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Matt Barnes and the Los Angeles Lakers agreed to a one year 1.7 million dollar deal that will help the Lakers compete with the Eastern Conference All-St- uhm, Miami Heat in the following 2010-2011 NBA season. With the acquisition of PF Crhis Bosh, and SF Lebron James this past month the Miami Heat have begun stacking up for a championship, "run" or as the longer term deals suggest, "marathon". Looking as the only team able to compete with them, the lakers need to make a couple adjustments this season to cement their contendership.
The deal that brings Barnes, 6'7 ,226 lbs and only 30 years of age to L.A is in my opinion a great one. This is considering the matchups of the two teams respectful rosters.
The teams stack up quite evenly when the starting five are compared, with Miami taking a slight edge, but importantly both benches were horrid. The Heat addressed their biggest concern of snagging a legitimate centre, with Zydrunas Ilgauskas joining, take a lot of the pressure off undersized (6'8) Udonus Haslem and weak face up player Chris Bosh. Yet L.A won the padding of the bench through Barnes because he's a versitile slasher, who has size, and can guard. More importantly giving Artest and Odom breaks.
All in all I strongly believe that by siging Matt Barnes at such a low price will prove an efficient move for the Lake show this coming season as the look to three-peat because he's a much larger piece of L.A's puzzle then the Big Z is to Miami.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=1765
http://www.nba.com/lakers/roster/
http://www.nba.com/heat/roster/index.html
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