Real Deal

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Big difference here, though. Melo and Amare wouldn't have the green light to stand up to him and say what they please. Kobe is much different, and the front office will have Kobe's back on that. Maybe even Dwight, honestly, because right now, he has all the leverage in the world.

Police were telling all of the kids to close their eyes as they were led out of the building, because of the bodies and blood laying in the halls.

A 24-year old shooter, bullet-proof vest, four weapons, shooting up 5-11 year olds. What a coward.

Nearly 20 children dead, still reporting...links to come. Disgusting.

LOL. Do you guys still have Dana Barros?

Right now, the focus will be to bring in Delonte West or Eddie House (no idea why they'd want House, but whatever), or make a trade for Calderon (ugh...probably means we get Bargnani). We are incredibly bad trying to run an offense with Chris Duhon and Darius Morris...it just doesn't work. Our two best PG's (Nash, who this offense is for, and Blake) are both out. Once that is set, it depends on Nash's return. I believe Gasol is already on the block...not necessarily what Kobe wants to hear, but he knows (like the rest of us, from players to fans) that shit like that has to happen if you want to win championships. In addition to all of this, though, Dwight needs to heal up. He missed a wide-open dunk in the game tonight...horribly. He was predicted to come back late December or in January, so I'm not expecting him to be 100% yet. But, with D'Antoni on the list...we need Nash. In fact, even without Mike coaching...we need a PG, period. We can't have two superstars in an offense that they have never played in before (uptempo) and a bunch of streaky shooters who struggle on the defensive end. Kobe played 44 minutes tonight. He's really the only guy who isn't smiling...and that's a problem, but it's expected, because Kobe doesn't like to lose any game.

Both Kobe and Dwight (our two superstars) have never played in an uptempo offense...one getting to the NBA Finals in a "four out, one in" offense completely built around him being in the post, the other winning five championships in the triangle offense, four of those rings shooting the most FGA/G on the team and leading every championship team he was on in assists. I believe Howard was the reason SVG was fired, but he had nothing to do with Mike Brown being tossed, and it's D'Antoni's fault for trying to play one of the oldest teams in the NBA as if they were young and athletic, in an uptempo offense, that is built for a player that has only played one game with us so far this season.

David Stern should get rid of the three-point line for the Christmas game.

Kobe having back problems now, on the bench (no idea what they are doing to him), and we're getting toasted by the Knicks' reserves. WTF.

LOLakers. Kobe's going to drop 40 tonight, we'll lose, and people will blame him for keeping us from losing by 40.

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Kobe doing nearly everything.

You can still make sense of it. The Spurs (26th) and Thunder (23rd) turn the ball over a lot, also, but they have the ability to get back on defense. Most of our turnovers seem to result in points. Also, what you said is true...as we go along, and we get back Nash, we should find it easier to take care of the ball. So, while it's a big issue now, it's not our only big issue. We're just slower than most teams.

We're averaging 16.5 TO/G, not 13.1. Altogether, we have 362 turnovers in 22 games. That's 28th in the league.

Might have a silhouette change, so hold off on the orders, unless you're dead-set on wearing the ALCS logo (or, if you're getting something with our text logo, which will NOT change).

Missed it. Replay here in a bit, though, lol.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/sports/pro_basketball/article/286756/402/NBA-Game-Summary---Denver-at-Detroit

Horrible game. It would have been 100 times better with Eric Gordon and John Wall, and that's saying a lot.

Ed Davis though!!! Bargs needs to take notes.

Wii Curling?

Dwight Howard led his Orlando Magic to the NBA Finals in the "four out, one in" offense that SVG handed him in ORL, so I doubt that's true. If the numbers are similar, it would be from back in 2009 and 2010, when Gasol was playing center, Odom at PF...and a lot of that production wasn't exactly due to Gasol, but from the triangle and Kobe making the game far much easier for Pau. Gasol's best years were in the triangle offense, and with Kobe. It helps that there are really no true positions in the triangle, that it requires five able-bodied passers, and that Gasol had so much flexibility and opportunities to max out his abilities...but now, things are different. He would be better without this offense, I'm sure of it...but we can't win championships with him as our second option anymore, and now that we have Dwight and Nash, Gasol has to be the guy to adjust. If he's not going to post up in our starting five, he has to do it when we have him out there with the second unit...or SOMETHING. I'm not saying there isn't room (and maybe you aren't saying that I am, lol)...there is. I'm saying that Gasol doesn't want it. There's the Dwight Howard excuse, but even with Howard on the bench, Gasol stays high with the bench unit...and if there's ANY a time where we need Gasol down low, it's when the bench is out there. His passing can get them open shots. And to touch on the other post...no, he's not Bargnani, but he's reminding us of him this season. We can't have Gasol playing that way, no matter who is at fault. We pull him away from the rim, and suddenly, he's rebounding less, not able to kick out to shooters, and he's shooting the ball inconsistently...and that wears him down enough to change the way he plays defense (even though he has never been a good defender, he still has length).

Ron was on Miles a lot, also. Kobe is helping too much...and he's not young enough to recover. A lot of Lakers fans blow it up, though, when they see him gamble once or twice a game. When it happens, suddenly, he's the worst defender on the team. Sadly, I'm not really sure if he's going to be able to stay on his man, and that the help defense will have to come from him and Howard, primarily. We know that Artest is going to be our best on-ball defender, not much help from his side since he'll be defending the Durants and LeBrons (and Artest is struggling, make no mistake about it)...and our PF (Gasol), PG (Nash, Blake, Morris, Duhon), and our two best bench players (Jamison and Meeks) are all pretty bad defensively. We just can't get back on defense when we make OR miss a shot. Teams push the ball. That has been a problem for years, really, and the big reason why we haven't reached the WCF in the last two seasons. There are a lot of times that Kobe walks away from his man to make sure a pass doesn't go into the post against someone like Jamison, or camps so a PG doesn't destroy Duhon or Morris to the rim. He doesn't get back in time for the three. However, we defend the three-point line 6th best in the NBA, so that's not really that big of a concern, him giving up a three in the second quarter of a game...although Lakers fans think we're missing the playoffs and will be a lottery team this season.

BLASPHEMOUS!