Lakers camp, Oct. 31

So Phil Jackson reversed field on this one and dropped Corie Blount to keep both younger guards, Laron Profit and Devin Green, on the team. (That's in addition to youngest guards Sasha Vujacic and Von Wafer, who also made the team.)

True, power forwards Brian Cook and Slava Medvedenko had pretty good training camps (if not great exhibitions) and Lamar Odom is effective sliding up to power forward ... but if the rebounding isn't dominant, I'd say the Lakers make a personnel move at some point for another big man. Jackson wants the rebounding to be dominant, not just good, because he appreciates that the Lakers need to succeed in the little things such as having more possessions. But for now, he's hoping a rotation of Odom, Cook and Medvedenko will work at power forward, even though Cook and Medvedenko have historically been pretty weak on the boards.

Where are you, Brian Grant? Oh, counting your millions in Phoenix after the big money-saving move by Jerry Buss.

Why did Vujacic make the team? He has a guaranteed contract for two more years. No way the Lakers could eat that much. Wafer is a rookie project whom they expected would need time to grow.

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