Quote Originally Posted by scalabrine:
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@lmb I can't play the lakers rockets game. The whole laker team has been shut down (although I know why you are asking - get thrashed by the clippers and win the next big one like setup in the OKC game? Good memory).
Yesterday Bazemore went down and he gets an MRI today so likely won't play.
Nick young is playing through an injury and can get shut down at any moment.
Gasol
Nash
Kaman
Farmar
All done for the season.
I couldn't hang a line on that game if I were Vegas. 18-20? Is that enough? Not if the lakers have only 7 healthy guys and Jordan hill as their starting center (and no backup center!). And he's really a forward "Kinda movin' around underneath" so I'm using the center designation liberally. Vegas will probably go 17/18. 16 at a bare minimum on a b2b.
I'm looking at the records and the lakers aren't in as great a shape for the draft as you think. They have the sixth worst record. If a team leapfrog a them they get the 7th pick. If two teams do, they get the eighth pick. This is assuming their lottery balls don't come up.
Those aren't rock solid picks for what will be the worst season in their history.
The ONLY thing they have going for them is that if they lose one more, they set the all-time laker record for losses in a season. That is motivation to win something before year's end.
Utah can still tie them or pass them as they will likely not lose out. Lakers should lose out if they are smart and owner/coach/GM are the rying to with this player shutdown but players don't tank, they play it right to the end.
Lakers will likely win just one more. Which one? We'll have to see.
Better games are the last home game against the Grizz on 4-13 or the last game of the season against the spurs if the spurs rest everyone (and it is still very iffy even if that happens).
The NCAA: Beginnerboy put the second largest bet of the year on kentucky. I'll roll with his pick.
Sorry, Scal, it was a very tough game to watch and have money on. As I wrote in the College Basketball Forum, Kentucky didn't start playing till the 5:41 mark, down 15-30. From there, they outplay Uconn for the next 26 minutes and still lost, never being able to take that elusive lead (when they had multiple chances) and missed the free throws. Basically, everything that could go wrong went wrong but this team was so talented that they hung around until the end (most teams would have just caved). They are men among boys (in terms of size, strength and even speed, although it took them 15 minutes to find that extra gear) but, and this is a big but that I overlooked, their mental faculties are still developing. In every game they played, it took these guys an entire half to figure out that they were the better team and could have their way with their opponents. You'd think that by the time they got to the title game they would have the confidence (and experience, from the previous games) needed to steamroll their opponent. But no, they started off slow again and this time, paid the price (and made us pay it with them). How unfortunate. I do have an NBA game, however, which will help us get back on track. I'm looking at the Grizz/ Miami game for Wed and just created a thread about it. I really like the spot the Grizz will be in, and now it is just a question of what the line will be. Miami is off of a back to back (so that won't help with the line) but I recall when they were in a similar spot against Houston they only got 2.5 points, so I'm hoping for something in that range as I'm very confident that the Grizz will cover with ease. Again, sorry for overestimating the mental faculties of teenagers.
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