nocturn4l3030 wrote:haha.. it's not THAT bad where i wanna watch morrison go off on em scrubs =T though i'd be VERY happy if he can just produce some sort of offense next season over that scrub ass Sasha who can't hit an open shot if his life depended on it. (wth isn't that the only reason why we got him!?!? to hit an open shot!?? as u can see, sasha annoys the crap out of me =)) this is contract year for Morrison so i actually have just a little bit of faith he can produce on the bench for us.
I actually felt sorry for Morrison last season: that dude's butt was glued to the pine... Hope he gets more playing time this season... And not during Garbage Time.
Don't know what happened to The Machine's shot... :shakehead:
hm...do they show summer league games on regular cable? or is that a nbatv thing? cuz i'm actually very anxious to see Blake Griffin... i can't believe ima be watching Clipper games this year ;O b.diddy, griffin, kaman ain't too shabby... kinda...... haha
Griffin's gonna crash 'n' burn with the Clips... It's the Clipper Jinx.
bmwracer wrote:I actually felt sorry for Morrison last season: that dude's butt was glued to the pine... Hope he gets more playing time this season... And not during Garbage Time.
i think i read somewhere like he's averaging 20+ points in the summer league or something? so that tells me he still has the ability to score.. even if it is against scrubs.. so that's why ima have some faith in him.. also there was an interview with him too that said that he knows if he doesn't have a good year this year (his contract year) he more than likely won't even be in the league the next season.. so he knows how much pressure is on him
bmwracer wrote:Griffin's gonna crash 'n' burn with the Clips... It's the Clipper Jinx.
as much as i think the clippers suck and need to get the hell out of my city...lol... i think griffin is gonna be the first one to break the clipper jinx. (i duno though.. he did get injured already rofl.. but it's nothin serious)
i haven't watched his college games.. but from my avid basketball fan friends and youtube highlights (lol) he looks like he has the potential to be a real monster someday in the future. obviously that's speculation though... i've been wrong plenty of times on rookies that i thought were gonna blow up in the NBA and turned out to be utter failures...
one rookie i thought was gonna be a total bust and scrub was Kevin Durant. wow has he surprised me...
bmwracer wrote:I actually felt sorry for Morrison last season: that dude's butt was glued to the pine... Hope he gets more playing time this season... And not during Garbage Time.
i think i read somewhere like he's averaging 20+ points in the summer league or something? so that tells me he still has the ability to score.. even if it is against scrubs.. so that's why ima have some faith in him.. also there was an interview with him too that said that he knows if he doesn't have a good year this year (his contract year) he more than likely won't even be in the league the next season.. so he knows how much pressure is on him
Yeah, he's been dropping double digits so far... I hope he can keep it up when the season starts...
Thing is, he needs to be able to play some D, too, or opposing players are gonna be dusting him left and right... And Phil won't put up with that for long.
nocturn4l3030 wrote:i want nothing less than a fully healthy boston team in the finals
Yea, I still thought the Celtics had the best chance out of the East to beat the Lakers last season.... at least have made a better Finals. Too bad KG was injured .... :(
man nba season needs to hurry the hell up and start..... i get withdrawals in the offseason
Me too. NBA is the only league I really enjoy following .... SL is like watching the minor leagues, just doesn't compare.
bmwracer wrote:They key is Artest: which one will show up, the very good baller or the wack job? :sweat:
Hate to break it to LA fans, but both sides will come in one package. :doh:
Don't know what happened to The Machine's shot...
I guess Sasha just got a fat contract and didn't know how to respond.
I'm sure most non-Lakers fans share this opinion ... I was glad Sasha stunk it up last yr. The guy is annoying as hell! :bonk:
Thing is, he needs to be able to play some D, too, or opposing players are gonna be dusting him left and right...
TBH, that could characterize every player on the Lakers last season except for maybe Ariza and occasionally Kobe. Their offense really carried the team to a championship.
adub2adub wrote:TBH, that could characterize every player on the Lakers last season except for maybe Ariza and occasionally Kobe. Their offense really carried the team to a championship.
