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how bout them Clippers?
Quote from: Rik on January 28, 2007, 10:38:31 PMhow bout them Clippers?LOL@this bitter Clipper fan coming in here to talk shit about the Lakers for an overtime loss to the Spurs without 2 of our starters...Pure comedy, huh?That blatant foul Duncan comitted on Kobe which led to the Radman 3 woulda' been Duncan's 6th foul...Once again, terrible reffing on Kobe tonight. Not saying Lakers lost because of the reffing, free-throws had more to do with that, but the refs definitely weren't helping...PeACe
^ Who's you guys? I was never in any discussion with you. I simply asked "how bout them Clippers". Since all you come in this thread for is to hate cus your wack ass team is showing it's true colors. So answer the question. You didn't want to talk about it when NIK made that thread a while back and you don't want to talk about it now. U mad doggy?
Quote from: Rik on January 29, 2007, 09:49:48 AM^ Who's you guys? I was never in any discussion with you. I simply asked "how bout them Clippers". Since all you come in this thread for is to hate cus your wack ass team is showing it's true colors. So answer the question. You didn't want to talk about it when NIK made that thread a while back and you don't want to talk about it now. U mad doggy?I am not hating, as laker fans, you guys should address all things Lakers right?And as for the clippers, why dont you ask at the end of the season....your asking too prematurley, kinda like when your momma had you sorta, but then when you were still alive she realised it was too late for an abortion.
Quote from: E-Crazy on January 29, 2007, 10:34:52 AMQuote from: Rik on January 29, 2007, 09:49:48 AM^ Who's you guys? I was never in any discussion with you. I simply asked "how bout them Clippers". Since all you come in this thread for is to hate cus your wack ass team is showing it's true colors. So answer the question. You didn't want to talk about it when NIK made that thread a while back and you don't want to talk about it now. U mad doggy?I am not hating, as laker fans, you guys should address all things Lakers right?And as for the clippers, why dont you ask at the end of the season....your asking too prematurley, kinda like when your momma had you sorta, but then when you were still alive she realised it was too late for an abortion. That last part was uncalled for.
Sunday's showdown with San Antonio was supposed to be a raucous going-away bash for the Lakers, and for much of the afternoon, it looked the part. L.A. was up by double digits in the fourth, closing in on an important win to take on the road with them for a grueling eight-game trip, its longest of the season.Then the tide turned, the Spurs got hot, forced overtime, and eventually won on a late Michael Finley 3-pointer. So much for packing some positive momentum for the upcoming East Coast swing, but that doesn't change the fact that the Lakers are about to embark on their most vital stretch of the season starting Tuesday evening in New York. They're just taking a two-game losing streak as baggage, which includes a home loss to lowly Charlotte.Contenders or pretenders? We're about to find out.As February began last season, L.A. found itself exceeding most expectations, but lost four of five road games and immediately found itself floating around .500 and jockeying with the Kings and Hornets just to make the postseason. It wasn't until a late-March surge pulled them through that the Lakers could breathe easy, and they don't want that to be the case this time around.Despite being unable to get all their significant parts on the floor together for any extended length of time, Phil Jackson has done a phenomenal job keeping the Lakers among the Western Conference's top six teams. They're within striking distance of home-court advantage for at least the first round of this season's playoffs, and this eight-game swing could validate them as worthy of being in the same breath as your Suns, Mavs and Spurs. The flip side is that a bad trip could push them down into a dog fight with teams like the Clippers and Nuggets to avoid a No. 7 or 8 seed and likely dates with Dallas and Phoenix when the playoffs start in late April.Complicating matters, L.A. will be without small forward Luke Walton for at least the first few games of this trip with a badly sprained ankle. He's still on crutches, and was only able to walk for the first time on it Sunday. Kwame Brown, who has been out with an ankle sprain since Dec. 31, also hopes to rejoin the Lakers on this trip. Lamar Odom came back over the weekend, and has been very productive while shaking off the expected rust from missing over six weeks of action.Until the Lakers' Humpty Dumpty project can get all its pieces back together again, it's up to Kobe Bryant to put the team on his back. He has been doing it most of the season, albeit in a different capacity than we're used to seeing. More of a facilitator now than he has been since Shaquille O'Neal left, Bryant still has it in him to score 40 every night, but no longer looks to do so. His teammates, at least those who have been healthy, have responded to the change, and Bryant is an MVP candidate as a result.He has played the big brother role on this squad, taking turns coddling and admonishing his younger teammates, but he's about to undertake the heftiest challenge his Lakers will see all season. Only one other team in the league will play an eight-game road trip this season, and ironically, the Spurs started it by beating the Lakers on Sunday. L.A.'s trip will be exclusively against East squads and feature three back-to-backs.What did Jackson do to anger the league schedule makers?Not all of the East teams will be slouches, either. Indiana, Washington, Detroit and Cleveland are all over .500, and will be difficult places to come in and get a win considering they will be packed and hungry in anticipation of Bryant's only visit. At this point, if L.A. can get back home Feb. 13 with a 4-4 mark on this trek, call it mission accomplished."You look at the road, if you can be .500 on the road, you're really happy about it," Jackson said. "But we just can't be satisfied with that now. We have to go on a road trip with a kind of (attitude). Let's try to win six, let's try to push the limits of what we can do on this road trip."If they can pull that off, the Lakers' outlook looks rosy, perhaps even solid enough where you can start musing about catching the Spurs for a top-four seed.If they can't, then the Lakers just might find themselves in a familiar place: on the road come postseason, forced to butt heads with the larger Western Conference monsters.
Eddy Curry and Andrew Bynum have both unfairly had the "next Shaq" label placed on them due to their massive size and the fact both were teens when they entered the league. They've made steady progress this season and will square off when the Lakers visit the Knicks on Tuesday. Both have been playing extremely well of late, too. Curry is a long shot to make the Eastern Conference All-Star team, but just being mentioned as a candidate speaks of his progress. Bynum has logged double-doubles in the past three games, and played a career-high 44 minutes on Sunday. He averaged 11.7 points, 14 boards and three blocks last week.
^I also think you're forgetting about Kwame and Luke, 2 of our main rebounders...When we got muthafuckaz like Cook and Sasha out there instead, of course our rebounding is gunna go down. Bynum's been improving his rebounding as well, I believe we'll be a nice rebounding team once everyone is back at full strength...
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