I haven't read any of the above posts but, Let's give the Lakers a little slack, they've had some SERIOUS injury issues this season. In early February they were 30-19. They have had literally every single player on the roster miss games due to injury and Chris Mihm is still out. It's safe to say that, when this team is healthy, they can win games (they did) and with Kobe they can beat the best teams in the league (they did that too). They have just had some horrible luck with the injury bug.