Lakers Drop-Kick Nets Into History Books
by DexterFishmore on Nov 29, 2009 9:42 PM PST
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PrintRod Thorn to Tom Barrise, early Sunday morning: "Good news, Tommy! You get to be an NBA head coach. Congrats! The bad news? Ehh... *scratches neck nervously*... dude, how do I put this? The team you're gonna coach blows. Like, really blows. Also, you gotta go face the Lakers. And this might just be for one night. That last thing might be part of the good news, actually."
The New Jersey Nets, it turns out, are worse than we thought. Phil Jackson warned his team not to overlook the winless Nets, but overlooking them probably wouldn't have made a difference tonight. The Lakers could've forgotten the game was scheduled, showed up at Staples in the middle of the second quarter and still pulled out a win. The talent gap between these two teams is too big to measure with our planet's primitive technology.
The Lakers came out sharp as steak knives and quickly sliced up the Nets into tasty filets. A 21-2 run in the first quarter essentially ended things. Kobe Bryant toyed with whoever New Jersey ran at him, posting a 21-6-3 halftime line. He played only 29 minutes and still scored 30 points and made seductive eye contact with a triple-dub. Pau Gasol owned the Nets' front line for 20 points, seven assists and nine rebounds. Jordan Farmar had his best game of the year, hanging 15 points off the bench and spiking a Rafer Alston layup attempt off the backboard, LeBron-style. The final score was 106 to 87.
The Lakers are now 13-3, half a game behind the Phoenix Suns for the NBA's best record, and the Nets are 0-17. They share the league record for most consecutive losses to start a season and, with Minnesota's delightful upset of Denver tonight, are pretty clearly the NBA's worst team. The Lakers will see them again on December 19, at which point it's unlikely, though not totally inconceivable, they'll be 0-27.
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Poss. |
TO% |
FTA/ |
FT% |
EFG% |
TS% |
Off Reb% |
Def Reb% |
PPP |
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L.A. |
90 |
19 |
0.26 |
62 |
58 |
59 |
31 |
72 |
1.18 |
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N.J. |
91 |
20 |
0.25 |
70 |
46 |
50 |
28 |
69 |
0.96 |
Sexy Update! Here's the video of Farmar's sweet, sweet Rafer ownage.
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The Nets just might go 0-27
They play:
19. December 2nd — vs. Mavericks
20. December 4th — vs. Bobcats
21. December 6th — @ Knicks
22. December 8th — @ Bulls
23. December 9th — vs. Warriors
24. December 11th — @ Pacers
25. December 13th — @ Hawk
They may have a chance against the Knicks, Bulls, Warriors and Pacers … but
Lakers 2009 Road to Redemption: TREVOR, DEREK, LAMAR, PAU & KOBE.
Play the game of which Lakers reminds you of: TA - TI, Shannon Brown - Chris Brown, Pau Gasol - Jesus, Machine - Luis Scola/Russell Brand, PJ with mustache and beard - Colonel Sanders.
by PeanutButterSpread on Nov 29, 2009 9:58 PM PST reply actions
I don't know .... who wants to be the first team to lose to the Nets?
Lakers 2009 Road to Redemption: TREVOR, DEREK, LAMAR, PAU & KOBE.
Play the game of which Lakers reminds you of: TA - TI, Shannon Brown - Chris Brown, Pau Gasol - Jesus, Machine - Luis Scola/Russell Brand, PJ with mustache and beard - Colonel Sanders.
by PeanutButterSpread on Nov 29, 2009 9:59 PM PST up reply actions
Best chances for a win, it seems
Either @Knicks or vs. Warriors at home.
by DexterFishmore on Nov 29, 2009 10:01 PM PST up reply actions
their best chances are vs the knicks
even though its on the road, the knicks are really bad so yeah…
Leave Chad Billingsley alone!!!
How come no one is complaining about how the Nets giftwraped Vince Carter for the Magic?
Rafer Alston and Courtney Lee? We gave up more talent for Gasol.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Don't forget
The Nets threw in Ryan Anderson as well.
by DexterFishmore on Nov 29, 2009 10:13 PM PST up reply actions
Its pretty much even to me Courtney Lee is a stud young player who is cheap. The Nets get
cap space with Alston’s and Battie’s contracts ending after this season. The Nets also gave up Ryan Anderson too. I really like Lee as a player. I think he’ll develop into a big time scorer, IMO. Gasol is a better player than Vince. Look at the respective ages of Gasol and Vince when they were traded too.
Forgot about Ryan Anderson, who is better than both Lee and Alston as well
Lee is not a big time scorer and never will be. I don’t know what you see in him that hints at that potential. I think the ceiling for Lee is somewhere around Raja Bell.
Yeah Pau is more valuable than VC, but looking at the Nets this year you see just how bad they are without Vince. They wanted to move his contract bad, apparently, and were willing to literally give him away.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
for perspective,
Marc Gasol >>>>>>>>>>>>> Courtney Lee
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Marc is on fire so far
16.1 ppg on 64.3 FG%, 68.8 TS% and an impressive 22.57 PER.
Makes you really wonder if we didn’t have to give him up to get his brother what insane depth we would have.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
time isn't free
We needed Pau, who you could argue is what Marc will become four years from now, with more experience and polish. If Kobe were still 23 and not as practiced, maybe, but Kobe needed a right-hand man now, not four years from now.
Besides, Bynum may well play the same basic role (albeit in a more scoring-oriented way) four years from now anyway.
Yeah, I was referring to if we had both Pau and Marc
Granted, minutes would be sparse, but that would probably be one of the best frontcourt rotations, if not the best in the league.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
well, drew/pau isn't bad either...
I think we already own the best PF/C rotation in the league—though it’s only 3 deep.
