Official Los Angeles Lakers Thread

[minew_m]

Great game by the Lakers. Slava is really starting to come out as a great player!

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Originally posted by minew_m
Great game by the Lakers. Slava is really starting to come out as a great player!

yup, agree

His improvement is sooooooo impressive.

And his defense is not too bad, either. He's gone from sub-par to average.

boy, his jump shot is great! Now, if only he can be consistent for an entire season

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1/15/04 update: without Kobe, Shaq, Karl....Lakers getting shafted by 21 points in the 3rd quarter.

Losses like these are easy to take, b/c you know you can't beat a Kings team when 3 of your starters are not playing.

oh well....at least San Antonio lost their 3rd straight.

[stalking_WOLF_21]

lakers lose to who the kings the kings

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lolol....

it was a no-brainer.

Lakers-Kings is always a tough game when all players are available.

Imagine losing 3 starters, and then trying to beat the Kings

[minew_m]

Kareem Rush was great though. 16-22 shooting for 30 points. I would have never expected that from him. He has been doing great latetly. He will need to continue doing that if the Lakers have any chance at winning in the next couple of weeks without Kobe and Malone.

[stalking_WOLF_21]

imaging haveing no shaq for two sesons only playing 40 to 20 games (c-web) so how about that

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Originally posted by minew_m
Kareem Rush was great though. 16-22 shooting for 30 points. I would have never expected that from him. He has been doing great latetly. He will need to continue doing that if the Lakers have any chance at winning in the next couple of weeks without Kobe and Malone.

yea, I agree!

Rush is definitely a scorer; he does need to work on his passing skills, which are sub-par. If he's continually making bad passes, he won't be in at the end of ball games

I remember his brother, JaRon, who attended UCLA at about same time I was there in mid 1990s

JaRon was a piece of sh*t, so full of himself, that it was pathetic!
He came to UCLA thinking he could just show up, play 1-2 years, and go to the NBA.

This guy didn't improve much from his first game to his last game; and made a HORRIBLE move by leaving early for the NBA draft. He wasn't drafted....and spent a few years over in Europe.

Not sure what he's doing now.

We (i.e. UCLA students, alumni, etc) knew JaRon wasn't ready for the NBA (he couldn't play defense, was an inconsistent scorer).

NBA is different from NCAA football. In football, if there's the slightest chance you could be drafted by NFL, you LEAVE, b/c in football, all it takes is one nasty hit, and your career is ruined (see Willis McGahee)....but in hoops, it's very rare to have a career ending injury

unless you're a moron like Jay Williams, buy a bike, and teach yourself to ride it, then crash into a tree, break your ankle, knee, hip, and are out 1-2 full years, lolol

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1/17/04 update: Lakers 91-89 over the Clippers

a terrible game, with bad offense, bad defense, poor free throw shooting,

the only reason Lakers won was b/c the Clippers were more worse than the Lakers

Shaq, Karl and Kobe expected to be out at least 1-2 more weeks!!

ugh!

next up is Phoenix at Staples Center this coming Monday.

as long as we can win a few games here and there while they're out, we'll be OK

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1/21/04 update:

Lakers lose to Phoenix at home this past Monday 1/19/04
Lakers lose to Memphis on the road today

both games had same features:

a long stretch during which Lakers were outscore 12+ to None

bad rebounding
bad blocking out
bad offense

Lakers just don't have any scorers....so they keep the games close with their hard play, and then lose in the end b/c they can't score when they need to.

Watching the lakers this season, I can see why Payton only averages 18-19 points a game for his career. He's not a good perimeter shooter.

oh well........ tomorrow is a back-to-back at Dallas. Hoping we don't lose by more than 30

Dallas won't have a problem scoring 110
We might get to 85