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Pau Gasol: How Important Is His Offensive Improvement to the Los Angeles Lakers?
January 12th, 2011
Many of the Lakers' earlier struggles were due to age old issues the team has been facing for years such as age, complacency and a lack of offensive balance, or more bluntly, the ball hogging ways of Kobe Bryant. The Lakers' spotty offense thus far has attracted a lot of ...
Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers: How Kobe Can Instill Championship Mentality in His Team
January 4th, 2011
There are no words to describe just how pathetic the Lakers’ season has become. Oh wait, there’s “disgusting“, “underperforming“, “demoralizing“, “apathy-ridden” and “lifeless”.Those seem to do the trick. After Bryant's somewhat slow start to the season (by his high standards), he’s finally regained a little bit more of his usual ...
Lakers/Heat Face Off: 6 Ways Lakers Can Emerge Victorious On Christmas Day
December 24th, 2010
For the first time in three years, the L.A. Lakers will square off against the Miami Heat on Christmas Day. Unlike the previous Laker/Heat holiday match-ups, this could actually be an early NBA Finals preview, but of course that's what we were sold last year when LeBron James went to L.A. ...
Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers: 8 Reasons Why They’re Still Favorites Out West
December 18th, 2010
We never learn.We cried that the sky was falling in 2001 when the Lakers finished with 11 fewer victories than they had finished with during their previous 67-win championship season.Then, they completed the most dominant post-season run of all time.We cried that the sky was falling in Boston when they ...
A Closer Look: Why Do We Really Hate the Miami Heat?
December 9th, 2010
Politics. Unwritten rules. Customs.
Those are some of my least favorite words.
There’s something so presumptuous about them. In essence, they allow people to attempt to govern others lives in areas in which they have no say.
They allow others to pass judgment.
Don’t get me wrong, some unwritten rules are necessary.
If you’re in ...
Chicago Bulls NBA Breakdown: 7 Things We’ve Learned About Derrick Rose and Co.
December 4th, 2010
(This is continuing a series detailing each of the 30 teams in the NBA).For the first time since John Stockton's desperation three pointer clanked off the rim in the waning seconds of the 1998 NBA Finals and Michael Jordan and the Bulls claimed their 6th NBA Championship, the Bulls are ...
Miami Heat vs. Orlando Magic: Who Has the Upper Hand after their Second Matchup?
November 24th, 2010
Its easy to focus on the Heat’s 8-7 record. Most of us didn’t figure the Heat would sustain a seventh loss any earlier than picking up a 20th win. The Heat were supposed to challenge the ‘01 Lakers, ‘86 Celtics and ‘96 Bulls, but at this rate, come May they’ll ...
Los Angeles Lakers: 8 Things We’ve Learned about Kobe Bryant and Co. in 2010-11
November 20th, 2010
(This will be the first in a series that will detail things learned about each of the NBA’s 30 teams)We’re 12 games into the season with the defending champs and, well, some things don‘t change—the Clippers are terrible, the Suns can rattle off 100-point nights like PlayStation distributes defective systems ...
Calling D-Wade, Not LeBron James the Heat’s Best Player Is a King-Sized Fallacy
October 7th, 2010
Over the span of the last three years, coaches and players alike have been asked countless times to weigh in on the endless debate of who is the best player in the league.They all answered in one of three ways:1) Kobe Bryant2) LeBron James3) or the most politically correct way, ...
2010-2011 NBA Predictions: Is The Los Angeles Lakers Bench a Liability or Asset?
October 1st, 2010
Two years ago, the Lakers’ bench was thought to be one of their greatest strengths. Many analysts and announcers even declared the Lakers as the deepest team in the league.Since that time, the Lakers bench became notorious for giving up the big leads that the starters would build. Time and ...