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PROJECTED STARTING LINEUPS





BRANDON KNIGHT



RODNEY STUCKEY



TAYSHAUN PRINCE



JASON MAXIELL



GREG MONROE











STEVE NASH



KOBE BRYANT



METTA WORLD PEACE



PAU GASOL



DWIGHT HOWARD









LAL COACHES





KEY NOTES
1. Run the princeton offense for a full 24 seconds, on both sides of the floor. No point in player x running after player y's man to set a screen and just stop.
2. P&R with Nash and Howard is a must
3. Play on both ends of the floor. The lakers have 3 defensive stars, and none of them are playing like it
4. Use minutes wisely. This keeps Dwight out of foul trouble. It allows Ebanks and Meeks to get some burn, and it allows Jamison to play more while limiting Jordan Hill's minutes since he still seems shaky
5.Control the turnovers. The Lakers are averaging 19 a game with some of the best ball handlers on the team











EYE CANDY

the women of the starting 5 (and 6th man)


(nash)


(kobe)


(mwp)


(pau)


(d12)


(me)

Prince wtf?


Oh yeah,first win of the season

All those years of giving up first round draft picks. Which would have added some youth to the team. Well we are seeing the effects now. Old, slow team with Kobe have to go for 40 so we can loose only by 10. What did the Lakers do this off season. Trade a lot of future #1 picks for a 38 year old PG and a center who will walk at years end if he does not see anything here worth staying for.

Brandon Knight drops -10 points on -5/10 shooting and 30 turnovers, LA Wins 100-4

1st win leading to a win streak? =D

laduane1 wrote:All those years of giving up first round draft picks. Which would have added some youth to the team. Well we are seeing the effects now. Old, slow team with Kobe have to go for 40 so we can loose only by 10. What did the Lakers do this off season. Trade a lot of future #1 picks for a 38 year old PG and a center who will walk at years end if he does not see anything here worth staying for.

Those picks wouldn't have been any better than mid-to-late first-round, and you know this. How well have we drafted in years past when we did have #1 picks?

Bynum, Farmar, Vujacic, Mark Madsen... yeah, really solid batting average there.

Fact is, if you want to be in a place to contend year-in and year-out, you have to give up draft picks or cap space -- and we haven't had cap space since the Shaq signing. Nearly ALL our success in the last 5-6 years has come through trades. Don't like it? That's fine. But you waive your right to complain the next time Jimmy tries to take the team through a conventional rebuilding period.

hazy_01 wrote:1st win leading to a win streak? =D

Pistons,@Jazz,Warriors and Kings before the game vs the Spurs

We MUST go 4-0 here....

ROballer wrote:

hazy_01 wrote:1st win leading to a win streak? =D

Pistons,@Jazz,Warriors and Kings before the game vs the Spurs

We MUST go 4-0 here....

W-L-W-L

Kinda hard to play D when

- your dumbass coach has Kobe playing 43 minutes (31 straight if you include the second quarter) on a sprained foot and Kobe and Vitti both admit to telling him he needed a break, only to be ignored cause Mike needed a win, so Kobe is in a walking boot now

- your dumbass coach was told to not rush Howard's minutes up initially but he did so anyway, as Dwight wasn't scheduled to return till December, and knowing dwight would've played 40 minutes today seeing as he played 30 with foul trouble

- your gm gets a SG to rest Kobe, a SG that shot 45% in preseason from 3 mind you and had the best turnover rate of all starting sgs in the league last year, yet you give him him a dnp today, don't play him hardly at all the game before, and used him as the first guard off the bench in game one.

- you play Jamison at SF when he has been a PF since 2001, and you poor Ebanks at SG despite him having no handles nor the ability to stay in front of em

- when you use this unit in the second quarter Morris, Blake, MWP, Jamison, and Hill.

- you as the dumbass coach you are asked Nash to play the rest of the preseason after he tweaked his ankle because you wanted him to get the Princeton down, ignoring the fact the guy is 38 and even if he was 28, ankle injuries can lead to an increased chance of leg and back injuries

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Brown was never a defensive guru. He used 4 corners and a snails pace. What makes him an epic fail though is there is no one to have any continuity offensively or defensively from anyone aside from the starters and Blake who mostly played with the starters last year because he has no rotation.

People talked about Phil not liking youth, but damnit Sasha, Jordan, Shannon, Turiaf, Trevor, Luke, Kerr, Kukoc, Fisher, Horry, Fox, and the like all knew damn well when they were coming into the game and going out barring a career night as he had a rotation in place and routine. There was a routine so guys knew how to warm up, stay loosened up, who they would play with, where the guys wanted the ball on O, who cut where, who spotted up where, who was the help defender, who had the glass, and how to fill the lanes.

There is no rotation or reasoning behind his substitutions and guys can build trust or awareness when they don't know who is coming into the game, out of position most likely, and when they may be yanked and replaced.

The only set rotation strategy is if a game is close, Kobe will play the entire second half. If a game is about to get bloody and we look to be blown out, Kobe plays the entire second half to make the margin look nice on paper. That's it, and its sickening because Kobe at 24-27 under Phil got damn rests like clockwork during the season and playoffs
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This game could be the straw that breaks the camels back as a lost to the Pistons means 14 straight with the preseason and last two OKC series games counted,which is just unacceptable in laker land for any coach

kblo247 wrote:Kinda hard to play D when -- you have a dumbass coach.

Too long. Summarized.

Hello 0-4...

Guessing 1-3? holy crap, never thought that would be said...

get it Pau.

Pau's girl is pretty damn hot!

LateRoundFlyer wrote:

laduane1 wrote:All those years of giving up first round draft picks. Which would have added some youth to the team. Well we are seeing the effects now. Old, slow team with Kobe have to go for 40 so we can loose only by 10. What did the Lakers do this off season. Trade a lot of future #1 picks for a 38 year old PG and a center who will walk at years end if he does not see anything here worth staying for.

Those picks wouldn't have been any better than mid-to-late first-round, and you know this. How well have we drafted in years past when we did have #1 picks?

Bynum, Farmar, Vujacic, Mark Madsen... yeah, really solid batting average there.

Fact is, if you want to be in a place to contend year-in and year-out, you have to give up draft picks or cap space -- and we haven't had cap space since the Shaq signing. Nearly ALL our success in the last 5-6 years has come through trades. Don't like it? That's fine. But you waive your right to complain the next time Jimmy tries to take the team through a conventional rebuilding period.

HA

He told you...lol okay moving onward. The draft picks wouldn't have given us the type of lead guard Nash is...

Haha, excellent bitchfest kblo247, my sentiments exactly.

I'm not expecting a win at all.

mike brown starting to feel that pressure!

not even sure Kobe will play. This would have been a good game to get our first victory, but now i'm stating to think this will be a loss as well.

is that the official pistons logo? that's pretty cool looking

GO LAKERS