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5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:20 am
by EArl
Re: Lakers Vs Thunder pre-series chatter
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:45 am
by MelosSoreWrist
defensively having MWP, Kobe and Barnes out on the court in the 4th might be the best matchup... in fact they could probably mix and match any which way against Durant, Westbrook and Harden... but they wont be able to spread and stretch the floor well offensively.
Re: Lakers Vs Thunder pre-series chatter
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:01 am
by Kdot
Andrew Bynum - "I swear man if we can play hard for 48 minutes we can beat anyone in the league."
Re: Lakers Vs Thunder pre-series chatter
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:06 am
by milesfides
Rotations wise, we need to start Blake over Sessions. Blake has been our only decent 3 pt-shooting guard in the playoffs. After this game 7, I think it's obvious we need to make this change before the series start. Can't give away any games in this series.
Sessions off the bench is going to help offset Harden's plus minus. Nobody else on our bench is going to either stop Harden or outscore him.
This will help both our starters and our bench, it just makes sense, especially against OKC.
Re: Lakers Vs Thunder pre-series chatter
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:38 am
by kobeaki
milesfides wrote:Rotations wise, we need to start Blake over Sessions. Blake has been our only decent 3 pt-shooting guard in the playoffs. After this game 7, I think it's obvious we need to make this change before the series start. Can't give away any games in this series.
Sessions off the bench is going to help offset Harden's plus minus. Nobody else on our bench is going to either stop Harden or outscore him.
This will help both our starters and our bench, it just makes sense, especially against OKC.
decent idea, i dont think brown is swift enough for that level of abstract thought...
Re: Lakers Vs Thunder pre-series chatter
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:47 am
by Mamba Venom
Time fore operation FISHER (since operation ODOM worked so well) moo hahahahaha mmmmooooo hahahahahha.
JK
Fisher is giving them so much inside info it will probably be the death of us. Wish Fish was with us and if not us, the Rockets.
5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 10:34 am
by Anklebreaker702
So we got by the Nuggets, but now we have the thunder.
I say Lakers in 6 if our bigs come to play.
Bynum and Gasol have to be dominant. With an injured Perkins, Bynum has to take advantage. Same thing with Gasol and Ibaka. Kobe needs to guard Westbrook and contain hm for us to succeed. Metta has to also control Durant. That leaves harden. In the fourth when Harden is playing with those two together, who guards Harden?
The logical thing would seem for kobe to guard Harden and to put someone else on Westbrook, but with Sessions and Blake terrible on defense it looks bad.
The key to this series is to contain two of the three top scorers. If we can do this than i say the Lakers win. Hopefully with Jordan hill guarding the pick and roll better than our other bigs, he can be big for us.
X-FACTOR OF THE SERIES: METTA WORLD PEACE
Lets Get Ready To Rumble

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Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 12:04 pm
by Dr Aki
every time i see "chesapeake" i have to do a double take
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 1:28 pm
by The Skyhook
Winning game 1 gives the Lakers the best shot to win this series in my eyes. I expect this series to be extremely chippy. I'm also expecting Perkins to pull his tough guy act and I just hope this team responds to that but abusing him inside the paint opposed to doing something to risk picking up a technical or even an ejection.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 1:57 pm
by DFolks
Aki wrote:every time i see "chesapeake" i have to do a double take
Lol I keep thinking its saying "cheesecake".
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:17 pm
by iamworthy
We need real eye candy. I posted some last game thats the reason why we won!

Re: Lakers Vs Thunder pre-series chatter
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:48 pm
by The Skyhook
milesfides wrote:Rotations wise, we need to start Blake over Sessions. Blake has been our only decent 3 pt-shooting guard in the playoffs. After this game 7, I think it's obvious we need to make this change before the series start. Can't give away any games in this series.
Sessions off the bench is going to help offset Harden's plus minus. Nobody else on our bench is going to either stop Harden or outscore him.
This will help both our starters and our bench, it just makes sense, especially against OKC.
If Blake starts do we switch Kobe over to Westbrook on defense? That would drain Kobe out.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:01 pm
by Sedale Threatt
OKC is a great young team coming into its own. Going to take everything we have with a little luck on top.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:14 pm
by TruSkool
if the lakers can come out of this round, theres a reallllllllyyyy good chance they win it all.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:49 pm
by desertlakerfan
If there is any team can beat the Thunder in a 7 game series, its the Lakers at full strength. All we need to do this series is make it difficult for 2 of their 3 primary scorers to win. Kobe and Metta will need to play heavy minutes and we'll need a reemergence from Barnes defensively, but I think we can do it.
This team is much better than the first 6 games of the Denver series showed, with any luck that performance will have OKC taking us lightly in game 1. That along with their extended rest will give us a excellent opportunity to take this first game.
Im going to say we take them out in 6 if we can steal one of these first 2, otherwise this will likely go to 7 again and we'll have to see what this squad can do in a big pressure situation away from Staples.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:35 pm
by RocketPower23
Where is the eye candy?!?!? Do you guys even know how to strategize, geez.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:43 pm
by jellybean8
Man i swear to god if fisher hits a clutch shot.......
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:45 pm
by dockingsched
been a long time since i felt the lakers were the underdog going into a series.
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:49 pm
by Anklebreaker702
iamworthy wrote:We need real eye candy. I posted some last game thats the reason why we won!

Thought about that Big Game & you confirmed it. So I'll get on it
Re: 5/14/12 MON GAME 1 LAKERS @ THUNDER TNT 6:30 PM
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:07 pm
by Anklebreaker702