Records: Lakers 1-0 Mavericks 0-1 Offensive (pts per 100 poss): Lakers 101.6 Mavericks 100.5 Defensive (pts per 100 poss): Lakers 94.4 Mavericks 112.7 Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Lamar Odom, Andrew Bynum Mavericks: Jason Kidd, Quinton Ross, Shawn Marion, Dirk Nowitzki, Erick Dampier The Lakers Coming in: Once again, no […]
Archives for October 2009
Lakers/Clippers and other Fast Break Thoughts
During the bloggers forum last weekend at ESPN Zone LALive, Andrew Kamenetzky made what I thought was a very astute point: The Lakers are going to win 20 games or so this season just because they are that much more talented than the other team. The Lakers won’t play bad, they won’t play great, and […]
Clippers vs. Lakers Live Blog powered by nomuskles
Welcome to the first nomuskles live blog of the year! It seemed like this day would never come! Boston vs. Cleveland Neither team looked incredibly impressive (it’s early) but two things stuck out about Cleveland. Shaq is pretty much his same self and Lebron is getting nastier and nastier. He continued his trend of incredible […]
Preview & Chat: The Los Angeles Clippers
Records: Lakers 0-0 Clippers 0-0 Offensive ratings: Lakers NA Clippers NA Defensive ratings: Lakers NA Clippers NA Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Lamar Odom, Andrew Bynum Clippers: Baron Davis, Eric Gordon, Al Thornton, Craig Smith, Chris Kaman Going For The Game One Overload: In addition to the flowing comments here, […]
TrueHoop Network 2009-10 Season Preview: The Lakers
This year the TrueHoop Network has put together a book of NBA team previews, which you will hear more about soon. Due to book publishing deadlines, my first version of this was written in August, well before training camp opened, and had tight word counts to fit space. What follows is a modified version of […]
Lakers Preseason Game #8: Get Thee To The ESPN Zone LALive
Remember, tonight is the Lakers Purple and Gold Bloggers Forum at the ESPN Zone at LALive. Starting at 6 p.m. we will be talking Lakers for an hour, then we will grab an adult beverage, some food and watch the Lakers/Nuggets Part Deux from San Diego. In addition to myself, there will be both Brian […]
Lakers Preseason Game #7: The Denver Nuggets
Tonight is the first game in a while when the Laker rotations could look normal, at least for the first 12 minutes or so. That’s because Pau Gasol and Luke Walton are back, along with Lamar Odom. And in case you were wondering, Andrew Bynum is expected to play despite the minor shoulder injury. And […]
Lakers Preseason Game #6: In the IE
Just after noon today, Stephen Jackson picked up his first foul in tonight’s game. It’s a little odd meeting the same team for a third time in the preseason, but the Lakers and Warriors go at it tonight out in the Inland Empire. The good news is that Lamar Odom is expected back on the […]
ESPN Zone Lakers Blogger Talk, And Some Basketball
Reminder that this Friday night at 6 p.m. at the ESPN Zone at LALive (right across from Staples Center) will be the Lakers bloggers forum, and it should be a lot of fun. We’ll spend an hour or so taking questions and asking Brian Kamenetzky where his cooler brother Andrew is. Besides Brian (he’s from […]
Lakers Preseason Game #5: The Clippers
The easy thing to say is that tonight is a regular season game one preview. Except that it is not. Sure, the Lakers and Clippers play to open the season in 10 days, but this game will look nothing like that game. Reason number one: No Pau, Odom or Luke again tonight. Don’t think this […]