Can the Lakers get 72 Wins?
I’m looking at this team and I see a team that is much better than they were last year. Bynum is playing great, Kobe is playing within himself. Odom is doing well again and Pau Gasol has yet to play a game. They have lost once so far and are looking really good.
If you are going to beat them then beat them now while Gasol is out because when he comes back you’ll have Odom more than likely coming off the bench and combined with Walton and Farmar they will have a really strong bench unit. Talk about a deep team that was built really well. Kobe is now playing smart enough that he can really conserve throughout the year. They beat the Suns last night easily with Kobe scoring but doing little else. The reason why was Bynum and Odom were dominating the board and the paint and the Lakers were able to easily control the game. If the 8-1 Suns can’t give the Lakers a game then who can? To get to 72 wins they are only allowed 9 more losses the rest of the year and that seems very difficult and it will be but this team is deep enough and solid enough that even an off night by Kobe can produce an easy win against the lesser teams.
Do I think they’ll win 72 games? No I don’t personally but this team has the best chance of anyone we are going to see for a long time.
