Kings @ Lakers Game Thread

[Peter_Gibbons]

Yeah, the laker crowd is pretty pathetic.

x2... I mean they aren't pathetic because they want free tacos. But I've been to staples games and they are mostly fair weather fans. There was so much booing on their own team for their first 3 yrs after shaq left and they were losing. The face of lakers fans Jack Nicholson threatened to stop being a fan if they didn't start winning asap.

 

[Arby's Roast Beef]

Everyone who played for us scored tonight...good sign. The Lakers seemed to struggle against playing Salmons, who kept slicing to the hoop and getting open shots at will (it's like they don't know how to exploit Salmon's tunnel vision weaknesses). Beno as usual until the end played pretty well, overzealously getting to the rim and trying to make things happen with his usual assisting and such. Thompson, nice rebounding game, couldn't always hit shots but made a solid but not great impact. Hawes burdened with foul trouble, but came through somewhat at the end.

 

[Kings Faithful]

I got to watch the lakers telecast (oh joy) did they mention anything about martins return on the kings telecast?

Nope! Its a complete mystery as of now.

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

Oh yea, good effort by the guys tonight. I mean we could have folded when we were down 15 and end up losing by 20+. But we kept fighting back and got it all the way down to 3. If Beno hit those free throws... who knows.

On a side note, the lakers are just not at the level of the Celtics or even the Cavs. The difference is those 2 teams plays defense.. every game. The lakers held their opponents to 87.5pts in their first 6 games but since then has given up an average of 101 pts +. They went back to the "out score the other team" ways which does not work in the playoffs.

 

[hoopsfan]

. The face of lakers fans Jack Nicholson threatened to stop being a fan if they didn't start winning asap.

Come on now...he's been a Laker fan longer than a lot of people on here have been alive. He's been through worse before.

 

[hoopsfan]

Oh yea, good effort by the guys tonight. I mean we could have folded when we were down 15 and end up losing by 20+. But we kept fighting back and got it all the way down to 3. If Beno hit those free throws... who knows.

On a side note, the lakers are just not at the level of the Celtics or even the Cavs. The difference is those 2 teams plays defense.. every game. The lakers held their opponents to 87.5pts in their first 6 games but since then has given up an average of 101 pts +. They went back to the "out score the other team" ways which does not work in the playoffs.

Who else would know that better than Kings fans (back in the day)....or Phoenix fans??

Yes, the Lakers need to concentrate A LOT more on defense. It's frustrating.

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

Come on now...he's been a Laker fan longer than a lot of people on here have been alive. He's been through worse before.

Haha, yea it wasn't even that bad for them comparing to what we've been going through.

As for jack, I've actually heard him in an interview before where he admited he wasn't a laker fan when he was younger. He said he started liking the lakers because he hated not having a team to root for when he went to games. He also admited that he is a big Yankees fan. I mean I just wonder why his favorite teams just happens to be 2 big market teams.

 

[Kingster]

Oh yea, good effort by the guys tonight. I mean we could have folded when we were down 15 and end up losing by 20+. But we kept fighting back and got it all the way down to 3. If Beno hit those free throws... who knows.

On a side note, the lakers are just not at the level of the Celtics or even the Cavs. The difference is those 2 teams plays defense.. every game. The lakers held their opponents to 87.5pts in their first 6 games but since then has given up an average of 101 pts +. They went back to the "out score the other team" ways which does not work in the playoffs.

Totally agree. The Lakers are soft. They'll get destroyed by the Celtics if they continue on the same path. To get an idea of the Celtics, just watch their play off the ball. The just WHAM the other team off the ball. Lakers are comparative marshmallows.

 

[hoopsfan]

Haha, yea it wasn't even that bad for them comparing to what we've been going through.

As for jack, I've actually heard him in an interview before where he admited he wasn't a laker fan when he was younger. He said he started liking the lakers because he hated not having a team to root for when he went to games. He also admited that he is a big Yankees fan. I mean I just wonder why his favorite teams just happens to be 2 big market teams.

When Jack was younger, there probably wasn't even a Laker team!

 

[Bricklayer]

I mean I just wonder why his favorite teams just happens to be 2 big market teams.

Might have something to do with L.A./New York being the places where most entertainment types have their two homes.

 

[Gargamel]

Haha, yea it wasn't even that bad for them comparing to what we've been going through.

As for jack, I've actually heard him in an interview before where he admited he wasn't a laker fan when he was younger. He said he started liking the lakers because he hated not having a team to root for when he went to games. He also admited that he is a big Yankees fan. I mean I just wonder why his favorite teams just happens to be 2 big market teams.

He goes back to the early 60s as a fan, w/o the good seat. Hot Rod Hundley said that he was stunned one time when Jack came up to HIM to talk about the old days, stunned that he even knew who he was. He was there during the Threatt era and presumably in 74/75, the worst two yr period. I have games from as far back as 1980 where he's sitting in that same damn seat looking like Jack Torrance.

He's a sports junkie. Boxing, baseball, other NBA etc. One time he pounced when a roving sideline reporter almost told him the score of a World Cup game that he was taping at home. I have 92 Olympics footage where he and Michael Douglas are in the stands watching Kim Zmeskal. He's legit, c'mon. Bag on the rest of us if you must.

 

[CWebb85]

Not his fault that a coach places a injured player on the court in not using Beno for those last minute of the Third Quater. When watching Brown dribble and being trapt, you can really tell he didn't have lateral movement or speed to get past the trapt, but I guess our coach knows that an injured player can play out there.

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

Totally agree. The Lakers are soft. They'll get destroyed by the Celtics if they continue on the same path. To get an idea of the Celtics, just watch their play off the ball. The just WHAM the other team off the ball. Lakers are comparative marshmallows.

Yea, just check out how they won last night 112 to 103 against the Kings. Meanwhile, the Celtics beats the Hornets 94 to 82. The Celtics forces the other team to play their style.

 

[fnordius]

Might have something to do with L.A./New York being the places where most entertainment types have their two homes.

Jack Nicholson grew up in New York, where the Knicks were playing by he time he was 12 or so. He continued to live there for almost another decade before coming to Hollywood. He was in So Cal for a few years before the Lakers arrived from Minnesota. Hard to know what to make of it all, other than thinking that either he wasn't a basketball fan until at least his late 20s, or that he jumped off the Knickerbockers bandwagon some time ago, but stuck with his hometown Yankees.