Lakers Trade Derek Fisher: Bad Move, Good Move?

37-year old veteran point guard Derek Fisher has been traded to Houston Rockets. While the whole world knows Derek is on the verge of his career and is too old to even compete against the likes of Westbrook, Deron Williams, or Kyrie Irving at the point guard spot. But also we can’t deny the fact that his leadership and experience come playoff time is impeccable.

Derek Fisher, a true Laker and will always be

Good Move:

The Lakers get Forward/Center Jordan Hill who averages 5.0 PPG, 4.8 RPG this  2011-2012 season for the Houston Rockets. The addition of Hill will make the Lakers’ front court rotation much deeper, thus allows the 2 Bigs to have more rests and not sacrifice defensive presence in the middle.

Bad Move:

With the Lakers acquisition of Ramon Sessions from the Cleveland Cavaliers, a faster, younger and could really rack up some points that the Lakers needed this season. Derek Fisher should have no problem backing up the young point guard and still be the leader of this team with his experience and reliability on and off the court.

I see this as experience versus youth trade. What do you think?

 

Agent Zero on the Lakers Roster

Already, as desperate as ever for every Laker (player and fans alike), Bryant expressed his thought on his probably soon partner that ‘it wouldn’t hurt’ to play side-by-side with the gun-slinging agent, Gilbert Arenas.

“Sure, it certainly wouldn’t hurt, that’s for sure.”, Bryant said.

 

Lakers: Do they really need a solid PG?

Ever since, even at Phil Jackson‘s era which brought the Lakers a 3-peat + 2 more, the talks has always been a good, all-around, can-handle-the-ball point guard is what’s missing with the 16-time NBA Champions.

Do they really need a good point-guard? Of course it wouldn’t hurt to have the caliber of a Chris Paul, Nash or even Lowry to be in a team. With a missing PG, they won the ultimate goal 5 times in the past 10 years, in which came second to the Bulls of the 90s (which also didn’t have a good, solid PG).

Mike Brown, give the ball to Bryant and he’ll do the rest. Just make sure the other four guys on the floor are ready to shoot the ball and go for loose balls.

The Lakers doesn’t need a point guard (but won’t hurt to have one), a playmaker is. For now, concentrate on what you have, coach. Let the most venomous killer out there rule the jungle. The other animals will follow.