<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The time has come for the Lakers to head out on the road and prove what kind of team they can be this season. The schedule, however, will keep them at home for another fourgames in the next sevendays. Even with an 11-5 record, Lakers coach Phil Jackson has refused to get ahead of himself in predicting success for a team that will play only five road games in the season's first sixweeks. The Lakers are 9-2 at home and 2-3 on the road. "We're just at home," Jackson said. "We haven't gone on the road. We haven't really been in that kind of situation where we're going to have to go out and do some things on the road under duress. "It's important for us to start establishing that in the near future." The Lakers are off to their best start in three seasons and will gladly take it given the injuries that characterized October. Kobe Bryant looked all the way back from knee surgery in scoring 52 points Thursday against Utah. Kwame Brown played 34 minutes Saturday against the Clippers and took another step forward after a shoulder injury cost him the season's first seven games. </div> Source
the road will be a real test. Hopefully we can suprise the skeptics and get a winning record for away games.
If we manage to have a .500 or above record for the road trip, I will be happy. Our home form is good enough to bump us to a .600+ team as long as we win half of our away games.
The games at Houston and Dallas are going to be real tough. Both teams are doing well. Houston and LA have the same records, and Dallas is on fire. Then after that, with the exception of the Timberwolves who are mediocre, go on a East Conference road trip. The East Conference is awful right now, Lakers should be able to steal most of their road games. this month.
yeah, i really do think that we can have a winning road season just because of the east. i say we win about 24 road games- about 18 of them coming from the east
These home games are giving our team confidence. Just look at they way they are playing right now. CONFIDENT. I think that will continue when we hit the road. The team just needs to keep focused.
Here was me thinking the Lakers were never going to play on the road. How they got some many home games I can't even imagine.
I'm really not overly worried for when the Lakers hit the road. They're playing great basketball right now, regardless of the fact they're playing a lot at home. These wins are giving them confidence that will hopefully carry over to the road and show results.
<div class="quote_poster">YourNewChef Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The games at Houston and Dallas are going to be real tough. Both teams are doing well. Houston and LA have the same records, and Dallas is on fire. Then after that, with the exception of the Timberwolves who are mediocre, go on a East Conference road trip. The East Conference is awful right now, Lakers should be able to steal most of their road games. this month.</div> Lets see how Bynum does against Yao.
<div class="quote_poster">TopLake Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Lets see how Bynum does against Yao.</div> Lol, yeah right, Bynum will get LIMITED minutes against Yao. Kwame is our defense, not Andrew. Sure Andrew gets some nice blocks and stuff, but I hope Kwame gets atleast 30mpg against Houston.
<div class="quote_poster">TopLake Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Lets see how Bynum does against Yao.</div> I want to see Bynum step up against Yao for at least 10 minutes. I think he could give Yao a hard time.
Even Nate Robinson can block Yao, time for Kwame and Bynum to get some nice blocks. At least give Bynum some minutes playing against Yao!
