They no longer have an offensive identity and in the last two seasons have traded away their two best defensive players. Shaq has always been an underacheiver on defense and that was in the best of times, now he just plain sucks. Grant Hill was once a good, to great defender fundamentally, but is now too old. Nash has never been even a good defender. The Suns window of opportunity with this team is firmly closed. Steve Kerr might as well blow this team up for young guys, finish in the lottery a couple of years and start over.
