Basel

I told myself I wouldn't judge this team one way or the other until the start of the new year; I'll wait until then before I get too caught up with anything.

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Jamel Irief

Actually if you read my posts In this thread I was at the clipper game, so you knew I would ImageUploadedByVS Free1351786369.420792.jpgbecause I was having a good time downtown. I have it on DVR.

I can't comment because I didn't see this game, but already stated that I wouldn't be surprised if they started 8-8. Again by you saying this is a long season you should maintain that opinion if we go on a massive winning streak, but you wont because youre prone to emotion and not logic.

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Ron

Maybe, but my "logic" tells me this team is having a hard time defending.

99 and 116 to start the season. We knew Nash was going to be a liability on this side of the ball, but Jesus.

One bright spot was Howard's play, at 33 and 14, with 15/19 at the free throw line. Amazing he can have a game like that and we still are blown out of the water.

My "logic" also tells me the Clippers are going to punish the Lakers on Friday as well.

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Jamel Irief

I was at the clippers game and they have no semblance of an offense and gasol and gay were having their way. The only thing that won them the game was Crawford abusing the grizzlies bench and Paul toying with them in the 4th.

Gasol and Howard should dominate, but if they don't limit their guards it will be a long night.

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elcap15

The offense looked a lot better to me last night, other than the ridiculous amount of turnovers. (which I kind of expect at this point) Nash pushed the ball more, we got much more early offense, and the guys looked more aggressive instead of waiting for someone else to make a play for them. We didnt run the Princeton much until we had exhausted some other plays early in the clock, which is just the way it should be used. And Dwight was lights out at the FT line!

The story of this game was defense and turnovers. We had basically no defensive rotation at all. Lillard went around his man, then Pau like 5 times. Nash is so bad on D that Blake actually looked good when he checked in. We are going to have to figure out how to hide Nash better. Our guys have to go get rebounds instead of expecting them to fall in their lap and they have to box out. Dwight's timing on D is just off right now and it affects the rotations and the helpers.

Those things can get solved. What worries me is that our guys just dont play with the same tenacity that these other teams do. I would say its the younger guys, but The Mavs are old and they played with much more fire. I hope we can improve enough in other areas to overcome that difference, but right now I am worried that our old legs will not be able to match the energy of other teams.

Hyperion

Didn't Nash play like 15 minutes last night in the 116pt loss? Also, Howard is nowhere near 100%. He'll round into shape in a month or so and then the Lakers will start rolling if they start PnR more.

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Basel

We lost by 116 last night? I stopped watching but didn't realize it got that bad.

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Jamel Irief

Does logic say theyve played like crap? yes. Does logic say the lakers should be favored to lose tomorrow? Yes. Would it be illogical to use any of it as a indicator of how they'll look in May? Yes.

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Luke

We'll be fine. The sinking ship mentality around here is ridiculous.

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Wilmatic2

Only two games in, don't need to get your panties caught in a bunch. Lakers will be fine.

Shaolin

There is nothing to panic about, because you're seeing the same problems you saw last year. There is no surprise.

This Laker team has no speed. They do not hustle. They have no energy. They are going to get abused at the guard position all year.

I don't believe that Mike Brown has any answers for this team. I don't think they respect him. I think he's going to forestall his inevitable firing by playing the starters too many minutes: as soon as the bench comes in, the team is going to fall behind their opponents, making the starters have to play catch up.

My guess is that Brown makes it to the All-Star Break.

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Ron

QFT, except for the last line.

I am not sure Brown makes it out of this month. They better beat the ****ing Pistons on Sunday or he can start e-mailing his résumé that evening.

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Cris

The Blazers announcers are so bad. I heard them say "Pau Gasol hasn't whined in about a quarter so he is due."

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Hyperion

I thought it was hilarious when they started making fun of Metta Ron Artest when they started saying that he was confused, he's going to shoot! He doesn't know what's going on with the offense! He's going to shoot a long three because he doesn't know what to do! And then he shot a long 3pt shot.

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"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly"

MojoPin

We can only hope that Brown gets canned. I'm sorry, but he has had a month of training camp to get the team all worked out, and that's plenty enough time IMO. If I can learn a years worth of Accounting in 9 weeks, then I think Brown should be able to instill an offense - not this, "lets wait six months for them to figure it out" BS.

Honestly I think Phil could come in and turn them around in a day.