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haters gonna hater, go lakers!

#1641 red_alertz, Feb 9, 2013

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red_alertz said: ↑

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Haterz gonna hater wat? Team sucks, theyll be lucky to eek they way into da playoffs wot 8th seed and get blasted out da first round. This team wit Kobe Nash Howard Gasol was supposed to go 82-0 and win da championship.

#1642 Sleepy Flloyd, Feb 9, 2013
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red_alertz said: ↑

haters gonna hater, go lakers!
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Lol, Lakers fan with a sig referring to LeBron bricking? He shoots over 50%

#1643 Pieman2005, Feb 9, 2013
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red_alertz said: ↑

haters gonna hater, go lakers!
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You know you've hit rock bottom when you have to crow after beating the Bobcats. :grin:

Massacre upcoming on Sunday... CAN'T WAIT.

#1644 el gnomo, Feb 9, 2013
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go lakers w00t

#1645 Gay4Battier, Feb 9, 2013
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Lol, Lakers fan with a sig referring to LeBron bricking? He shoots over 50%
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He shooting like 80% last few games

#1646 Sleepy Flloyd, Feb 9, 2013
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**** them other cats. Go Kobe!

#1647 supdudes, Feb 9, 2013

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**** them other cats. Go Kobe!
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The problem is he won't be going anywhere without them other "cats."

#1648 fmp087, Feb 9, 2013
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Utah are still pretty good at home... I predict GSW will fall a tad
I hope for the 7th seed for us
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the Lakers are 6.5 games behind the Warriors

#1649 across110thstreet, Feb 9, 2013
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the Lakers are 6.5 games behind the Warriors
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yeah.. Warriors fall to 7th where we hopefully dispose of them

#1650 daywalker02, Feb 9, 2013
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yeah.. Warriors fall to 7th where we hopefully dispose of them
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not at all likely

your scenario has the Warriors dropping out of the playoff picture entirely so that LA and Portland are battling it out for 8th and 9th. that means GSW free-falls to 10th.

they are 10 games over .500 right now

#1651 across110thstreet, Feb 9, 2013
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not at all likely

your scenario has the Warriors dropping out of the playoff picture entirely so that LA and Portland are battling it out for 8th and 9th. that means GSW free-falls to 10th.

they are 10 games over .500 right now
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I doubt LA makes it... and I am not a fan
GSW drops but it will be a dog fight to catch them at 6th I guess
Utah might drop as well

#1652 daywalker02, Feb 9, 2013
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across110thstreet said: ↑

not at all likely

your scenario has the Warriors dropping out of the playoff picture entirely so that LA and Portland are battling it out for 8th and 9th. that means GSW free-falls to 10th.

they are 10 games over .500 right now
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I am entitled to hope though

#1653 daywalker02, Feb 9, 2013

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Kobe on situation with Dwight: "Honestly, I'm done talking about it."</p>— Ethan J. Skolnick (@EthanJSkolnick) <a href="https://twitter.com/EthanJSkolnick/status/300320062034817025">February 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Miami Mike <a href="http://t.co/PICfisSW" title="http://twitter.com/mcten/status/300320664991195137/photo/1">twitter.com/mcten/status/3…</a></p>— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcten/status/300320664991195137">February 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Dwight on his dad telling Atlanta Journal-Constitution he thinks Dwight will re-sign with Lakers: "I'm not getting into it."</p>— KEVIN DING (@KevinDing) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinDing/status/300321861730979843">February 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Dwight's dad told AJC that Kobe, Dwight Howard & D'Antoni should talk together. Mike & Kobe shot idea down. Dwight declined to talk about it</p>— Mark Medina (@MedinaLakersNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MedinaLakersNBA/status/300326830286712832">February 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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MIAMI — The Lakers have talked plenty about what ails them this season. Rarely, have they actually corrected them.

But with Dwight Howard facing endless scrutiny regarding his injured right shoulder and how he fits in with the Lakers, his father, Dwight Howard Sr., told the Atlanta Journal Constitution he needs to have a sitdown with Kobe Bryant and coach Mike D’Antoni to hash things over. After all, Bryant has received plenty of attention for comments attributed to him in an ESPN.com report this week suggesting Howard needed to return quickly even if his shoulder isn’t fully healed. Although he denies it, D’Antoni also indirectly has suggested the same thing.

