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Short question. Will the Lakers make it to the playoffs?
Place your bets today.
I say no way in .
nope
No.
I might've said they sneak into the 8th seed prior to last night's game, which I thought they might win since Memphis has looked underwhelming lately, but last night's loss, along with Dwight reaggravating his shoulder, was most likely the death blow to their playoff chances.
Now that Dallas is surging somewhat, it's going to be nigh impossible for the Lakers to make any sort of run.
no.
They won't. Dallas will. ElNono right bout dem Lakers (and Dallas).
<---- Devils advocate. although i have no earthly clue why they would win enough games to turn it around.
no and their pick wins the lottery (and goes to phoenix)
lol apart from coaching I don't get how a team like Dallas, with 1 star and a bunch of scrubs, are in the hunt for the playoffs while the Lakers are not.
Chemistry, balance, and depth....
if that pick actually won the lottery.
They need to go 28-12 the rest of the way to get 45 wins which is usually the amount of wins the 8th seed needs to get in the West...by early March, i think they will reach 12 loses...so no they are not making the playoffs.
Mavs have none of those as well
i don't really know all the rules about the lottery but if I'm correct the amount of chances to win the lottery is dependant on the losing record (for now it looks like the sixth worst pick) on the years since picking in the lottery and the amount of years since picking #1. if the team actually making the pick doesn't influence this (i think it doesn't), then next year's first rounder would be the first lakers lottery pick since Bynum in 2005 and the first #1 pick since Magic Johnson back in 79. Pretty sick if I got it right...
Better question/poll: will the Lakers lose 50 games?
I can see it happening if they win 1 or less games on this 3 game homestand. They've played a relatively easy schedule thus far and after these home games will have played 5 more home games than roadies. Their 2nd half is pretty brutal by any standards, but the way they're playing it will be like taking a painal.
When's the last time they lost 50+? 1975
Have to go with yes, although I hope I am wrong. They are only 3 losses out and with all this talent until they are 5 out with 20 to go, one cannot bet against even the most dysfunctional all star type team, their bad choice in a coach, and even that terrible owner. The best chance of them missing if the Rockets or Mavs get hot, the Jazz should hang on.
http://espn.go.com/nba/standings
Everyone has more of that than the L
It's starting to look like .500 ball will make the playoffs in the West this season. To get there, the Lakers have to go 24-16. As bad as they are right now, that's still doable. One seven- or eight-game winning streak is all it'll take to make it happen .... and with all that talent (Dwight in his prime, Kobe in his statistical prime) one would imagine they'll get it together at some point.
They will. The last playoff teams are all pretty terrible.
.500 teams (or close to it) may make it.
No. I'll admit that's a flip-flop from just a week ago, but I'm convinced this team is locked in for a Charlie Brown laser-guided raincloud kind of a season. 's not getting any better. At the start of the year most fans have a list of things they know have to happen for their team to contend (or at least not suck): this guy has to stay healthy, that guy has to step up, this rookie needs to pan out, some role player has to play well enough to open up some trade options. If you went down that list for the Lakers it's all gone wrong so far: Nash got hurt right out of the gate, whatever spring was in Kobe's step earlier in the year has given way to fatigue, Howard still doesn't look healthy, Gasol's head isn't screwed on straight, the bench remains thin at best. And it will get worse. Howard will get traded and show a miraculous improvement and not miss any games in March or April. Nash will get legitimately hurt while Pau will milk an injury (and D'Antoni will respond by ting on him worse), all culminating in Kobe shooting, shooting, shooting all through the spring.
But Dwight isn't in his prime, with the back problems and now the shoulder injury.
I also think Kobe's high efficiency run is over, and over the next half of the season, we'll see more 9-25 like games from him than how he was shooting throughout the first 30 games.
They also have no depth.
There's no ing way Kobe doesn't quit if the outlook is missing the playoffs... I have the odds of Kobe quitting after the ASG at nearly 75% right now... It'll be some fake injury or a new rape trial that will make him miss games and thus give him an historical out for this ty season... you heard it here first.
Kobe won't quit. He's going for the scoring le. He won't threaten to leave the Lakers because he's a TOSB™ now and no other team is willing or able to pay him what he thinks he's worth and have him as the face of their franchise, except maybe the Nets. Instead he will throw the team and the coach under the bus and just take it where it can find it.
He's going to increase his shot attempts by about 10 a game.
lolz i dont think they make it
I don't think he's going to request to be traded... he'll just fake some injury like in 2005 and the narrative moves to "well, when he missed the playoffs he was injured"... as far as throwing everybody under the bus, likely.
You could be correct, however I think he's too egotistically focused on his numbers to sit it out. He would miss the scoring le. Another good excuse is "well, when he missed the playoffs, it wasn't his fault. He won the scoring le that year". He loves little peripheral trophies.
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