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Only a dumbazz pistons fan with no hope for his own team would start a thread like this
I am not declaring the Los Angeles Lakers dead. When I say they are in trouble I am talking only about winning the NBA Championship. Considering how last season ended, the age of their guards, and the start to the preseason, the Bynum and Bryant injuries, they are due for a slow start. A team in the West is going to have to grab the bull by the horns and exploit that. Oklahoma City is the most likely candidate considering how they play defensively, the talent they have in Kevin Durant, and the general age of their players (will they be hungry?).
The Lakers are due to come back to the pack. Bryant is not healthy, he has a lot of miles on his body, and will need more help to win a Championship than he has ever had before. Ever. This means that players like Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Ron Artest need to play within the scheme and have career seasons.
They cannot have hubris. They must identify they are in trouble at the beginning of the season (not a strength of teams with Bryant on the roster) and solve and adjust early. If they keep the same dynamic as last season, they will not go far.
There's a lot of what-ifs in this post. But the bottom line is the le--the Los Angeles Lakers are in trouble. Trouble from being considered the best team in the NBA, the best team at the end of the season.
Only a dumbazz pistons fan with no hope for his own team would start a thread like this
Don't worry. They will offer their potential every day.
I have a hard time seeing them w/ a better record in reg season than Heat
and for people who say reg season record doesnt matter, Lakers damn sure needed that home court against boston and only loss in playoff series last 3 years was w/o home court
still think theyre best in West though. maybe not by a mile, but still best.
and i hope im wrong, the cHeat
They didn't get the best record for their last three finals runs and it's hard imagining that they will have the zeal to get it this year. But I'm sure they can and will 60 wins this regular season.
It's imperative for them to get the HCA though. Say what we want about Miami but they will be a hard team to beat at home.
It's finally happening!
I'm watching LAL-DEN right now and it seems that the team's potential is finally being put in to place little by little. However, Kobe's potential is still not that good because he's still got a hangover from his 6-24 shooting. Oh but at least he's just 3/7 today.
I want Demarcus Cousins to play for the Pistons! I want the oil to stop gushing into the gulf! I want a President who has leadership skills during a crisis! I want Chauncey Billups to find the fountain of youth (he's starting to look old)! I want school funding! What do you want to rub the genie for?
pakiluva
As far as I'm concerned, they are still the defending Champs.
Yes, the Heat have made the headlines, the Celtics are still good, but the Lakers have made smart additions by bringing in Barnes and Blake
I count all sexual acts with people. And no matter how you slice it, I'm not a virgin.
I knew that was going in the quote machine.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
So a "friend" of mine owes me money. He came over to my house the other day and soliticted my help. He said there was 10 bucks in it for me if I did 3 loads of laundry and washed all his dishes. I did it as fast as I could, about 2 hours after he asked, it was done. He was running out of tobacco, so I gave him the rest of my tobacco because he's a heavier smoker than I am. A little short on cash around this time of the month, he promised me that he'd have the money to me the next day. This was on Sunday. So, theoretically, by Monday I should have the money.
He says that he didn't get his check on Monday. Okay, I said, and I left it at that. I ask him again today, he says he has his check is here but he needs to get to the bank. Okay, I said, again. Tonight I go over to his apartment and he procedes to tell me that he spent my 10 dollars on something "we (his other friends) got some stuff and he didn't have the 10 dollars to pay me back." So he promises me the ten dollars on Wednesday. I have a busy day tomorrow so I won't find out until 4PM tomorrow if he's lying to me. He tells me to get a job because I don't make enough money. Well, if he'd pay me...
I've given a lot to this guy. He got meals at my apartment at least twice a week for six months last year. He didn't have cable so I let him watch whatever he wanted to watch, let him stay in my apartment from 6AM to 10PM every night and he was the one who left. When I went away on trips, he sometimes would have a key to let himself in. I subsequently found my VCR broken (brand-new). I even financed a tattoo about a year ago and it took him 8 months to get me 70 dollars for it. I even paid for the cream to keep it from becoming infected.
I want this "friend" out of my life. He's a user and he's found that the milk has gone sour on me so he's keeping other people a priority now that I don't have the cash to support his many habits. Because I don't get pissed and angry and curse in his face, he thinks I'm a pushoever. Some "friend."
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Do you do this to other people?
I'm a virgin?!?
I thought last year's Washington Wizards were going to contend for the Eastern Conference Crown. I thought the Pistons were going to regret trading Jerry Stackhouse. I wanted the Pistons to sign Jeff McInnis over Chauncey Billups in the summer of 2002. I thought Chris Duhon was as good as any point guard in the league.
Op?
Are you aware of the drunken Joe Namath incident? He propositioned a sideline reporter completely covered and simply interviewing him at a game. You call that "a lot of respect?"
