Schedule Analysis
My preseason schedule analysis is up, and it mentions L.A. more than once. I don't usually start threads on other teams' forums, but I thought some people around here might be interested, since the Lakers get several mentions, and I look a little further than stupid things like "15 back to backs, the league is protecting Kobe!!!!!"
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Sorry, I am sure it is great analysis....
But once I saw L@kers, I just stopped.
Tell you what…….when Blazers fans stop acting like 9 year olds and spell like big boys I will read your ‘analysis’.
Billy Mac: "Lamar, can you see yourself actually getting in the (boxing) ring"?
Lamar Odom: "No. My face is too pretty."
by pslakerfan on Aug 13, 2010 10:48 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
That is so damn lame.
Just because you throw someone a pass, and they score, it doesn't mean you made them a better player.
LOL
Or is that L@L?
I’m not sure which is more immature, someone having fun with something or someone else getting all sensitive about it. You decide.
I spell it “Lakers” when I come here (rarely) because you guys apparently can’t handle a little honest good-natured fan hatred of your team.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
the thing is
it’s not just a “fun” thing over at blazer’s edge. You get absolutely torn apart by the community if you don’t censor the word “Lakers”.
So yeah it’s not the word but where the word is derived from: mindless, pathetic, reverse-fanboism.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Don't know why you would want us to read an article if you're just planning on clowning on our team.
What if we went over to Blazers Edge and pointed them to an article over here where we made fun of all their fails? You like?
Just because you throw someone a pass, and they score, it doesn't mean you made them a better player.
Did you read it?
The “clowning on your team” is a microscopic part of the article. Man, you guys are sensitive.
Why did I link to it? Because you guys have had to read a bunch of stupid stuff about only 15 back to backs, etc. I thought you might find some of the information in there useful. Like:
That actually changes things quite a bit, doesn’t it? At face value, it looked like the schedulers had handed L.A. and Phoenix a cakewalk. But when you realize that everyone else had quite a few of their back to backs in which their opponent was also on a back to back, suddenly it gives a different picture. The team with the easiest schedule of back to backs is actually OKC, with N.O. close behind. And Houston, Portland, and Denver have the worst schedules in this category, but not with as much disparity as it first appeared.
Or:
This is the second year that L.A. had the fewest number of opponent back to backs. Last year, it was 9, this year 10.
Or:
Who has the worst schedule in terms of back to backs? Amazingly, despite the fact that they have fewer back to backs than anyone, it is L.A. They aren’t hurt much by back to backs, but they get almost no help from the schedulers in terms of tired opponents.
But if you can’t handle a few @s scattered here and there, you can’t.
Take care anyway.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
i started reading it too but stopped when saw lakers spelled with @
if you invite a “rival” fanbase there should be some professionalism in your writing, so we take it a little seriously… if it was a story just to mock Lakers then i would understand, but when you are analyzing and then inviting some other bloggers then the story is different
Oh, well
I wrote it for Blazersedge, not for you guys. Inviting you guys was an afterthought because I thought you were getting the short end of the stick on some of the stuff being written. Probably shouldn’t have bothered….
If I had it to do over again, I’d warn you in advance.
There’s a lot of humor mixed in that post, as in all of mine. I tend to combine humor with analysis. If that isn’t professional, so be it.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
I think he was just referring
to the Lakers thing. Meaning unprofessional to not spell it correctly in an analysis, not that humor can’t be included.
Unfortunately the legend of MJ has long surpassed the reality of MJ. -Joshua S.
If I had it to do over again, I’d warn you in advance.
Warn us of what? That you intended to use the @ symbol?
Like I said, my comment wasn’t about your post. I am sure it is wonderful and full of Laker fairness. That’s not the point. The point is that sometimes the message gets lost on the messenger. This is one of those times. The @ symbol may be funny to Blazer fans, but to us it is the internet equivalent of “LAKERZ SUCK”….etc.
If you want to be taken seriously around here, be the bigger man and type LAKERS like a grown up. Maybe you will take a little shit at BE, but it may be worth it. You would NEVER see a writer here use a term like JailBlazers, or Thuggets, and to us the @ symbol is equal to both.
That is the point.
Billy Mac: "Lamar, can you see yourself actually getting in the (boxing) ring"?
Lamar Odom: "No. My face is too pretty."
Warn that I intended to?
I’d already used it. I wrote it a day before I ever linked here.
