Lakers: Intervention for Laker fans who still believe

[Mugen]

Can't wait for the 2 game win streak when cobbler rolls around and starts talking about #17

[DMC]

Hollinger disagrees. He had the Lakers at 8 ahead of the Hawks. So a 12-4 team was behind a 9-11 team (9-11, that's pretty ironic) while the Hawks last 10 rec is 9-1 and the Lakers is 4-6. I struggle to understand that system.

RAT

REC

MAR

SOS

REC (L10)

MAR (L10)

SOS (L10)

STRK

H/A

DIV

CONF

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PREV RAT

8

103.172

9-11

+3.60

.508

3-7

+2.20

.514

Lost 2

12/8

3rd

11th

8

103.156

Last Game: @OKC, L 108-114 | Next 2: UTAH (Sun), @CLE (Tues) Schedule | Injuries | Transactions | Hollinger Stats

RAT

REC

MAR

SOS

REC (L10)

MAR (L10)

SOS (L10)

STRK

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DIV

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PREV RK

PREV RAT

9

102.982

12-5

+3.59

.495

9-1

+7.10

.410

Won 3

10/7

2nd

3rd

10

101.634

Last Game: @MEM, W 93-83 | Next 2: @MIA (Mon), @ORL (Wed) Schedule | Injuries | Transactions | Hollinger Stats

[midnightpulp]

Hollinger disagrees. He had the Lakers at 8 ahead of the Hawks. So a 12-4 team was behind a 9-11 team (9-11, that's pretty ironic) while the Hawks last 10 rec is 9-1 and the Lakers is 4-6. I struggle to understand that system.

RAT

REC

MAR

SOS

REC (L10)

MAR (L10)

SOS (L10)

STRK

H/A

DIV

CONF

PREV RK

PREV RAT

8

103.172

9-11

+3.60

.508

3-7

+2.20

.514

Lost 2

12/8

3rd

11th

8

103.156

Last Game: @OKC, L 108-114 | Next 2: UTAH (Sun), @CLE (Tues) Schedule | Injuries | Transactions | Hollinger Stats

RAT

REC

MAR

SOS

REC (L10)

MAR (L10)

SOS (L10)

STRK

H/A

DIV

CONF

PREV RK

PREV RAT

9

102.982

12-5

+3.59

.495

9-1

+7.10

.410

Won 3

10/7

2nd

3rd

10

101.634

Last Game: @MEM, W 93-83 | Next 2: @MIA (Mon), @ORL (Wed) Schedule | Injuries | Transactions | Hollinger Stats

Trollinger places too much emphasis on margin of victory. Lakers had a bunch of fool's gold blowouts that inflated their simple rating.

[midnightpulp]

Trollinger places too much emphasis on margin of victory. Lakers had a bunch of fool's gold blowouts that inflated their simple rating.

Related to this, the Lakers usually play like it's game 7 of the NBA finals during garbage time, which often makes what should've been a blowout into a respectable final score (see OKC game).

[NRHector]

Related to this, the Lakers usually play like it's game 7 of the NBA finals during garbage time, which often makes what should've been a blowout into a respectable final score (see OKC game).

actually is Kobe who plays like is a game 7, he needs to get his points before the game is over

[LkrFan]

[DJB]

"Once Nash gets back..."

"But we're missing two starters..."

"But they just have to figure it out..."


I don't want to hear any more of that from you deluded Laker s. This team in' blows (giving up a 117 points to an incompetent road team. Seriously?) and it's more beneficial to your psyche to let go as soon as possible.

Typically, it's good to destroy something that's symbolic of your attachment to whatever addiction/habit/delusion you're trying to overcome. Crack addicts will often be asked to step on their pipe. It's a very powerful first step on the road to recovery and may I suggest printing out a picture of this man:



And promptly lighting it on fire for in' up a $100,000,000 payroll to this degree. Give Popovich or Presti Kupcrap's budget and they would break 70 wins with ease. Yet your false god, "student has become the teacher," re can't even manage a .500 record through the first quarter of the season.