Quite true... To their credit, their D was much better in the finals than the earlier rounds... Though that probably had to do with matchups and an inexperienced Magic team.
adub i take it that you're a boston fan? :beatyou: i welcome to rivalry -.-
yea it's true... we did rely on our offense to win last year.. honestly i feel like our offense is damn near unstoppable..so no shame to me in winning like that -.-
with artest obviously our D will get a boost.. but it's our damn big men i'm worried about. even though we have high hopes on bynum..yea he gets us blocks but honestly he needs to learn to stay in the game longer than 3 minutes without getting in foul trouble..and of course stay healthy.
gasol did show improvement in his D- but let's face it- he'll never be KG/Duncan on defense. as long as gasol/odom play D like they did in the playoffs (they did friggin good on d. howard), i can care less about how they play in the reg season as long as we're still getting the dub's through our O.
again ima repeat that i don't think artest is going to be as big a problem as u guys think he will... everyone suposedly says he's a great locker room teammate.. u got kobe and odom all childhood friends to keep him in check AND u got phil- i think he'll be fine
cuz if you're not from LA, i can see how everyone hates the team that consistently wins championships and is consistently a title contender and always seem to have at least 1 or 2 of the best players in the league for that decade. along with the best damn owner in the league.. best coach in the league (tied with popovich) :mrgreen: i guess it's called jealousy
it must suck to be a fan of any other team tbh :patpat:
nocturn4l3030 wrote:ah.. a laker hater - i love those
cuz if you're not from LA, i can see how everyone hates the team that consistently wins championships and is consistently a title contender and always seem to have at least 1 or 2 of the best players in the league for that decade. along with the best damn owner in the league.. best coach in the league (tied with popovich) :mrgreen: i guess it's called jealousy
it must suck to be a fan of any other team tbh :patpat:
To be fair, that same can be said for the Celtics... :sweat:
Honestly, I don't think adub is a hater, per se...
nocturn4l3030 wrote:adub i take it that you're a boston fan? :beatyou: i welcome to rivalry -.-
yea it's true... we did rely on our offense to win last year.. honestly i feel like our offense is damn near unstoppable..so no shame to me in winning like that -.-
Nope, no Celts fan here. :bleh:
Not sure why you would've taken it that way though ... I guess if I had been like: "Lakers suck! They got lucky cause Boston would've ANNIHILATED them with healthy Garnett!!!" .... that's one thing, but what I posted earlier was reasonable, ne?
Lakers offense was near unstoppable for sure ... but their D was probably the worst among NBA champions this decade.
ah.. a laker hater - i love those
cuz if you're not from LA, i can see how everyone hates the team that consistently wins championships and is consistently a title contender and always seem to have at least 1 or 2 of the best players in the league for that decade. along with the best damn owner in the league.. best coach in the league (tied with popovich) Mr Green i guess it's called jealousy
Not true for either. I don't hate the Lakers ... and actually one of my fav players is on the team (Pau!).
Everyone does not hate the team because of your exact reason, there are actually more LA fans than for any other NBA franchise .... so many have jumped on the bandwagon over the years.
In that sense the Lakers are comparable to the Yankees and Cowboys. :grumble: :shakehead:
Lol sorry if my posts felt a little aggressive, in other basketball forums I'm used to fending off the million laker haters and I tottally jumped the gun. Your post was definitely reasonable
Nevertheless, I do love basketball discussion so I'm lookin fwd to it when the season starts -.-
Ps- yea..ill give u that about our D, I guarantee it looks better this season though -.- whatever gets me a parade works for me!
One thing I don't understand though is how people can be such a hardcore fan of a team where u have no association with the city whatsoever. I mean..I guess u can be a fan of a player which goes along with the team..but still
Pss- yea, every team does have dry spells, I'm jus sayin as a laker fan were seriously spoiled because our dry spells seem like the shortest of every team in any sport aside from the yankees. So yea, I can see why everyone hates us -.-
nocturn4l3030 wrote:One thing I don't understand though is how people can be such a hardcore fan of a team where u have no association with the city whatsoever. I mean..I guess u can be a fan of a player which goes along with the team..but still
What about football here in L.A.? :P
That's why I like the Colts and after last season, the Cardinals. :victory: