Lakers at the tanking Rockets tonight

[djohn2oo8]

No way the Lakers lose this. :lol

[TDMVPDPOY]

is it still late to tank since a few teams already ahead of the game

[purplengold]

lakers still hit n miss, they missed now they gon hit. probably another 110+ pt game

[Relevancy]

We already know the cycle of the Lakers, beat one opponent and lose to another one the next time, gets pretty boring after awhile thb. OKC is gonna man handle them.

[JRHernandez88]

Na lakers gonna take a L

[spurs10]

That pizza looks mighty tasty!

[lefty]

Lakers = fuck:lold

[pass1st]

Lakers = fuck:lold

Thanks for jinxing in favor of LAL, Lefty, but it's going to take more than that I'm afraid

[Bruce Wayne]

Gasol out tonight with "knee tendinitis" in both knees :lol

[Bynumite]

Rockets are so bad, a good team would make the Lakers pay for all those offensive rebounds Houston's getting.

[Seventyniner]

Gasol out tonight with "knee tendinitis" in both knees :lol

I didn't know there was a such thing as vaginal tendinitis.

[Clipper Nation]

Tbh, just two teams in full-out tank mode playing slop-ass basketball, per par.....

[midnightpulp]

Yep. Houston's tanking. Why, I don't know. But they sure are intent on making the very mediocre Lakers look good tonight.

Lakers win in another fool's gold blowout.

[Venti Quattro]

Why doesn't Stern fine tanking?

[pass1st]

Why doesn't Stern fine tanking?

Because teams that tank aren't on national television :lol

[HI-FI]

on their only visit to Miami:lol

[midnightpulp]

If this game proves anything, it's that Gasol isn't needed anymore. He's pretty much useless in D'Antoni's system, while Jamison fits it like a glove. If the Lakers can find a team willing to gift a couple of their young upstarts for an aging bigman with knee problems (which they will. Stern will command some small-market team to bail out Mitch's retarded decisions), they could be pretty fuckin' scary.

[Trainwreck2100]

First time watching a lakers game without Meyers, no more hearing "partner" 40 times a game

[lefty]

Kobe with a fake injury :cry

[ElNono]

just got home... hack a dwight yet?

[pass1st]

just got home... hack a dwight yet?

'Suo nono. I don't think tanking teams will attempt it

[DAF86]

Too bad these teams don't have the salaries to make a trade work 'cause both could benefit from a Gasol for Parsons, Delfino and Patterson kind of deal.

[ElNono]

'Suo nono. I don't think tanking teams will attempt it

sup pass

[Chinook]

Harden's superstar mode looking awfully like Westbrook's hero mode.

[Bynumite]

Meltdown time.

[irishock]

Lakers choking yet again

[DAF86]

Manu 0.2 stinking it up.

[Trainwreck2100]

holy fuck the rockets have 93 shots

[DAF86]

Rockets subs are tired, tbh. They've been on the court since the middle of the third.

[Trainwreck2100]

unleash the hack a howard

[Reck]

Can the Lakers actually lose this shit? :lol

[Trainwreck2100]

i typed that before they did that

[Bynumite]

Crawford going ballistic on both teams :lol

[lefty]

Hack a Dwight :lmao

[DAF86]

Lakers are going to win this game.

[JRHernandez88]

Kobe with 36. Daym him & Timmy doin something right.

[Trainwreck2100]

howard finally makes a FT then you give up an and 1 keep on being you lakers

[Capt Bringdown]

Why is Gasol out?

[Banzai]

jesus fucking christ..hack a dwight all season long lmao

[Banzai]

Why is Gasol out?

tendinitis in the knees

[Capt Bringdown]

Toney Douglas?

[AussieFanKurt]

fucking :lol

[Bynumite]

Lakers are going to win this game.

Nice effort spurfan but no jinx needed :lol

[Trainwreck2100]

tendinitis in the knees

dat rest tbqh

[JRHernandez88]

:corn:

[JRHernandez88]

holy shit zach randolph with 32/17 they going to o/t with phoenix

[Capt Bringdown]

Lin & Hardon a combined 5 for 27, and the Lakers are struggling to pull out a win?

[pass1st]

Chock up the L

[O.J. Simpson]

:lmao

[Banzai]

Why is Gasol out?

eh should just tank the season tbh.

[024]

who lakerfans gonna blame tonight without pau?

[Bynumite]

1.7 on the clock and they still manage to leave a player wide open for a 3 :lmao

[ElNono]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

And there's no Pau to blame, tbh

[pass1st]

I dunno why D'antoni insists on keeping Dwight when they do hack-a-shaq

[Reck]

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

[Relevancy]

Lakers :lmao

[JRHernandez88]

mamba gona whoop someones ass in the locker room

[Banzai]

good thing the Lakers aren't #1 lol..

