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[charsace]

And Gasol came into this game thinking he would have an easy time since the hornets don't have West and got scrapped up by Gray. Fisher is the main problem though as usual. Gimpy ass Paul tore him up.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Why didn't Kobe defend CP3 in crunch time? Hell, where was he on the offensive end? An 8 second violation...bunch of chokers on that team.

If they lose he better look into surgery or something on his broken finger. His dribbling has really taken a hit ever since he started having to wrap it.

 

[weekend_warrior]

That loss is all on Pau Gasoft. What a joke.

 

[obijkenobi]

Why didn't Kobe defend CP3 in crunch time? Hell, where was he on the offensive end? An 8 second violation...bunch of chokers on that team.

He did. Chris Paul continued to not give a fuck about the Laker's feelings and scored anyway

 

[linsivvi]

I've always said CP3 is the best point guard in the NBA. And he wouldn't throw Jerry Sloan under the bus. Too bad he's playing for a terrible organization.

I'll take NOH in game 2.

Lakers in 5.

 

[Black Mamba]

Stop downplaying everything. That Lakers lost and thats a cause for concern. No shit.

I can't remember the number, but IIRC only 2 teams who have been swept 4-0 without HCA ever won a best of 7. Ever.

Top seeds lose game 1 all the time. If the Lakers lose game 2, then we can start to worry. Same for Spurs. Many series are split after 2 games among higher seeds in the 1st round. People overreact.

 

[Justin Timberlake]

80% of teams with HCA that lose game 1? No. Try getting a stat that matters. Lakers and Spurs winning the series and all the other game 1 winner means 6/8 which is 75%. you know, because higher seeds that win game won probably win 90%.

heck, go look up the % of 1/2 seeds that lose game 1 losing the series. I'll bet you it ain't close to 80%.

This shit happens every year. Orlando did it. Spurs consistently have done it. I feel like Boston did it once. It's pretty much only Dallas who loses.

You are making it sound like losing Game 1 was a good thing. What kind of shit logic is that.

Stop downplaying everything.

 

[Kevtones]

I'll take NOH in game 2.

 

[Gigglepoo]

This series is not the Rockets series. There is no correlation.

Did you see what I was originally responding to?

Goes to 7 like I predicted. Kobe & the Lakers are frauds and they've been exposed.

The "correlation" is that the Lakers have lost a Game 1 to an inferior team in the past, have gone 7 games to win, and ended up hoisting the trophy anyway. Does that make sense? One loss does not expose them as frauds.

 

[Tom Penny]

After the way this day is going I have to prepare for a Celtics loss. Fuck.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Lakers fans seem awfully happy about a loss but maybe they are used to it with their weird season.

I wouldn't be happy about it at all though obviously they still have much more talent across the board than the Hornets.

Like Steve Nash, Chris Paul is a joy to watch.

Especially when the Lakers put Pau Gasol on him.

 

[soundscream]

Uh he has, the Lakers were better then and the Hornets don't have Boozer on defense.

Are you not manning up to the bet you made?

 

[Barack Lesnar]

Honestly, the Gray injury just saved the Lakers season and cost the Hornets the series.

 

[Black Mamba]

Hornets 3.3% TOR second lowest in past 3 yrs. Bested barely by NYK 3.0% vs DET on 3/11/09

But I'm sure that will continue all series long.

Honestly, the Gray injury just saved the Lakers season and cost the Hornets the series.

lol. Yeah, Gray being hurt will change the outcome.

 

[diehard]

. And he wouldn't throw Jerry Sloan under the bus.

People still trying to troll with this? lol

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Lebron 1-0
Kobe 0-1

u mad?

Rockets 0-16 in the last 16 YEARS.

U mad?

And btw, Kobe's 1 win in the Finals in 2004 is enough to trump LeBron's entire Finals career.

U still mad?

 

[Dominican Power]

Lakers fans always overreact

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

After the way this day is going I have to prepare for a Celtics loss. Fuck.

I don't see it happening at all but then again, these playoffs have been quite interesting and they just started.

I expect a close game at Boston for a while.

