GT: Lakers versus Celtics Feb 7 - 5:00pm

[Doormatt]

ive been saying that for about 500 hundred years now.

[DEEP3CL]

I hate it when guys used the over used term " blow it up". It ain't that damn easy, you gotta have other teams willing to take those players.

[Edrees]

Now that Pau's out Dwight's the new hate train. Everyone just has to play the blame game. The problems are with the team overall. Usually with one player if everyone else was doing their job you'd still be over .500.

[SashAlex]

You know guys, in a team, it's enough for just one player to spoil the chemistry with his attitude, with his mentality etc. etc. and things will clearly be out of sync. I mean, this team can be right up there in the WC if there was actually a team with everyone on the same page.

It's obvious that Dwight doesn't want to commit to dedicate himself for the sake of winning with the Lakers. He rushed his comeback, for the reasons I still don't understand, instead of patiently recovering fully. To me, it feels like he doesn't want to be here, he's somewhere else mentally when you look at him, and unfortunately we don't have someone like Phil to solve this matters at least at some degree. This is where you need a great coach, not exactly the one drawing X's and O's, but a coach capable to handle situations like these. Instead we're stuck with a coach chosen by the Busses over Phil, a coach that ran this team to death on the court before he realised, or forced to do so, that his system ain't good for the team, for the pieces it has.

Then comes Pau and his benching and total missuse. And that is how the Lakers are out of the playoffs picture with no optimistical options in the near future.

A lot of pieces have come together to create the bleak picture that is today.

[AcecardZ]

You know guys, in a team, it's enough for just one player to spoil the chemistry with his attitude, with his mentality etc. etc. and things will clearly be out of sync. I mean, this team can be right up there in the WC if there was actually a team with everyone on the same page.

It's obvious that Dwight doesn't want to commit to dedicate himself for the sake of winning with the Lakers. He rushed his comeback, for the reasons I still don't understand, instead of patiently recovering fully. To me, it feels like he doesn't want to be here, he's somewhere else mentally when you look at him, and unfortunately we don't have someone like Phil to solve this matters at least at some degree. This is where you need a great coach, not exactly the one drawing X's and O's, but a coach capable to handle situations like these. Instead we're stuck with a coach chosen by the Busses over Phil, a coach that ran this team to death on the court before he realised, or forced to do so, that his system ain't good for the team, for the pieces it has.

Then comes Pau and his benching and total missuse. And that is how the Lakers are out of the playoffs picture with no optimistical options in the near future.

A lot of pieces have come together to create the bleak picture that is today.

So Dwight rushed back from his injury yet doesn't want to be here? I'm not sure I'm following you bro!

[exculpatory]

Plus every time these maggots see us they're trying to extract their fails from Game 7. Y'all can have this one Celtics, we'll kick that ass in 2 weeks.

[ball teacher]

Dwight was forced to play in L.A when he never wanted to be here because he was skeptical of playing with Kobe, then after he is forced here he rushes back from his back injury and back injuries have ruined the careers of great players like Larry Johnson, Baron Davis, Brad Daugherty, TJ Ford and Ralph Sampson. Dwight's game is clearly not the same, his explosiveness isn't nearly what it was when he was healthy just last year and on top of that Kobe still has taken over 100 more shots than Howard but even still Howard is averaging about 18 and 11.
The problem is their is no leadership on this team...anywhere, and Kobe isn't being and has never been a great teamate, why he gets a pass now is beyond me. There is no chance Howard resigns with this team, NONE, and if you think it's because of anyone else other than Kobe you are sadly mistaken. Howard is a likeable, easy going guy, Kobe isn't and has NEVER been, this combination was doomed from the start and I don't know why nobody else saw this coming.
Kobe needs a well polished dominate big man to play with, he has been spoiled with having the most dominant big man in the modern era on his team, and after Shaq left he played with not one but two of the best and most skilled big men on his team at the same time with Gasol and Bynum. Howard is not as skilled as any of these 3 bigs and with his personality it was clear that Kobe would irritate the hell out of Howard. Kobe has called Howard out in the media, he alledgedly confronted Howard in a players only meeting, he pissed Howard off to the point Howard wanted to fight him in the locker room, and now he's running to the media saying Howard needs to play through his torn labrum.....are you serious? Howard will leave L.A as soon as he get's his chance, you better believe it!