[Capt Bringdown]

Lakerground meltdown in 5,4,3,2...

[Chinook]

Greg Smith, man.

[Clipper Nation]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


:lmao

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH :lmao :lmao :lmao

[AussieFanKurt]

game over

[JRHernandez88]

this starting to just be sad. it aint even funny no more :(

[resistanze]

game over

Nuh uh

[pass1st]

Here comes with Kobe bricking a gamewinning 3

[ElNono]

wow, Rockets don't even have a coach.... D'Antoni can't even compete with an assistant coach

[resistanze]

Snitch with the game winner.

[Banzai]

who lakerfans gonna blame tonight without pau?

Howard tbh..guy is just flat out pathetic at free throws...

[DAF86]

Rockets unchoking the choke.

[ElNono]

Kobe bailout freebies coming in 3,2,1

[lefty]

Thanks for jinxing in favor of LAL, Lefty, but it's going to take more than that I'm afraid
Sorry son

It was no jinx

[pass1st]

Called it

[resistanze]

Here comes with Kobe bricking a gamewinning 3

:lol damn you

[ElNono]

BRIIIIICK

[024]

:lol

[pass1st]

Sorry son

It was no jinx

I don't believe in superstitions, tbh

[DAF86]

Nice brick by Kobe to end the game, tbh.

[ElNono]

what do they mean Rockets were down by 17? :lol

[Clipper Nation]

Kobe with the unclutch bads per par :lmao :lmao :lmao

[DAF86]

Lakers are going to win this game.

I'm on MVP level right now.

[HI-FI]

:lmao:lmao:lmao

well least Rapist got his 30 shots per game

[Budkin]

Bwahahahahah

[Reck]

this starting to just be sad. it aint even funny no more :(

Feeling pity for the fucking Lakers? Seriously?

[pass1st]

Kobe with the unclutch bads per par :lmao :lmao :lmao

Kobe and Lebron following suit today, tbh

[midnightpulp]

You guys fuckin' blow. Simple as that. No analysis. No "well wait until Nash comes back and this team gels." Only thing that that will save the Lakers' sorry asses from missing the playoffs or an early round exit is a lopsided trade, which is probably gonna happen, but until then, I'm going to enjoy watching this 9 figure trainwreck suck supreme ass.

[djohn2oo8]

what do they mean Rockets were down by 17? :lol

They were down 17 before the half ..

[Banzai]

tbh...Lakers should avoid the playoffs all together.

[Clipper Nation]

Time to add another BRICK to the collection!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMZOVsyw1g

:lmao

[ElNono]

They were down 17 before the half ..

oh missed that... only caught the 4th quarter pretty much

[DMC]

Jesus fucking Christ Zbo shitting all over the Suns (figure that's a Lakers topic now).

[Capt Bringdown]

Who's Kobe gonna blame now?

[DAF86]

So the tanking Rockets are at 6th place. They suck at tanking, tbh.

[AussieFanKurt]

I'm on MVP level right now.

nice jinx

[JRHernandez88]

Feeling pity for the fucking Lakers? Seriously?
na just clowning

[DMC]

Kobe and Lebron following suit today, tbh

That's it, misery loves company.

[djohn2oo8]

Greg Smith is an OG btw

[LkrFan]

:lol

[Capt Bringdown]

Who knew Derek Fisher was so important to the Lakers?

[Richie]

Is that 1-10 when Kobe scores 30 this year?

[ElNono]

That's it, misery loves company.

shit, just posted a new thread with that about blazers :lol

[ElNono]

:lol

what you laughing at, that's your sorry ass team :lol

[DAF86]

Harden trully is Manu-like. On a night where he can't buy a basket he still gets to the line to made up for it and gives you 10 rbds and 6 assts.

[HI-FI]

what you laughing at, that's your sorry ass team :lol
Lkrfan with the "try to be sarcastic so I shield myself from Mitch's disaster" goods.

[LkrFan]

what you laughing at, that's your sorry ass team :lol

At this point all I can do is laugh. SMH

[Richie]

Apologies, 1-7 when Kobe scores 30. MVP candidate?

[Clipper Nation]

Who's Kobe gonna blame now?

Laker journalists already scrambling to pin it on Dwight :lol

[Captivus]

Thank god for the 2 minutes rule, otherwise D12 will be at the bench in the final minutes of every game.
Sad for the Lakers, i think the biggest problem is that they dont know how to fix the issues they have, at least i think so.
D12 free agency is getting closer...

