1st round thread - Who do you want? Dallas? Denver? GS?

Doctor. · Post #1 » by **Doctor.** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:57 am

As of today, it seams obvious that Lakers will play Denver in the 1st round of the playoffs. Lakers still need to beat Kings at home to secure their 1st seat while Nuggets still need to beet Grizzlies at home, but it is highly likely that these two teams will finish 1st and 8th and play in the first round.

Lakers wan the season series 3-0 with both games in LA being blowouts and the one in Denver being close.

rhp1990 · Post #2 » by **rhp1990** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:58 am

you never know Denver may lose to Memphis, don't take Memphis to lightly they did beat us...

Post #3 » by **dockingsched** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:02 am

mavs are down 6 to the sonics in the 4th. if the mavs lose this and then lose to the hornets (very very possible) and the nuggets beat the freakin grizz, the lakers will be playing the mavs.

kobesfan · Post #4 » by **kobesfan** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:04 am

If we lost to the Kings, we could become the 4th seed and facing Utah.

Mamba8 · Post #5 » by **Mamba8** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:18 am

kobesfan wrote:If we lost to the Kings, we could become the 4th seed and facing Utah.

The highest the Lakers can be is 3rd and thats saying the lakers lose to sacramento and the spurs, hornets, and roxs win there remaining games.

But like you guys are saying its VERY possible we could face dallas. Personally i think we can beat the mavs or the nuggs, we've had both there number for years. The only teams im afraid of are the suns and thhe playoff spurs at full strength

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #6 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:23 am

If we lose against the kings, NO wins out, spurs win out, rockets win after today. Then if the mavericks lose the next two. We could play the suns in the first round.

LAKESHOW · Post #7 » by **LAKESHOW** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:44 am

i would not mind that road.

denver

utah

whoever wins the battle of spurs/phoenix/no/dallas

Tommy Trojan · Post #8 » by **Tommy Trojan** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:47 am

I can easily see Sasha baiting Melo into a fight, and Melo takes a swing and gets suspended.

GOOOOO Sasha :clap:

KingLakers · Post #9 » by **KingLakers** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:50 am

As long as the Hornets don't loose until the Dallas game I think they won't have much to play for against Dallas. So they could just Shut it down for that game

timebandit · Post #10 » by **timebandit** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:58 am

I will tell you guy's this we are going to play Dallas!! Why? B/C We will win the western conference and Dallas will fall to 8th seed! Denver has the tie breaker over Dallas and thats pretty much that!!!

Chubby Chaser · Post #11 » by **Chubby Chaser** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:59 am

Pretty self explanatory. Who do you want to play in the first round? I think we should avoid the warriors at all cost. They just seem to have our number when we play. I also think we should try and avoid Denver too. Iverson always goes crazy against us, and Lamar always struggles to guard Carmelo. Any other year Denver would be a 4 or 5 ranked team. I think we match up pretty well with Dallas, and Kobe has been known to go go off on them. They don't scare me at all. If I had a choice of who we'd face in the first round it would go:

Dallas
Denver
Warriors

In that order. Just curious what you guys think?

On a side note. Get your laker flags!
:lol:

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #12 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:00 am

Tommy Trojan wrote:I can easily see Sasha baiting Melo into a fight, and Melo takes a swing and gets suspended.

GOOOOO Sasha

Melo will try to "sprewell" Sasha again.

That Nicka · Post #13 » by **That Nicka** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:05 am

Clippers

Tommy Trojan · Post #14 » by **Tommy Trojan** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:15 am

denver

timebandit · Post #15 » by **timebandit** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:16 am

We are not playing Denver so no Melo Vs Sasha

Tommy Trojan · Post #16 » by **Tommy Trojan** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:17 am

CITYOFANGELSX3 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Melo will try to "sprewell" Sasha again.

These European dudes get though when the game counts, look what happened to Chandler Tyson the other day. This is only the beginning.

Tommy Trojan · Post #17 » by **Tommy Trojan** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:19 am

^^^ ive seen those European soccer games, dudes are sick

timebandit · Post #18 » by **timebandit** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:28 am

As two NBA basketball referees walked through the countryside, they noticed some tracks. First said, 'Deer tracks?' Second said 'No, bear tracks.' However, the conversation ended abruptly when a train hit them

KingLakers · Post #19 » by **KingLakers** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:33 am

The Lakers are most likely going to play Denver because if the Spurs and Rockets don't lose another game and the Hornets lose their final game against Dallas the Hornets still hold the tiebreaker among those 3 teams. So the worse they can do is the 2 seed. The Scenario is this in a three way tiebreaker Houston loses because of their mediocre record in the SW division so with only the Spurs and Hornets still tied up both their conference records come into play in that record the Hornets have 2 less conference losses than the Spurs with one game left for the Hornets. So with that final tiebreaker the Hornets will get the 2 seed followed by the Spurs at 3 and the Rockets will fall to the 5 seed. Basically even with their 2 recent losses the Hornets really have nothing left to play for. Of course all this only happens if the Lakers take care of business against the Kings.

Farsi Man · Post #20 » by **Farsi Man** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:01 am

Not sure probably Denver. Then again they're defense will actually be good with Nene AND Camby.