Been reading several NBA articles from various outlets and one thing is consistent: the Lakers aren’t being picked to even make the playoffs in most of them. The one’s that don’t outright stick a fork in us have a fork hovering…ready…waiting to just stick it in.
I sure hope the squad uses all this as fuel for their internal fire and juice the bird. While unlikely that we win a title, when healthy I do think we can compete better than we’ve shown to date. It al starts with consistently playing hard and focused, we can do that better in-house.
Anyhow, duck when you read out there, Lakerholics, it ain’t pretty right now.
Unfortunately, that’s the sad truth. Every time I come across an article on the Lakers it’s almost like reading an obituary. But like you said the best thing is for the team to use that as motivation to plow their way to a respectable finish. With health permitting I still see this team as one deserving of respect. Things just didn’t go as expected.
When they R out, I am out, not til then! I’ll get ready for Yankees and Lakers in November!
BTW, the last team to Win a Chip without a Superstar was 2004. Prior, perhaps the Supersonics in 1979.
The way I look at it is this. Over the next 6 we play the Clippers, Spurs, Rockets, Wizards, Mav’s and the Warriors without Green. If we can’t win at least 4 of those games, we don’t deserve to be in the playoffs. We have the 3rd toughest schedule but part of that is because we play the Suns and the Warriors twice, the Jazz and the 76ers. The 20 other games are winnable without AD. We need to bring desperate energy to every game, when thse seasons over, we are going to regret all the games that we didn’t and lost.
Yep, we can’t win one and then lose three.
Hahaha, good one DJ.
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Never smart to poke the bear. Sticking a fork in even before the oven heats up is obviously jumping the gun.
Lakers may have to win the play-in but with luck, they could win #7 and play the #2 Warriors, a team against whom they match up pretty well.
Then maybe hope the #6 Jazz upset the #3 Grizzlies so the Lakers can play another team against whom they match up well.
Finally, we get the rematch with the Suns in the Western Conference Final. Remember we did lead that series 2-1.
You know if CP3 isn’t back by the 1st round I wouldn’t mind playing the Suns. It would only be fair since they beat us without AD.
LOL. I was thinking the same thing. They might get passed without CP3. I just want to see us play well the rest of the way whatever happens and the team to commit to doing what it takes to win. There’s a balance between winning now and not leaving the team in a hole when LeBron leaves. Lakers/Klutch is still a win-win situation. Even after LeBron leaves and AD takes over.
I just hope they can be healthy, play well, and not run into Steph and his 16 3-pointers 🙂 It’ll take a lot of sunshine to go deep in the playoffs, but I’m going to dance with who brung me. All the rest are too ugly…