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no ing way dude..no ing way...
How surprising..another arrogant Laker fan...afraid of the Lakers? BS...the Lakers try to spend 1.5 million dollars to sign a guy just to keep him from the Spurs, knowing he could be piece to beat you, and we're afraid? hilarious. We're the most winning franchise in sports in the last decade and we are afraid of you? We don't fear any team..thanks for trying though.
no ing way dude..no ing way...
who gives a ?
the lakers are the winningest franchinse in all Decades Together.
dip .
xtremesteven,
I'm a Spurs fan.....but you are making a crazy thread.
The Lakers would beat the Blazers in 5 or 6 games. Yes, the Blazers play well home but are not a good road team. They won't win a game in L.A. and the Lakers will have to win one game in Portland and that's very possible.
Would the Blazers be a challenge....yes! But win a series over the Lakers....absolutely not!!
I don't think you understand how the dynamics of the series would change if Bynum and even Oden are playing.
POR hasn't even been into the playoffs with the team they have now.
what is a franchinse? Is that dutch? And we're talking about present time here..not past. Spur fan does not fear the Lakers..at least not the REAL Spurs fans.
Portland could put up a fight....But they have to win on the road....THey just cant do it tho..not in the playoffs.
The hardest thing about the playoffs is winning on the road...It seemed like every home team won every game during the playoffs last year.
I guess that's why they call you xtremesteve, right? We'd bounce Portland in 5 games, 6 tops. Don't let a couple of blowout home wins vs. the Spurs and Lakers fool you.
If the Lakers draw the Rockets, Nuggets, or Blazers, they will have some trouble, maybe even going to 6-7 games. The Suns might give them trouble but most likely not since theyre about 4 games out now. LA would do away with Dallas easy.
Nuggets/Blazers/Suns would be swift victories for the Lakers.
People put too much stock into the regular season. All the Blazers did tonight was hit some jump shots and catch LA on an off night.
In the playoffs, Bynum is expected to be back, and the Lakers get the first 2 games @ home, where they only have 4 losses all year. In the likely event that they jump out to a 2-0 lead, there's a 90% chance from that point that they would win the series.
Of course "anything can happen", but in most cases that's what's expected to happen to a foe of the Lakers. We're talking about a 50-13 team here for chrissake! With a lot of man games lost from Bynum, who is underrated by non-Lakers fans I feel. although overrated by Lakers fans themselves.
the only teams that can put a scare into LA are Houston, SA, and mayyyybe Utah.
And by scare I mean take the series to 6 games.
hey, some1 quote drhouse, i have him on my ignore list
i agree the if blazers and lakers do face i can see the Blazers beating them
It all depends on whether Bynum makes it back in time.
I can't stress enough how his mere presence changes the dynamic of the team for the better. It moves Gasol off the other team's C and onto the weaker and smaller PF. It moves Odom to the bench to provide consistency and scoring punch that is sorely lacking right now. It allows Phil to play with a 7 footer in the lineup at all times.
Simply put the Blazers would not be able to do what they did last night against a healthy Laker team. Bynum would send all of those weak layups back or at least make them alter their shots. It's no surprise the layup drill continued the moment he went out.
this is not really a bold prediction. Blazers own Lakers with or without Bydumb
-Lakers are "hoping" that Bynum will be back by the playoffs. Nothing is guranteed.
-Lakers are VERY poor on team defense. When the Blazers get hot and motivated, they can run up the score on the Lakers.
-Kobe is the only player on the Lakers who has a ON/OFF switch to turn up the heat on a competetive level. No other player has that on that team. And we all know what happens when Kobe trys to win a game by himself. They almost always lose.
-The Blazers match up VERY well with LA. (Aldrige/Gasol....Outlaw/Odom.....Bryant/Roy) Even IF Bynum comes back, Oden will be back as well. And Oden can defend Bynum one on one fairly decent.
-AND...lets not forget what happened to the Mavericks in 2007. ;wow
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