Net PER's from 82Games.com

Posted on LakersGround.net on 7/10/07.

At 82Games.com, each player is given a rating (PER) for he did offensively at each position he played, a rating for how his man did while he was in there, and the net difference between the two. I find the net PER the best one number summation of how a player is doing. Here is how the Lakers did last season:
PG: -4.3 (Parker -5.2, Farmar -3.7, Williams +0.9)
SG: +3.7 (Bryant +10.7, Evans -0.6, Vujacic -3.0)
SF: +3.9 (Walton -0.6, Bryant +17.2, Evans -3.0, Radmanovic -4.9)
PF: -3.0 (Odom 0, Cook -2.2, Radmanovic -8.0, Walton -8.4)
C: -1.9 (Bynum -2.1, Brown -4.1, Turiaf +5.1)
(The players are listed in order of minutes played at the position and I only list ratings where the player has played at least 5% of the possible minutes at that spot)

As you can see:
* Kobe is the only starter with a positive net PER
* Turiaf and Williams were the only other players with a positive net PER
* PG is the team's weakest position
* C is the second weakest position
* Back in Feb, uberzev had a post on how Odom and Walton were the 4th weakest 2-3 punch in the NBA