The Official Los Angeles Lakers Thread

[tennischmp]

And Dallas inches closer...

[tennischmp]

Gasol needs to go after the season.   Someone will take on his expiring contract. 

Find a power forward who needs a fresh start somewhere, has more than one year remaining and that team wants to acquire an expiring contract in exchange, and would defend decently and be a good pairing with Howard.  

 

I beg to differ. It's D Antoni that needs to go not Gasol. Gasol still has game left but D Antoni doesn't know how to use him correctly.

[Ray McKigney]

I beg to differ. It's D Antoni that needs to go not Gasol. Gasol still has game left but D Antoni doesn't know how to use him correctly.

 

D'Antoni would be a perfect fit for Golden State or Denver. He's not suited for the players the Lakers have. He's almost as bad as Mike Brown when it comes to rotating players in off the bench.

[DW711]

Gotta love Mark Jackson's swagger, and every right to have it after last night.

 

Gasol needs to go after the season.   Someone will take on his expiring contract. 

Find a power forward who needs a fresh start somewhere, has more than one year remaining and that team wants to acquire an expiring contract in exchange, and would defend decently and be a good pairing with Howard.  

Maybe Toronto would do it for Gay.

 

I dont know why the hell Memphis got rid of him.

[Angel Oracle]

That Rudy Gay trade is still mind boggling.   He is one of the top wings in the league at both ends of the court.

To their credit though, they're hanging in there after the trade.

 

 

As for Gasol/D'Antoni, I do agree that an old Lakers team is an ill fit for D'Antoni.   But, even though one would think that the high post Gasol and low post Howard would be a great fit, it's been anything but that so far in the games that they've appeared in together.

[Angel Oracle]

MWP out for 6 weeks

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/9104960/metta-world-peace-surgery-torn-meniscus

 

Stick a fork in their post-season chances, congrats Dallas, the 8th spot will be yours!

[tennischmp]

Maybe Artest's 12 shots could go to others who would make them at better than a .400 clip.

[Angel Oracle]

Not much depth left again, just 3 players on the bench

Who starts at the SF spot now?   Clark has slumped badly lately.   Jamison is hurting.

[Ray McKigney]

I think Clark will step up his game. D'Antoni does everything he can to not play him, but when push comes to shove and he has to put him in the game, Clark has come through. It seems like Clark play better under the microscope. The last couple of weeks he was starting, he seemed to be just going through the motions.

D'Antoni is so stifled when it comes to rotations off the bench, that I think he'll do his 7 man rotation again. Sacre may get a couple of minutes. Who's left? I doubt Ebanks will get in the game. He hasn't played in two months.

[tennischmp]

They tried very hard the lose the lead tonight, the only thing in their way were the refs

[Angel Oracle]

The offense was definately better without MWP clogging things up.

The defense against a bad Minnesota team was very bad though, except for Howard.

[Punk]

lol this team sucks.

 

Still love my Lakers, but we're done. I am finally willing to accept it.

[Ray McKigney]

Since they stand a 0% chance of advancing past the first round of the playoffs, if they make it, I'm hoping they don't make it, so that watching the games doesn't conflict with watching any Angels games.

[Punk]

I hope they make the playoffs just so I can keep saying that they've only missed the playoffs 5 times in franchise history. 

[Punk]

Kobe Bryant is now 4th in the all time scoring list. He will probably pass Michael Jordan and finish 3rd.

[Punk]

Shaq will have his jersey up in the rafters tonight!

 

[Ray McKigney]

I loved Shaq when he played for the Lakers. I don't think they should retire his jersey though. Automatic disqualification for playing with the Celtics before he retired.

[Punk]

Triple double for Kobe.

[m0nkey]

That pretty much eliminates Dallas

[Ray McKigney]

I hope Utah loses more games than the Lakers.

[Angel Oracle]

Utah will have the tiebreaker at the end of the regular season, thanks to winning the season series 2-1.

Lakers HAVE to win one more game than Utah over the remaining 7 games for both teams.

Lakers have one more home game remaining than Utah has (5 vs. 4).

[Punk]

I can't believe I just noticed this but they messed up on Shaq's jersey lol

 

[Ray McKigney]

I can't believe I just noticed this but they messed up on Shaq's jersey lol

 

 

Yeah, they put the front. Dummies.

[Punk]

Good win tonight. I thought we were going to blow it in the last 2 minutes. 

[disarcina]

Lakers tanking on national TV -- Clippers look just as dominant in this game as they did in the first match-up of the season - where they whipped the Lakers.

 

This loss may put the Lakers behind Utah for the final playoff spot.

 

101-88 Clippers with 3 minutes to go --- it's over.