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HARD TO FIGURE LAKERS

I am often asked this season about Lakers inconsistencies. Why they can sometimes beat the great teams, and lose to the lousy ones? The best answer is youth and inexperience. But there are other questions and observations I will try to relay now.

I am still at a loss as to why Lamar Odom seems to fade away when Kobe Bryant is on the floor. Odom is an unstoppable 6 foot 10 player if he decides to score.

Everybody in the building knows Kobe Bryant is going to take the final shot. The opposition doesn't worry about Odom because he hasn't shown the tenacity to hit the big shot, even though the double and triple team is going Kobe Bryant's way.

This is a question I can't answer. I know the coaching staff is working on it. And I know my partner, James Worthy, has worked with Odom on his post up moves, which he rarely uses, but he is deadly from the paint.

To me, Odom is the key to this team advancing both mentally, and deep into the playoffs.

Also, you must remember that four of the five starters have been hurt at one time or another this season.

Only Smush Parker has started every game, and he is the very embodiment of inconsistency.

Andrew Bynum will be great someday, but he was not ready for the minutes he has been forced to play with no Chris Mihm and no Kwame Brown in the line up.

Do I have hope they will get better? You never know with this team. I do know they are not in the same planet, team wise, as San Antonio, Phoenix, or Dallas.

But they can beat them. So, let's just see if Phil Jackson, et al, can get this team together after the All Star break. It's possible, but I don't think probable.

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