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pio2u
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LET'S GO LAKERS!!!! 
.......... SPANK THE TIMBERWOLVES!! |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| Kobe gonna 'welcome ' the number 1 pick like he did Howard. Actually I like both Wiggins and LaVine. They would look good running along side point forward Randle |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:23 am Post subject: |
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TIMBERWOLVES UPDATE:
| Quote: | LOOKING AHEAD 
Minnesota will travel over Thanksgiving in preparation for a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Black Friday.
This isn’t the same Lakers team that’s made a living winning titles, though.
Los Angeles is 3-12 this season and this contest is about as winnable for the Wolves as it’s been over the last couple seasons.
So while Minnesota will enter the matchup shorthanded, it has a decent shot at coming out with a victory. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| This is a W. the wolves are horrible and tanking hard |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:20 am Post subject: |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHICK HEARN!!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Wiggins has been impressing me slightly more so far. He really looked like a slightly better Wes Johnson clone for the first right games or so, but he's been looking better. Some nice uses of his athleticism to attack his defenders in the half court (something Wes has never done) and a better defender. Still not a great finisher around contact and still likes settling for the jumper too much, but definitely improving. |
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DShotMaker1824
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Wes doesn't use his athleticism to his advantage most of the time. For an athletic guy he doesn't shoot enough free throws.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Who would have thought Wiggins would be a high post player in the NBA. lol. negates his lack of skill off the dribble ; smart. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: **** Los Angeles Lakers vs Minnesota Timberwolves (11/28/14) **** |
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* INJURY REPORT
LOS ANGELES LAKERS
J. Randle - Out
S. Nash – Out
R. Kelly - Out
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OK, so has Xavier Henry been waived? traded? fully recovered from his achilles tendon surgery? 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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I expect the Lakers to blow the Wolves out
115-98 Lakers |
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pio2u
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | L.A. TIMES:
The Lakers are waiting for the NBA to grant a hardship waiver, which would temporarily allow them to increase their roster size to 16 players.
The hardship waiver isn't expected to be granted until this weekend or next week. It stipulates that a team must have four players sidelined at the same time with substantial injuries. Henry, Steve Nash and Julius Randle are done for the season because of injuries, and Ryan Kelly is out until at least January because of a torn hamstring.
The Lakers would have to return to 15 players when one of the four returned.
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JIFISH
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| pio2u wrote: | | Quote: | L.A. TIMES:
The Lakers are waiting for the NBA to grant a hardship waiver, which would temporarily allow them to increase their roster size to 16 players.
The hardship waiver isn't expected to be granted until this weekend or next week. It stipulates that a team must have four players sidelined at the same time with substantial injuries. Henry, Steve Nash and Julius Randle are done for the season because of injuries, and Ryan Kelly is out until at least January because of a torn hamstring.
The Lakers would have to return to 15 players when one of the four returned.
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OK, I'll ask again, why isn't Henry on your list of injured Lakers players?
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| JIFISH wrote: | | pio2u wrote: | | Quote: | L.A. TIMES:
The Lakers are waiting for the NBA to grant a hardship waiver, which would temporarily allow them to increase their roster size to 16 players.
The hardship waiver isn't expected to be granted until this weekend or next week. It stipulates that a team must have four players sidelined at the same time with substantial injuries. Henry, Steve Nash and Julius Randle are done for the season because of injuries, and Ryan Kelly is out until at least January because of a torn hamstring.
The Lakers would have to return to 15 players when one of the four returned.
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OK, I'll ask again, why isn't Henry on your list of injured Lakers players? |
You should have rechecked the OP. It was corrected 1 hour before you asked again.  |
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| Fruscas wrote: | | This is a W. the wolves are horrible and tanking hard |
I've watched at least half of the Wolves' games and they aren't tanking. They play hard but are just too young, totally disorganized and lack veteran leadership. If you're trying to build team play and your two vets are Mo Williams and Kevin Martin, you're in trouble. There's a reason those guys keep bouncing around the league. They also have three starters out: Rubio, Pekovic, and Martin. I've never thought much of Flip Saunders as a coach either.