On Marc Gasol though, he wouldn’t have had the minutes to be able to develop the way he could in Memphis. That is, skillwise he may be close to where he is now, but Memphis offers him A LOT of experience value.
umm...
OK, but how the heck could we have ended up with both Gasols? What do we give up instead? Or are we pretending that Memphis was really going to gift us Pau?
It was wishful thinking
As in, not intended to be even remotely realistic. He was basically saying, “Man, how crazy would it have been if we could have gotten Gasol but still kept Gasol!”
Strength & Honor
It's good to be the Champs
Ryan Anderson is good role player who works well off the ball and can chuck from three.
He doesn’t play different particularly well and is a below average athlete. He’s a skinny Aaron Gray with shooting range. Anderson isn’t better than Lee at this point, and I doubt he surpasses Lee at anytime during the future.
Yes, I agree Marc Gasol is greater than Courtney Lee infinitely. You would also agree that Pau Gasol is greater than Vince, Lee, Marc Gasol, Kwame Brown, Ryan Anderson, Battie, Alston, Crittenton, and cap space. Infinitely. The Nets got what they wanted: Cap space for 2010. They have the possibility of signing two All-Stars next summer while the Magic will be stuck with Carter’s contract. Plus, the Magic were probably the only team willing to take on that contract. You get what can from your only trading partner when you probably don’t have much leverage.
Basically
There’s nothing wrong with what Memphis or New Jersey did in those two trades. If you can’t compete for a championship with your existing core, you should tear down and start over young, and that’s what those franchises did. Tear-downs are ugly, unfortunately, and you have to watch some awful teams for a few years, but it beats being stuck in Philadelphia 76ers-Land, where you’re never that good, but never bad enough to get a really high pick.
by DexterFishmore on Nov 29, 2009 10:42 PM PST up reply actions
But they shouldn’t have given away Ryan Anderson along with Vince Carter. Orlando’s GM was originally going to draft Ryan Anderson, but he was taken before he could grab him, so he took Courtney Lee.
Yeah, I agree
They must have needed something to make salaries match, but Anderson was a really valuable asset to give up.
by DexterFishmore on Nov 29, 2009 10:51 PM PST up reply actions
I doubt Anderson would have had the same success in NJ though
Orlando’s system is tailor-made for his talents — sitting at the line and shooting threes — whereas he didn’t have that luxury in New Jersey. It makes him more of a good deal for Orlando, but correspondingly, a much less valuable asset for New Jersey.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
+1
That’s the view rebuilding teams have to take in this situation. New Jersey gets tons of cap space, a top three pick (Wall, Favors, Davis, etc.), and a solid core (Harris, Lopez, Douglas-Roberts, Lee) to build around. You can at least say they’re moving in a positive direction.
Memphis moved in the right direction with the trade; that they used the cap space to trade for Zach Randolph is something else entirely.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
I really don’t agree with the Nets firing Frank. From what I heard he wasn’t a bad coach and he got the most out of the guys he had. The Nets have been playing hard these past 16 games in which he coached, they just aren’t very good. There have been a couple of games that they’ve but lost but could have won such as the game against the Heat. Wade won it on a shot and left .1 left (basically a buzzer beater), for the most part the effort has been there they’ve just been mobbed with injuries. I don’t think firing their coach was the right move at all.
I should clarify that they have kept games relatively close with the teams that they can compete with such as the 76ers, the Heat, the Knicks, etc. I mean that’s all you can really ask for if you don’t want to pay the big bucks. You simply aren’t going to win many games if the best players on your team have been injured to start the team AND the owner doesn’t want to pay up for good role players.
I think I read somewhere that most GMs believe Frank hasn’t coached his last NBA team, meaning they still think he can coach. But yeah, firing coaches may not be the best decision, but it’s often the easiest one. I probably would have just let him play out his last year, but whatever.
well, some say that the front office was actually trying to do Frank a favor
so his name wouldn’t get stuck with the worst record start in NBA history
Oh Sasha
Before the game, the Lakers weren’t all on the same page.
Vujacic and Lamar Odom had an animated, uh, misunderstanding in the locker room while Odom was trying to prove a point that he would gladly feed fellow reserves the ball and let them do all the shooting.
So he asked them individually in an impromptu poll to describe their “nature as a player” — would they shoot or pass instinctively when getting the ball?
DJ Mbenga said he would shoot first. So did Adam Morrison. When Odom asked Vujacic, he wasn’t satisfied with a diplomatic answer that it depended on the game situation.
“Listen to the question. Don’t add to it,” said Odom, who also told Vujacic to “stop taking it personally.”
As both players grew increasingly testy, Vujacic eventually said, “If I’m open, I will shoot it.”
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lakers-nets30-2009nov30,0,231106.story
The notion that Sasha
Wouldn’t immediately throw up a shot is hilarious.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
But he'd feel guilty about the 0-fer the next day....
Gunner’s guilt may not be in his nature, but it is in his upbringing….
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
gotta say
Liked the post, but I really liked the opening photo, with three various stages of facepalm.
Perfect.
After the “21-2 run in the first quarter” the game was pretty boring. But I liked the following:
- Lakers focused enough to take care of business. I thought they could have dropped this game or the Warriors game over a holiday weekend.
- The bench held on to most of the lead. OK, if they can’t hold a lead vs. the Nets then they never would be able to.
- The starters got to play enough without having to play too much.
So since it is not possible to win another championship in November I am glad they are doing what they have to do so far – and seem to be improving as they go along. Good Deal.
The Lakers "Too big, too strong, too long, too good."
nets end losing streak with bobcats
mark cuban has too much pride to let mavs lose to nets, but the bobcats will lose… it’ll be close though
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