But the involved parties don’t have any interest on the idea. Instead, the Lakers (24-27) say they’re strictly focused on Sunday’s game against the Miami Heat (33-14) at American Airlines Arena.

“Honestly, I’m done talking about it,” Bryant said. “There’s nothing to talk about it. There’s nothing to discuss. It’s silly.”

D’Antoni wasn’t necessarily opposed to it. He just believes the Lakers have already gone down that path, including having an air-it-out meeting two weeks ago against Memphis. Part of that meeting involved Bryant confronting Howard about his frustration surrounding his offensive role.

“That’s cool,” D’Antoni said. “He’s his father. He should defend his son. But I thought we had that in Memphis. We’re good.”

It remains to be seen what Howard thinks of the idea.

He’s publicly defended his decision to sit out two games last week because of his aggravated labrum in his right shoulder. Howard also bristled at Bryant’s comments attributed to him that suggested he needed to return even with an unhealthy shoulder, quotes Bryant maintains were blown out of proportion.

“It’s really not that big of a deal,” Bryant said. “In Boston, they made something out of nothing. There wasn’t anything I said that was out of the ordinary or nothing I said before talking to him. They made a really big deal out of something that is really nothing.”

Howard also had little interest in adding to the storyline.

“I don’t want to get into it,” Howard said. “My dad is a grown man. That’s how he feels. We’ll leave it at that.”

Howard offered a similar comment on his dad’s assertion that he will re-sign this summer with the Lakers.

Whether Howard Sr’s comments reflects his son’s level of thinking remains to be seen. The ACJ article quotes his father as saying his son has talked to him frequently about this season and his frustrations. Howard conceded they talk everyday but nothing about basketball.

“That’s what’s he’s supposed to do, support his kid,” Howard said of his father’s comments. “He’s going to do the best at that.”

The Lakers will soon find out if they make the best of their situation too.

“It’s people who try to harbor and hang onto stuff all the time,” Bryant said of the dynamic between him and Howard. “He just has to do his job, go out and defend. We do our jobs and do what we need to do to help us win. It’s not rocket science.”
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The Lakers developed a mind trick to break down the schedule so making the playoffs won't seem impossible...

The Lakers look at it like they need to win three out of every four games to make it, whether that is true or not, that's not the point. That is the carrot at the end of their stick. Winning three out of every four. So, when they lost to PHX to start the road trip, they rationalized that it was OK, because they had won their previous three before that. Just like the Boston loss was OK, because they won three in a row before that. They have won two straight four-game series, in their minds, and are 1-0 on their current four-game series after their win in Charlotte.

"This is the second game of the little four-game series that we’ve been playing with ourselves," Dwight Howard said Saturday in advance of the Lakers game against the Miami Heat on Sunday. "We won the last series, so hopefully this series right here, we can win too."

Whose idea was it to use the short-term focus to try to keep the task of making the playoffs from seeming too insurmountable?

"Just all of us talking about it and just going out there and doing it," Howard said.
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#1654 J.R., Feb 9, 2013
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Who else is gonna speak up or stick up on Dwight's behalf? Not Kobe. Not Nash. Not Mike D. Metta? Haha

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Now LeBron gets into the act? This is getting downright hilarious already and its not even the All-Star break yet.

#1655 diehardNFFL, Feb 9, 2013
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Why does every big man that plays with Kobe get made into looking like a b****?

Shaq, Bynum, Gasol, now Dwight

Kobe hates big men.

#1656 Mr. Clutch, Feb 9, 2013
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Kobe hates big men.
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of course he does, they actually dare to expect him to share the ball with them.

the very idea!

#1657 Rockets2K, Feb 9, 2013
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BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! EAT A D LAKERS!!!

#1658 el gnomo, Feb 10, 2013

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Lakers got Lebron'd

#1659 J Sizzle, Feb 10, 2013
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lol outplayed and outtalented

Lebron is like LeGod right now no stopping lehim

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