OFFICIAL LAKERS 2009/2010 (57-25) 2009-2010 CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

[do be doo]

Originally Posted by DARTH DNZY

Originally Posted by CP1708

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

Ya'll gonna get lapped either way......

--Whatever helps you sleep at night Do Bee Do.
--Sprint..marathon..whatever. It all comes to an end in June.

please try to keep this thread about the Lakers....ok?....

 

[badboyf0life420]

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

Originally Posted by DARTH DNZY

Originally Posted by CP1708

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

Ya'll gonna get lapped either way......

--Whatever helps you sleep at night Do Bee Do.
--Sprint..marathon..whatever. It all comes to an end in June.

please try to keep this thread about the Lakers....ok?....

lol i know right..

 

[bsktball4lyf3]

damn... celtics got the best winning streak now

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Celtics are feasting on the East. It can't be the most difficult thing to do.

 

[darth dnzy]

Originally Posted by badboyf0life420

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

Originally Posted by DARTH DNZY

Originally Posted by CP1708

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

Ya'll gonna get lapped either way......

--Whatever helps you sleep at night Do Bee Do.
--Sprint..marathon..whatever. It all comes to an end in June.

please try to keep this thread about the Lakers....ok?....

lol i know right..

--I did keep it about the Lakers. The word JUNE is in there dude.

 

[Los Angeles]

Bynum's attitude is dictated on how many touches he gets down low.

If you feed the baby at the time they want, they'll be happy - same with Bynum.

If he would only focus his energy and effort on defense and those rebounds, it wouldn't even be fair.

Once the ball gets fed into Bynum it never gets kicked out, never.

I'm liking Pau speaking up, Kobe / Fish / Farmar / Brown need to get him the ball.

Please Kobe, sit out if you're gonna play like you did in Utah. Use the rest.

 

[knightngale]

Originally Posted by bright nikes

Bynum's attitude is dictated on how many touches he gets down low.

If you feed the baby at the time they want, they'll be happy - same with Bynum.

If he would only focus his energy and effort on defense and those rebounds, it wouldn't even be fair.

Once the ball gets fed into Bynum it never gets kicked out, never.

I'm liking Pau speaking up, Kobe / Fish / Farmar / Brown need to get him the ball.

Please Kobe, sit out if you're gonna play like you did in Utah. Use the rest.

Bynum is not playing good defense even when he gets touches.

 

[Los Angeles]

When did I imply that he plays good defense even with touches?

My whole point was for him to focus more on defense and rebounding rather than trying to fill up the points.

Especially with him trying to get in the ASG, not a good look.

 

[darth dnzy]

--On some nights, Bynum looks on point. Other nights, no.
--Dude is so inconsistent.
--He gotta take his time in the post. He always look like he rushing the shot like its a fire drill or something.

 

[westcoastsfinest]

Originally Posted by DARTH DNZY

--On some nights, Bynum looks on point. Other nights, no.
--Dude is so inconsistent.
--He gotta take his time in the post. He always look like he rushing the shot like its a fire drill or something.

once hes on that block he always shoots it...bring that ball out and repost fool!

i like how pau demanding that ball...with kobe injured...pau is option number 2!..he can carry us till kobe gets better!

feed pau!

 

[CP1708]

Bynum struggles with Pau out there, it's pretty clear. Phil needs to find a way to break their minutes better so he can maximize their time on the flooralone. I know he tries to do that, but he needs to clean it up a little bit better is all.

Another thing I wanna see, much like Kobe switched teams in practice to go at Ron every day, Bynum and Gasol need to switch and go at each other in practiceeveryday. I think it would do wonders for Bynum and I think it would also benefit Gasol a little playin D against a guy like Drew. We need to make sure everyday that Pau is getting tougher and tougher. He can't rest now just cuz we got one title. He still needs to improve in that area for us.

 

[notorious 858]

[h1]Lakers are about to get a 1-2 punch from schedule[/h1]Brian Shaw smiles. Or maybe it's a grimace. It wasn't that long ago that he was the one who had to work his way through back-to-back games.

