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OAKLAND -- Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak keeps hearing about how his team might not be tough enough, physical enough or gritty enough to win an NBA title. He's not the only one.If you've been following the NBA playoffs at all, you know the Lakers have been dogged by these issues. Whether it was late in the Houston series or early in the Denver series, whether or not the Lakers are soft or not is getting a lot of play.
Kupchak thinks it might be time to put that to bed.
"I don't know if toughness is the word," Kupchak said while attending draft workouts at the Golden State Warriors practice facility on Tuesday. "I think physicality, maybe. But I'm not sure that's accurate anymore.
"I thought Denver was a very physical team. Their frontcourt ... I'm not sure if any of those guys are under 260 pounds and that includes Carmelo Anthony. Then you add [Chris] Andersen into the mix -- a big, strong, physical player -- and I'd say that was a physical team."
Kupchak made a distinction about toughness and physicality, saying that the Lakers might not be the most physical team in the league, but that they're certainly tough enough to play against physical teams and beat physical teams.
After all, they were tough enough to hold Denver to 102 points per game, including holding the Nuggets under 100 in three of the series' last four games. Not bad considering they entered the Lakers' series averaging 112 points in the postseason.
"I thought [the Nuggets' big men] had an impact up until Game 5 in the second half, when we seemed to come to life a little bit. I thought we responded to a physically tough team. We do have toughness. And we don't have to prove that we can physically play with teams anymore. I think we proved that in the Denver series."
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