Wow

Fresh off the heels of another quality Laker loss to a sub .500 team at home.. I have no choice but to get on here and say the more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not going to go crazy and say the whole season is a loss or anything like that, but heading into a 6 game road trip, it would probably be a good thing to close out at home with a W and head into the road trip with some positive energy on your side. Guess the Lakers didn't get that memo..

The troubling thing here is watching the Lakers when things don't go their way. Sure the Bobcats were getting all the loose balls, sure Norm Nixon is mutilated outside Staples right now, but despite playing horrible...the game was there for the taking against a team that has some good matchups against us, but somehow has gone 5-16 against everyone else on the road... They seem to fall apart.. Gasoft getting bullied by Okafor and stripped, Fisher doing the Houdini disappearing act, Odom smoking blunts, Sasha deciding there's no such thing as a shot closer than 24 ft.. and in the first OT.. every single possession was a "here Kobe, win the game for us"

At any rate, to take a look ahead at the road trip that lies ahead, there are a few things to consider.. Ariza has a concussion, so he might not be available to play on Friday, and Bynum's idiot foul against G Wallace will probably send him on a plane directly to Memphis.. so what does that mean for the Lakers? Unfortunately i think it means the following:

Wolves 106 LAL 94
Memphis 91 LAL 103
NYK 106 LAL 108 (really reaching for this one)
Toronto 94 LAL 102
Boston 96 LAL 83
Cleveland 109 LAL 95

I'm usually never right here, but i think this is an optimistic guess.. I think the Knicks will give the Lakers everything they can handle and possibly even win. But unfortunately since I'm not getting paid to do this, I cannot predict a 2-4 road trip.. because if that happens, we will be surpassed by the other 3 "elite" teams and probably discarded as Western Conference Weak. Bynum has to get his head out of his ass and lose his T itis syndrome and maybe Gasol can stop being such a wuss and play some good confident basketball.

We are supposed to be an elite team.. but that's only possible if the players on the team truely believe that, and play like it.. Sometimes I think these guys need to be sent to the shrink so we can figure out why they pull the crap that they do sometimes..

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