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That's cool. Where do you rank the Rockets though? I mean, they are your team...
Link to the Lakers Solid
http://www.ocregister.com/sports/bry...5217-odom-game
My opinion,
The Los Angeles Lakers are for real! Their second team is as good as alot of teams first team. The bench is awesome and injuries wont be as devastating now as it was in the past. The Lakers now have quality backups at every position.
Bynum is playing better than any center in the league right now. Should be the starting center for the all star team, if the all star game was actually about players who are having a great season rather than a popularity contest.
Fisher has come back to bring stability to this team, and you can see his impact. Not only on the court but on the bench. It's nice to see the players pulling for each other. No drama about players wanting more playing time. They want to win and it's showing right now.
The Lakers are top 5 material! A Lakers vs. Boston Finals would surpass in viewers any other matchup in the NBA finals. it would cure all of the NBA's woes and bring back a vast majority of fans lost over the years.
Top 5
1. Boston
2. SA
3. Detroit
4. LA
5. Phoenix
Wow, the top 4 teams have a combined 37 les between them! One of them will make it 38 after this season.
That's cool. Where do you rank the Rockets though? I mean, they are your team...
Okay, I just noticed this. You are a in idiot. He's playing well, but ever heard of someone called Dwight Howard? If you seriously are going to argue that, I think you deserve to be pinked.
I rank them with Dallas., Weak right now! Still drinking pube sweat, inch worm?
To have the 3rd best record in the west, just barely behind Phoenix and San Antonio, and be playing "weak right now" then I can't imagine how good they will be when they start playing the way they are capable of...
And I'm still curious on your stance about Dwight Howard. I guess that explains your attempt at an insult, since any time you get proven wrong, you throw out lame insults.
Dwight is a PF playing in the east or maybe they do list him as a center over there, if so, he gets the edge but it has no bearing on Bynum starting in the west for the all stars. Dumbass Mavsfan!
LA in front of PHX, really ????????
Boston in front of SA???!!!
WTF, Lakeshoe?
He is not a PF. He is a center, always has been.
Second, you said Bynum was the best center in the LEAGUE. Not just the West. And as much as I like Bynum, Marcus Camby will have something to say about that. Yao Ming may too.
I really think you deserve a pinking.
Boston has been the best so far, time will tell if they can keep it up. I like the Lakers better than Phoenix, Phoenix is just too weak inside to win a le. imo
Marcus Camby?????
He is not a PF. He is a center, always has been.
Second, you said Bynum was the best center in the LEAGUE. Not just the West. And as much as I like Bynum, Marcus Camby will have something to say about that. Yao Ming may too.
I really think you deserve a pinking.
I would more than likely take him over Yao, and in time, Camby. But right now, I'd take Camby because he is still more developed, smarter, and is a defensive beast. Bynum is probably the second most talented center in the league, behind Dwight Howard.Marcus Camby?????
Your logic about Howard still makes no sense, whatsoever though, and I really would like to know what it is that makes you think he's better than Dwight Howard...
Well Lakeshow...I love A-bomb and he's growing each game...but I can't see him at this point being better than Amare, Yao, and Camby.....Oh and the lakers are playing really well, but they are still a second tier team in the west.
Spurs
Suns
Mavs
Jazz
Give me Bynum over Amare. Amare may be a better scorer, but that is all he's better at. Bynum is a WAY better rebounder and defender, and does the dirty work that centers are supposed to do, unlike Amare.
Well I respectfully disagree. The Mavs are definitely not worthy of discussion in this. They may match up well with SA but all of the other top teams are just as good if not better than the mavs. Phoenix, we beat them down without Lamar who gives Marion fits. I think we can take Phoenix in a seven game series. The Jazz? cmon man, they're like Houston and Dallas.
How many minutes is bynum averaging per game? That will show who is more efficient.
Lakers are doing great considering our first 12 games were very tough. But it's too early to gloat. In another year or two, Bynum and Byrant (if he's still around)
will make a real dangerous tandem.
I still put Dallas and Phoenix > Lakers....for now. But they are starting
to go down and we're going up. SA will continue to contend though.
27 minutes a game
I'm not gloating but I see a bigger upside for the lakers than I do for Phoenix and Dallas.
The way this team is starting to gel, the time will be now. If lamar can become consistent, the lakers are a top team NOW! imo
His stats arnt that bad for 27 minutes.
I'm sure Bynum's effeciency per 48 is pretty good...and I heard that BYnum so far at 20 is the only player to have 10,10, 2 for a season...now Shaq was at 23,14 so a little behind. Also, if a-bomb keeps up his 10,10,2 and is under 35 min...he'll be the first in Nba history to do so.
I don't think that is always neccesarily true. Many times, when players play more minutes, they have to pace themselves. They can't just play balls-out for 40 minutes a night. But when you have lesser minutes, you can play kinda like Ginobili... he doesn't play a lot of minutes, but since he plays less, he can play a lot harder, thus helping his stats look better in those small amounts of time. It probably doesn't apply quite as much though, to guys like Bynum who start, as opposed to guys like Ginobili and Terry, who coming off the bench, had fantastic and efficient numbers for such few minutes.
and they don't tell the whole story. Bynum has been a monster in the paint and he goes after everything now. He alters several shots a game when he does not block them.
There's no question the Lakers are an improved squad from last year's dysfunctional mess but you're a long way from being able to beat the Suns/Mavs/Spurs in a seven game series. Don't take this the wrong way, but out of all the oft-named top 8 contenders in the west there's no team I'd rather see Phoenix draw than the Lakers. Perhaps you feel the same way about the Suns? In which case -- bring it! I'd love to see another showdown between Kobe and Nash.
The Lakers admittedly are establishing themselves as an actual NBA en y once again for the first time since June 2004....but no where near the Spurs/Pistons/Celtics/Suns level..which means, when those 4 teams play L.A., they should beat L.A, and the Lakers still have no business getting W's vs. those four teams.
Andrew Bynum is playing better than Dwight Howard.
Oh, and with L.A. tied with Dallas in the loss column, and with Dallas having a game vs. Phoenix tonight while L.A. has the night off, things could get real interesting.
The Lakers have a veteran at the point that will give Nash fits on the offensive end. The Suns owned the lakers while Smush parker was the starting point guard. Amare will constantly be in foul trouble trying to defend Bynum and the lakers bigs in the paint. The Suns have a good team but not one that I, as a lakers fan would be afraid to face in the playoffs. I feel pretty good about a win versues that team and now we have bad blood brewing between the two teams. Would be a very nice series either way.There's no question the Lakers are an improved squad from last year's dysfunctional mess but you're a long way from being able to beat the Suns/Mavs/Spurs in a seven game series. Don't take this the wrong way, but out of all the oft-named top 8 contenders in the west there's no team I'd rather see Phoenix draw than the Lakers. Perhaps you feel the same way about the Suns? In which case -- bring it! I'd love to see another showdown between Kobe and Nash.
Can't wait till Christmas Day!
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