I could have warned you that I HAD used it.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
It's a SS&R policy
that our users refrain from calling other teams’ bad names. We could easily call the Celtics the common derogatory name most Laker fans like to use, but we don’t here. Why? Because it is disrespectful. And if anyone does, we call them out on it.
If you want us to respect and read your “analysis” then please extend the same courtesy to us. Even if your schedule analysis is thought provoking and well-written, you can’t expect Lakers fans to take it in good humor that you used L@kers. It’s not only highly distracting, but it just shows you don’t care how other fans feel when they read it. And then you call them sensitive.
There is a huge reason why it’s banned here in SS&R. Because the mods like to make all fans feel comfortable if they should ever visit here. They would think us highly immature and disrespectful of their team if we used those names. All we ask, is that you extend us the same courtesy.
Now if this was good ribbing fun and everyone was just talking smack, then fine. But you’re passing your analysis off as something we would find interesting to read. I think by now, it’s safe to say, most Lakers fans are tired of seeing L@kers, L*kers, or Fakers, etc. It’s unnecessary and we already get it. Mostly everyone hates us, but hey, we might have dropped down to second or third most hated thanks to the Heat.
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 Aug 14, 2010 3:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Several points
1. Different strokes for different folks. We have a no swearing policy as a means of showing respect. You don’t.
2. As I said above, linking to it here was an afterthought. I didn’t write it for you — if I had, I would have posted it here.
3. If you call my team Bl@zers on your blog, I’m going to laugh about it. But I guess every fanbase has things they don’t like.
4. I know it is your policy. I have respected it the few times I’ve posted here, and will continue to do so, if I ever come back….
We have players who play defense now, look out!
you have to understand where we're coming from though
We as Laker fans get what we believe to be a lot of undeserved hate from nearly every team out there, especially on SBN. It gets a little tiresome trying to distinguish between well-deserved/thought-out hatred, bandwagon/non-sensical hatred, and straight up jokes.
Now do I stop reading an article when I read L@kers? No, of course not especially if it’s a well written article. It does, however, irk me a little bit if for no other reason because it’s the kind of stuff that perpetuates stereotypes about my team.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
What Justin said
I don't do it for your thanks, I do it because I had a calling, but I do love the support you give me and my Soldiers.
by Sarge Clemins on Aug 14, 2010 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Sure, I understand
So now I’ll ask a question. Since I didn’t write it for you guys, and I wrote it for people who enjoy a joke at the Lakers’ expense, and so I included it, do you not want to read it anyway? I’m going to ask that question below.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
But please do keep contributing in fanposts, fanshots, and comments
while we don’t appreciate the name-thing, we really do like it when opposing team’s fans give us their take on our team, the nba, their team, etc.
Timbo, WaveOcean, are all long-time SS&R readers and commenters and they’re definitely not fans of the Lakers. Though we hope eventually they will be :)
Lakers 2009 Road to Redemption: TREVOR, DEREK, LAMAR, PAU & KOBE.
Play the game of which Lakers reminds you of: Devin Ebanks - TA - TI, Shannon Brown - Chris Brown, Pau Gasol - Jesus, Machine - Luis Scola/Russell Brand, PJ with mustache and beard - Colonel Sanders.
by PeanutButterSpread on Aug 14, 2010 4:07 AM PDT up reply actions
I will
but I’m pretty Bl@z*r focused in my posting, so it won’t be that often.
SS&R fans are a different breed from the stereotypical Laker fans. There’s things worth reading here.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
Hey don't take it wrong...come back another time. We was just Blazing ur Trail is all.
hehe :)
I don't do it for your thanks, I do it because I had a calling, but I do love the support you give me and my Soldiers.
by Sarge Clemins on Aug 14, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure which is more immature, someone having fun with something or someone else getting all sensitive about it. You decide.
I love playing with my 4 year old. But at the end of the day I still remember that she is a 4 year old.
Billy Mac: "Lamar, can you see yourself actually getting in the (boxing) ring"?
Lamar Odom: "No. My face is too pretty."
OK, I can't resist
You just compared Laker fans to four year olds, you know.
If only I’d remembered who I was playing with….
zing, zing
We have players who play defense now, look out!
Since when the fuck are the Blazers our rivals?
" I wanna be the best, I wanna be the best simple and plain and to be the best you have to win and thats what drives me" -Kobe Bryant
by 15xtimeNBAchamps on Aug 13, 2010 7:56 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Man for real, the other day some Heat fan wrote" I look foward to this new rivalry with the Lakers" I’m like wtf, same with kings fans, they still think were rivals.
