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Topic subjectFalse. Lakers are three injuries away from a low seed.
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2041797, False. Lakers are three injuries away from a low seed.
Posted by Cold Truth, Fri Sep-28-12 12:34 AM
>the Lakers are one
>injury to Nash/Kobe/Howard at the wrong time away from being a
>low seed

You've got to be joking.

D12 goes down, they still have Nash-Kobe-Pau.
Kobe goes down? Nash-Dwight-Pau.
Nash? Kobe-Dwight-Pau.
Pau? Dwight-Kobe-Nash.

If two guys go down, it depends on which two. If it's both guards or both big men- especially both big men- then it's potentially catastrophic. If it's one of each, in any combination, we're still in excellent shape with a big two that are perfectly capable of doing some serious heavy lifting, especially with Tawn being around (offensively speaking, of course) as the #5 man able to slide over to the 4 if one of the big men go down. He'd still be the third or fourth option depending on the specifics of such an event, and he's a nice piece to have at that point in the rotation.

So, unless it's Pau and Dwight at the same time for a prolonged period of time, we've still got a legit shot at top 4 seeding. Title hopes diminish but we need to lose three of the 4 for it to make us drop that low. Artest and Tawn are our 5/6 players, unless Jordan continues his growth, in which case this is a completely different conversation.