Los Angeles @ Phoenix 1/30 7:30 PM PST

EArl · Post #1 » by **EArl** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:26 am

Starting Line Ups

Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Metta World Peace, Earl Clark, Dwight Howard

Goran Dragic

Jared Dudley

P.J Tucker

Luis Scola

Marcin gortat

Venue: U.S Airway Center Phoenix, Arizona

Kobe is playing like Magic Johnson.
Everything is clicking and we go into our road trip with a 3 game winning streak.
Onward!! 5-1

DEEP3CL · Post #2 » by **DEEP3CL** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:28 am

Must sustain defense. This is something we have to hang our hat's on.

NoseBleedLakers · Post #3 » by **NoseBleedLakers** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:28 am

Tough game. Start off the road trip right. Play hard like these last three games and good things should happen.

ROballer · Post #4 » by **ROballer** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:28 am

The Suns are motivated this game.....got to win to improve their chances at the Lakers pick
Tough one

Also,is this the first game back for Nash in Phoenix?

EArl · Post #5 » by **EArl** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:29 am

ROballer wrote:The Suns are motivated this game.....got to win to improve their chances at the Lakers pick
Tough one

Also,is this the first game back for Nash in Phoenix?

I believe it is.

GAME TIME · Post #6 » by **GAME TIME** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:30 am

Pound the bigs...

Don't turn it into a track meet.

Howard, Gasol, Clark crash the boards,

Howard with a back to back, with his back conditions, seems he struggles in back 2 backs, but with Kobe Johnson, maybe some eazy buckets will make his back feel better :lol:

Should be an easy W, if their energy level is up. Nash should be on his game, playing @ Phoenix

Dr Aki · Post #7 » by **Dr Aki** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:40 am

1. dont let dragic destroy us

AcecardZ · Post #8 » by **AcecardZ** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:45 am

Just another must win game.

I felt like MDA botched things up a bit in the 4th Q tonight. Hopefully that won't be a continuing trend.

Jetset · Post #9 » by **Jetset** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:50 am

ROballer wrote:Also,is this the first game back for Nash in Phoenix?

yep, espn's been hyping it up for a couple of days. the game is on espn btw.

moonpie · Post #10 » by **moonpie** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:24 am

Lakeshow baby let's keep this gravy train rollin! I #Believe, DO YOU BELIEVE?

AcecardZ · Post #11 » by **AcecardZ** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:32 am

This game is no different than Tues night's game vs NO. Absolute must win game. If we lose season over!

SportsandTacos · Post #12 » by **SportsandTacos** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:06 am

1. kobe needs to continue to play like he is currently. this is the best hes been since the 8 game winning streak in the 2010 playoffs IMO
2. feed the bigs
3. D needs to show up like it did in the first half of tonights game, and on sunday vs OKC

SunsRback4Good · Post #13 » by **SunsRback4Good** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:21 am

Nash first return to the Valley of the Sun since leaving Phoenix. Stay tuned to find out what happens

Kobe System · Post #14 » by **Kobe System** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:28 am

Keep the streak alive, eablinksum!

Post #15 » by **Jakay** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:35 am

Who's their coach now anyhow? Didn't Gentry get let go?

This is actually must win. Still four games out of 8th, and no one is rolling over yet.

VIPER8382 · Post #16 » by **VIPER8382** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:24 pm

AcecardZ wrote:This game is no different than Tues night's game vs NO. Absolute must win game. If we lose season over!

I keep reading similar comments to this on here, but the truth is that if each of the teams ahead of us keeps playing at their current levels, we only need to go 25-12 in our remaining 37 games. That basically means that we need to win 2 out of every 3 games that remain, which certainly isn't easy, but it is certainly very attainable, regardless of the outcome tonight. I agree that losing a game against a team like Phoenix would be very bad, but it certainly would be nowhere near a season ending loss.

AcecardZ · Post #17 » by **AcecardZ** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:54 pm

VIPER8382 wrote:
AcecardZ wrote:This game is no different than Tues night's game vs NO. Absolute must win game. If we lose season over!

I keep reading similar comments to this on here, but the truth is that if each of the teams ahead of us keeps playing at their current levels, we only need to go 25-12 in our remaining 37 games. That basically means that we need to win 2 out of every 3 games that remain, which certainly isn't easy, but it is certainly very attainable, regardless of the outcome tonight. I agree that losing a game against a team like Phoenix would be very bad, but it certainly would be nowhere near a season ending loss.

I don't disagree with what you're saying by my take on our team these days is this. If we're losing games to the sub .500 teams of league then our "revelation" wasn't really much of a revelation at all and there's no way we're going to finish ou the season at a .650 clip.

Besides all that we can't have any confidence damaging losses. We've had enough of those already. We need confidence building wins.

DEEP3CL · Post #18 » by **DEEP3CL** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:39 pm

We're getting better by the game, but this hole is because of the losses at home. Indiana, Orlando, Dallas,Denver,Philly, Utah....these are the ones that were the most costly.

leeprettyp · Post #19 » by **leeprettyp** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:23 pm

Dont forget the Houston game when we were up i believe 9 points with 7mins left in the game and lost smh!!! :oops:

Sunsdeuce · Post #20 » by **Sunsdeuce** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:29 pm

Suns fan here. My suns are the worst I have seem in 30 years. We have basically no talent other than dragic. Brown, telfair, tucker are d league players playing major minutes. Our coach is horrible and has no experience.

Point is no matter how motivated the suns are there really is no excuse for the lakers to lose.

So relax lakers fans