[Reck]

what you laughing at, that's your sorry ass team :lol
timvp Should change his name to smiley.

95% of his posts are lol smileys.

[DMC]

lol LG




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[djohn2oo8]

How do you let Toney fucking Douglas go off?

[Splits]

Do the Lakers have a lottery protected draft pick? (http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=153185)

LOL that's a classic meltdown thread

[Reck]

Not kobe's fault. :lol

[DMC]

One thread wants to sit Howard the other thread wants more points in the paint. lol shit vs go blind.

[Venti Quattro]

This shit is depressing. Success in life is holding me back from suicide. I better just pay attention to it, no?

[LkrFan]

One thread wants to sit Howard the other thread wants more points in the paint. lol shit vs go blind.

You assholes are the reason I can't log into LG right now. Too many users logged in. GTFO, please.

[DAF86]

I love how Worthy always calls out Kobe for his chucking.

[Banzai]

howard should learn to make free throws..dude makes millions....he should work on his free throws...fuck

[Venti Quattro]

276172719660355584

:lmao

Yippee fucking yay for a "we're getting there" victory :cry

[Clipper Nation]

Oh... my... fucking... god!!! :lmao


Like, could a team put in a request for a review of a referee? Joey Crawford is an absolute joke. I remember joking when the 'replacement refs' were making a joke of the NFL that I'd take any of them over Joey Crawford any day.

This is absolutely pathetic, he's baseline and watches Kobe drive and gets hammered in one of the most important possessions of the game and just does nothing. All game he's held his whistle while Kobe gets destroyed. Earlier he gets fouled 3 times on a drive, resulting in him getting hit in the face and his eyes raked and again he holds his whistle.

Is there really nothing that can be done? What is the process of getting a referee fired? It seems the only way to get rid of them is proving they are fixing games -_-


Lots of no calls for Kobe tonight.


I hate this response, no offense. I hate it because regardless of whether or not its the reason we lost the game is irrevelant to the fact that Joey Crawford is a travesty of American sports. And we as fans don't need to have the same mindset as the players and only blame themselves. The fact of the matter is some of these refs, especially Joey are an embarrassment.


Joey Crawford has been awful. Two games for the Lakers. Pacers. Rockets.

Lakerfan having the nerve to whine about refs!!! :lmao

http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=153175

[midnightpulp]

One thread wants to sit Howard the other thread wants more points in the paint. lol shit vs go blind.

Rofl. Do those bean3r idiots understand who their coach is and what kind of system he runs? Only points in the paint the Lakers are liable to get is via Howard putbacks off missed 3's. Sure, when the Messiah Steve Nash returns, they'll add some more paint scoring with pick-n-rolls between Nash and Dwight (despite Nash saying it tires him out to run it), but ultimately, the Lakers are a jumpshooting team now since they don't have the horses to fastbreak for easy transition buckets like D'Antoni's former teams.

[midnightpulp]

276172719660355584

:lmao

Yippee fucking yay for a "we're getting there" victory :cry

Closer to fuckin' what?

Offense looks fine. It's the defense that's shit, and D'Antoni, in all his years as a head coach, has never "gotten there" in that regard.

[ElNono]

J.A. Adande ‏@jadande
D'Antoni said those who say take Dwight out when they're hacking him "have no clue what they're talking about."

:lmao

[pass1st]

276172719660355584

:lmao

Yippee fucking yay for a "we're getting there" victory :cry

Only thing that needs to get together is D'antoni and his idea that letting coaches hack Dwight in crunch time is a good idea tbh

[Clipper Nation]

J.A. Adande ‏@jadande
D'Antoni said those who say take Dwight out when they're hacking him "have no clue what they're talking about."

:lmao
:lmao :lmao :lmao

It's official..... Vinny del Negro > O'Antoni :lol

[DMC]

You assholes are the reason I can't log into LG right now. Too many users logged in. GTFO, please.

Stop slumming here, They have a game thread there too.

[pass1st]

J.A. Adande ‏@jadande
D'Antoni said those who say take Dwight out when they're hacking him "have no clue what they're talking about."

:lmao

:lol D'antoni thinking stopping momentum and losing a possession during crunch is good

[Spur_Fanatic]

I dunno why D'antoni insists on keeping Dwight when they do hack-a-shaq

Welcome to Suns hell, circa 2005-2008.


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:lmao

Yippee fucking yay for a "we're getting there" victory :cry

Get used to them. He loved those back in the Suns.