Are you saying that Tony Kornheiser should've made those comments about Hannah Storm because she wore a skirt on-air doing Sportscenter? He essentially called her too old for the outfit. No one ever has called him "too bald to be on TV."
Women are treated as trophies in this profession. They are treated like this which opens up jobs to be exploited for their looks. Isn't the culture to blame here somewhat?
You get to wear the dunce cap! There's a middle ground ("We can hang with any team in the NBA. I trust these guys and we're going to win more than our share of basketball games"). He runs the risk of sounding ridiculous. He can lose respect from his teammates because his expectations are too high. I don't follow people that don't have a clue, and that's how he sounds.
If it's in his nature to be a leader, why does he sound like he's talking about something that's not in his nature? Furthermore, where has this instinctual vocal leader been the last three seasons?
It's an old habit of mine to type on a basketball board--I've been doing it for close to 10 years. That's something I started in High School and I've done it consistently since then. I have attempted to change and craft a style and learned to write to please myself, to be honest and comprehensive in research, because I want to contribute. Those things may not come naturally to me, but I have been doing it so long, I can't shake that habit. It leaks out when I have downtime. It's in my nature now, it's consistent. He shouldn't need someone to tell him to "shut up" or "be more vocal." With a lack of quality leadership on the team, who would tell him to stop getting in a guy's ear?
He's just clueless. He's too young to even understand what he's saying. Just shut up about leadership and show some. Billups never talked about being the leader, neither did Cliff Robinson or Jon Barry. They just led and the story about being the vocal leader came after that. But he's got to keep his level of play up because he's one of those young guys and he's yet to prove himself to his teammates.
How about this one?
I am not declaring the Los Angeles Lakers dead. When I say they are in trouble I am talking only about winning the NBA Championship. Considering how last season ended, the age of their guards, and the start to the preseason, the Bynum and Bryant injuries, they are due for a slow start. A team in the West is going to have to grab the bull by the horns and exploit that. Oklahoma City is the most likely candidate considering how they play defensively, the talent they have in Kevin Durant, and the general age of their players (will they be hungry?).
The Lakers are due to come back to the pack. Bryant is not healthy, he has a lot of miles on his body, and will need more help to win a Championship than he has ever had before. Ever. This means that players like Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Ron Artest need to play within the scheme and have career seasons.
They cannot have hubris. They must identify they are in trouble at the beginning of the season (not a strength of teams with Bryant on the roster) and solve and adjust early. If they keep the same dynamic as last season, they will not go far.
There's a lot of what-ifs in this post. But the bottom line is the le--the Los Angeles Lakers are in trouble. Trouble from being considered the best team in the NBA, the best team at the end of the season.
I am not declaring the Los Angeles Lakers dead. When I say they are in trouble I am talking only about winning the NBA Championship. Considering how last season ended, the age of their guards, and the start to the preseason, the Bynum and Bryant injuries, they are due for a slow start. A team in the West is going to have to grab the bull by the horns and exploit that. Oklahoma City is the most likely candidate considering how they play defensively, the talent they have in Kevin Durant, and the general age of their players (will they be hungry?).
The Lakers are due to come back to the pack. Bryant is not healthy, he has a lot of miles on his body, and will need more help to win a Championship than he has ever had before. Ever. This means that players like Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Ron Artest need to play within the scheme and have career seasons.
They cannot have hubris. They must identify they are in trouble at the beginning of the season (not a strength of teams with Bryant on the roster) and solve and adjust early. If they keep the same dynamic as last season, they will not go far.
There's a lot of what-ifs in this post. But the bottom line is the le--the Los Angeles Lakers are in trouble. Trouble from being considered the best team in the NBA, the best team at the end of the season.
I am not declaring the Los Angeles Lakers dead. When I say they are in trouble I am talking only about winning the NBA Championship. Considering how last season ended, the age of their guards, and the start to the preseason, the Bynum and Bryant injuries, they are due for a slow start. A team in the West is going to have to grab the bull by the horns and exploit that. Oklahoma City is the most likely candidate considering how they play defensively, the talent they have in Kevin Durant, and the general age of their players (will they be hungry?).
The Lakers are due to come back to the pack. Bryant is not healthy, he has a lot of miles on his body, and will need more help to win a Championship than he has ever had before. Ever. This means that players like Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Ron Artest need to play within the scheme and have career seasons.
They cannot have hubris. They must identify they are in trouble at the beginning of the season (not a strength of teams with Bryant on the roster) and solve and adjust early. If they keep the same dynamic as last season, they will not go far.
There's a lot of what-ifs in this post. But the bottom line is the le--the Los Angeles Lakers are in trouble. Trouble from being considered the best team in the NBA, the best team at the end of the season.
We need an Aaron post.
Joe Dumars
tee, hee.
But it wasnt an issue since they had home court in the Finals..
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