I return from vacation 93 days before the Lakers tip off against the Suns on Halloween night and with very little news to comment on — what little Laker talk out there is not just rumors but pretty much pure speculation. So we’re reduced to talking about Chris Mihm’s golf game. Instead, let me mention […]
Archives for July 2006
In God We trust; all others bring data.
There is a poetry that can be found in numbers. When you turn numbers over and around, when you attempt to make them tell you a specific story, those numbers begin to speak to you. When the numbers melt into the Language, they acquire the power to do all of the things which language can […]
2006 USA Basketball Men’s World Championship Team Finalists Roster
2006-08 USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team 2006 USA Basketball Men’s World Championship Team Finalists Roster Carmelo Anthony Gilbert Arenas Shane Battier Chris Bosh Bruce Bowen Elton Brand Kirk Hinrich Dwight Howard LeBron James Antawn Jamison Joe Johnson Brad Miller Chris Paul Amare Stoudemire Dwyane Wade Cuts: Morrison, Ridenour and Marion (injury) Intial reactions: Dwight […]
Is he wearing the pants in the family or simply putting the creases in them?
Being Mitch Kupchak continued… Is their a sixth and a half floor in the training facility in El Segundo? Because I know that a lot of us would love to take that elevator and pull the emergency stop button in between floors. What do we as outsiders really know about Kupchak and the inner workings […]
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
The theory was to get away from the heat for a week by escaping to the mountains. Except that Big Bear had highs over 100 degrees much of last week. We’re going anyway. The family and I are off on vacation, but I leave you in the very capable hands of Gatinho, who has a […]
Mihm gets Surgery
Forget about trading Chris Mihm before training camp, he underwent surgery to clean up scar tissue in his ankle. Much like Kobe’s knee, this was minor arthroscopic stuff to clean up scar tissue and he’ll be good to go by training camp. However, getting a trade for him now just got a little harder. In […]
Summer League Stats, Thoughts
What follows are some stats from this year’s Summer Pro League for key players from the Lakers’ squad: Andrew Bynum, Jordan Farmar, Danilo Pinnock, Devin Green, Marcus Douthit, Von Wafer and Deron Perkins and Marcus Slaughter. Bynum and Farmar are the only two we know will be with the Lakers in the fall, the others […]
Summer Pro League: The final game
I missed the start of this one and watched the game not in my usual near-the-floor seats (gotta love the media pass for that) but up near the top with a couple buddies. These are just a few notes on the top players, I’ll follow with some stats and final thoughts in the next day […]
Fast Break Thoughts:
I’ll be at the last Laker Summer Pro League game tonight (I was not at yesterday’s shootout), and I’ll put up some closing thoughts and stats in the next few days. But until then…. • Brian Cook had surgery on a thumb he injured recently in a pick-up game. He is expected to be ready […]
Vlade’s Perception
Since we first started talking about the Lakers big off-season move, the signing of Vladimir Radmanovic, the consensus has been something summed up by Tex Winter in an interview on Roland Lazenby’s blog: “In this offense, he’s gonna get some shots,†Winter said of Radmanovic. “He’ll get more open shots than he’s ever had in […]