[Venti Quattro]

J.A. Adande ‏@jadande
D'Antoni said those who say take Dwight out when they're hacking him "have no clue what they're talking about."

:lmao

:rollin :lmao :rollin :lmao :rollin :lmao :rollin :lmao :rollin :lmao

I don't know if I should laugh, feel annoyed or cry.

[DMC]

Hack-a-Ho (thanks timvp) only works because Howard doesn't get enough touches during the game to make having him on the floor a plus. Shaq was a shitty FT shooter, but he'd destroy you before that time came around most often.

[DMC]

lol Buss, hiring a NY rejected coach over Phil Jackson.

[Venti Quattro]

:cry Why would you make a devout Christian like Dwight suffer at the freethrow line :cry

[venky]

Lakers management has been dropping the ball lately.

[JRHernandez88]

Wow :lmao







Lol @ everyone giving the lakers the western conference crown at the beginning if the season.

[Splits]

Just wait until Nash gets back. And Blake. What? Blake is having surgery and is out 6 weeks minimum? LOLOLOLOLOL

[midnightpulp]

:lol D'antoni thinking stopping momentum and losing a possession during crunch is good

This might be the key reason Gasol stays a Laker (and yeah, I think they want to trade him badly. Tonight's DNP was more about seeing how the Lakers perform without him than about his knee problems). The Lakers are going to need to a closing big man who isn't painfully one dimensional and can shoot freethrows. If Gasol goes, the Lakers options are Dwight/Jamison or Hill/Jamison. There's a reason Jackson preferred to sit Bynum late in the 4th and close with Gasol at center.

[Bruce Wayne]

LOL Dwight

ThVbD7IUPug

[BanditHiro]

This might be the key reason Gasol stays a Laker (and yeah, I think they want to trade him badly. Tonight's DNP was more about seeing how the Lakers perform without him than about his knee problems). The Lakers are going to need to a closing big man who isn't painfully one dimensional and can shoot freethrows. If Gasol goes, the Lakers options are Dwight/Jamison or Hill/Jamison. There's a reason Jackson preferred to sit Bynum late in the 4th and close with Gasol at center.

but at the rate Kobe is going, Gasol will never get his confidence back.

[Mugen]

:lmao at least this motherfucker can hit his free throws

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/headshots/nba/players/full/6530.png&w=350&h=254

[Arcadian]

:lol lakers

[Capt Bringdown]

Get used to them. He loved those back in the Suns.

Good one.

[Expert]

Shannon Brown's dick single handedly (or no hands) fucked Gasol's fiancee and the Lakers for the next decade. They were set for a 3peat.

[Indazone]

An L is still an L anyway you slice it. LOL

[Expert]

An L is still an L anyway you slice it. LOL

Not true. If you slice it long ways it could be an I.

[AaronY]

LOL Dwight

ThVbD7IUPug

Its so awesome when he tries to be funny

[JRHernandez88]

Not true. If you slice it long ways it could be an I.:lmao that shit was corny but funny

[Koolaid_Man]

Rofl. Do those bean3r idiots understand who their coach is and what kind of system he runs? Only points in the paint the Lakers are liable to get is via Howard putbacks off missed 3's. Sure, when the Messiah Steve Nash returns, they'll add some more paint scoring with pick-n-rolls between Nash and Dwight (despite Nash saying it tires him out to run it), but ultimately, the Lakers are a jumpshooting team now since they don't have the horses to fastbreak for easy transition buckets like D'Antoni's former teams.

Given all your 'stripper supporting herself through school' like pontification...I hope you're here to celebrate Kobe's 6th come June

[Latarian Milton]

rockets used hack-a-dwight abusively the last few minutes and it worked out good for them imho, it baffles me why _'antonie didn't play someone else who could hit some freethrows at least

[Kai]

Harden and Lin have shitty games and we still beat the Lakers, the fuck?

Greg Smith is awesome. Love his energy and determination. Giving him minutes really helps Asik stay fresh as well.

[Josepatches_]

Hack-a-Ho (thanks timvp) only works because Howard doesn't get enough touches during the game to make having him on the floor a plus. Shaq was a shitty FT shooter, but he'd destroy you before that time came around most often.

Shaq was an awful FT shooter but mostly with shooting foul FT . Hack a Shaq wasn't so effective at all because his FT% was higher in a row, It's not the same to shoot 4 FTs in 6 minutes than 8 FTs in a row.

Howard must be the only clown who can't improve his % with so many shots from the line in a row.

Strategy could work with Shaq sometimes. It works every game with Howard.

[Captivus]

What if Stern changes the 2 minutes rule...to the entire 4th Quarter? Would that help the lakers?
I wouldnt be surprised...

