It’s been said that familarity breeds contempt. In personal relationships this idiom is often used to explain how people grow tired of/lose respect for those that they live with and/or work. How those every day interactions lead to getting too familiar with a person’s faults or those traits that ultimately become annoying. However, when applying this […]
Archives for January 2011
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From Kevin Ding, OC Register: If the guys in green remain the greatest threat, the Lakers are peaking at the right time before the big test from the Boston Celtics again. With a 120-91 destruction of the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night, the Lakers have won 10 of their past 12 games. Lakers coach Phil […]
Lakers/Jazz: Beating A Good Team Shouldn’t Look That Easy
Coming into this game, my hope was that the Lakers would jump on the reeling Jazz from the outset and carry over their strong play from Friday’s win against the Nuggets. My thought was that even though the Jazz hadn’t had much success at Staples (losing their last 16 games when visiting the Lakers) that […]
Preview and Chat: The Utah Jazz
Records: Lakers 32-13 (2nd in West, 6 games behind Spurs), Jazz (27-17 (6th in West, 4.5 games behind Lakers) Offensive ratings: Lakers 112.3 (1st in NBA), Jazz 109.6 (8th in NBA) Defensive ratings: Lakers Lakers 104.7 (10th in NBA), Jazz 108.3 (19th in NBA) Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Pau Gasol, Andrew […]
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From Henry Abbott, TrueHoop: Laker fans have been disappointed at various times this season. Jerry West is talking about an old team, and Phil Jackson is not correcting him. There has been a lot of talk about lack of effort. But despite all of that, consider that as of this moment, and by a slim […]
Speed, Size, and Defensive Efficiency
While the Lakers have typically been seen as a team that relies on its offense (that Triangle thing they run has led to quite a few championships over the years), we’ve long said that the Lakers will go as far as their defense takes them. With a top 10 defense this year (based off defensive […]
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From Dexter Fishmore: SBNation: Lamar Odom strains the vocabulary of hoops criticism. To understand how, begin with the question of positional taxonomy. Every Lakers box score, depth chart and official game program will tell you that Lamar is a power forward, and indeed he is. He plays on the front line alongside either Andrew Bynum […]
Around The World (Wide Web): Anniversary Of Kobe’s 81
Five years ago today, the Lakers were in a much different place than they are now. Rather than competing for championships, they were competing just to make the playoffs. They were only one dreadful season removed from trading Shaq, a year that saw them miss the playoffs for the first time in Kobe’s career (a […]
Lakers/Nuggets: Kobe’s Fingerprints All Over This Win
When previewing this game, I mentioned that a major key to this match up would be for the Lakers to play a controlled game where they kept an even keel and didn’t let the emotion of the game get away from them. Well, they were able to do just that as they defeated the Nuggets […]
Preview and Chat: The Denver Nuggets
Records: Lakers 31-13 (2nd in West), Nuggets 24-17 (7th in West) Offensive ratings: Lakers 112.1 (1st in NBA), Nuggets 111.7 (2nd in NBA) Defensive ratings: Lakers 104.5 (9th in NBA), Nuggets 108.5 (19th in NBA) Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers:Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum Nuggets: Chauncey Billups, Arron Afflalo, Carmelo Anthony, […]