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2013 April NBA |OT| Pipe Dreams

Emwitus

Member
Hack-a-Dwight is only one half of the equation. It explains why the Lakers attempt so many free throws, but it doesn't explain why they commit so few fouls.
Do we play any defense? We dont force turnovers, dont even contest shots. Im sure celtics pacers and chicago are up there. Way to switch goal.posts tho
 

JoeFu

Banned
Welp season over, we had a good run of 12 straight playoff appearances. Maybe we can get a free agent this summer, but I doubt it.
 

linsivvi

Member
Anyone who's accusing the Lakers of the FT discrepancy is stupid. Kobe is #4 on the FTA list and is 150 behind Harden and Durant and just ahead of Westbrook. Basically it's in line with all the other top scorers in the league and nothing strange considering his usage rate.

#3 on the list is Dwight Howard. Anyone with a brain knows why he's up there and his 600+ FTA is more than the Lakers' total FTA advantage for the season.
 
Hack-a-Dwight is only one half of the equation. It explains why the Lakers attempt so many free throws, but it doesn't explain why they commit so few fouls.

Who on the lakers commit fouls in their career? Pau has always been a low rate fouler for a big man, well before he came to Los Angeles. He's rarely been in foul trouble.

Kobe and Ron are also low rate foulers. Dwight commits offensive fouls and rebounding on his own end but not many defensive fouls even in Orlando. Jamison is a revolving door mostly, not a shot challenger.

Plus, as been pointed out the lakers don't really force turnovers to begin with. They give up open looks.

The mavs lost this game on the boards. 57-37.
 
Lakers need 3 more wins to even have a chance to make the playoffs.

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Pop gonna tank the game to make sure he spends 4 days in Los Angeles over slc. You'll see.

Also he wants to play lakers more.

Or maybe be tanks for okc to get 1 seed and get la and get distracted by Hollywood!
 

Cloudy

Banned
Lakers need 3 more wins to even have a chance to make the playoffs.

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Gotta take it one game at a time. Hope Jazz lose tomorrow and go hard at the Grizz. Too bad we squandered our cushion with bad losses to ATL, PHX, WAS and MIL
 
God damnit, who the hell said they saw the Lakers winning more than 2 games for the rest of the stretch.
NO & POR MAYBE, a big maybe & the rest would lucky crapshoot for them to win.

Eh warriors At home is winnable. And spurs and rockets may tank with slots locked in that late. Who knows. They just gotta try to win the next one and that's it.
Loss to Washington was so bad.
 
Pop gonna tank the game to make sure he spends 4 days in Los Angeles over slc. You'll see.

Also he wants to play lakers more.

Or maybe be tanks for okc to get 1 seed and get la and get distracted by Hollywood!

While the Lakers suck enough for a team to want to play them this year, Al Jefferson is like 2-27 in his career against Duncan so the Spurs probably would want us in the first-round :(
 

linsivvi

Member
I don't see the Lakers beating the Grizz, Clips or Rox.

The Lakers is 1-2 against the Rockets this season, with 1 home game left.

Both teams don't play defense.

Both teams shoot way too many 3s.

Both teams rely on hero ball.

It'll be fun.
 

Vic

Please help me with my bad english
The Lakers is 1-2 against the Rockets this season, with 1 home game left.

Both teams don't play defense.

Both teams shoot way too many 3s.

Both teams rely on hero ball.

It'll be fun.
I agree with your conclusion.
 
If Utah wins tomorrow, the Lakers don't make the playoffs.

I can only realistically see Utah losing against GSW, Memphis, OKC, and Denver. Maybe one loss to Minnesota.

Utah needs to lose at least three games over the next 7 for the Lakers to have a shot.

The Lakers can beat NOH, the Clippers, GSW, Portland, and Houston. They NEED to go 5-2 to have a shot, because Utah's not losing more than three of their next seven.
 
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Amazing thing is I think she looks even better at 51 or whatever.

did a google search, never knew she posed nude O_O
 

J2 Cool

Member
So the Lakers are better without Steve Nash discussion's started? Cause I want in. I think the Lakers should try try to play like the 2012 playoff Lakers, with a better bench. Jamison and Nash coming off bench isn't bad, instead of having him combat with Kobe as facilitator he could give him rest. Kobe seems up for the challenge anyway and it leaves more breathing room for Howard and Gasol on offense. Not to mention Nash's defensive liabilities, age/stamina concerns, and general health.
 
Mark Cuban would be willing to give Baylor women's star Brittney Griner the opportunity to prove she could play in the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks.

Cuban said he would consider selecting Griner, a 6-foot-8 three-time All-American and Big 12 player of the year, in the second round of the draft. If the Mavs don't draft her, Cuban said he would have "no problem whatsoever" inviting Griner to try out for a spot on Dallas' summer league team.

"If she is the best on the board, I will take her," Cuban said Tuesday.

So basically if there is no other male left to be drafted she'd be the best on the board.
 

Smokey

Member
Cuban was drunk.

Griner got bodied by Louisville players several inches shorter than her. . Don't know what he was sippin on in la
 
Get Brittney on some roids and I could see her playing. She would basically have to be an off the bench jump shooting specialist to make it, but I could see it.
 

bionic77

Member
Missed the retiring of Shaq's jersey last night.

Saw a lot of it online today.

Even though I was pissed at Shaq when he left the 00-02 Lakers were my favorite team of all time. So many awesome memories. My favorite is still probably the alley opp from Kobe to Shaq in game 7 against Portland to cap off the epic comeback. I wonder if I will ever get that excited about a game ever again.
 

Jeff-DSA

Member
If the Jazz can just get one more unexpected win and take care of the easy ones, we should get four bonus G-TYME games after the season. You should all want this.
 
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