[djohn2oo8]

Adi Joseph @AdiJoseph (https://twitter.com/AdiJoseph) Dwight Howard says his eight free throw misses didn't cost the Lakers in a two-point loss. OK, then. More on his math: usat.ly/VAJQJV (http://t.co/Hvhg57WU)

:lmao

[djohn2oo8]

And Howard made his last three free throws. Of course, that came after a 2-for-7 stretch in the span of 46 seconds late in the fourth quarter. But Howard doesn't think Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni, now 3-5 at the helm, should have removed him.

"Why should he take me out?" Howard asked, indignantly. "Like I said, the more I continue (http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/lakers/2012/12/05/dwight-howard-free-throws-los-angeles-rockets/1747539/#) to practice, my free throws are going to fall. But there's other things you can do on the court to help your team. It's not just about the free throws."



:rollin

[djohn2oo8]

The world of social media is either more cynical or less naive. Here are a few of the best tweets about Howard's foul failings:



ESPN New York's Robin Lundberg (http://twitter.com/robinlundberg): "Dwight Howard makes free throws about as well as he makes decisions."
Sports Illustrated's Andy Glockner (http://twitter.com/andyglockner): "It's hard to make free throws with blood on your hands, Dwight."
Los Angeles Daily News' Mark Medina (http://https//twitter.com/MedinaLakersNBA): "Lakers should just be patient. Dwight Howard will make his free throws once Steve Nash comes back."
Los Angeles Times' Mike Bresnahan (http://https//twitter.com/Mike_Bresnahan): "Laker fan just yelled out that Dwight Howard should shoot free throws 'grandma style.' Howard's 2 for 7 tonight."
InsideHoops.com (http://twitter.com/insidehoops): "If Dwight Howard closed his eyes while shooting free throws, his percentage honestly might go slightly up."

[Paranoid Pop]

^ :lol the best one by far imo :


Los Angeles Daily News' Mark Medina (http://https//twitter.com/MedinaLakersNBA): "Lakers should just be patient. Dwight Howard will make his free throws once Steve Nash comes back."

[UZER]

Adi Joseph @AdiJoseph (https://twitter.com/AdiJoseph) Dwight Howard says his eight free throw misses didn't cost the Lakers in a two-point loss. OK, then. More on his math: usat.ly/VAJQJV (http://t.co/Hvhg57WU)



I would say the same thing if I was Dwight playing with Kobe. Kobe doesn't take blame for anything...ever.

[Ace]

Got to think the Lakers will improve but never imagined they would be this bad.

[djohn2oo8]

Got to think the Lakers will improve but never imagined they would be this bad.

Too many players need the ball to dominate and we all know who the cancer is. Their bench is shit, and Duhon is starting. Dwight and Kobe just wont be able to co-exist. And Pau has declined fast.

[djohn2oo8]

Plus Pringles being the worst possible hire. They deserve to be that bad.

[Ace]

Too many players need the ball to dominate and we all know who the cancer is. Their bench is shit, and Duhon is starting. Dwight and Kobe just wont be able to co-exist. And Pau has declined fast.
They're putting up enough points to win without bench production. They're 6th in ppg and rebounds, it's their defense and turnovers that's costing them games. Of course hack-a-Dwight is really killing them when they're exchanging 0/1 points for 2/3.

[Brazil]

Adi Joseph @AdiJoseph (https://twitter.com/AdiJoseph) Dwight Howard says his eight free throw misses didn't cost the Lakers in a two-point loss. OK, then. More on his math: usat.ly/VAJQJV (http://t.co/Hvhg57WU)

:lmao

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/30/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-5444-1354297408-3.gif

[Malice]

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/30/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-5444-1354297408-3.gif

Fuck me, I could watch that .gif all day!

[djohn2oo8]

:lol at the one Laker fan
http://s7.postimage.org/he6ymgaqz/LAKER.jpg

[DMC]

Shaq was an awful FT shooter but mostly with shooting foul FT . Hack a Shaq wasn't so effective at all because his FT% was higher in a row, It's not the same to shoot 4 FTs in 6 minutes than 8 FTs in a row.

Howard must be the only clown who can't improve his % with so many shots from the line in a row.

Strategy could work with Shaq sometimes. It works every game with Howard.

My point was that Shaq did enough damage to have him out there regardless of his FT shooting. Dwight isn't being used to his strengths, only his weaknesses. That amplifies his weakness.

[DMC]

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/30/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-5444-1354297408-3.gif

Wow they must have practiced that a lot, they are perfectly synchronized.

Fucking idiot lake lice.