The Official Lakers Thread

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#1,479
Vercingetorix said:
Always a little sad when the dumb guys can't string together a coherent argument and they have to make personal attacks instead.

Hope all you Lakers frontrunners enjoy the offseason.
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For the record I am not a front runner. I grew up in so cal and still live here. Lakers are huge in the area. I remember when Cedric Ceballos was our best threat.

It's going to be tough going for them the next few years.

Kobe is gone soon and they are old. I am afraid it will be similar to the mid-late 90's again.
 
#1,480
#1,480
I didn't see the play but it's funny because I was thinking the same thing the SI guy said. I recall seeing a play in a game I was watching where fans of the team were calling it dirty and I didn't think it was dirty at all. A player was pulling up for a 3 and a defender was late in getting there to contest it so he was leaping forward at the shooter. Naturally the momentum of coming at the shooter carried a foot under the shooter. The shooter landed on his foot and went down. The guy defending it didn't do it intentionally, his eyes were on the ball and he was trying to contest it. He didn't look at how or where he was landing. And this obviously happens because guys accidentally jump into the shooter while contesting 3's. If you can carry yourself too far to jump into them accidentally, you can carry yourself far enough to land underneath them. Nobody is going to blatantly jump into someone shooting a three and yet it happens. Seems like it would be pretty hard to contest a shot and intentionally land underneath them to injure em. I thought Bruce Bowen just slid his feet under people while waiting for them to come down. I don't recall him contesting shots and still landing underneath them. Maybe he did, but I know I saw him just stand there with a hand up as he slid under their feet waiting for them to come down. No doubt he was a dirty player.

I didn't see the play so I can't tell you if what DJ did to Kobe was dirty. I just know I saw what the SI guy said earlier this season while watching a game. A guy was shooting and a defender jumped at him to contest it and wasn't looking where his feet were. He landed and the shooter landed on his foot. So it can happen and not be intentional but it can also be intentional. Sucks for Kobe either way whether it was an accident or intentional.

On the topic of dirty play... don't be surprised if you come out of tonight's game thinking the Pacers are dirty lol. They play physical and a fair amount of opposing fans have come out of games thinking they're dirty, especially Hansbrough. Stephenson is a pest and David West just flat out pushes people off him sometimes for easy baskets and open looks lol. Even without Kobe, the game still worries me because Dwight Howard has always owned Hibbert. Hibbert is a defensive anchor but he's kind of a stiff. He doesn't go up that strongly or move around that well. It should allow for Howard to out jump him for rebounds and move around him easily for rebounds and dunks.
 
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#1,484
#1,484
Vols520 said:
For the record I am not a front runner. I grew up in so cal and still live here. Lakers are huge in the area. I remember when Cedric Ceballos was our best threat.

It's going to be tough going for them the next few years.

Kobe is gone soon and they are old. I am afraid it will be similar to the mid-late 90's again.
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Back to the days of Terry Teagle.
 
#1,486
#1,486
Most of the time a defender will go to the side of where the player is going to land, unless he is straight up. I saw nothing malicious in the play just a guy who did not give a shooter a clean spot to land. Most guys who r jump shooters will say the worse possible thing that could happen is landing on somebody's feet.
 
#1,487
#1,487
World Peace is balling in the third. Hibbert just made the 4th three of his career. Howard needs to dominate the rest of this game. But we are staying in the game sans Kobe.
 
#1,498
#1,498
Going to be fun to watch the fight for the 8th seed. Mavs making a push. The remaining schedules give the edge to the Lakers but they have got to win some road games.
 
#1,499
#1,499
It'd be so fun if Jazz knocked them out. I won't hold my breath. I can't understand why Lakers fans hate the Jazz so much (I know why we hate the Lakers), so it's always fun to get under their skin.
 
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