 

[Omiee]

You are making it sound like losing Game 1 was a good thing. What kind of shit logic is that.

Stop downplaying everything.

Isent that what youv been doing all year when the spurs lost.


what is the status on gray?

 

[Duki]

lol its nice that deron could expose them for 3 1/2 quarters

he probably looked ok on the stats sheet as he flailed around missing jumpshots in the fourth

a win looks better though

didntgetswept.jpg

 

[Tom Penny]

Honestly, the Gray injury just saved the Lakers season and cost the Hornets the series.

More or less. Not that they'd win anyway but eventually no size at all will catch up with them.

 

[charsace]

Gasol isn't soft. He was the anchor in memphis when they were a playoff team and he has the same role with the lakers. He's a finesse player. Philly has soft bigs in Speights, Brackins and Hawes.

Diehard you need to take your avatar.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

People still trying to troll with this? lol

Maybe your painful denial led to them still bringing it up.

 

[Justin Timberlake]

The "correlation" is that the Lakers have lost a Game 1 to an inferior team in the past, have gone 7 games to win, and ended up hoisting the trophy anyway. Does that make sense? One loss does not expose them as frauds.

If I flip 10 coins and get 10 heads, does that mean I will get 10 heads if I flip another 10 coins? The Lakers' past series are irrelevant to this one. They have lost plenty of series where they have lost game 1 too you know. The Rockets series doesn't mean anything.

Fuck, with the logic you and Mamba are using, Hornets could win game 2 and you guys would point to the 2008 Spurs/Hornets series and say that the Hornets have lost up 2-0 before. Losing game 1 is bad for the Lakers. How hard is this to understand.

 

[obijkenobi]

Even though the Spurs lost, its been a great weekend of basketball. Truly better than the NCAA games.

 

[Black Mamba]

You are making it sound like losing Game 1 was a good thing. What kind of shit logic is that.

Stop downplaying everything.

Well, it's never a good thing to lose. But I do hope this will get them to wake up going forward. I'm hoping they make a positive out of this. but of course I'd rather they win.

If I flip 10 coins and get 10 heads, does that mean I will get 10 heads if I flip another 10 coins? The Lakers' past series are irrelevant to this one. They have lost plenty of series where they have lost game 1 too you know. The Rockets series doesn't mean anything.

Fuck, with the logic you and Mamba are using, Hornets could win game 2 and you guys would point to the 2008 Spurs/Hornets series and say that the Hornets have lost up 2-0 before. Losing game 1 is bad for the Lakers. How hard is this to understand.

Problem is in the NBA, past data predicts future at a good rate. Flipping a coin isn't the same because the past data doesn't give us any trends.

All I'm saying is, we've seen top seeds lose game 1 every season and yet not lose the series, so why should we overreact to it?

 

[MikeTyson]

So will there be plenty of lolondo tonight?

 

[Godslay]

Couple of good games today. I fully expect the Spurs and the Lakers to come back and destroy NO and Memphis. It seems that teams like this always need a bit of the "wake up" during playoff time. First game, don't write them off...

 

[Cloudy]

That loss is all on Pau Gasoft. What a joke.

False. Fisher was the biggest issue in this game. He needs to be off the court cos he's GARBAGE

 

[Gigglepoo]

If I flip 10 coins and get 10 heads, does that mean I will get 10 heads if I flip another 10 coins? The Lakers' past series are irrelevant to this one. They have lost plenty of series where they have lost game 1 too you know. The Rockets series doesn't mean anything.

Fuck, with the logic you and Mamba are using, Hornets could win game 2 and you guys would point to the 2008 Spurs/Hornets series and say that the Hornets have lost up 2-0 before. Losing game 1 is bad for the Lakers. How hard is this to understand.

So you think one playoff loss means a team is exposed as frauds? You make it sound like I'm a Lakers fan who's defending them. I'm just pointing out how stupid it is to say one loss (ONE LOSS!) makes them frauds. That's why I quoted thekad's original post, so you could understand the context, and you're still willfully ignoring what I said.

Again, do you think one playoff loss exposes a team as frauds?

