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I’m feeling a bit of Vertigo from all the cold medications currently pulsing through my veins, but here are a few thoughts as the cuatro y cuatro Lakers (who may end up catorce y catorce) head back to the court after three whole days off in a row. * Everyone seems to want to make […]

I noted it one way the other day — when the Lakers share the ball they look good, when they don’t they don’t. Eric Neel over at ESPN puts in another way, and lays the blame at the feet of Kobe and his shooting percentage. He’s taking the lion’s share (and then some) of the […]

I’m not a patient person, and apparently neither are Laker fans on the whole. While we give lip service to patience as this Laker team grows together and gets healthier, in our heads (not to mention various chat sites and call in shows) we start thinking about trades, tinkering with the lineup and otherwise formulating […]

The Lakers are .500, with a few days off to practice, and here’s what I’ve been thinking about: * In the Lakers four wins this year the team has 81 assists, in the four losses just 57. In the four wins, the Lakers have scored a total of just 9 more points than the losses. […]

We may only be a couple of weeks into the season, but one early NBA trend is good for fans — scoring league-wide is up. Nobody appears to be happier about this than Mark Cuban, whose Dallas team has always been more about entertainment than being built to win it all. In his latest blog […]

Six games into an NBA season is way to few to be a statistically significant. Which is just a fancy way saying it is way to early to know exactly what you’ve got with this year’s Laker team. That has not stopped news outlets from highlighting Kobe’s shooting percentage (.377%) and points per game (27.7) […]

The best basketball site on the Web, 82 Games, recently got a little well-deserved publicity. It is at the leading edge of a wave that will change how basketball players and teams will be evaluated and you should be checking it out. Let me explain, by way of another sport. For the past few years, […]

Observations from last night’s game: * In the first six games the Lakers have been blown out of the building twice — both times in the second game of a back-to-back. (Yes, you could argue that the San Antonio game was not as close as the final score and it was a blowout too, but […]

This blog got its start after the summer of turmoil, where Kobe stayed (and saw the rape charges dropped) while Shaq and Phil Jackson were shown the door. You can say its all in the past and that we need to move on, and you’d be right. But to me, in the same way you […]

Road wins in the NBA are about as easy to come by as real breasts at the Bada Bing, so I don’t want to read too much into the near collapse in New Orleans. It still goes into the victory column and other players — particularly Butler — stepped up. But remember back before the […]