This team is already ridiculously loaded with young talent and aren't enough minutes for all of them to develop. Wiggins isn't setting the NBA on fire yet, but you can see he's the real deal. I haven't been too impressed with Lavine yet. He's a willing passer but I'm not sure he's capable of running the point. Doesn't seem to possess the handles or the quickness to get into the lane.
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Flip Saunders has repeatedly said that his team isn't tanking. They won't make the playoffs either but unlike the current Lakers, their future pieces are pretty much all set in place. They want to breed a winning culture and tanking isn't a way for them to do so (Rubio, Wiggins, Bennett, Dieng, Lavine going forward).
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | Flip Saunders has repeatedly said that his team isn't tanking. They won't make the playoffs either but unlike the current Lakers, their future pieces are pretty much all set in place. They want to breed a winning culture and tanking isn't a way for them to do so (Rubio, Wiggins, Bennett, Dieng, Lavine going forward). |
Wow! Just looked it up and their team salary is almost $71 million. Whatever they manage to shave off of that this summer will be mostly replaced by Rubio's extension. I can see why they'd want another lottery pick.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| The Lakers are favored by 5.5 points. It would take a moderate level of dysfunction to beat this Tpup assemblage by only 5 or 6 points. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:48 am Post subject: |
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if we dont win kobe will freak out and so will LG lol.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| pio2u wrote: | HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
| Quote: | When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself... TECUMSEH |
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Thank you.
Now that Thanksgiving is over, I implore those who are curious to research what Thanksgiving really celebrates. It is still a special event that unites family, but the event itself celebrates a settlers returning from a massacre rather than a day of repast and fraternal concordance between two cultures. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| numero-ocho wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | Flip Saunders has repeatedly said that his team isn't tanking. They won't make the playoffs either but unlike the current Lakers, their future pieces are pretty much all set in place. They want to breed a winning culture and tanking isn't a way for them to do so (Rubio, Wiggins, Bennett, Dieng, Lavine going forward). |
Wow! Just looked it up and their team salary is almost $71 million. Whatever they manage to shave off of that this summer will be mostly replaced by Rubio's extension. I can see why they'd want another lottery pick. |
They have young talent but the sad this is it will never all develop there. They don't have enough vet leadership to bring them along. When has a team with that many young guys ever stayed together and been worth anything?
If I were them this entire season would be a tryout. At the end of the year I'd evaluate who I think will be best and ship off 1 or 2 young pieces for QUALITY veteran contributions.
There's no way Wiggins, Lavine, Bennet, and Dieng can all develop at the same time. |
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yinoma2001
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| 22 wrote: | | numero-ocho wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | Flip Saunders has repeatedly said that his team isn't tanking. They won't make the playoffs either but unlike the current Lakers, their future pieces are pretty much all set in place. They want to breed a winning culture and tanking isn't a way for them to do so (Rubio, Wiggins, Bennett, Dieng, Lavine going forward). |
Wow! Just looked it up and their team salary is almost $71 million. Whatever they manage to shave off of that this summer will be mostly replaced by Rubio's extension. I can see why they'd want another lottery pick. |
They have young talent but the sad this is it will never all develop there. They don't have enough vet leadership to bring them along. When has a team with that many young guys ever stayed together and been worth anything?
If I were them this entire season would be a tryout. At the end of the year I'd evaluate who I think will be best and ship off 1 or 2 young pieces for QUALITY veteran contributions.
There's no way Wiggins, Lavine, Bennet, and Dieng can all develop at the same time. |
They are probably willing to shop pek, Martin, brewer, et al for pennies on the dollar.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The... Lakers should literally have a fire-sale if the Wolves win this game..... it would be a new-low for this franchise. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| meows a lot wrote: | | if we dont win kobe will freak out and so will LG lol. |
If we don't win, Kobe should save himself any further embarrassment and just call it a career after he passes Jordan it's been a fun ride
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| K0BEE 2.0 wrote: | | The... Lakers should literally have a fire-sale if the Wolves win this game..... it would be a new-low for this franchise. |
You may see chairs fly and a demand to play for Pluto
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| yinoma2001 wrote: |
They are probably willing to shop pek, Martin, brewer, et al for pennies on the dollar. |
I'm sure we will shop Hill after the annual Christmas loss. The problem is that the front office may well ignore the fact that they're conducting a fire sale and thus set the price too high. |
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