Do you folks wanna play the Rockets or Blazers?

dunleavyjr · Post #1 » by **dunleavyjr** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:00 am

Hey Lakers fans,

You folks are looking into a matchup for playoff round 2.
Who do you folks wanna play against?

Rockets, or Blazers?

TruSkool · Post #2 » by **TruSkool** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:09 am

rockets, without a doubt
the blazers just matchup up with us too well...

if bynum can play well the next series, expect things to open up even more for pau gasol

KObe Bryant · Post #3 » by **KObe Bryant** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:29 am

I want Portland.

Dr Aki · Post #4 » by **Dr Aki** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:01 am

rockets, i dont want to go to portland

hermes · Post #5 » by **hermes** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:17 pm

the great philosopher jagger once said, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need"

so i'll take whoever wins, i think we can beat them both

lakersfanatic · Post #6 » by **lakersfanatic** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:37 pm

i prefer rockets. This whole season, we've played better against the Rockets then we did against the Blazers. Plus the Blazers matchup against us too well.

Blazers don't have Ron Artest.. We need Artest to trash talk kobe so kobe can run him over again and again.. hehe jk.

butter17 · Post #7 » by **butter17** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:15 pm

Don't matter.......i'll take either one.

supaflash · Post #8 » by **supaflash** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:15 pm

Either, we're due in Portland and their youth is showing in the playoffs. They have no true low post game and it basically makes them an inconsistent jump shooting team. I think Kobe would love the challenge of BRoy and some more Bynum Oden goodness would be fun to watch. People forget how easily we beat them at home and I think in a playoff series with us locked in it would be a similar result as the Jazz, they win one home game we take the series in 5.

We match up well with the Rockets. Portland's bigs are slower and don't have a good way of attacking Yao and Aldridge isn't taking as much advantage of the smaller Scola and Landry as he should be. Pau abuses Yao on the offensive end so it negates Yao's post up mostly and Bynum does pretty well against him also. We he is out there Pau is way too big for Scola and Lamar matches up well with him and Landry also. Brooks is a little too inexperienced and so small when we funnel him to the lane he doesn't cause nearly as much problems as a guy like D Will. The only thing that sucks about playing them is it will be hard on Kobe. He has figured out Ron and Shane's D pretty well and has gotten into an nice groove against them but it would still be a long physical battle against those two guys and I'd rather avoid it if possible.

Don't matter though, I'm pretty confident we'll beat either in 5.

Erik Eleven · Post #9 » by **Erik Eleven** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:23 pm

I only worry about one team — the Lakers.

TonyMontana · Post #10 » by **TonyMontana** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:26 pm

Erik Eleven wrote:I only worry about one team — the Lakers.

itb112 · Post #11 » by **itb112** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:28 pm

Rockets without a doubt

Tommy Trojan · Post #12 » by **Tommy Trojan** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:37 pm

TonyMontana wrote:
Erik Eleven wrote:I only worry about one team — the Lakers.

Post #13 » by **Slava** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:30 pm

We can beat the Rockets in Houston but Rose Garden is an entirely different issue. Rockets please.

Sedale Threatt · Post #14 » by **Sedale Threatt** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:34 pm

Rockets. Rockets. Rockets.

Give me the path of least resistance every time.

Sofa King · Post #15 » by **Sofa King** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:48 pm

Can we just go play the Cavs and get it all over with now? :lol:

DEEP3CL · Post #16 » by **DEEP3CL** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:55 pm

dunleavyjr wrote:Hey Lakers fans,

You folks are looking into a matchup for playoff round 2.
Who do you folks wanna play against?

Rockets, or Blazers?

Typical thread question,.......a true b-ball fan knows not to pick your poison. It doesn't matter who we play.

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #17 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:59 pm

Rockets.

ROB-G · Post #18 » by **ROB-G** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:03 pm

Portland for 3 reasons:

2000 Playoff Results

Conference Finals
L.A. Lakers 4, Portland 3
May 20: Sat., Portland 94 at L.A. Lakers 109
May 22: Mon., Portland 106, L.A. Lakers 77
May 26: Fri., L.A. Lakers 93, Portland 91
May 28: Sun., L.A. Lakers 103 at Portland 91
May 30: Tue., Portland 96 at L.A. Lakers 88
June 2: Fri., L.A. Lakers 93 at Portland 103
June 4: Sun., Portland 84, L.A. Lakers 89

2001 Playoff Results

First Round
L.A. Lakers 3, Portland 0
Apr. 22: Sun., Portland 93 at L.A. Lakers 106
Apr. 26: Thu., Portland 88 at L.A. Lakers 106
Apr. 29: Sun., L.A. Lakers 99 at Portland 86

2002 Playoff Results

First Round
L.A. Lakers 3, Portland 0
Apr. 21: Sun., Portland 87 at L.A. Lakers 95
Apr. 25: Thu., Portland 96 at L.A. Lakers 103
Apr. 28: Sun., L.A. Lakers 92, Portland 91

Diferentes years same result....

DubaLakers · Post #19 » by **DubaLakers** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:24 pm

All I know is whomever our opponent are, CLE has a walk in the park compared to us.

SportsFan215 · Post #20 » by **SportsFan215** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:38 pm

Rockets.