But if you were surprised by how much better Bynum was last season, prepare your eyes to be popping anew this season.
Bynum is bigger, faster and better in every possible way (again) because he worked at it (again). That’s why the personal goal he revealed Wednesday – making the All-Star team in February – is absolutely realistic.
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Asked if he’d be disappointed not to be an All-Star so soon, Bynum said: “I would be. It’s going to be tough in the West, but I think I’ll be able to do it.”
Caring enough to set lofty goals is part of the right attitude. Bynum is even peeking ahead to 2012, when he hopes to be on the next Olympic team with Kobe Bryant. Again, absolutely realistic.
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He rehabbed his knee in New York, he worked out like a maniac in Atlanta, and he has returned to Los Angeles with a visibly thicker frame, faster shuttle times, more weight he can squat (there’s no tougher test for a knee than that lift) and another inch on his vertical.
“It feels stronger; it feels better than last year,” Bynum said og the knee that cost him the last five months of the Lakers’ season. “I don’t have any
fear at all.”
Bynum also has a left hand waiting to be revealed this season, in addition to the long-awaited “skyhook.” Most importantly, expect to see unstoppable two-man, weak-side alignments of just Bryant and Bynum to become the Lakers’ go-to formations this season
