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Originally Posted by bright nikes
Vlad & Sasha should never see any minutes anytime soon.
Great win by the lakers.
I forgot the space cadet was even on the team
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Originally Posted by bright nikes
Vlad & Sasha should never see any minutes anytime soon.
Great win by the lakers.
Originally Posted by 3PLEDOUBLE
The Hornets done effed around enough, they withstood the Lakers fluke hot shooting in the first half, this should be a 25 point deficit with the way they were playing. I fully expect them to dominate the entire second half, Peja catching fire like last time in LA with a three point a barrage, West will have a new career high when this game is done. Kobe will shoot the Lakers outta this one int he second half, Hornets win 120-103. Imma leave it at that.
Originally Posted by SenorRoboto2k5
I forgot that Vlad was on the team too!
Anyway, although it may change b/c Dallas is up on Detroit right now...
Does this mean LA is in 3rd place? Or is Portland in 3rd (b/c of the divisions) and LA in 4th?
Yahoo shows the 3 divisions, then 4th place with LA. However, I thought the top four were determined, then listed in order of records... ????
Suns losing right now. We could be tied with them!
You'd still be a half-game behind them, the Spurs, and the Mavericks, but that's damn close..
Originally Posted by 3PLEDOUBLE
The Hornets done effed around enough, they withstood the Lakers fluke hot shooting in the first half, this should be a 25 point deficit with the way they were playing. I fully expect them to dominate the entire second half, Peja catching fire like last time in LA with a three point a barrage, West will have a new career high when this game is done. Kobe will shoot the Lakers outta this one int he second half, Hornets win 120-103. Imma leave it at that.
Somebody promote this man to Administrator or moderator immediately.
Originally Posted by holdenmichael
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The Lakers are essentially the 4 seed right now because they'd own homecourt advantage over the Blazers. I know that every team has injuries, close losses, etc. to play the "what if" game, but it takes nothing away from my amazement at the Lakers record. I believe I read somewhere that they're the third youngest team in the league and that they've played the third strongest schedule. They have two two point losses at home against non-playoff teams and a four point loss against the Warriors due to Kobe's injury.
If you give the Lakers just one of those wins, they'd be the top seed in the Western Conference almost halfway through the season. Who would have thunk it?
Oh wait, they were also 23-11 at this point last season. I remember that a lot of people were stating that they were only playing well because of a friendly schedule in which they had played a majority of their games at home (20). Well, this season they've played 18 at home so I don't believe that those two extra home games at this point last year really made a difference. Many a Laker fan claimed that injuries played a large role in the wheels falling off (they stayed 12 games above .500 another eight games- 27-15, but finished 15-25) and I believe I read that the Lakers had lost the most starter games due to injury so we weren't far off.
There were a few of us that asked for patience and minor tweaking unless a major player (KG) could be had.
Many people asked for major overhaul and you can't blame them because there are (were?) probably six teams with starting fives that look better on paper.
Last year, I wanted Bynum to be traded for Kidd and Kupchak to be fired. This year, I'm still looking for improvement, but on a smaller scale and I'm satisfied with the job that Kupchak has done (Fisher, Evans & Cook for Ariza) considering that what might be mistakes (over paying for Fisher, re-signing Walton) haven't had much of an effect on the team.
As happy as I am right now, youth and inexperience still means something come playoff time so I'm hoping that they can keep up this pace and earn home court advantage for at least two rounds.
I apologize for wasting your time with my rambling, but be thankful that this isn't LG.net where it would be a new thread instead of a reply in a game thread.