Regular commenter Rob L put his Excel program to work and came up with some Laker stats for the preseason and was kind enough to send along, A few of these are interesting – but again, remember this is preseason so don’t read too much into them. First is that the Lakers picked up the […]
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RIP Red
“To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don’t have two sets of standards. Remember you don’t handle players–you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care–on and off the court. Very important–it’s not […]
Lakers Preview Day
Everywhere you turn today, Laker previews are popping up. The Basketball Jones has its Pacific Division preview podcast up, which includes myself, Kevin from Clipperblog and Tom from Sactown Royalty talking NBA (plus the always fumy J.E. Skeets and Tas). Lots of good information, the downside is you have to hear my voice. If you […]
Roster Moves
The Lakers have cut Von Wafer and Danilo Pinnock. Not a surprise, although I’m disappointed that Pinnock just didn’t shine in camp like I thought he could. So, still on the roster are two guys for one spot, and who gets it says a lot about the Laker plans. On one side is hustling youngster […]
Pacific Roundtable
The Pacific may be as deep a division as there is in the NBA this season, with more storylines than Los Angeles has stripmalls. Well, maybe not that many, but there are plenty. So for the past few weeks some very good bloggers of teams in the division — Tom from Sactown Royalty, Kevin from […]
88 Lines about 44 Lakers
With apologies to The Nails Cooper was the defensive type Except during the Coop-a-loop Cederic Ceballos liked to drive But to ‘zona, not the hoop Byron Scott’s outside shot Was the key to many wins While any Chuck Nevitt shot Belonged over by the bins Frank Brickowski’s touch was better Than his name would suggest […]
Suggested Reading
Beleive it or not, there are other sites worth reading on the web. Here are a few I found this morning. • First, the Lakers opened their afternoon practice yesterday to season ticket holders and The Association was there and gives a good report: Sasha Vujacic is a douche! He was one of the few […]
Whither Kobe
Kobe is not going to win the scoring title this season. Or, maybe a better way of saying this is: If things go well for the Lakers this season, Kobe is not going to win the scoring title. I was thinking about this while answering a few Laker questions for an online fantasy basketball Web […]
Pacific Roundtable
The Algonquin Round Table we are not, but during the last couple weeks bloggers of the five teams in the Pacific Division (Tom from Sactown Royalty, Kevin from Clipperblog, Justin from Golden State of Mind, Brian from The Rising Suns and myself) have been emailing each other both trying to sound witty and impress each […]
Courtside Times
Last year Courtside Times was my first read every day on the NBA, a favorite place for smart research and conversation about the league and its players. They also foolishly let me also do some writing. Unfortunately, after a fast start, as the writers on the site got overwhelmed by a multitude of personal things […]