Dwight Howard artifacts are also acceptable, since he in' sucks at every facet of the game aside from jumping around.

I wish you well, Lakerfans. Recovery can be a .

Godspeed.

Raped.

[midnightpulp]

So are we paying for our basketball reasons, yet?

Might be time for a new avatar.

Remember. Destroying something symbolic is the first step.

[ElNono]

Course you didn't. EBT doesn't cover Time Warner subscription packages.

[DPG21920]

I don't get how a team with Howard is so bad defensively. Even if Howard is only 80%, they should still be much, much better as Artest is still a capable defender as well.

They need Pau and Nash back and playing well.

[midnightpulp]

I don't get how a team with Howard is so bad defensively. Even if Howard is only 80%, they should still be much, much better as Artest is still a capable defender as well.

They need Pau and Nash back and playing well.

I've wrote at length about this before, but ever since Tom Thibodeau perimeter-centric, scrambling help defense become en-vogue after '08, the "paint anchor" concept fell somewhat out of favor, and even obsolete in some respects since now every team has a stretch bigman that can pull one of the opposing bigs out of the paint. This usually results in a single big having to protect the paint all by himself (as we've witnessed happen to Duncan when Pop ditched the traditional twin-tower paint anchor scheme in favor of pairing Tim with a more mobile big who can guard the league's stretch 4's).

Furthermore, Dwight's an overrated paint anchor. A block who over-commits to ever bit of penetration.

[LakaFan]

Lakers are 7th in scoring without Nash. When he comes back scoring will go through the roof and turnovers will go down drastically. Say what you want about defense but in the game of basketball whoever scores the most wins. Every time

[racm]

Lakers are 7th in scoring without Nash. When he comes back scoring will go through the roof and turnovers will go down drastically. Say what you want about defense but in the game of basketball whoever scores the most wins. Every time

The Suns could score like anyone but could not get stops when they needed them the most. Just ask the 2011-12 Spurs.

[UZER]

I've wrote at length about this before, but ever since Tom Thibodeau perimeter-centric, scrambling help defense become en-vogue after '08, the "paint anchor" concept fell somewhat out of favor, and even obsolete in some respects since now every team has a stretch bigman that can pull one of the opposing bigs out of the paint. This usually results in a single big having to protect the paint all by himself (as we've witnessed happen to Duncan when Pop ditched the traditional twin-tower paint anchor scheme in favor of pairing Tim with a more mobile big who can guard the league's stretch 4's).

Furthermore, Dwight's an overrated paint anchor. A block who over-commits to ever bit of penetration.

That explains the 15 kids he's fathered

[LakaFan]

The Suns could score like anyone but could not get stops when they needed them the most. Just ask the 2011-12 Spurs.

Suns didn't have Dwight or Kobe Bryant

[Raven]

it's only preseason tbh.

[jeebus]

[Leetonidas]

Lakers are 7th in scoring without Nash. When he comes back scoring will go through the roof and turnovers will go down drastically. Say what you want about defense but in the game of basketball whoever scores the most wins. Every time

your defense is ing atrocious though and with a 3 time DPOY that is quite alarming

[racm]

TOSBs Duncan and Garnett have been more effective on defense than Dwight. Neither are liabilities enough at the FT line to be worthless in crunch time, too.

[Leetonidas]

i kinda wish cubby wasnt banned just to hear his side of this

[purplengold]

I Neva too botheredif lakers win or lose cuz I'm not a player that gotta worry bout that. talkin team smack fun sometimes n seeing that banner raised is memorable but it dun change my life.

thay bein said I always gotta faith in the team, they rep my city n I grew up with them.

[Malice]

Mid in midseason form... ing love it.

[JRHernandez88]

GOT DAM LAKER FANS JUST GOT TED ON.

give it to em dirty no vasoline

[Bill_Brasky]

i kinda wish cubby wasnt banned just to hear his side of this

He wouldn't have stuck around anyway with LA being this bad.

[ElNono]

i kinda wish cubby wasnt banned just to hear his side of this

why? We would have another 10232 posts with "Kobe 5, TOSB 4"...