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Game 46: Lakers @ Detroit // Thur. 7.30pm on TV20 Detroit
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:07 am
by nasty daddy
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:08 pm
by m23uza1hem36
I can't wait for this game; I think it's a huge game personally to see how we compete with having to double team Kobe and having him kick it out, the way Lebron did us us in the playoffs.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:49 pm
by Master Shake
I would like this game a lot better if Bynum was playing, I'd really like to see how we match up inside with him, and I would be willing to put money on us he'd tear us up so bad inside Saunders would actually put Amir and Maxiell on him.
Should be a game we win due to how Lamar Odom sucks and injuries for the Lakers, and we need some revenge, last time I said that though, we lost to the Kings.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:13 pm
by Phobo_Phile
Thank goodness the MVP isn't playing. Kobe might have a good night now that he isn't hiding underneath the shadow of El Ariza.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:19 pm
by Snakebites
Yeah its a pity that Bynum isnt playing. This game is still a big one, but it could have been epic.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:28 am
by Hunter
Yeah, bummer Bynum is injured.
Still, Kobe is one of the few players I never bet against. I've long said I have no problems picking the Lakers to lose a series, but you'd be hard pressed to get me to bet against them in any particular game. You never know when he's gonna do something spectacular.
And don't make the mistake of thinking the Lakers are all Kobe (and Bynum) this year. Fisher & Farmar have both been very solid, and although having a down year Odom is still a solid player. Guys like Turiaf & Walton can get it done at times too.
Still, this is a game we should win, particularly in our building. Matchup I'm looking forward too? Amir vs. Turiaf.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:54 am
by Snakebites
^I was skeptical of the Lakers new-found supporting cast. It looked like Kobe finally had a good cast around him early on last season (when they also got off to a hot start), only to prove Odom and co. still didnt have the consistency to keep it going through the stretch run.
But with Bynum as a legit second guy (assuming he bounces back in the predicted 6 weeks or so), Fisher returning and Farmar emerging, the whole group looks really solid.
May not have liked Odom much as a number two guy (which is why the Lakers could be in for a mediocre month), he seems fine as the third guy on the team.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:20 am
by Hunter
Pistons#1 wrote:^I was skeptical of the Lakers new-found supporting cast. It looked like Kobe finally had a good cast around him early on last season (when they also got off to a hot start), only to prove Odom and co. still didnt have the consistency to keep it going through the stretch run.
But with Bynum as a legit second guy (assuming he bounces back in the predicted 6 weeks or so), Fisher returning and Farmar emerging, the whole group looks really solid.
May not have liked Odom much as a number two guy (which is why the Lakers could be in for a mediocre month), he seems fine as the third guy on the team.
Yeah, Odom is really weird. He seems best suited to being a 3rd option, although arguably his best season came Wades rookie year in Miami when the Heat ran the offense through Odom.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:25 am
by Snakebites
^Maybe its Kobe?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:55 am
by DEEP3CL
Man I have to admit I came in thinking the usual of most boards thoughts on the Lakers, mostly people saying we suck or we'll get beat by 20.
Fact is we've only been dealt with only a couple of times by 10 or more.
I really respect you guys analysis of the Lakers, at least there's some real b-ball IQ here instead of the usual stuff like I mentioned above with no valid reason on why it will happen.
Well as you guys know were taking off on this 9 game 14 day trip starting with your Pistons on Thursday. Billups is playing this time so I definitely expect a different game. I like how CB just runs everything for that team.
Really I just hope we can do about 6-3 or no worse then 5-4 on the trip. Haven't seen much of the Pistons so I'm not going to front and say this and that about them all I know is you guys are my pick to make the Celtics cry come late May.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:15 am
by nasty daddy
DEEP3CL wrote:Man I have to admit I came in thinking the usual of most boards thoughts on the Lakers, mostly people saying we suck or we'll get beat by 20.
Fact is we've only been dealt with only a couple of times by 10 or more.
I really respect you guys analysis of the Lakers, at least there's some real b-ball IQ here instead of the usual stuff like I mentioned above with no valid reason on why it will happen.
Well as you guys know were taking off on this 9 game 14 day trip starting with your Pistons on Thursday. Billups is playing this time so I definitely expect a different game. I like how CB just runs everything for that team.
