If Mihm Never Sprained his Ankle?

[Lakers999]

you think he Would he still be playing with us?

[Rodman28]

No.

He wasn't really all that good.
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[djsaad1]

I knew mihm personally, he never really had the heart for basketball he just played it because of his size. He loved swimming and that's what he always wanted to do, but his coaches and parents pushed him to basketball. Without the love for the game you are never going to be good at it.

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[doven]

[Lakers Till The Day I Die]

Mihm was solid and attacked the rim. Its too bad he got hurt.

[frijolero01]

[Krispy Kreme]

he was a good dunker, and a good weakside shot blocker


would have been a good backup big

[TheVujacicFan]

He was pretty good in those off years, all things considered. Imo he was a poor man's Bynum if he could stay healthy.

[LakerEidos]

He was putting up decent number before his injuries. It's possible he would still be playing withe Lakers, if he wasn't injured and was willing to play as a third-string center.

[venturalakersfan]

Mihm was a brick in the wall.
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[lakerjoshua]

Chris Mhim:

Born: Jul 16, 1979
Height: 7-0 / 2,13
Weight: 265 lbs. / 120,2 kg.
College: Texas
Years Pro: 8


Career Season Averages

Year Team G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% OFF DEF RPG APG SPG BPG TO PF PPG
00-01 CLE 59 43 19.8 0.442 0.000 0.794 1.8 2.9 4.7 0.3 0.3 0.9 1.36 2.60 7.6
01-02 CLE 74 60 22.4 0.420 0.429 0.693 1.8 3.5 5.3 0.3 0.2 1.2 1.31 3.50 7.7
02-03 CLE 52 0 15.6 0.404 0.000 0.724 1.8 2.7 4.4 0.5 0.3 0.7 0.92 2.40 5.9
03-04 CLE 22 1 17.8 0.465 0.000 0.708 2.1 4.2 6.4 0.5 0.4 1.0 1.14 2.60 6.9
03-04 BOS 54 16 17.4 0.500 0.000 0.644 2.0 3.0 5.1 0.2 0.5 0.8 1.20 2.80 6.1
04-05 LAL 75 75 24.9 0.507 0.000 0.678 2.6 4.1 6.7 0.7 0.2 1.4 1.47 3.20 9.8
05-06 LAL 59 56 26.1 0.501 0.000 0.716 2.3 4.0 6.3 1.0 0.3 1.2 1.41 3.60 10.2
07-08 LAL 23 5 12.1 0.337 0.000 0.667 1.2 2.1 3.3 0.6 0.2 0.6 0.74 1.80 3.6
08-09 LAL 18 0 5.8 0.375 0.000 0.857 0.8 1.1 1.9 0.6 0.1 0.3 0.56 1.30 2.0
Career -- 436 256 20.1 0.459 0.231 0.704 2.0 3.3 5.3 0.5 0.3 1.0 1.23 2.90 7.5

Career Season Totals

Year Team G GS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF DEF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
00-01 CLE 59 43 1,166 173-391 0-1 100-126 106 174 280 16 20 53 80 156 446
01-02 CLE 74 60 1,659 221-526 3-7 124-179 133 259 392 24 18 89 97 260 569
02-03 CLE 52 0 809 116-287 0-3 76-105 93 138 231 28 18 38 48 124 308
03-04 CLE 22 1 391 59-127 0-0 34-48 47 93 140 10 9 22 25 58 152
03-04 BOS 54 16 939 127-254 0-0 76-118 109 164 273 11 28 41 65 150 330
04-05 LAL 75 75 1,870 280-552 0-2 175-258 197 305 502 50 14 108 110 237 735
05-06 LAL 59 56 1,541 230-459 0-0 144-201 137 236 373 61 16 73 83 214 604
07-08 LAL 23 5 278 32-95 0-0 18-27 28 49 77 13 4 14 17 42 82
08-09 LAL 18 0 105 15-40 0-0 6-7 15 19 34 10 1 6 10 23 36
Career -- 436 256 8,758 1,253-2,731 3-13 753-1,069 865 1,437 2,302 223 128 444 535 1,264 3,262

Career Playoff Averages

Year Team G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% OFF DEF RPG APG SPG BPG TO PF PPG
03-04 BOS 4 0 16.3 0.318 0.000 0.600 2.0 2.5 4.5 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.75 3.00 5.0
03-04 BOS 4 0 16.3 0.318 0.000 0.600 2.0 2.5 4.5 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.75 3.00 5.0
07-08 LAL 1 0 3.0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.00 2.00 0.0
Career -- 5 0 13.6 0.304 0.000 0.600 1.6 2.0 3.6 0.0 0.8 0.8 0.80 2.80 4.0

Career Playoff Totals

Year Team G GS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF DEF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
03-04 BOS 4 0 65 7-22 0-0 6-10 8 10 18 0 4 4 3 12 20
03-04 BOS 4 0 65 7-22 0-0 6-10 8 10 18 0 4 4 3 12 20
07-08 LAL 1 0 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
Career -- 5 0 68 7-23 0-0 6-10 8 10 18 0 4 4 4 14 20


04'-05'\05'-06 looks like his best career years, also first 2 years with the lakers. All downhill from there. I was however excited to see him healthy his final year with us, he was looking active and mobile. Pre- Mbenga punking him and him being shipped out. The altercation with congo and his swift departure are maybe a testament to djsaad1's point about not having the "heart" for Basketball?

Looking at his stats overall, not really impressive as a "starting center". So to answer your question, if he hadn't sprained his ankle: he'd be a 10/5 type 7 footer. Average to below average.
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[thisiscrazy]

I remember vividly liking Mihm, he seemed like a real professional and iirc he seemed to be our second most consistent player after Kobe. He had a nice jump hook (right hand) and like previously mention could finish at the rim and help from the weak side. I would like to think that if had stayed healthy he would still be with the Lakers. As a solid backup who knows the system. He was never really 100% healthy. On the other side with all the injuries I thought the Lakers showed a lot of class sticking by him so long.

[10scott10]

We would have atleast beat the suns that year. I mean we managed to make kwame look decent against them, imagine what a guy who actually could catch a ball could have done
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[lakeshow'80]

He still would've been traded to Charlotte or some other team.

[frijolero01]

but thinking of Chris makes me think of those horrible years the lakers went through.

wow, those were some (bleep) years. What the hell possessed me to register during all of that?
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[ForumBlueFrank]

Chris was a talented big man, and when he was healthy provided the team some solid minutes in the post. He had a good attitude and was a hard worker, until that horrific ankle injury. Vitti said it was the worst ankle injury he had ever seen, the kind that Hospitals see after a serious car crash.

[Worthy42]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh6fOuUOkok

Nuff said.

[Jordan-esque]

The REAL question is...

What if Karl Malone never sprained his knee?
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[LakersInFour]

Chris Mihm was a serviceable big. I don't think he would ever have been an all-star, but a good solid rotational guy, capable of starting for most teams in the league. He showed a lot of improvement when Kareem was working with our bigs ... it seemed he'd never really had "bigman" instruction, and his post game began to really show signs of improvement.

He would show flashes of very good play ... he notched 18 double doubles in 03-04 - no small feat playing next to Lamar Odom - and some of those performances were pretty impressive: 23 pts 12 rbs 2 blk in the season opener against Denver, 25 pts 14 rbs 2 blk 12/12 against Orlando, 11 pts 21rbs 5 blks 12/22 against New Orleans, 17 pts 10 rbs 4 blk 1/5 against Dallas, 14 pts 17 rbs 2 blk 1/10 against Minny, 19 pts 15 rbs 4 blk 2/22 against Boston ...

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mihmch01/gamelog/2005/

There is no denying the guy had talent. He needed to work on staying out of foul trouble - that was the biggest reason his production on the floor suffered from game to game. But he was starting to put it together, and then he went down with that devastating injury.

Chris Mihm was a definite player ... it's a shame his career ended the way it did.
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[GQue24]

HE is a White Bynum for LA. If he was here now in place of Bynum results would be the same.
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[bobekryant]

He was better than he was ever given credit for. Much better than Kwame.

[lakerjoshua]

Do it Mitch!!!!!
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