The Lakers are in 1st place in the western confrence thread

[zomac]

Nice to be on top but the next week will show what this team is all about. Another slump will destroy everybodys confidence and put us as far down as 6th or so. Play well with determination and the will to win and we could open up and a little lead on top.

[Griever24]

^^ Definetly .. if we worry about nothing but winning OUR games and try not to look at whats going on with other teams .. it should help out ..

[CITYOFANGELSX3]

Im gonna save that standings picture. I wonder if we'll ever see first place again this season.

[CDB]

Good to see L.A. on top where they are suppose to be, Im reall excited. But with the Injury to Bynum how long can we keep this up? Bynum was a huge part of our sucess this year and with him down for 8 weeks guys like Kwame and Ronny are going to have to step up in a huge way.

[Joe Kleazy]

As well as bynum has been for us this year, he wasn't out there 1-VS-5 . We have vets that we didn't have last year and a kobe that will still be looking for his teammates. I can care less what seed we fall into as long as we make the postseason healthy.

Some tend to let their emotions get too far ahead of the fact that we just need to adjust to the situation and we still have superman to fall back on. Dont let the media's feelings that we are fuc** influence you, hell they didn't start riding our sac's until recently anyway. Its time to man up fellas. GO LAKERS

[joe.linnen]

I think we can hold on to a top three spot until Bynum gets back. We have to power to do it, I just know we do.

SF:Ariza/Walton
PF:Odom/Radmanovic
C:Turiaf/Brown
SG:Bryant/Crittenton/Vujacic
PG:Fisher/Farmar


we could hold it down. I think we could handle the games we go coming up too.

[J Rob]

caron butler killed the celtics late in the 4th...Caron is showing he can be a 1st option if the 1st option is out..he is also showing that he IS a 2nd option if the 1st option is here...man i missd this guy..

he woulda been a guaranteed 19pts 7rebs 5ast guy on this team with drew and kobe

Omg, did you see Caron down the stretch in that Celtics game?

That kid is a flat out gamer.

He d'ed up Paul Pierce as well as I've seen anybody play him, then scrambled after a loose ball and almost got a turnover out of it.

Then he went down and hit a running hook that sealed the game.

It sucks the FO has such a hard-on for LO, because he could've fetched us a much better low-post player (a la Boozer) than Caron did.

And Caron is obviously a superioir player to LO already, both defensively and offensively.

Fish
Bryant
Butler
Boozer
Bynum

Attack of the killer B's.


Anyway, not trying to derail the thread...just experiencing a severe case of wishful thinking.

[Dexmor]

I dont like Kwame as much as the next guy. But we are stuck with him and are lacking in depth at that position. We should realize that even trading him will be hard in the regard that we might not get back what we need.

Kwame is Kwame ....but if there is any truth to postive energy then I suggest we all start practicing it. Send Kwame your positive mojo because we dont have many other options.

If you don't like Kwame then why when I said we should trade him you gave one of those faces?

[LLcoleJ]

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If you don't like Kwame then why when I said we should trade him you gave one of those faces?

Did you read my reply to that specfic post? It explains it all. To recap: the : is for the notion of getting jelani mcoy.

I have never said I liked Kwame, however we need him at this point. Unless a deal is out there that will give us a center that will help us there is not much we can do, but to keep him.

I think just about everyone here recognizes how bad he is and would trade him in a instant. ( myslelf included) however, once Bynum went down we need to get as much size as we can to help us through this part of the season. Big man are hard to come by and as sad as it is.. we are not going to be able to trade him for another center. Unless there is a team that wants his contract.

[tnayrbrocks]

Unless the clippers screw up, we're about 12 minutes to having the spot all to ourselves

GO CLIPPERS!!

[dockingsched]

lakers stay in first place!!

since dallas/san antonio don't play tomorrow, lakers will be top seed going into thursday and can keep the spot with a win.

[The Laker Kid]

Yup. Phx just lost to the lowly Clips so we now have the FIRST SPOT all to ourselves... YEA FOO!!!

[Arroyo30]

Alright 10+ losing streak here we come.

haha i don't think so, we are gonna beat the suns once again tomorrow and we can beat denver as well.