Isn't that essentially what one would have to do in order to put two rookies, 1 rookie for all intents and purposes and one second year player for all intents and purposes...paired up with a guy that is rebounding from injury riddled seasons and learning a new system against guys that have played together for multiple seasons and also played within the same system for multiple seasons?

Vujacic - 4th season all with LA
Walton- 5th year all with LA
Turiaf - 3rd year all with LA
Farmar - 2nd year in league - experience on par with Maxiell
Radmanovic- 7 year vet, 2nd with LA
Ariza- 4 year vet 1st year with LA - experience on par with Hayes

As you can see, our most experienced players in the bench rotation - Hayes and Maxiell - are only equal in experience with team and system to Farmar and Ariza, two guys that happen to be the low men on the totem pole in the same context on the Lakers bench.

In order for our bench to log the same amount of PT we would have to fast forward to three years from now and only then would your comparison to todays Lakers bench be a valid one, since in the long run repetition of tasks and structure over a period of years goes a long way toward influencing a squads on court performance regardless of a players individual talents and skills.

So yea, 3 years.

It takes a long time to get it back after a long layoff. Turiaf ain't there yet. Read my post. I only am talking about games since Ariza joined the team, not that long ago. (About a month or so.)

Correct

He is also a few inches taller a bit better of a defender.

Ariza has not been on the team for the last month. He has been on the injured list.

I mentioned that already. I only saw Ariza play a few games with the Lakers before he got injured, but I kept watching the Lakers anyway. What I know of Ariza is mostly from following him when he played for Orlando. I also watched several Laker games last year trying to figure out why Mo Evans was getting playing time there. As far as I could tell, Evans was doing pretty bad, and LA was trying to find someone who could take his minutes. But there was just no talent on the LA bench so Evans had to play. Since then, Farmar has improved a lot.

It seems to me that you are correct in your above statement.