Basketball (NBA, College, etc.)

Lakers win again, 101-87, over the Hawks, equaling their longest streak of the year. :applaud:

Let's see if they can keep it up for one more game as they visit America's fave team, the Heat this Thursday. Speaking of the Heat, dropped another one tonight at home to the Blazers, the streak is now up to 5 games. :shamefulcry: Looks like it was a 2 on 5 tonight, James and Wade combined for 69 points, rest of the team...27! :doh:

hitomi #1 wrote:Let's see if they can keep it up for one more game as they visit America's fave team, the Heat this Thursday. Speaking of the Heat, dropped another one tonight at home to the Blazers, the streak is now up to 5 games. :shamefulcry: Looks like it was a 2 on 5 tonight, James and Wade combined for 69 points, rest of the team...27! :doh:

With the way the Heat are playing recently, the Lakers must be eager to make a statement against them. It might only be a regular season game, but I don't doubt that Kobe and company want to show the Heat that preseason hype means nothing if you don't have the rings. The Heat can assemble the talent, but the Lakers have the team. James and Wade can have their scoring, but as we saw tonight, it doesn't add up to a win if the rest of the team doesn't show up.

deseipher wrote:

With the way the Heat are playing recently, the Lakers must be eager to make a statement against them. It might only be a regular season game, but I don't doubt that Kobe and company want to show the Heat that preseason hype means nothing if you don't have the rings. The Heat can assemble the talent, but the Lakers have the team. James and Wade can have their scoring, but as we saw tonight, it doesn't add up to a win if the rest of the team doesn't show up.

Plus they probably want a payback for the way the Heat embarassed them on X-Mas day. :bow:

I'd love to see the Lakers make the Heat cry some more. :hehe:

mrsmith10 wrote:I'd love to see the Lakers make the Heat cry some more. :hehe:

+1.

bmwracer wrote:Lakers win again, 101-87, over the Hawks, equaling their longest streak of the year. :applaud:

Lakers are playing their best basketball of the year, and more importantly, Bynum is playing more tough defense in the paint, which has made a big difference in this 8-game win streak. With 17 games left, Lakers will need a good momentum of winning before heading into the playoffs in late April in their quest for a 3-peat. Miami is up next, and with their current losing streak, I am sure they will be more than ready to break that streak and try to win. Only the Lakers can stop that, and try to avenge their dismal defeat months earlier.

qilver wrote:Lakers are playing their best basketball of the year, and more importantly, Bynum is playing more tough defense in the paint, which has made a big difference in this 8-game win streak. With 17 games left, Lakers will need a good momentum of winning before heading into the playoffs in late April in their quest for a 3-peat. Miami is up next, and with their current losing streak, I am sure they will be more than ready to break that streak and try to win. Only the Lakers can stop that, and try to avenge their dismal defeat months earlier.

Yup, that's pretty much what Kobe said in the post-game... Miami definitely wants to get back into the win column and what better way than to beat the Lakers...

Last time Miami and the Lakers played, Miami was on their hot streak while the Lakers were in the middle of their worst stretch of the season. Now that they've basically switched, hopefully the Lakers will knock off Miami and send them spiraling even further into the abyss.

mrsmith10 wrote:Last time Miami and the Lakers played, Miami was on their hot streak while the Lakers were in the middle of their worst stretch of the season. Now that they've basically switched, hopefully the Lakers will knock off Miami and send them spiraling even further into the abyss.

+1 again.

Miami in a free-fall without a parachute... I like it. :twisted:

Clippers beat the Celtics, 108-103.... In Boston.

bmwracer wrote:Clippers beat the Celtics, 108-103.... In Boston.

And without Eric Gordon in the line-up. I think Mo Williams has been quite a pick-up for the Clippers, definitely better than Baron Davis. It will be interesting to see if the Clippers can re-sign him during the offseason, but with Donald Sterling I wouldn't count on it.

mrsmith10 wrote:And without Eric Gordon in the line-up. I think Mo Williams has been quite a pick-up for the Clippers, definitely better than Baron Davis. It will be interesting to see if the Clippers can re-sign him during the offseason, but with Donald Sterling I wouldn't count on it.

Sterling doesn't even know when Black History Month is, so he'll probably bungle this too.

bmwracer wrote:Clippers beat the Celtics, 108-103.... In Boston.

considering the Celtics have a lot of new players on their team, I am still surprised how they lost this one against the slowly surging Clippers. A come-back, in the 4th by the Celtics was not enough, but I do think the Celtics, come playoff time, well flatten the Miami Heat and shut them down if they do meet in the playoffs.

qilver wrote:considering the Celtics have a lot of new players on their team, I am still surprised how they lost this one against the slowly surging Clippers. A come-back, in the 4th by the Celtics was not enough, but I do think the Celtics, come playoff time, well flatten the Miami Heat and shut them down if they do meet in the playoffs.

Honestly, I don't want either team to come out of the east to be in the finals... I'm hoping for Chicago or Orlando.

If the Lakers manage to make it to the finals I wouldn't mind if Boston made it. There's nothing sweater for a Laker fan than to beat the Celtics during the finals. :mrgreen:

mrsmith10 wrote:If the Lakers manage to make it to the finals I wouldn't mind if Boston made it. There's nothing sweater for a Lakerr fan than to beat the Celtics during the finals. :mrgreen:

True... And to have Shaq on the losing end against Kobe would be the icing. :victory:

^^ Though if Shaq comes back to start playing a lot of minutes can't see them meeting in the finals. :shakehead: While Kristic is not the defensive player Perkins is he does add so much more on the offensive end, think their bench or lack of one may be their undoing. :sweat:

qilver wrote:I am still surprised how they lost this one against the slowly surging Clippers.

If you saw the game it was really surprising. The Celt's offensive was almost non-existent in the first half. Since this team no longer plays defense the Clippers were able to get a large lead.

Jav_sol wrote:If you saw the game it was really surprising. The Celt's offensive was almost non-existent in the first half. Since this team no longer plays defense the Clippers were able to get a large lead.

I guess the Clips were up big and almost blew it down the stretch... Typical Clippers, though they did manage to win this time.

Hmm, they've beaten the Celtics both times this year... Guess the Celtics are glad they won't see them come playoff time. :beaten: