Kings are a good home team and and as was already said, Melo didn't play. What sucks is that the Nuggets should have lost to the Warriors too but the refs called a bogus foul on Monta Ellis to decide the game.
People can no longer use the excuse......... "So and so didn't play"! Not with what we are going thru!
Anyone hear that Laker fan on the Game this weekend (the "sunday sports show" or something) saying that if the Lakers had "Powell Gasol" (doesn't even know how to say the guys damn name) they would've won. I wish the host had the brains to say "yah, and if Portland had Rudy, Travis, Batum, Greg, Joel and Blake, the Blazers still would've won. " It's like the Laker fan was trying to suggest that Pau Gasol is worth 6 of our players.
Shit, the guys on SportsCenter even said it was a tough game for LA cause they were without Pau! Bullshit!
The sympathy the Lakers were getting from 'all' their injuries was hilarious. But then again, outside Kobe, Pau, and Mr. Kardashian the Lakers have an UGLY roster. A regressing Bynum, Morrison, Brown, Mbenga, Powell, etc. Straight garbage.
I was thinking about that and other Laker related things today. Chode in Portland kept saying how the Lakers "have to be" odds on favorites for the NBA title for "the next 3-4 years". So that got me thinking. In 3-4 years, Kobe will be 35ish, Odom will be 36ish, Artest will be 36ish, Fisher would be pushing 40 and Gasol will be 34ish. Fisher, Artest and Odom are already showing their age and Kobe isn't nearly the dominating player he once was. If they're still a top contender for the title when all of their players (outside of Bynum, who is in the same boat Oden is) are between the ages of 34 and 40? I'll fuck Chode in Portland. Also, I was thinkng that it's so strange how the media keeps talking about Adleman getting COTY because of how Houston is missing so many players. And to me, that's kind of strange. They've played without Mcgrady for almost a year now. And they went into the season not expecting to get anything from those two. We went into this season hoping to have 5 of the 6 players currently injured. Isn't that slightly harder to adjust to??
denver lost, but the 3 teams immediately behind us in the seedings - utah, OKC, houston, all won. overall it was a negative EV night for blazer playoff chances.
The West is Tough. Especially this year with all the bottom teams rising up, it's gonna be a crab-shoot!
I know. I live in Denver, so I get the fucking Thuggets shoved down my throat. Denver is still talented enough to shake off losing their best player against a team like the Kings. Their Achilles' heel is their lack of discipline, and it showed against Sacramento.
I was slow on the uptake, but I finally figured out the Whitsitt/Warkentien model. You acquire the longest, most athletic players you can find regardless of character issues and then you get a cagey vet to keep them in line. We had Pip, they have Chauncey.
He isn't worth 6 good players, BUT.... Pau is pretty fucking good. He was their team MVP last year. Yeah, I said it, he was more important during the Lakers regular season than Kobe.
On a side note, if the Clippers beat the Heat, today (they're currently leading the Heat by 21), they will have won 5 of 6. That lone loss against the Blazers. My point is, don't discount the Clippers going forward, they're playing well....
