The Lakers are a great team this year, no doubt. But we should wait until they actually play a good team before we make any judgements. I don't think beating up on one of the worst team in the league (the Clippers) and 2 borderline playoff teams are a good measuring stick.
lol...way to judge a post that was based on preseason by using games played in the regular season. i've watched the lakers games in the preseason and in the regular season, and obviously phil changed a lot of things. my analysis was based on the preseason, so before you go mouthing off using hindsight on your side, step away from the keyboard and take a deep breath. where's your pacifier? and again, this thread wasn't meant to bash the lakers or say that the rockets are better than the lakers because they are not. it's a speculative thread drawing parallels from what has recently happened to the dallas cowboys to what can happen with the lakers because of their similar abundance of high ego players. never in my post have i ever compared the rockets to the lakers. please people get a clue and read my posts before you make sweeping generalizations that make you feel all happy behind your keyboards while doing the numa numa dance. and yes, don't deny that you don't do the numa numa dance.
wait...I didn't realize Jesus' last name was Winter. Man how could I be so dumb. if you don't understand it, may God help you.
LOL! There's only one alpha male on the Lakers buddy... If anything the Rockets have more alpha males with Artest, T-mac, Yao, Francis etc etc.
Comparing the Lakers to the Cowboys "because of their similar abundance of high ego players"? What "high ego" players do the Lakers have besides Kobe? No other team in the NBA has one player who's personality dominates their team more than Kobe and the Lakers (maybe LeBron is close). In fact, who on that team is clearly an "alpha male" besides him? I'll answer: Nobody. The comparison makes no sense.
You still want to talk trash about the Lakers when the Rockets actually looked like trash against them? Let's move this thread to the GARM and re-title it, Rockets "may not be who we thought they were". They could use a couple more "alpha male personalities on the team" since a couple of our stars sometimes don't even play like males. Meanwhile, the Lakers are 5-0 and have a point differential over 20 per game, including tonight's 29-point whipping of the Rockets.
I think it was pretty pathetic that our "trash" actually got a 16 point lead on them despite a ridiculously easy schedule full of days off before we finally ran out of gas. Lakers won't get that luxury in the playoffs unfortunately for them. By that time, hopefully we have Battier and we're relatively healthy. The Rockets would win that series. You are being ridiculously negative and failed to consider the circumstances of that game last night.
... No nitpicking. We could have been up 40 for all I care. We still got spanked by 29 at the end. They whooped us pretty bad last night. If you think just because Battier will be back and we'll be healthy that a Lakers series is a W for us then you're sadly mistaken. That's NOT to say that we can't win, but Battier doesn't bring size. Battier doesn't bring an ability to stop Gasol. He's going to kill us in the playoffs. We have a lot of work to do as a team before we're even a match for the Lakers.
Battier is not our solution. Will he help? Hell yeah. That much? Hell no. Why? What is one of our main problems? 1. Transition Defense 2. Rebounding 3. Stagnant Offense. 4. Stars' performance. Out of those 4, he will help us out on the defense. Only that. He can't rebound over anybody except for guards. And he is just a 3 point shooter.
you should take those red colored glasses off dude....at this point of the season, the Lakers>>>>>Rockets...and i don't think we can beat them in a series
right now we have no chance against them. as we are right now, we'd likely lose a hypothetical playoff series in 5 games. is things turn out positively though (health, battier returns, big three gain familiarity and produce) then beating them isn't out of the question. it's a long way to go though.
I can't see us beating the Lakers in a playoff series unless we have everybody healthy. And there's slim to no chance of that happening in April. Ok, I gotta stop. We're barely a couple weeks into the season. These last 3 games have been like a punch to the stomach, and I can't get them out of my mind.
Let's remember how long it took for the Lakers team to adjust to the Triangle Offense. It took Pau Gasol a while to fit into the team and play as Jackson wanted him too, and this season moved Odom to the bench, because he fit better with the second unit. Let's able there check list to ours. 1. Adjust top Adelman's motion offense. 2. Artest has just been added to the team, playing only 7 regular season games. 3. Move Artest to the bench when Batteir returns, because he seems to work better with the second unit, than when T-mac is one the floor. The Lakers are as good as they are now, because the didn't make an drastic changes once they got Gasol and persisted with there team.
After watching some of their pre-season and regular season games, what makes the Lakers good right now is depth, talent, length & speed running the ball, their bench and defense. Half-court offense is what they are still working on because Bynum and Pau are still figuring each other out. When Pau and Bynum start effectively playing off each other in half-court, uh oh.
don't know what has your panties all up in a bunch. i was just posting a topic that i felt was worthy of decent discussion. i have never trash talked about the lakers. you make sweeping generalizations about what i think without even daring to read all my posts in this thread. you, my friend, are a great contributor to this board, and i appreciate that, but for you to go ape ***** and misinterpret everything i've said makes me wonder what you're trying to prove here. you don't sound like a rockets fan, but more as a lakers homer with the whole "how dare you trash talk the lakers". get a chill pill, and change out your bloody rag.
I read your posts. Just pointing out again how dumb your OP premise was. Finding fault with a more talented team that went to the NBA Finals while the Rockets laid another egg makes a lot of sense. You are gross.
Lakers are 27-5 in regular season games with Gasol. Thats 69 win pace. I don't think it took Gasol that long to adjust, which adds more frustration with the Rockets adjustment... The Lakers didnt bring in any new rotation players this year. But they did have some little adjustments with Bynum coming back at center and Odom moving to the bench. We were hoping for Lakers to regress with chemistry issues but its strengthened them better than expected. Lakers have a lot of contributing talent top to bottom thats tough to beat. Chris Mihm and Luke Walton are now their 11th and 12th men. And its not like they have to be a fixed product, they can still make deals to improve themselves more. Rockets check list can mimick theirs with Artest moving to the bench, and the team just playing more games together and getting healthier in the process. I'd rather focus more on in-house stuff than look at what others are doing but the Lakers have set the early standard. Hopefully Rockets can match up
