Comments on: Fast Break Thoughts

By: sT

sT — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:00:05 +0000

Yeah, ozlaker, I am following someone’s twitter, I think it is FB&G’s and saw that comment by her, she said he was working out practicing at the facility. Cool, this is going to be a very good year for the Lakers, IMHO.

You know, take no prisoners…

By: ozlaker

ozlaker — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:41:00 +0000

Hey guys,
I’ve been quiet over the Aus winter on here, but I have an interesting observation for you all.
Jeanie twittered the other day that she was working in the office over the long weekend, yet she was not alone.
A Mr. Ron Artest was on the practice court alone working out….. do you think he’s keen to play for us this year???

By: j.d. Hastings

j.d. Hastings — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:34:08 +0000

My favorite Herbie Hancock album is the Prisoner

By: Don

Don — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:17:41 +0000

Aaron, nobody’s going to let you get away with saying “Oh I was just making a reasonable argument based on facts about Fisher and I was crucified.” You made some nasty, caustic comments about the Fish we’ve come to love. You’re not a pioneer for bringing to light Fish’s inadequacies, in fact they were being debated long before your comments, but you were out of line to call him names and make crude jokes as opposed to making an argument supported by facts. You could argue Fish is among the worst starting point guards, but you did not argue it as much as you spewed it all over and then some.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:14:14 +0000

new post up, from regular commenter here Chris J.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:01:16 +0000

I can sympathize with Jordan in one respect: The triangle (with Kobe as the focal point) is a hard system to run as a PG. You have curb your natural instincts as an offensive player. Gary Payton couldn’t even do it.

But what I can’t excuse is that a guy (SB) with zero experience in the triangle and little PG expereince came in midseason and outplayed Jordan. Even in the playoffs, Brown was our clear-cut 3rd best Guard on the team behind Kobe and Fish. That made me really question not only Farmar but also Sasha. There’s no excuse for that. These guys know the system, they know their teammates, and they’re the ones who came into the season knowing they will play for a title. And Brown, a guy who couldn’t even get minutes playing for the Bobcats, simply out-played both of them. Based on that, in my mind, I don’t see either Sasha or Farmar amounting to much on another team. They are Brian Cook, Devean George types of players.

By: DY

DY — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:57:21 +0000

This may have been answered on a post already, but is Farmar really 6’2″ as listed by most websites? Granted, players’ listed heights are often exaggerated (i.e. Barkley), but is Farmar more like 6’0″?

I just really have a premonition that ShanWOW is working hard this summer after getting a contract (thereby validating a lot for his own psyche) and having an opportunity to be a lead PG for the next 2-4 year run. It’s going to be a healthy competition amongst Farmar and Brown. If only we could combine the attributes of both players, that would make for a fine PG.

By: Zephid

Zephid — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:49:09 +0000

Not even the words you say are more important than the way you say them.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:38:46 +0000

“Yes I was the first one last year to do the most sacrilegious thing you could do at that time as a Laker fan… critique Derek Fisher.”

I take it you have no idea of the history behind the PUJIT acronym…

By: TYLER

TYLER — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:20:44 +0000

I really wish people would stop saying that Brown is a better 3pt shooter than Farmar.

Their career %s
Brown: 32.6%
Farmar: 35.3%

Yes, as a Laker last year Brown shot far better than Farmar over that time period. But that is a very small sample size. Brown shot 66.7% in the regular season and 43.4% in the playoffs, but that was only on 9 and 25 attempts respectively.

Shannon is clearly the better defender, but I would be slow to compare the few minutes Shannon played last year and say that he is the superior player when Farmar was playing the worst of his career and Shannon playing his best.