Heat: Lakers beatdown game thread

[Clipper Nation]

you can taste the hopelessness and misery here in LA. It's wonderful.

Let's take this time to celebrate the misery of every laker fan here and across the globe.

Sons, god bless.

[Mugen]

[DPG21920]

tbh, this was an expected loss... but as DD said, they needed to go 3-1 in the last 4 and could only muster 2-2... the Boston loss was a game they needed to win and they got run out of the building...

Could've easily been 1-3 if the Bobcats don't choke...

The next stretch is pretty big - mixed bag:

Suns
Clippers
Boston
Portland
Dallas
Denver
Minny
Hawks
OKC

[Leon Black]

We suck

[Raven]

they only have 6 less losses than phoenix...

[Mugen]

special shoutout to Contract Year Clark. Gonna get Mitch to give him a Luke Walton type deal then, a la Luke, go back to scrub status next season.

Get paid young fella, get paid.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Dwight Howard was terrible--about 10 passes bounced off his hands. Honestly thought this was 2006 and I was watching Kwame Brown.

[Mugen]

The next stretch is pretty big - mixed bag:

Suns
Clippers
Boston
Portland
Dallas
Denver
Minny
Hawks
OKC

5-4

[Mal]

special shoutout to Contract Year Clark. Gonna get Mitch to give him a Luke Walton type deal then, a la Luke, go back to scrub status next season.

Get paid young fella, get paid.

They ing sucks, and yet with Gasol, Kobe, Nash, Artest on payroll, they need to extend with raise Clark and Howard. Talking about salary cup

[Mal]

78 mil already commited to 8 players next year. Howard wont give them discount, and freaking Earl Clark will get 5mil. Thats way over 100 mln they have this year.

[Mugen]

78 mil already commited to 8 players next year. Howard wont give them discount, and freaking Earl Clark will get 5mil. Thats way over 100 mln they have this year.

Clark the Spark is getting more than 5 million. He might talk like a ing idiot but his agent will make sure he gets way more than that and Mitch will oblige. Good for him tbh.

[DPG21920]

If LA goes 6-4 over the next 10 that puts them at 30-32 with 20 games left.

[Clipper Nation]

The next stretch is pretty big - mixed bag:

Suns
Clippers
Boston
Portland
Dallas
Denver
Minny
Hawks
OKC

I could see them losing to all those teams except for the Suns, Wolves, and maybe the Blazers, tbh...

[Cry Havoc]

If LA goes 6-4 over the next 10 that puts them at 30-32 with 20 games left.

If things remain as they are, they will be 3 games out of a playoff spot. Assuming they'll need to have 5 more wins than losses at the end of the year (that's optimistic) to get the 8th seed, they'll have to go 14-6 to close it out to have a realistic shot at a playoff birth.

[Suspect]

damn Suspect has a good sig, approaching djohn territory.

Its a 2nd seed thing imo

[midnightpulp]

I expected worse, actually. Props to the Lakers, in full on Game 7 mode and playing the best they absolutely can (I honestly don't think the Lakers are capable of playing all that much better against a good team), for only losing by 10.

[ElNono]

If LA goes 6-4 over the next 10 that puts them at 30-32 with 20 games left.

Going 5-5 will be a tremendous accomplishment... realistically speaking, 4-6 is likely closer to reality... going 3-7 will wreck them

[irishock]

Lakers will make the playoffs all right. The question is, does SA tank to avoid them in the first round

[Killakobe81]

LeBron was the best player again no surprise ...like I posted early close for half at least we got 3 good quarters

[Stalin]

coasting..

[midnightpulp]

I usually don't do post during games but I will break form today...it's a shame Kobe is not in his prime..he didn't score the basket but on one play when they were 1-on-1 Kobe shook that Bron outta his shoes...Kobe is posting the bigger Lebron up in the paint over and over and scoring over him at will..Lebron has no low post game so he cannot post Kobe up...man I don't give a what yall say..real ass talk: If Kobe was in his prime he would run Lebron ass off the court.... Lebron cannot hold Kobe 1 on 1...not even at 34 almost 35 yrs old and that's a gotdam shame

But he didn't run Lebron off the court in his prime. Bron has dominated Kirby head-to-head since about '04.

[Killakobe81]

Is World Peace the worst starter in the NBA, tbh?..

I wont go that far but he is hurting the team he is the one that should be traded not Pau but no one would take him,

[Killakobe81]

But he didn't run Lebron off the court in his prime. Bron has dominated Kirby head-to-head since about '04.

Thought you were in the team accomplishment camp?

[NRHector]

LeBron was the best player again no surprise ...like I posted early close for half at least we got 3 good quarters

and like I posted earlier the Heat was just toying with the Lakers

[Duncan2177]

Lakers will make the playoffs all right. The question is, does SA tank to avoid them in the first round

You're a funny guy.