The Lakers assistant coach knows all too well the pratfalls that await, the 24-hour endurance checks lingering in the very near future for a team that has fattened up on home games.

The Lakers coasted through the first month and a half of this season, mostly sleeping in their own beds, strolling through game after game at Staples Center, experiencing only three situations in which they played on consecutive nights.

Welcome to the rest of their schedule. Last Friday at home they beat Minnesota, then flew to Salt Lake and lost badly to Utah on Saturday. So began a period during which 22 of 32 Lakers games are scheduled in back-to-back sets, a majority of them on the road.

Not since the lockout-condensed NBA schedule in 1999 have the Lakers had such a rush of back-to-back attacks.

The fun begins anew tonight at Chicago and Wednesday at Milwaukee, continuing Saturday at New Jersey and Sunday at Detroit.

Some other notable double dips over the next eight weeks: Christmas Day at home against Cleveland followed by an immediate departure to Sacramento for a Dec. 26 game; back-to-back lung-burners against run-and-gun teams Phoenix and Golden State (Dec. 28-29); two sides of the Texas triangle in San Antonio and Dallas (Jan. 12-13); an eight-game Eastern trip that begins in Cleveland and New York (Jan. 21-22) and ends with an electrifying starter at Boston (Jan. 31) and a potential trap game the next night at Memphis; and a home game against Denver (Feb. 5) followed by a visit to their personal house of horrors, Portland.

It's all part of the penance they pay for a schedule in which they played 17 of their first 21 games at home.

The Lakers will have a total of 20 sets of back-to-backs this season, their most since 22 in 1999-2000, when Shaw was a reserve guard for the Lakers.

"The first night of those back-to-backs, you've got to take care of business, get yourself in position to get an [opposing] team down, keep them down and try to get the starters off their feet as early as possible," said Shaw, in his fifth season as a Lakers coach. "The second night of back-to-backs are when you definitely rely on your bench a lot more to make a contribution."

It could be worse: NBA teams sometimes played on four consecutive nights from the 1950s to the 1970s, not to mention three nights in a row for some of the Lakers' " Showtime" teams of the 1980s. (NBA teams also sometimes played three consecutive nights in 1999 to squeeze 50 games into three months.)

The Lakers (18-4) claim they are ready for the consecutive-night consequences.

"They're good tests to see where we're at," reserve forward Lamar Odom said. "If we can come out of them really strong, that says a lot about us. It helps on the back-to-backs if we can avoid the close games, know what I mean? It's going to be a test, which we should expect after all these home games."

For all their talents, the Lakers aren't exactly young. Derek Fisher is 35. Kobe Bryant is 31. Odom and Ron Artest are 30.

"For Kobe and particularly for Fish, it's going to be harder to get everything all lubed up and going on that second night," Shaw said. "The guys that are coming off the bench have to contribute greatly."

That used to be Shaw's duty, along with Robert Horry and Rick Fox in 1999-2000, when the Lakers began the first of three championship runs by going 19-3 in the ever-important second games of back-to-backs.

This season, they are a mundane 2-2 in similar situations, with one-sided losses at Denver and Utah. Now they get plenty of chances to show they're better than .500 in that area after going 14-5 last season.

"You just have to play through that," Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said of follow-up nights. "The start of the season might be a little difficult for teams to recover, but you get used to doing that. There's no excuse. You have to play through it. Some years, you have 20 back-to-backs, some years 15."

The schedule really is the luck of the draw. The Lakers often play most of their road games in the second half of the season because the Grammy Awards knock them out of Staples Center in late January and early February, though that 1999-2000 team had plenty of road games in the early part of its schedule on the way to a 67-15 record.

"It's going to be a good time to get in the weight room, stay sharp, stay strong, try to avoid fatigue as much as possible," Odom said. "Back-to-backs are when you want to do all the small things -- control tempo defensively and offensively."

Many observers say the Lakers have the NBA's best starting five, but their reserves will need to make a mark after some inglorious efforts this season. The second night will be the barometer.

