The Lakers would have the two best players and that matters a lot, especially in playoff series. Perk is what is always is, i.e. basically a crappier version of this year's Dwight or McGee. Rondo was still very much on the upswing that year and is probably a fairly similar player then as he was this year. The C's had a better bench that year than the Lakers did this year, but I'm not sure that matters all that much. So the real question is, did Ray Allen as a 3rd option make up the difference between the top 4 in the series, and the answer is probably not. I mean the C's beat the Lakers in 6 in 2008. A Lakers team that started Derek Fisher and Vladimir Radmanovic and whose best bench player was Sasha Vujacic along with Jordan Farmar, Luke Walton, Rony Turiaf, and a very young Trevor Ariza. Couple that with the fact that collectively Kobe, Pau, and Odom are worse than Lebron, Davis, and whomever, it isn't crazy at all to think this years Lakers beat the C's of 2008. Add to that, that the C's that year beat the Cavs in 7. Obviously Lebron was younger then, but I'm not so sure he wasn't a better player this past season especially when he dialed in for the playoffs. And that Cavs team was terrible outside of Lebron. I mean they started Big Z, Ben Wallace, Delonte West, and Wally Szczerbiak with a bench of Joe Smith, Anderson Varejao, Daniel Gibson, and Sasha Pavlovic. That team took Boston 7 because of the greatness of Lebron James. Lebron James this year, is still great, arguably better and he was surrounded by the best player he ever played with in Anthony Davis and a nice collection of veterans and young guys. For all the crap the Lakers got for their free agent moves, they actually put together a pretty well formulated team.
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