Before the game started, I just wanted to get these few links to you…
… Rey Moralde over at The No Look Pass gathered Andy Kamenetzky (of Land O’ Lakers), Chris Manning (who does the LD2K highlights on youtube), and Jason Riley of The Lakers Nation. Rey asks a few questions about the Lakers opening round series with the Hornets and gets some fantastic analysis back in return from these guys…
… Arash Markazi has a touching feature over at ESPNLA on why Matt Barnes gets a mohawk one day before the post season begins every year…
… Saurav A. Das over at Silver Screen and Roll had a fantastic position-by-position preview of the upcoming Lakers/Hornets series — including the reality of cross matches. It’s very well done and you should all give it a glance for some last-second tidbits to ponder before the game starts…
… Finally, for those of you who aren’t familiar with Synergy, or for those of you who have read about it from either me or Darius but haven’t been able to check it out, Synergy and NBA.com have teamed up to give the fans a little taste of what the fantastic scouting website does. Here, you can check a Synergy Lakers/Hornets series preview, one that will be updated with stats and video from each game as the series progresses. As of right now, you can click on box scores from both the Lakers and Hornets previous 10 games, look at some of the statistics they offer and watch limited video of individual plays, watch all of specific player’s assists or field goal attempts or whatever statistic you’re interested in from that particular game. It also includes visual graphs of team’s go-to plays, defensive impact and a “star tracker.” For those with a synergy account, you can simply log on here instead of going to the synergy website if you wanted the focused playoff matchup stats. This is done for all of the eight first-round playoff match ups.
Aaron says
Be Afraid
Are the Heat hated? Of course. But the Lakers might be hated more. All week long I’m hearing from every media source/analyst that Bynum is a question mark. Can he play? What can he give the Lakers? Even will he be back for the WCF or Finals. You wonder if these guys do any work for their predictions, write ups, or reports? The most likely answer is they do research but they just downright speak with their heart and not their head. Even after the MRI comes back saying Andrew wasn’t even injured, even after he doesn’t miss a practice and Barnes/Artest do. Even after the injury report lists Barnes/Artest and Bynum isn’t even listed. Even after all that when I’m watching TV or listening to the radio all the reporters/experts are more than happy to add questions of Bynum’s status for the first round and even the WCF. Not game one. Not game two. But even series weeks from now? Interesting for a guy who isn’t even on the injury list. So when we raise a championship banner one more time here is to all those who cry with every Lakers victory and cringe with every Kobe scowl. But I guess the times are changing. I don’t hear Kobe has lost a step speculation heading into these playoffs. All I hear is flat out lies about Andrew Bynum’s status… I guess there is a new monster to fear.
Be afraid of The Beast…
Darius Soriano says
Our game 1 chat is up.
http://www.forumblueandgold.com/2011/04/17/game-1-chat-lakers-vs-hornets/