It's funny to hear them whining about the officiating when the Lakers shot 4 more FTs (32 vs. 28) than the Blazers. What really killed the Lakers was their 24 TOVs. That's an incredibly high number of TOVs for a veteran team. The young, inexperienced Blazers only turned it over 12 times. That 12 possession difference was what cost the Lakers the game, not the officiating. BNM
Anyone see this (in a Steve Blake thread)? [video=youtube;Dowj8OBTlpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dowj8OBTlpk[/video] Its awesome how punk ass fans in LA talk shit to players. Their *own* players.
Now you've made me like Steve Blake again. Where did I read that, including pre-season, the Lakers have now lost something like 17 of their last 24? Mike Brown will be getting EXTRA twitchy.
me too. If you're including regular and pre-season only I think they're 8 and 16. Since the playoffs last year, the Lakers are 5-18 in their last 23 games. Which means a whole lot of nothing of course.
K*be rests the season for his foot injury, Dwight's back acts up, and all of a sudden it's: "With the first pick of the 2013 NBA draft, the Los Angeles L*kers select Shabazz Muhammed, UCLA"
Kobe to L*akers fans: "Shut up, be patient." http://www.ocregister.com/sports/nash-376494-bryant-say.html?vm=r
That's the son of the founder of LA Gear. Apparently that company was more successful than I thought!
What does it say about me that I may enjoy a L*ker loss as much or more than a Blazer win? Nothing good, I fear.
Watching the Lakers get swept out of the 2011 NBA Playoffs is hard to compete with in terms of pure basketball joy.