Shaw remembers those times as a player.

"Phil always made us aware of the fact that the rotation on the starters might be shorter in their first run," he said. "He would come around to the [backup] guys -- myself, Robert and Rick -- and say, 'Be ready to come in a little bit earlier than normal.'

"Not that I felt like I was going to have to come in and do something great, but for somebody coming off the bench and probably playing anywhere between 12 and 20 minutes, if you can't get cranked up for the second night, then something's wrong."


Link:

http://www.latimes.com/sp...009dec15,0,1846320.story

 

[notorious 858]

Yo NT Laker fam

Do you guys know where I can still cop that purple fitted Laker hat. The one with LA in the front and all of the championship banners in the back ?

Does the team LA store @ Staples Center still sell it. I can't find any place on the internet where I can cop it.

 

[kb8sandiego]

^
When I went to the Pistons game last month, they didn't have them anymore at Team LA.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

I'm kinda mad about our schedule. I would have been a whole lot happier with having Boston's schedule (meaning more road games to begin with). I haveno idea how we're going to do on the road, and it's making me nervous

Hopefully we'll be fine (I'd actually be shocked if we struggled), but still, so many home games in the beginning made things too easy.

 

[notorious 858]

Originally Posted by KB8sandiego

^
When I went to the Pistons game last month, they didn't have them anymore at Team LA.

Thanks bro. I found it online here.

http://www.amazon.com/Ang...id=1260870563&sr=8-2

Does it really run in sizes small, medium, large, or XL for a fitted ?

Did you cop the hat yourself ?

Dennis we got to roll to a Laker game at Staples sometime this season. Get at me man whenever is good for you .

 

[westcoastsfinest]

road games lets see what happens...if we wanna defend the title we must get a grip on the road

 

[kb8sandiego]

Originally Posted by Notorious 858

Originally Posted by KB8sandiego

^
When I went to the Pistons game last month, they didn't have them anymore at Team LA.

Thanks bro. I found it online here.

http://www.amazon.com/Ang...id=1260870563&sr=8-2

Does it really run in sizes small, medium, large, or XL for a fitted ?

Did you cop the hat yourself ?

Dennis we got to roll to a Laker game at Staples sometime this season. Get at me man whenever is good for you .

I believe it's actually a flexfit.

Naw, I didn't cop.

 

[menacin methods]

Wasup laker nation...i went to the game last night. Had amazing seats, pretty much behind the lakers bench

You guys be surprised alot of Laker/Kobe fans here in Chicago

1) lamar and artest talk to each other alot during the game..helping each other out on D
2) kobe is too focused...during one of the timeouts he's sitting there while the other guys are joking around
Bynum, Sasha, Farmar and Morrison all laughing and giggling during the timeout....Kobe looks at them and Morrison gave that look when your dad is about to beatyou down with his belt

 

[darthska]

Dude! Thanks for the pics!!

So awesome!!

And I hate CP1708.

thatisallkthxbye

 

[CP1708]

Huh? What I do? Chester hack your account?

I must be kicking your tail in fantasy this week or something. Or maybe because Tennessee plays Miami this week????

 

[westcoastsfinest]

menace nice pics!!!!...how much you spent on these tix?...i didnt know you were from chi-town

 

[darthska]

CP1708:

---

Huh? What I do? Chester hack your account?

I must be kicking your tail in fantasy this week or something. Or maybe because Tennessee plays Miami this week????
Man, forget Chester and forget the 'Phins/Titans game.

 

[menacin methods]

Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest

menace nice pics!!!!...how much you spent on these tix?...i didnt know you were from chi-town

Yep born and raised in Chicago.

Wife got them for my bday....she didn't want to say how much she spent..i'm guessing close to $250

Thinking about driving to Milwaukee for tonight's game, its an hour away and ticket prices aren't too bad

 

[CP1708]

Fantasy team then.......

How bad is it? I ain't pay much attention lately. Got football playoffs goin on, and i been focused on those. Figure I'll get into basketball inabout 2 weeks or so.