" I wanna be the best, I wanna be the best simple and plain and to be the best you have to win and thats what drives me" -Kobe Bryant
by 15xtimeNBAchamps on Aug 13, 2010 8:41 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Rivals?
I used “rivals” in that post of every team which might contend for a playoff spot. It was used generically.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
they r not
I don't do it for your thanks, I do it because I had a calling, but I do love the support you give me and my Soldiers.
by Sarge Clemins on Aug 14, 2010 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
lmao
one of the recommended fanposts is titled
Ugh, enough of the endless media slurping of the OKC Thunder
Unfortunately the legend of MJ has long surpassed the reality of MJ. -Joshua S.
hey, i'd be mad if our team passed on durant for greg oden too
and also passed on MJ for sam bowie…
3peat.
DAAAAAAMN!
I don't do it for your thanks, I do it because I had a calling, but I do love the support you give me and my Soldiers.
by Sarge Clemins on Aug 14, 2010 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
It was actually a pretty fair assessment
although I don’t know why it was fair and yet somehow Lakers could never be spelled correctly. Either way, it details a break down of Western conference schedules very well.
Unfortunately the legend of MJ has long surpassed the reality of MJ. -Joshua S.
Thanks
We have players who play defense now, look out!
Ok Bl*zer fan
" I wanna be the best, I wanna be the best simple and plain and to be the best you have to win and thats what drives me" -Kobe Bryant
by 15xtimeNBAchamps on Aug 14, 2010 2:36 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 3 recs
Well played, sir
rec
We have players who play defense now, look out!
No problem
definitely did all of the work I was planning to do, but I will just link people there whenever they bring it up now. lol
Unfortunately the legend of MJ has long surpassed the reality of MJ. -Joshua S.
Warn them about the @ sign....
…unless they are Denver fans or something stupid like that.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
Yea, I don't think
Denver fans will mind. In fact, I think they’d rec it just for the @ sign. lol.
Unfortunately the legend of MJ has long surpassed the reality of MJ. -Joshua S.
Should I delete this fanshot?
You decide. It’s your site.
Laker fan statement #1.
I don’t want to read analysis which uses “L@kers”. It’s annoying, and I’m not interested in what you said if you do that. If you did that in your analysis, don’t link it here. Please delete this fanshot.
Laker fan statement #2.
I dislike the fact that you used “L@kers”, it’s annoying and detracts from your analysis, but I still am glad you linked it. You provided useful information. Please do not delete the fanshot.
Simple, really. Choose statement #1 or #2. If enough people want it to stay, I’ll leave the link up, if they don’t, I’ll delete the whole fanshot.
It’s your site, you decide.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
You can leave it up
I gots no probs with the analysis. Just understand that around the internet L@kers is just a sign of disrespect towards the organization and the players, and Fakers is a shot at the legitimacy of the history of the team and the supposedly fake fans that support it. I’m sure you wouldn’t mind if I posted a fanshot over on BE and included the various disrespectful names for the Blazers, but could you say the same for everyone else on BE. I’m not so sure you could say that.
There have been other incidents with people who post things here just to get a rise out of Laker fans at their “analysis” when they only posted it just to show us that they think we are (insert some adjective that questions one’s intelligence). So yes, in the future we would ask that you either 1. Warn in the caption that you had some fun at our expense or 2. Don’t include those names in the writings if you intend to link them here. Or at least, thats what I think. The moderators could always have their own line of thinking or reasoning, but since this hasn’t been deleted I’m going to say they don’t have a big problem with it.
Its perfectly fine though man, love to have you come around for Blazers games and participate in the game threads. Even come by and post some more of your analysis, since this was a pretty good read.
These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the end game. - Charlie Wilson
So no one wants it deleted?
We have players who play defense now, look out!
Obviously not
Which means all the griping about @ was sound and fury, signifying nothing. Since no one wants it taken down, it demonstrates that SS&R people recognize it still has value. You’d rather it not use the @, and if I were writing for your site, I would respect that. Since I wrote it for Blazersedge, and within Blazersedge standards, and to entertain as well as enlighten Bedgers, I’m not too bothered by that.
I won’t link my regular updates through the season, though, unless there is something really notable (as there was in this) related to the Lakers.
Thanks all for the interesting discussion, if somewhat off-topic. I do understand where you are coming from a little bit more, and that’s always valuable.
We have players who play defense now, look out!
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