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I've seen boxers get rocked and smile like it didnt hurt more convincingly than reading a comment like that from Kobe Bryant.
Kobe is gonna be on Conan tonight & D.Fish is gonna be on George Lopez right after lmao big bosses. Lets see what they gotta say
I've seen boxers get rocked and smile like it didnt hurt more convincingly than reading a comment like that from Kobe Bryant.
This are not 'trade talks', but the actual GM coming out and talking about it.
Do you have quotes from Mitch last season talking about shaking up the roster?
And the Lakers were playing well enough to have HCA throughout, something they're nowhere near to having this season.
But that's just it. He hasn't really kicked anyone's ass. Recently, he just puffs out his chest and narrowly beats the mediocre compe ion that has become the watered down guard centric NBA of the post Jordan era as long as he has a decent big man (or 3 like he does now) to cover his ass.
Lamar Odom? Pau Gasol? Andrew Bynum (they gave him a ring right) Phil Jackson? and Derrek Fisher? Am I missing anyone?
The Lakers are 2 games off of last years pace. The only difference this year is the surprising play of the Spurs. In fact, last year the Lakers lost like 7 or 8 of their last 11 games of the season and many wrote both them and Boston off due to thier second half issues.
The schedule has actually been really good for the Lakeshow this season up until about now, and it's going to be considerably harder going forward.
Last season, your team started coasting when HCA in the West was no longer in discussion. Far from what's going on this season. I'm not sure if you noticed, but Dallas is just 1/2 a game away from taking your #2 seed right now.
It's clear that this team is just not the same team. I see a lot of Laker fans taking pot shots at Gasol, but the bench is also considerably worse than last season (the injury to Barnes being part of it), and some players like Artest simply being very incosistent, thus I'm not surprised the GM is looking to shake things up.
I know most of the trolling Lakeshow fans won't admit it any weakness here, so I don't expect you to do it either.
Do it.
Sorry buddy. You worship a tawdry, gaudy POS franchise just like 50 mil other garbage fans do. It's what fandom is. You just so happen to worship the phoniest negroid to ever lace them up in addition to worshiping the cliche NBA franchise. More power to you.
stealing DPG's shticks..
I'm not one to count the Lakers out, I think they still have a solid chance to come out of the West, but they have clearly performed worse than last year..yes, the Lakers are only a few games off last year's pace, but you have to factor in the fact that they currently have the #1 easiest schedule in the NBA, and I mean that literally..it's actually #30..
Meh, I don't count them out either. Other teams (including the Spurs) have their own problems. I just don't buy the whole coasting thing or that they're the same team as last season.
Lakers schedule is always easier upfront. We hear it every year. Has a lot to do with the Grammy stuff not unlike your guys rodeo trip. Facts are facts. We are 2 games different in the loss column from last year. And just as I said, during the last 2 weeks of the season all we heard was the same "this isnt a contender anymore" rubbish en route to #16.
Nobody counts them out. What I do disregard though is the false bravado from their phony 'leader' and their bag dime-a-dozen fans who seem to brim with an unfounded confidence and feel the need to beat their virtual chests on a spurs centric message board because their leader mired his way through some mediocre compe ion to win a couple of rings without MDE...all the while completely disregarding the fact that MDE had to be replaced with a cadre of bigmen just to get out of the first round of the playoffs.
- The Lakers were missing Bynum for their struggles to end last season..
- The Lakers record vs. .500+ teams was much better last season, IIRC..
- The compe ion in the West, and in the league overall, is much tougher this year..last year, the Lakers had no compe ion in the West..this year's Spurs and Mavs teams are better than any teams in the West last year(by a good margin), and the Thunder are just as good as they were last year..
Again, they can definitely win, but they aren't as good as last season..their schedule wasn't as easy as it is this year..Kobe is playing like he's in his prime right now, and they're still struggling(compared to their usual level)..there's a decent chance that he's inevitably going to fall off from the wear and tear of the season, which is common for guys his age, especially with the load he has been carrying the last month+..
Ron sucked during last preseason. The bench is not considerably worse, in fact it's better and deeper.
You have to be some kind of re to think a Laker Phil Jackson team that just rolled through the West three straight years isn't coasting in the regular season.
Ron sucked in the playoffs too, he's a ty offensive player, that won't change at any time, obviously..
Ron's defense didn't suck in the playoffs and he played amazingly in the three biggest games of the playoffs.
No it's not home/away we're talking about. It's the actual compe ion. IE: How many teams over .500 the team played against. Last season by this time, the Lakeshow played against 24 teams over .500 and had a record of 15-9 against them. This season they have played 18 teams over .500 at this point, with a record of 9-9...
His defense was good for the entire 2nd half of last year, not surprising that it was good in the playoffs..I agree that he was good in a few big games, but he shot 40% from the field and 29% from 3 for the entire playoffs, which is something you would get out of a D-League player..
Ron is posting career lows in pretty much everything... only a homer with rose colored glasses can't see Ron's inconsistent play. It's part of the reason the Lakeshow have regressed considerably on the defensive end this season.
He'll have the occasional good game (OKC this season comes to mind), but it's been a rarity.
Regular season SOS
Ron was inconsistent last season, stupid. His playoff heroics and D paid off at the end of the day.
You don't like to hear it but it's the reality. Then again, you were the one saying Bynum in the starting lineup changes everything, and it changed absolutely nothing
You're right nothing has changed. The Lakers still haven't lost a playoff series with Bynum in the starting lineup, in reality.
When we get to the playoffs we can revisit that. Right now all we have to work with is the regular season... don't get mad because your team is not as good as last season.
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