The Lakers need to worry more about their center than their seeding. Bynum's return ETA keeps getting pushed back -- not a good sign.
Chronic injuries at the knee level or below are bad news for basketball players. Especially when they creep up on one so young.
Bynum won't be be back until early April, perhaps 3-4 weeks later than the 8 week MINIMUM timeframe suggested initially. Phil is going to bring him in off the bench and slowly work him into rotation. If he doesn't gel well enough with the starting 5 he will just come off the bench for the playoffs. Just having him out there on the floor is a positive for us.
I don't really care if the Spurs stay at 2. As long as they keep the division.
It only looks nice to see ourselves sitting atop number 1, because I'm it drives the media and ESPN crazy, being only ones in the way of press releases heralding "LAKERS ARE BACK! LAKERS ARE NUMBER 1 ! Unstoppable! Can no one knock them off!??"
that post doesnt sound like the ones before that were sayin bynum was the second coming and going to dominate when he gets back.....truth/reality starting to set in? kinda hard to dominate from the bench.
He can still help us out immensely from the bench. As with any knee injury it's hard to predict what the recovery process will be like and how long it will take. We all thought he was going to be back mid March as the early reports were optimistic but it seems like the swelling is going to holding him out an extra 3-4 weeks.
gotcha! that makes sense. no point in rushing back, when they obviously dont NEED him yet.
Nobody gives a what you say or want.
Get used to it. Lakers will win the Team of the Decade le and your sorry spurs team will go down in history as a brief blip on the radar between Laker Dynasties.
i don't think a team of the decade would have missed the playoffs in that decade.Nobody gives a what you say or want.
Get used to it. Lakers will win the Team of the Decade le and your sorry spurs team will go down in history as a brief blip on the radar between Laker Dynasties.
You'd be wrong. It's all about Championships. And the Lakers will very soon pass the spurs in Championships this decade (and yes I'm even counting your 1999* le). Threepeat is the tiebreaker.
Lakers will win the Team of the Decade le
I hope they can stay #1 but they have a tough road schedule coming up so staying #1 will be tough..real tough.
I'm amazed at how well you use those dancing elephants to make a pointYou'd be wrong. It's all about Championships. And the Lakers will very soon pass the spurs in Championships this decade (and yes I'm even counting your 1999* le). Threepeat is the tiebreaker.
Lakers will win the Team of the Decade le
Well since the Lakers are the best team in the NBA, invincible, and clearly the most battle tested, proven team out of all the playoff teams, why can't we just end the season now before I get too disappointed? I mean really. I don't want Boston fans, Detroit fans, Mavs fans, and Suns fans to be disappointed either.
Duncan288 lost ST POTY points with the mini meltdown.
The lakers are back deal with it!
I have no issue with the Lakers being number one in the West.
I have no issue with the Lakers being "back."
I don't care about POTY points. (Except counting them, I enjoyed doing that.)
My only issue in this thread, and other threads he's trashed, is Princess Pimp and his worthless trolling.
There's a Troll Forum on ST to be obnoxious in.
Princess Pimp should take it there.
If he's going to troll the main boards he should at least do it with style. Be funny. Bring something to the conversation, even if it's just to stir the pot. Like mouse does. ()
Trolling just to be nasty and obnoxious gets under my skin when it's in a basketball conversation thread.
I rarely go off on a troll.
I made my opinion known in this thread and for some reason people think I've gone off the deep end.
I really don't think what I said was that bad.
Others in this thread trashed him worse than I did.
Oh...It's 228, not 288.
You do realize the Spurs and Lakers are the same in the loss column and SA holds the tiebreaker?
Spurs hold the #1 spot practically speaking
Isn't PrincessPuffs a girl.
I don't know.
The first time I said "him" in one of my earlier posts I put a question mark after it.
It was rumored when "he" first showed up under this user name that it might be fast dunk. So I went with "he."
Pretty ing funny if I'm the one calling a woman poster a guy though.
Practically speaking, no they don't.
And the tie-breaker is meaningless since the season doesn't end until April 17th. Spurs have to EARN that tie-breaker by beating the Lakers in LA on April 13th. Because as we know, SA has an average conference record compared to the Lakers, who have the BEST conference record in the West.
Rockets will beat them...btw, we are now 1.5 games behind you guys.
Dada is right. By next week I think the Rockets move ahead of the Spurs in the standings. Then the week after that..ugh Lakers, Celtics, Warriors, Suns. All bets are off. Would be funny though if we can get through this entire stretch unscathed.
Rockets schedule next 3 games.
New Jersey, Atlanta, Charlotte
Spurs schedule next 3 games.
Phoenix, Denver, New Orleans - ewwww
If Rockets are undefeated with the streak 21 consecutive victories when they meet the Lakers, can you belive what a signature game that would be? That game will be huge!
I can't wait till next Sunday. The Lakeshow has successfully spoiled like 3 debuts this year, most notably being Shaq's debut in PHX, and I can't wait to end this little hot streak you got going on right now. Kobe will Colordao-Ass-Rape McGrady, he does it everytime they play each other.
If the Lakers win tonight, 1.5 game lead on the Spurs.
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