With the core of Nash, Kobe, & Pau and all the role players
This part is your key. People spent the whole year complaining about defense, and Mike, etc. Look at those 3 names, in today's game. They were not ever, EVER, going to stop ANYBODY. Ever. We were giving up 110 a night this year, with, or without those dudes.
Zero, I mean ZERO chance, those 3 were gonna make it 80 games. Was never gonna happen.
The fact Farmar, Young, Xavier, and Blake couldn't get to 80 only compounded that problem.
All we can hope for, is that Kobe will get sooooo much damn rest this year, that he will be "fresh" (with 50,000 minutes on his odometer) for next year, and give us 70 games, if we're lucky. I rest my car all the time now with its high miles. Guess what, the car don't get younger. Neither will Kobe. 70 games at 30 minutes a night will be pretty outstanding for a 36 year old, seeing as how very few have ever done that, outside maybe Karl Malone.
A's slander will not be accepted. 
