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Freddie Buckets
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 Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: Article: Lakers will win 22 games, finish last in West |
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| Quote: | 15. Los Angeles Lakers (Wins: 22.8)
The Lakers are held back by the recent health woes and AARP ages of Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash. Expecting a bounce back by one or both of these all-time greats is more a matter of faith than recent objective evidence. If they play well and stay relatively healthy, it's possible the Lakers could fashion a decent offense. Yet the defense might be best imagined by thinking of that old toy hockey game, where the guys with sticks spin around in place forever and ever. |
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11741813/clippers-atop-new-pecking-order-west-nba?refresh=true
I can't say this team being that bad. I'm thinking 35-40 wins. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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How do you win .8 games?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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ESPN is making a killing off of LG. Well done guys! Keep feeding that beast! Haha.
I agree with you though. 35-40 has been, and still is, my season win projection for this team (taking injuries in to account). Meaning, if we have a ton of injuries, we could be slightly worse, if we don't have many injuries at all we could be slightly better, but most likely, with a reasonable amount of injuries, 35-39 wins. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like a retaliation for Kobe's responses(his calling them a bunch of idiots was great). I can't see them that bad I think they'll get 36-38 wins.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
How can you know that it is trash, if you haven't read it?
Kind of like how you were telling that other guy that since he doesn't know Kobe, he can't talk about his likeability. Just curious. |
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Now that they predicted a very bad season for the Lakers. Can they guarantee an MVP for Kobe if he can lead them somehow to the playoff. I think not, it will still be Lebron and his super team.  |
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| DLaker wrote: | | Now that they predicted a very bad season for the Lakers. Can they guarantee an MVP for Kobe if he can lead them somehow to the playoff. I think not, it will still be Lebron and his super team. |
No way Kobe wins an MVP....if the Lakers do shock the world and finish the season as overachievers, you can bet the focus will be on themes such as a. Byron finding his niche as the head coach of his beloved Lakers, b. Nash finding his second wind(assuming he plays more than 10 mins.) c. Linsanity, d. The youngsters stepping up....pretty much the consensus will be on any theme other than Kobe Byrant. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| ringfinger wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
How can you know that it is trash, if you haven't read it?
Kind of like how you were telling that other guy that since he doesn't know Kobe, he can't talk about his likeability. Just curious. |
because its hosted on ESPN and they dont have any credibility as analysts or journalism |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| There's no way that we're worse than the Wolves. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| CaliRyderX wrote: | | DLaker wrote: | | Now that they predicted a very bad season for the Lakers. Can they guarantee an MVP for Kobe if he can lead them somehow to the playoff. I think not, it will still be Lebron and his super team. |
No way Kobe wins an MVP....if the Lakers do shock the world and finish the season as overachievers, you can bet the focus will be on themes such as a. Byron finding his niche as the head coach of his beloved Lakers, b. Nash finding his second wind(assuming he plays more than 10 mins.) c. Linsanity, d. The youngsters stepping up....pretty much the consensus will be on any theme other than Kobe Byrant. |
Agree thats is why I'm LOL. They will give Nash the MVP again before Kobe |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Jim99187 wrote: | | ringfinger wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
How can you know that it is trash, if you haven't read it?
Kind of like how you were telling that other guy that since he doesn't know Kobe, he can't talk about his likeability. Just curious. |
because its hosted on ESPN and they dont have any credibility as analysts or journalism |
I don't think that's true. Our very own Larry Coon writes for ESPN. You don't think he has credibility?? Cmon. Let's not go overboard here. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think more like 36-38 wins. I even placed a pretty large bet at Caesars on the over 31.5 line they had 3 weeks ago
that being said, the wording of that article was hilarious and made me laugh pretty hard...makes me wish I had Insider so I could read the other teams summary and see if they're all that funny
The Lakers are held back by the recent health woes and AARP ages of Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash. Expecting a bounce back by one or both of these all-time greats is more a matter of faith than recent objective evidence. If they play well and stay relatively healthy, it's possible the Lakers could fashion a decent offense. Yet the defense might be best imagined by thinking of that old toy hockey game, where the guys with sticks spin around in place forever and ever.
The defense has been like that for 4 years now. I started calling it the Matador defense and would yell OLE, OLE every time someone would blow by our perimeter players
maybe I should start a drinking game on that...when I was in college, there was a popular drinking game based on Bob Newhart reruns that came on late late night tv....every time they said "Hi Bob" you did a shot.
Ole, Ole...followed by a shot of tkillya. Considering this teams D, we'd probably be passed out drunk by halftime...
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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If we're not going to make the playoffs, I would hope that we'd be this bad.
| Jim99187 wrote: | | ringfinger wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
How can you know that it is trash, if you haven't read it?
Kind of like how you were telling that other guy that since he doesn't know Kobe, he can't talk about his likeability. Just curious. |
because its hosted on ESPN and they dont have any credibility as analysts or journalism |
Was just about to say the same thing before I scrolled and seen your response. Pretty much sums up ESPN.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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ESPN is just going for it.  |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
Just posting in this thread, you bumped it, and helped others find the link.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| We might suck, we might not. Either way I'm still rolling with the Lakers. FU ESPN and anyone else who isn't on this train. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ringfinger wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
How can you know that it is trash, if you haven't read it?
Kind of like how you were telling that other guy that since he doesn't know Kobe, he can't talk about his likeability. Just curious. |
Because it is written by people from the entertainment industry and that isn't where I would go to find basketball information. Just as I prefer to skip through commercials when I watch TV, both are just ways to push a product and make money.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| defense wrote: | | We might suck, we might not. Either way I'm still rolling with the Lakers. FU ESPN and anyone else who isn't on this train. |
We'll win a lot more games than these (bleep) think.
You know Kobe isn't going down without a fight. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| kray28_ wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
Just posting in this thread, you bumped it, and helped others find the link.
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What else would one do on a message board but make posts? If others want to click on the link then they will do so whether I post in this thread or not.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | kray28_ wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Hell no I didn't read the article, I don't read that trash. |
Just posting in this thread, you bumped it, and helped others find the link.
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What else would one do on a message board but make posts? If others want to click on the link then they will do so whether I post in this thread or not. |
I think PK and ringfinger told me this yesterday when I told them I didn't click the link (to Abbott's article), and I generally boycott all ESPN sites and programming unless it's a game I can't watch anywhere else. |
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I don't watch ESPN at all unless there is a game on that I want to see. And I typically check Yahoo sports if I want updates on scores, it is more user friendly than ESPN.com in my opinion.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know how many games the Lakers will win, but you can see from the preseason that the defense is still atrocious. Until that gets better they aren't going to win a lot more games than last year. |
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| I don't care either way. That's why it's important to have picks (even protected ones). If you're good then good, if u stink then you're in a good position to get better and not stink. So either way it's ok. |
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