HA! I agree.

Btw how impressive has gasol and Blake been recently. Blake averaging 23 6 5 past couple games and pau is playing point forward getting triple doubles. I think they have plenty of momentum going into Sunday while the spurs are crumbling.

Blake and Gas have both been impressive lately but as much as I'd love him to prove me wrong I doubt Blake can sustain that level of play against a team like SA.

Pau, on the other hand, should be able to sustain his level of play as I believe most of his early season struggles were related to poor health and playing out of position. Both of those problems appear to have been resolved to some degree.

Clearly this line fails to take the Patrick Ewing theory into consideration.

What's the fair line on the series with a healthy Kobe?

Lakers -125

Free money

moot point, they don't make the playoffs with a healthy kobe

Man rustled because those he tried to rustle remain sparkly and unrustled.

dear haters,
keep bringing the weak emotional hedging freeroll pussbag posts. WAAAHHH lakers better without kobe. WAAAAhhhhh Even if they win it's a win for the haters so we can lolkobe! WAAAAHHHHhhh I'm such a basketball hipster because I recognize lebron>kobe. WOW congrats on that one idiot hipster haters. Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back. gtfo. Even Gasol is embarassed by your soft ass posting.

@ODB

I totally agree with this. Blake has been MOSTLY great this playoff run. But while he has played well, he also turns the ball over alot resulting in easy fast breaks for the other team. Sometimes its because he tries to make the super genius pass, and sometimes just a lazy careless pass. And his shooting is sometimes really good, other times he goes cold. I hope he holds up and plays well throughout as well, but i worry. I really think we need Nash back to take the load off of Blake. Nash is much more experienced savvy in big playoff games. I want him with the ball setting up the offense in the crucial situations. We need EVERYONE to make a run in these playoffs, but especially Nash. We need his offense too.

Pau is the man and we need to carry him to win. Its ok to feed Dwight early in the game to keep him into it. But when the game is on the line i want them feeding Pau in the post. If they don't double he''ll score or get fouled more than anyone else on a consistant basis. If they double Pau he is the greatest passing big man in da game! Game on the line i want Nash bringing it up and dumping it into Pau. Dwight can get the ball in the clutch on the post next year when he sharpens up his post up moves, and learns to shoot foul shots better. That's another thing, if they feed Dwight in the post with the game on the line they will foul him. He's been shooting foul shots better since he's been back, but i want Pau shooting foul shots with the game on the line, not Dwight. That being said, i'm much happier with the way Dwight's been playing last month or 2. We need his defense and rebounding, he's a force at that. But i don't trust him offensively when the game is on the line.

We have no chance if we don't stop Tony Parker with the ball. I can see him driving right up the lane for layups all day. Somehow they have to plug that leak. I really wish Kobe was coaching the team right now, he knows it, not sure if Dantoni knows what to do on defense. Kobe was like a player coach near the end there, and they started playing better defense. Lately they been playing better defense in fairness. But Pop will definately out coach Dantoni. Dantoni seems like a decent guy, but i think he's an awful coach. I wish we had Mike Brown at least. At least he knows how to play defense.

We can beat San Antonio if we play well. If we played Okc we woulda got crushed because we are sloppy covering the 3 point shooters. All i see all day watching a Laker game is these little Lakers(Nash, Blake, Meeks) trying to help out in the paint(JUST STAY WITH YOUR MAN, YOU AINT GONNA GET NO REBOUND OR BLOCK ANYWAY!), or in no man's land, while there guy is wide open behind the 3 point line with his feet set waiting for the pass. Then the little lakers desperately lunging to get a hand in their face, but its way too late.

That's the game plan! Someone tell Dantoni to read our posts so he knows what to do. For some reason he finds it difficult to follow simple game plans. Feed Pau and play defense. Why is that so hard? GO LAKERS!!!!!!!

mebbe recheck ur history

Manu making the Lakers smell his fingers. Smells nice!

bring out the brooms lolakers

Well, at least we made playoffs. gg

lolakers

dantonio has been setting up pop for the long con and now after 10+ years has him right where he wants him

79 points is good, right?

The key part of my sentence was "if we play well". 19 turnovers in San Antonio isn't gonna get the win. But even with all that we were in the game until it got out of hand in the 4th quarter. Lakers played well defensively. But the offense was sloppy with no fluidity. But the biggest thing was the turnovers. We actually shot a higher fg percentage. Also wasn't counting on Manu playing like the annoyingly great Manu.

p.s. Also, Nash didn't shoot/play well, he was very rusty.

The real problem is that with Nash and MWP not at 100%, Dwight and Pau are the only two guys who can create offense consistently. And that's not gonna cut it.

FYP

Only lost by 12. That means if Kobe was able to play it would have been Lakers by somewhere around 80 points. Must be nice for San Antonio. Some teams just run good.

Or the Lakers just suck? Parker and Manu aren't 100% and they just torched LA.