The Official Los Angeles Lakers thread

[Teddy Roosevelt]

The game against the Grizzlies is the perfect example of why the Lakers are going to travel to San Antonio for the first round of the playoffs instead of playing the Jazz at Staples. Losing to these weak teams is messing up the seeding for the Lakers.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

The game against the Grizzlies is the perfect example of why the Lakers are going to travel to San Antonio for the first round of the playoffs instead of playing the Jazz at Staples. Losing to these weak teams is messing up the seeding for the Lakers.

Well, we're gunna have to play 'em one way or another, so...

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

When we got rid of Rudy i thought the 3's were going to stop. I think we got a franchise record for 3 point attempts in a game earlier in the season.

And the spurs are starting to play great....18-2 in thir last 20 games. .....It's going to a tough match up in the 1st round....

I'm more scared of what smush is going to do to the Lakers then the spurs 

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

odom with an impressive 16 rebounds and 11 assists......

I was surprise he had that many assist...it looked like one of those games he wasn't in to...shit, the whole team looked like they weren't in to the game 

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

shit, the whole team looked like they weren't in to the game 

They weren't...

[Tha G In Deee]

"Loss to Grizzlies upsets Jackson
Coach says team lost its intensity after winning streak.
By Steve Springer, Times Staff Writer
March 29, 2007


 
The Lakers were hoping to have Wednesday off.

But after the team blew a 15-point lead and lost, 88-86, to the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night at Staples Center, it was announced practice would be held Wednesday morning at the team's El Segundo training facility.

As it turned out, the players didn't have to exert themselves physically. Didn't even have to pick up a basketball. All they had to do was stand.

And listen to their coach, Phil Jackson, tell them what he thought of their performance in losing to the Grizzles, a team with the worst record (18-54) in the NBA.

"I let them know it wasn't OK with me," Jackson said. "That's not the way we act [as far as] being a Laker, being a team headed for the playoffs. That's what the other teams that are out of the playoffs are doing. We are in a playoff drive and we have to step up our competitive level every night if we are going to meet the demands that are needed in a playoff.

"My problem is that when we get a few wins, we become lackadaisical. We haven't kept the same intensity. We will lose games, particularly to teams that have been under .500.

"We just can't take a night off as a basketball team and expect to win any games at this point…. I told [the players] that, by the nature of the game they played, I was disappointed. They should take themselves away from the game for a day and come back [Thursday] ready to play.""

[LAKERS_FAN89]

i got it from from a other lakers fan be postin..why?

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Lakers need to step it up on the offensive end now...

[Bay Area Jat]

^^ that was a pretty crazy 3 that kobe just hit.

[wcsoldier]

Another clutch move by Kobe

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

KOBBBEEE.

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

Refs 

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ...I'm hunting down the refs 

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

This is absurd...


"Kobe...ANOTHER?"

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

WOW