[AcecardZ]

@Ball teacher

You sure do speak in a lot of definitives. Some of the stuff you're saying is an absolute certainty you'd have no way of knowing unless you were an insider.

You may end up being right about some things but my guess is you're just speculating.

[kobe808lak]

Howard has gone from the best C in the league to arguably the worst... he is awful. If this is the Howard we have in the lineup, I'd rather play without him.... for being a good rebounder, he sure as sh*t doesn't box out.

How do you miss 5 out of 6 free throws. A child can make more under handed.

[JohnVancouver]

Hugely disappointing performance by everyone. They all forgot what everything they were doing right. As Gen. Nash said, when Kobe goes hero, everyone else just stands around and watches. Zero ball movement

If Dwight is playing like this because he's hurt, he needs to sit.
FO needs to find a big - Sweet Lou, please.
Need a commitment to defense, too. Watching JGreen tiptoe past Jamison for that finger roll was painful and angry-making.

All that said, even very good teams get blown out on occasion. Boston frankly has more manpower than we do right now, and Jet,brandon bass and co. are simply much better than what we can put on the floor.

I try to remind myself that any team that loses Howard (and with how he's playing, he might as well be lost), Pau and Hill is going to suffer badly. This is a cursed season.

FO needs to sacrifice some babies and deal with the devil

[SashAlex]

You know guys, in a team, it's enough for just one player to spoil the chemistry with his attitude, with his mentality etc. etc. and things will clearly be out of sync. I mean, this team can be right up there in the WC if there was actually a team with everyone on the same page.

It's obvious that Dwight doesn't want to commit to dedicate himself for the sake of winning with the Lakers. He rushed his comeback, for the reasons I still don't understand, instead of patiently recovering fully. To me, it feels like he doesn't want to be here, he's somewhere else mentally when you look at him, and unfortunately we don't have someone like Phil to solve this matters at least at some degree. This is where you need a great coach, not exactly the one drawing X's and O's, but a coach capable to handle situations like these. Instead we're stuck with a coach chosen by the Busses over Phil, a coach that ran this team to death on the court before he realised, or forced to do so, that his system ain't good for the team, for the pieces it has.

Then comes Pau and his benching and total missuse. And that is how the Lakers are out of the playoffs picture with no optimistical options in the near future.

A lot of pieces have come together to create the bleak picture that is today.

So Dwight rushed back from his injury yet doesn't want to be here? I'm not sure I'm following you bro!

Look at his body language and commitment.

[AcecardZ]

You know guys, in a team, it's enough for just one player to spoil the chemistry with his attitude, with his mentality etc. etc. and things will clearly be out of sync. I mean, this team can be right up there in the WC if there was actually a team with everyone on the same page.

It's obvious that Dwight doesn't want to commit to dedicate himself for the sake of winning with the Lakers. He rushed his comeback, for the reasons I still don't understand, instead of patiently recovering fully. To me, it feels like he doesn't want to be here, he's somewhere else mentally when you look at him, and unfortunately we don't have someone like Phil to solve this matters at least at some degree. This is where you need a great coach, not exactly the one drawing X's and O's, but a coach capable to handle situations like these. Instead we're stuck with a coach chosen by the Busses over Phil, a coach that ran this team to death on the court before he realised, or forced to do so, that his system ain't good for the team, for the pieces it has.

Then comes Pau and his benching and total missuse. And that is how the Lakers are out of the playoffs picture with no optimistical options in the near future.

A lot of pieces have come together to create the bleak picture that is today.

So Dwight rushed back from his injury yet doesn't want to be here? I'm not sure I'm following you bro!

Look at his body language and commitment.

His body language looks a lot more to me like the language of a guy that's frustrated that things aren't going well. He's a grown man. If he doesn't want to be on the court he wouldn't be on the court. It would be very easy for Dwight to just say his back or shoulder are bothering him and he can't play and nobody would give him a hard time about it. Instead he's out there playing and everybody's on his case because he's not playin like 2009 Dwight.
Believe me I'm as frustrated by his lack of progress as anybody else but I have a lot I faith our team doctors know what's best wrt him and the team. They'd never let the team sign him to a high dollar long term deal if they didn't think he was capable of playing at the level necessary to warrant such a contract.

Yes Dwight laughs and smiles more than we're comfortable with at times but there's no evedince that suggests he doesn't care...