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Pretty soon they'll be talking about who can dethrone the Spurs in the West.
Are they imploding yet?
Discuss.
Pretty soon they'll be talking about who can dethrone the Spurs in the West.
I think timvp said it best when he (paraphrasing) said Lakers are worth their weight in mung.
when is kobe going to demand a trade...he always does once or twice a season since becoming the robyn
isn't he Lakaluva though?
naturally
but the facts stand
Nah, they aren't, just going through a bad stretch. They have the same core of guys which are a year older and more exhausted.
they're going to have to make a big trade. they're in trouble.
Just hope they don't slump to the 4th or 5th seed.
Don't want to have to play these slugs in the 2nd round (assuming they make it that far). Would prefer to wipe them out in the Conference Finals. Payback for 2008.
i don't care when we play them. i just want to sit back and enjoy the carnage!
I'd be interested in seeing a serious analysis of what's going on there by knowledgeable Laker Fan.
Little hope of that, though. Maybe DJ or Killakobe will wander up here.
I have a knowledgeable Laker fan friend that I text whenever we're playing each other. Maybe I can find out lol
You'd have to buy into the theory of an on/off switch. That's the only way LA is gonna be the odds-on favorite everybody thought they would be come May.
Take a look at their recent losses. Blown out at home by the Bucks; again by the Heat after having a long rest; Spurs rolled them with Duncan/Ginobili having a bad game; utterly destroyed by the Grizz who played the previous night.
It can't just be effort. Other teams have improved to the point that they can beat LA now. Why would May be different assuming everyone is healthy and no trades are made. I'm not saying they'll be a pushover in a seven game series, but the fear is out the door. This Spurs team can knock them off.
It'd be one thing for them to just be losing some games they shouldn't be. But they are getting annihilated by third-tier teams.
For the record, I'm not worried about them. Phil's teams have always been the exception to the flip-the-switch rule. Chances are they'll be right in there in the end. But on the other hand, you know everyone has to get old some time.
Agree. The Lakers were never unbeatable to begin with. They coasted to the Finals fairly easily last year and got lucky to beat the Celtics after Perkins went out, even though they had home court advantage. The Lakers are still one of the threats to win a championship this year with their current team. If Kobe is slipping, that makes them less invincible. But the bottome line is they have more or less the same team that has won the last two years, so let's wait till March to see how they're playing. They might make a trade, but I doing to see them going radical amd making a major move. They should replace Blake, but since I'm a Spurs fan I hope they keep him because he sucks.
Kobe and Phil might be the only people who could make Melo STFU and play second fiddle. But I don't think it would be a cure-all, and I don't see the Lakers panicking like that.
Bynum and Nene would be a crazy frontline...too bad they wouldn't be healthy enough to ever see the floor at the same time
Part of the problem? Kobe is playing 1 on 4. Some of the plays he scored on it was him backing down in the lane against 4 Memphis defenders.
I don't want to count them out, but they look HORRIBLE.
No if the Spurs were 20-12 or 22 and 10 we would still wonder WTF is wrong with them.
Artest is hurting them right now. Fish we already knew, but Ron Ron makes it two starters not really doing much. That allows teams to crowd Kobe and Gasol.
Odom is not playing well either, and the rest of the bench has been garbage. Even Brown who was shooting lights out early in the season can't make a shot.
Kobe trying to be the man when everyone else is sucking doesn't help either.
we just destroyed their swagger
Yeah Shannon Brown was what, 1 of 6 1 of 7?
Artest I didn't see him at ALL in the 4th.
Unreal. Its like they all rapidly aged over the summer...
Who knew Jordan Farmar was the key all along?
This isn't just the Lakers coasting. They're simply not capable of beating athletic, fast teams. Run on these losers and they fold. Teams don't get younger as the season goes along. The Lakers are old and slow.
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