GT: Dwight Goes Back To Orlando (LAL vs ORL)

CourtsideTV · Post #61 » by **CourtsideTV** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:40 pm

mcscotty wrote:We should definitely win this game. Orlando sucks. Forget the extra motivation. We see that night in and night out. It's the burden of the Purple and Gold.

Orlando sucks so that is why they beat Lakers IN LA..righttttt..and almost beat the Heat if it wasn't for some close calls in the Heat game recently.. LOLZ

BadMofoPimp · Post #62 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:43 pm

jigga_man · Post #63 » by **jigga_man** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:49 pm

CourtsideTV wrote:
mcscotty wrote:We should definitely win this game. Orlando sucks. Forget the extra motivation. We see that night in and night out. It's the burden of the Purple and Gold.

Orlando sucks so that is why they beat Lakers IN LA..righttttt..and almost beat the Heat if it wasn't for some close calls in the Heat game recently.. LOLZ

The expansion 18-64 Toronto Raptors beat the 72-10 Chicago Bulls....LOLZ

mcscotty · Post #64 » by **mcscotty** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:54 pm

jigga_man wrote:
CourtsideTV wrote:
mcscotty wrote:We should definitely win this game. Orlando sucks. Forget the extra motivation. We see that night in and night out. It's the burden of the Purple and Gold.

Orlando sucks so that is why they beat Lakers IN LA..righttttt..and almost beat the Heat if it wasn't for some close calls in the Heat game recently.. LOLZ

The expansion 18-64 Toronto Raptors beat the 72-10 Chicago Bulls....LOLZ

Not in a game of this magnitude. Every game is a playoff game now as far as the Lakers are concerned.

Gek · Post #65 » by **Gek** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:56 pm

CourtsideTV wrote:
mcscotty wrote:We should definitely win this game. Orlando sucks. Forget the extra motivation. We see that night in and night out. It's the burden of the Purple and Gold.

Orlando sucks so that is why they beat Lakers IN LA..righttttt..and almost beat the Heat if it wasn't for some close calls in the Heat game recently.. LOLZ

That's a pretty poor argument. Orlando has been better than expected this year, but come on dude.

Dr Aki · Post #66 » by **Dr Aki** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:59 pm

LApwnd · Post #67 » by **LApwnd** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:11 pm

Gek wrote:
CourtsideTV wrote:
mcscotty wrote:We should definitely win this game. Orlando sucks. Forget the extra motivation. We see that night in and night out. It's the burden of the Purple and Gold.

Orlando sucks so that is why they beat Lakers IN LA..righttttt..and almost beat the Heat if it wasn't for some close calls in the Heat game recently.. LOLZ

That's a pretty poor argument. Orlando has been better than expected this year, but come on dude.

its not poor if you ask me, they were closer to beating Mia then we've been both times, it took a last sec drive by Lebron for them to beat Orl, while the beating they gave Chi on Sun was nice I could still possibly see scenario's like the Pelcian/Raptors game all over again.

JohnVancouver · Post #68 » by **JohnVancouver** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:18 pm

We've shown we can get down to any team in this league, and if Dwight has foul trouble ... awfully thin in the middle
i expect a win but the magic have some nice young players - harris was a great pickup.
My expert opinion is, I have no idea what to expect.
Depends which Lakers team shows up

Post #69 » by **dockingsched** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:26 pm

how sweet would it be if dwight just busted this out during his introduction

Gek · Post #70 » by **Gek** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:28 pm

LApwnd wrote:
Gek wrote:
CourtsideTV wrote:
Orlando sucks so that is why they beat Lakers IN LA..righttttt..and almost beat the Heat if it wasn't for some close calls in the Heat game recently.. LOLZ

That's a pretty poor argument. Orlando has been better than expected this year, but come on dude.

its not poor if you ask me, they were closer to beating Mia then we've been both times, it took a last sec drive by Lebron for them to beat Orl, while the beating they gave Chi on Sun was nice I could still possibly see scenario's like the Pelcian/Raptors game all over again.

Saying, "we almost beat the defending champions" is absolutely a poor argument for saying a team isn't bad. What happened the other 45 losses? Records don't lie. The Lakers are currently a slightly better than .500 team and the Magic are destined for a top 3 lottery pick.

Post #71 » by **Slava** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:29 pm

I think 2 of Miami's losses came against the Wizards without Wall.

LApwnd · Post #72 » by **LApwnd** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:48 pm

Gek wrote:Saying, "we almost beat the defending champions" is absolutely a poor argument for saying a team isn't bad. What happened the other 45 losses? Records don't lie. The Lakers are currently a slightly better than .500 team and the Magic are destined for a top 3 lottery pick.

yes records do say a bit bout a team and fact we're only 2games over .500 also says we're not that good to be predicting blow out and easy win either.

GOODKIDmAAdCITY · Post #73 » by **GOODKIDmAAdCITY** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:49 pm

this shouldn't be a hard game especially with the lakers momentum right now. i just dont ser them losing but they have to put it away fast for tomorrow. just glad Atlanta sucks

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hazy_01 · Post #74 » by **hazy_01** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:03 pm

Maybe this game will be like Lebron's first return to Cleveland as a member of the Heat. If my memory served me right, Heat was struggling before that game then they destroyed Cavs and went on to dominate the rest of the season.

Gek · Post #75 » by **Gek** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:12 pm

LApwnd wrote:
Gek wrote:Saying, "we almost beat the defending champions" is absolutely a poor argument for saying a team isn't bad. What happened the other 45 losses? Records don't lie. The Lakers are currently a slightly better than .500 team and the Magic are destined for a top 3 lottery pick.

yes records do say a bit bout a team and fact we're only 2games over .500 also says we're not that good to be predicting blow out and easy win either.

I am, in no way, predicting a blow out or easy win. If you actually read anything that I wrote you would see that. I am saying that using the "we got close to Miami" argument as an Orlando fan to say their team doesn't "suck" is ridiculous. Nothing more, nothing less.

PurpleBlood24 · Post #76 » by **PurpleBlood24** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:10 pm

The Lakers need to punish the Magic for that embarrassing loss at our home court. Nothing more, nothing less, just beat them to a pulp!!!

Sofa King · Post #77 » by **Sofa King** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:23 pm

Reclaim the 8th seed!

Ballah · Post #78 » by **Ballah** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:42 pm

The only player left from Dwights tenure in Orlando is Jameer Nelson, but he is the heart of the team and he will be extremely pumped. Oh, there is Turk also but he is suspended, also he does not really give a crap about anything but pizza and ball. Dwight is definitely going to get booed hard. Honestly it could go either way, Orlando is a terrible team but they have shown flashes of brilliance against good teams and they are in their home court. LA is clearly the better team, but they are still a barely over .500 team playing on the road against a determined opponent.

Gek · Post #79 » by **Gek** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:54 pm

Penberthy · Post #80 » by **Penberthy** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:08 pm

Gek wrote:Saying, "we almost beat the defending champions" is absolutely a poor argument for saying a team isn't bad. What happened the other 45 losses? Records don't lie. The Lakers are currently a slightly better than .500 team and the Magic are destined for a top 3 lottery pick.

I would normally agree that you are what your record says you are. Except when you get a new coach a few weeks into the season, play a large percentage of the year without your #1 or #2 PG, have a new starting Center that is not healthy, have your starting PF miss a large part of the yr with injury, and have your back up PF go out for the year with an injury. THAT team might be slightly better toward the end of the year than their record implies, because of early losses sustained due to all of the above mentioned factors.