 

[Ninja Scooter]

the good thing for Gray and the Hornets is that thanks to the league each 1st round game is like a week apart, so could have time to heal up.

 

[NomarTyme]

Do they enforce the ban on umad in this thread?

 

[Forceatowulf]

Words cannot express how angry and outraged I will be if LO doesn't produce at a somewhat similar pace as he did in the reg season.

I'm going to seriously fucking choke somebody. I swear to fucking Christ.

 

[Kevtones]

So does Bynum get hurt game 2?

 

[Omiee]

If I flip 10 coins and get 10 heads, does that mean I will get 10 heads if I flip another 10 coins? The Lakers' past series are irrelevant to this one. They have lost plenty of series where they have lost game 1 too you know. The Rockets series doesn't mean anything.

Fuck, with the logic you and Mamba are using, Hornets could win game 2 and you guys would point to the 2008 Spurs/Hornets series and say that the Hornets have lost up 2-0 before. Losing game 1 is bad for the Lakers. How hard is this to understand.

So this your way of copping, putting all of the attention to our loss.
while you guys lost because of a wide open 3 your guy could not hit.

 

[friskykillface]

Don't fuck up Celtics, don't fuck up Celtics , dat Wafer will save us


I see Melo going for 30

 

[diehard]

Maybe your painful denial led to them still bringing it up.

Ahh yes, the boundless knowledge of the Jazz organization by Bulls and Laker fans shall correct me, whatever was i thinking?

 

[obijkenobi]

So this your way of copping, putting all of the attention to our loss.
while you guys lost because of a wide open 3 your guy could not hit.

No Manu, Bonner played 24 minutes. I ain't even mad. What's the Laker's excuse

 

[Ninja Scooter]

So this your way of copping, putting all of the attention to our loss.
while you guys lost because of a wide open 3 your guy could not hit.

pretty much. Crimson has to be in denial because if he faces the Spurs loss he might be driven to give up watching basketball for a few years. If players can be soft so can fans.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

the good thing for Gray and the Hornets is that thanks to the league each 1st round game is like a week apart, so could have time to heal up.

I don't know, man, he's a big guy and all that weight.

It looks like he broke it but maybe he'll catch a break(no pun intended).

Sprains can be that painful though but even when I BROKE my ankle, I could somewhat walk on it.

 

[Kevtones]

Pau is just another 'All-Star' that should've been replaced by LMA.

 

[StickSoldier]

The real Gasol brother. When will the Lakers get him back?

 

[Omiee]

the good thing for Gray and the Hornets is that thanks to the league each 1st round game is like a week apart, so could have time to heal up.

ehm they play wensday and friday not a week from now

 

[Rodeo Clown]

Do they enforce the ban on umad in this thread?

They banned "u mad?"

 

[NomarTyme]

They banned "u mad?"

Yep. Check out the sticky.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Shannon Brown

"we got to play with life"

what doesnt kill you makes you stronger, and that has been the story for LA the last few years.

They learned from the boston series, had a tough series against okc and the rockets the year before that.
Lakers for some kind of reason become stronger and player better when everything is against them and people are writing them off.

again not worried.

.

 

[Red Blaster]

Rules don't apply to NBA GAF

 

[Omiee]

No Manu, Bonner played 24 minutes. I ain't even mad. What's the Laker's excuse

o oke so were playing the excuse card right now.
Blake was not there, we had a d-leaguer and pau was non existing

They banned "u mad?"

thekad must have said it 10 times already in 1 page

 

[Justin Timberlake]

But I'm sure that will continue all series long.

Every game is different. The Hornets will outperform their performance today in some ways in Game 2, and they will underperform their performance today in some ways in Game 2.

The fact that the Lakers barely forced any Hornet turnovers is not an encouraging sign. This is rather simple, man.

So you think one playoff loss means a team is exposed as frauds?

No I thought the Lakers were frauds long before that.

 

[charsace]

Ahh yes, the boundless knowledge of the Jazz organization by Bulls and Laker fans shall correct me, whatever was i thinking?

WEAR YOUR AVATAR YOU PERPETRATING ASS BITCH! I SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT THAT RUSSIAN MOTHERFUCKER!