Can you imagine a laker team WITH Bynum? Bynum, Gasol, Odom, Fisher,and Bryant? and with their bench?

What do we have? Boozer? Sloan? We wont see even a western championship series much less anything approaching a ring for probably 5-7 years at least at this rate. Can we get rid of them? Please? Let Deron become the leader of this team. It's a point guard driven, finesse league now.

I guess nobody bothered informing Sloan but the rules have changed. Hand checks arent allowed anymore. Banging, tearing on shirts, shoving in the back will ALWAYS get called. (Just look at games 1 and 2).

Slow, ponderous, uninspired big men are practically becoming extinct save for the special very very few. Fluid, athletic big men like Gasol are what we need. But try getting those marquee players to come play here.

I'm actually a bit worried for the Jazz because the west is going to be better next year:

Lakers get Bynam back and will start Bynam, Gasol, Odom, Bryant, Fisher + deep bench

Portland will be amazing next year with their talent plus they'll have Oden back

Houston was great this year and that's after Yao went down - with their young players developing and Yao back they'll be great.

Sacramento will be better with Kevin Martin developing.

Plus you have all the traditional tough teams - suns, spurs, mavs etc.

I'm not convinced the Boozer is enough to help Williams. Kirilenko is still spotty and Williams is a bonafide superstar in the making so hey may not stay if he can get big money in a bigger market. . . we have to realize that the Jazz haven't exactly had a great track record of attracting big name talent. The Jazz lucked out with Malone/Stockton staying but DWill is young and will have tons of options.

I think this year . . . maybe next year is the only shot the Jazz have for a while. AFter that it's a serious uphill climb.