Record: 20-35 (21-34 Pythagorean), 11th seed in the East Record last 10 games: 1-9 Offensive Rating: 105.9 (19th in the league) Defensive Rating: 109.4 (25th in the league) Reaching Goals: Back on Feb. 9, I wrote that the Lakers had one of the softer parts of their schedule coming up for the next 10 games […]
Archives for February 2006
Prime Ticket returns
Prime Ticket, the cable station that was once home to the champion Laker teams as well as the Dodgers and Kings for so many years will be back in April. Technically, it’s still FSN2, but they are rebranding it as Prime Ticket after some consumer studies that showed people remember Prime Ticket fondly and the […]
A Tale of Two Games
The game against Sacramento may have been the best of times, the Lakers played defense for 48 minutes, ran the offense smoothly, other players besides Kobe stepped up and they handily beat a team chasing them in the playoff hunt. The Boston loss may have been the worst of times. Defense? Ha. The Lakers let […]
On Tap: The Boston Celtics
Record: 22-33 (24-31 Pythagorean), 10th in the East Record last 10 games: 4-6 Offensive Rating: 106.7 (17th in the league) Defensive Rating: 108 (22nd in the league) The Rivalry: Jeff from Celtics blog may be right, maybe nobody outside of Boston and LA — and only people over 30 in those cities — really see […]
On Tap: The Los Angeles Clippers
Record: 30-23 (33-20 Pythagorean), 5th seed in the West Record last 10 games: 4-6 (lost 5 straight) Offensive Rating: 106.5 (15th in the league) Defensive Rating: 104.6 (6th in the league) No Trades Is Good Trades: On message boards and talk radio yesterday I kept hearing this sentiment, “If we had just gotten X we […]
Blogging with the Enemy
In addition to posting here, I’ll be doing some work over at True Hoop for the next week, tag-teaming with Jeff from Celtics Blog (Jeff’s a good guy and a great blogger despite the character flaw of being a Celtics fan). Check in over there for some ’80s style throwback and throwdown between a Celtics […]
What Ron-Ron Means To Me
Rather than one of my standard previews of tonight’s game against Sacramento, I’m giving some space to Tom Z., the guy behind the Sactown Royalty blog (one of the best NBA blogs out there) to talk about what the addition of Ron Artest has meant to the Kings (besides 7 wins in the last 10). […]
Trade Talk
No, nothing from the Lakers. And don’t expect anything either. But how about the news from out East — Stephon Marbury and Steve Francis are teammates. Francis needs the ball, he is shooting just 38% (eFG%) on jumpshots this year but 51.8% when he penetrates and gets in close. Marbury needs the ball and gets […]
On Tap: The Portland Trailblazers
Record: 18-33 (17-34 Pythagorean), last in the West Record last 10 games: 3-7 (same as the Lakers, sadly) Offensive Rating: 102 (29th in the league) Defensive Rating: 112.3 (28th in the league) The goal: There are 30 games left in the regular season, and if the Lakers are going to get to 45 wins, they […]
Fast Break
Trades and All Stars and Olympics, oh my: • Kobe, the Mona Lisa for a new generation? Check out this art exhibit. (Thanks to LAist for finding this.) • The rumor seems to have gained some attention — even though everyone involved is denying it — so let’s talk about Steve Francis, or specifically Francis […]