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Los Angeles Lakers (17x NBA Champions)

schwab;1392833; said:
Yes sir. Unfortunately you called this one...

I don't get NBAtv but I had a Gamecast on, and it looked bad even in just words.

There were some horrible coaching decisions, in the fourth Phil pulled Bynum in favor of Gasol even though Bynum had been the catalyst for the come back to take the lead in the fourth. Tossing in three point shooters when under the rim had been openeed, and not getting Gasol and Bynum in together in the first half to keep the Bobcats out of the paint.

Other than that, the Lakers were just cold, they couldn't buy a shot, they weren't really passing the ball around and looking for the open man, it was like the team mentally took a game off. With Kobe getting his 6th foul in the first overtime you knew the Lakers were going down.

For some reason, this team just finds a way to match up with the Lakers, I don't know what it is, and they have a different coach and different players, yet still, they manage to bring their game up while the Lakers still don't take them seriously (5 out of the last 6 times they've beaten the Lakers) which frustrates the hell out of me.
 
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Nice. That is a lot of points. jimotis was right.

The Lakers current record of 36-9 is a winning percentage of 80%. Over 82 games, that is 65.6 wins. The Lakers best ever record was 69-13, surpassed only by MJ's Bulls at 72-10. (on that note, after 45 games the Bulls would be either 40-5 or else 39-6. The pct is that close.) The Cavs are also holding the Lakers pace at 36-9, and both are behind Boston, who is 39-9. Boston is on pace to win 66.625 games. Looks like MJ is safe for now.

If you thought my next sentence was going to be that the Lakers are going to beat that, my bad :lol:.. But Andrew Bynum is going to win the most improved award, and this team is absolutely dangerously loaded.
 
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OCBucksFan;1396157; said:
Los Angeles Lakers' Andrew Bynum sprains knee in collision with Kobe Bryant - ESPN

Not again! Good win tonight but depending on how long the Lakers are without Bynum could have a huge swing on their standings.

If Kobe was the injured player, then yes. Remember when 2 years ago, we were idiots because we didn't trade Bynum for Kidd? Kobe was pissed, fans were pissed, I even think Mark May was pissed... and the Lakers did ok.

Fast forward to last year, when Bynum got hurt. Mind you, Bynum is the guy we "should have traded to get gray-beard Jason Kidd". Bynum got hurt last year, and the pundits sat on that injury as the reason we couldn't win the NBA title. We couldn't do it without Bynum.

That makes less than one year that Bynum went from the guy that was holding us back to the reason that we couldn't win the whole thing. He was injured last year, and once we brought in Gasol, we were left with very much the same lineup that we have now. That lineup got us to the NBA finals. And I don't think Bynum's injury is as bad.
 
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