Theo to LA

[pantherfan49]

Will miss you Theo

The Los Angeles Lakers added depth along the front line by signing Theo Ratliff, the team announced on Thursday.

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=5402710

[Dpantherman]

will we?

[Its The Milk]

He balled like it was the 1800's.

[pantherfan49]

will we?

I think it was quite clear that he was the only healthy, serviceable big man during our playoff run.

Put it this way, instead of paying this guy 1 mil a year to start and play 20 minutes a game, we are paying Diop 5 mil to sit at the end of the bench.

[theedaddy]

diops agent is great magician or a very beautiful woman.

[C-A-T-S]

We will miss him, the man can play some defense!

[C47]

We will miss him, the man can play some defense!

Yep thats the biggest reason the Lakers went after him, we really don't have a scrappy defensive big man....add this to Steve Blake and Matt Barnes and the Lakers bench just got pretty nasty.....

[pantherfan49]

Yep thats the biggest reason the Lakers went after him' date=' we really don't have a scrappy defensive big man....add this to Steve Blake and Matt Barnes and the Lakers bench just got pretty nasty.....[/quote']

Yeah Theo will help make up for Gasol's softness

[C47]

Yeah Theo will help make up for Gasol's softness

I was actually referring more to Bynum (8 rebounds, 1.5 blocks per game) then Gasol (although both could play better defensively) ......Pau averaged 11 boards and almost 2 blocks per game.....although I'm hopeful Drew will continue to progress into a dominant presence in the paint....