Hello,
The two teams I'm currently cheering to lose are the Dallas Cowboys and the L.A. Lakers, for vastly different reasons. I love the Cowboys, but hate their direction they are going. I'm cheering for them to lose in hopes Jason Garret gets fired and that this team gets blown up. Jerry Jones status quo just isn't working. With the Lakers I just hate them and have hated them forever. I especially hate them now as they have so many annoying players. A team that has both Ron Arrest and Dwight Howard? Eww! Other than hard core Lakers fans, how cannot everyone else hate them?
As a Lakers' hater I love looking at the stat line for their game last night. Kobe Bryant had 40 points, but it was on 12 of 28 shooting. As always he also had plenty of free throws. Bryant did end up with a triple double, he also had 10 rebounds and 10 turnovers! But no one can ever question whether he wants to win. Too bad he's on the same team as Dwight Howard.
Another stat line I like is Ron Arrest's stat line. The man is such a thug and they must be scared to cut him, who knows what he's going to do? Arrest was 1-8 from the field, including 1-5 from 3 point land. Really everyone must be scared of him, who's letting him shoot 5 three-pointers? To keep up his 1 for ?theme, Arrest made 1-5 from the free throw line. He's a notoriously poor shooter.
Hilariously the Lakers only shot 53.5% from the free throw line. Howard continued his horrendous free throw shooting. He only made 3 of 12 shots from the line, again I don't understand how a professional basketball player only makes 25% of his free throws. Howard is only making .478% of his free throw shots this season. Also he grabbed 8 rebounds, meaning he was out rebounded by Bryant. Granted Kobe has heart and cares a lot more about winning than Howard does.
I don't know what the +/- stat shows, if it even shows anything worthwhile. Each player has a + or - indicating how his team did in terms of score when that specific player is on the court. The Lakers were outscored by 9 points with Howard on the floor, which seems to happen a lot. Since Howard is much more about himself, than his team, he doesn't always get back defensively as quickly as he should. So when he's on the floor the other team gets a lot of easy baskets. Howard goes for the flashy play, the kind that will be on ESPN. but he's not so good with the basic play. George Hill made the winning basket over the out stretched hand of Howard. Again he's so incredibly overrated.
Also in the games final two minutes Ron Arrest and Dwight Howard missed a combined 4 straight free throws.
Speaking of someone I've never understood that received so much love is the slow, stiff Pau Gasol. Other than complaining, what else is he good at? Gasol only made 2 of 9 shots last night, dropping his season shooting percentage to .423%. You can bet the Lakers will trade him, that is if they can find someone to take him.
Obviously this team will be a lot better when Steve Nash finally gets back. They won't have to rely on Darius Morris (who?) to play point guard minutes. He missed all 6 of his shots from the field and the Lakers were outscored by 16 points when he was on the floor. Again I don't know if that stat has any significance, but getting outscored by 16 points when a certain player is on the floor can't be good.
The Lakers are now 7-8 and third in the Pacific Division, they are only 2-3 under Mike D'Antoni. I still can't believe the Lakers passed up on the opportunity to rehire Phil Jackson, he of the 11 NBA titles. Instead the Lakers signed D'Antoni who was decent in Phoenix, but not very good in New York.
The Lakers play two more games at home and then go on a 3 game road swing. I'll be cheering for the Nuggets and the Magic in the Lakers' next two games.
themusicaddict
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