Really I just hope we can do about 6-3 or no worse then 5-4 on the trip. Haven't seen much of the Pistons so I'm not going to front and say this and that about them all I know is you guys are my pick to make the Celtics cry come late May.
So is Dice, both Chauncey and Dice were both out injured for our first meeting in LA.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:06 pm
by jab
DEEP3CL wrote:Man I have to admit I came in thinking the usual of most boards thoughts on the Lakers, mostly people saying we suck or we'll get beat by 20.
Fact is we've only been dealt with only a couple of times by 10 or more.
I really respect you guys analysis of the Lakers, at least there's some real b-ball IQ here instead of the usual stuff like I mentioned above with no valid reason on why it will happen.
Really I just hope we can do about 6-3 or no worse then 5-4 on the trip. Haven't seen much of the Pistons so I'm not going to front and say this and that about them all I know is you guys are my pick to make the Celtics cry come late May.
Welcome to our board Deep3CL
Please feel free to come back and post, we don't get many visitors who know how to act in 'other peoples house'.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:43 pm
by Hunter
Honestly, a .500 road trip is considered good by most team standards. A nine game road trip with no Bynum? IF I'm a Laker fan I'm thrilled if I go 5-4 and can live with 4-5. That's no easy task. It's important to get off to a good start because by that 5th game your legs really start dragging and you're depth gets seriously tested. To have to play 4 more games after that? I don't envy you. This could be a pretty rough patch for the Lakers.
And that's no indictment on your team. Just a bad break losing one of your key players during such a brutal part of the schedule.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:46 pm
by GJense4181
I hope Rasheed and/or McDyess take it right to Kwame Brown and get the fool in foul trouble. With Mihm/Bynum out, Rony Turiaf would be their only big man alternative off the bench.
Between Brown/Turiaf, I'm sure there'd be opportunities to throw Amir/Maxiell into the game against their SFs-that-sometimes-masquerade-as-PFs, Odom/Radmanovic/Walton.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:46 pm
by GJense4181
^Unless, of course, DJ Mbenga tears us a new one?
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:54 am
by nasty daddy
http://www.mlive.com/pistons/index.ssf/ ... o_one.html
Detroit will have a deeper squad tonight than they had when the two teams met on Nov. 16. In that game, the Pistons were playing without Antonio McDyess (left shoulder) and Chauncey Billups (left knee). Both will play tonight. The Lakers, meanwhile, will be playing without Andrew Bynum (left knee).
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:22 am
by ajaX82
Maybe we should bring in Samb and play him and Amir again
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:35 am
by nasty daddy
ajaX82 wrote:Maybe we should bring in Samb and play him and Amir again
I thought about that myself the other day, but Samb has just been sent back down to the Mad Ants yesterday.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:39 am
by nasty daddy
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 10379/1127
The Pistons are happy to be getting off the road. Tonight's game against the Lakers at The Palace marks the end of a tough January. The suitcases can be put away for a bit; eight of the Pistons' next 10 games -- through Feb. 22 -- are at home. That's after a January in which 10 of the Pistons' 15 games were on the road.
A side effect of being gone so much is less time to practice. Pistons coach Flip Saunders thinks his team has weathered the worst of the schedule without too much damage. "I really think when people look at us right now, we're flying under radar," Saunders told WDFN Wednesday. "Look at the schedule after the All-Star Game. We have 13 (actually 14) road games, and pretty much only one more multi-game road trip."
The Pistons' next big trip starts Feb. 24, a swing through Phoenix, Denver, Utah and L.A. At the other end of the spectrum are the Lakers, who are on game three of a nine-game trip. The Lakers will be gone from home until Feb. 13. And they are missing some important parts: center Andrew Bynum (knee) and forward Trevor Ariza (foot). Luke Walton (hip) also might miss time. Still, Lakers coach Phil Jackson remains hopeful about his team being able to use this trip as a springboard. "I was looking forward to this trip as one in which the team would unify and build the kind of resolve you need for the playoffs, because you're out on the road a lot," Jackson told the L.A. Times. "We'll see how we do."
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:34 pm
by Craig McDermott
Pistons#1 wrote:^Maybe its Kobe?

It's not Kobe. Odom is a waste of space. Forever a Clipper. Nothing to suggest that the year w/ Wade wasn't a fluke.