He curb his drinking problem and had drinks here and there. The health issues came as a result of exhaustion. The coaches that worked with him and he himself say it. He mentally and physically drained himself and I’m certain that coach the Lakers did not help.
are there any open leagues still despite the opening game last night??
Fantasy I mean
“I want my accountant from princeton, I don’t want my offense from princeton” Good ol chuck with the quotables.
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Sigh…Mike Brown needs to play some old school NBA Hangtime. Not only is it ‘fun’…but thats the type of offense he needs to coach. Do you know how much you could run up the score with the LA starting five? Start with Nash/Howard and just do team oops with Dwight randomly passing to NAsh in a corner for a quick 3. To close out switch to Kobe/Gasol…its so friggin obvious…just oop-n-shoot. Turbo/steal & Roll. I mean damn…does he realize he just gave Curry a ‘W’ as a starting center in an NBA game?
Marinate on that. ITs been like 2500 days since Curry last won a game as a starting center.
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It was pretty sad watching Ron with the ball in his hand thinking he was Lebron.
Don’t worry, Wright and Brand started, Eddy Curry came off the bench.
Still, any game in which you lose to a team that plays Eddy Curry for 16+ minutes…that should make you reevaluate things.
With all the hype coming into the season with the revamped look, superstar power and supposed automatic WCF champs talk, the Lakers’ first challenge is goddamn Eddy Curry.
Nash looked absolutely lost out there and I can’t blame him, no one on the Lakers knew what the hell they were doing except Pau and Jordan Hill.
ROFLAKERS
Drafting Pau WAS a genius move, thank you for your implied compliment.
Hey I thought we were using TO/AST as a category, not just TO. Has we always been using just TO or am I just a honky grandma that be trippin’?
From the get go this game was in trouble when he took the first drive to the basket. Not Kobe, not Nash… METTA WORLD PEACE.
Kobe - “He said this team is still learning to play together, a period which he says will be a process.”
The problem is, you have team which already know how to play together and you can not let this take more than a season or 2. Nash and Kobe are not getting any younger. They have to figure out everyone’s strength and do that . Why is Dwight trying to make hook shots when he should be ready for a lay up or dunk? Leave the outside mid range shoots to Pau. Dude can shoot and not everyone has 2 7 footers on their team. There are mismatches all over the floor but no, lets play this slow tempo game that creates nothing. No free throws for Kobe, horrible shooting for MWP, Nash going awol from his regular game. People can blame the free throw shooting all they want but Howard is not going to improve that. Why cant Kobe just be like yo Mike, this offense is stupid.
It’s times like these that make you glad you have a capable head coach that can put it all together.
Huh, what’s that? They have Mike Brown?
Well then.
Going to the Raptor opener tonight, I DUNNO WHAT EXPECTATIONS I SHOULD BRING. Well probably a lot of dudes dressed up as PSY looking for camera time since it’s Halloween.
It’s funny because everyone thought his stats will drop playing alongside Dwight, but like the TNT guys pointed out Pau might be the one who flourishes in the so-called hybrid (lol) Princeton offense.
And it wasn’t your stroke of genius that made you take Pau, it was your inherently-Asian instincts that told you you can nab him at dirt cheap prices. AMIRITE
Oh and I believe VS changed it to TOs this year because he is your eternal rival and he hates you.
After a night of drinking and questionable decisions I have accepted the fate of my fantasy team.
LETS GO LINT! TAKE IT HOME FOR ROADHOUSE! (seriously don’t blow it again like last year).
P.S TO/AST > TO.
Lol the season just started, you can make enough trades to make your roster look better.
FYI last season I traded an injured Amare away for Kyrie and Marion. You could get lucky as well.
Good catchm I had my back to the game as I was multi-tasking (D3)…I just got amped when I sae Curry, it got me excited cause I want him to get his…but wow…Dalas is better than folks give credit, but they should NOT have been close to LA let alone beating them…and its coaching, not hte cast of characters. No Mike Brown is not in Carlisle’s league, but I feel like they need to knock on Brian shaw’s door, apologize, and ask him to save them.
Between The Clippers and The Lakers, they have about 75% of a coach.
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Joe Johnson fiasco all over again?
Pau was great with Bynum last year and now he’s actually going to play with a guy who can actually make a decent entry pass? With another motion offense? I had to get Pau at that price, I was genetically obligated.
Wade was just a joke that got out of hand though, I was half seriously bidding, half trying to drive up the price for Geo.
I think the bigger worry would be if they struggle defensively. Boston and Miami came together defensively pretty quickly, and Garnett and LeBron were two elite guys that could anchor defenses. Dwight should be able to do that, and Mike Brown is at the very least supposed to be a defensive guy (even though the Lakers were only kind of meh last year).
Offense is one thing, but if he can’t even put together a decent defense with Dwight Howard in the middle, then he will be extra super useless.
Josh Smith will be next.
Hopefully D12 gets back to being a defensive presence as the season progresses. You can tell he’s not 100% yet and still getting used to playing.
This 100%.
It’s one thing to score 91 and use the new style of offense as an excuse.
It’s another thing to have the Mavs score a point shy of 100 when their team consists of Eddy Curry, OJ Mayo and the dead corpse of VC. They were having a field day getting into the lane.