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yep. lakers have enough offense. Kobe alone is offense, but with gasol, bynum, odom (possibly), and bench it is pretty effective. what they lack is toughness. all NBA champions need toughness, but when the lakers act tough, it's just funny (think vujachich sp*). sort of like KG acting tough against smaller players. but last year, the lakers had to act tough. that's why fisher knocked luis scola and kobe punch artest in the throat and stepped on battier.

Artest is suppose to give them an enforcer and someone who is tough and crazy and will do the dirty work. Unless he wants to shoot, because he always had with the pacers, kings, houston and he's a low % volume shooter. Phil Jackson and Kobe got to keep his ass in check so that he doesn't take shots away from kobe and gasol + others and shoot them out of the game. he needs to play defense and gets moderate points like 12-16ppg.

he grew up on the streets and played rough basketball in the ghetto. you know KG's bitch ass isn't going to bark at artest, because he'll kick KGs ass.

he said so himself that he grew up in a rough neighborhood and gave an example of how they play basketball where he's from.

"I remember one time, it was um…one of my friends, you know, he was playing basketball, they was winning the game, they were so competitive, they threw a, um, they broke the … a piece of leg from a table and they threw it and it went right through his heart and he died."

LOL. true story too.