when they don’t see us coming.

I would love it if the rest of teams in the league don’t have the Blazers on their radar until it was too late. Love it.

Anyway, I agree with douglast. When you are on top and can back up your game, you can say what you want. That’s part of the priviledge of being on top.

If you read any of Plaschke’s garbage and believe it, you should check yourself at the door. I’ve seen around the horn enough times to know that Plaschke is wrong about 99% of everything dealing with sports.

Second, I like how Ron Artest is still considered relevant and a good defender. Sure, he is above average, but game-changing he is not.

Third, the Suns “vaunted” defense? They haven’t played defense since before the year 2000. No wonder a good team like the L*kers poured in 58% of their shots.

Fourth, and finally, Andrew Bynum is VASTLY over-rated. He plays with (and I hate saying it) the best player in the NBA and arguably the second best player ever. This makes you infinitely better. He also played against an incredibly soft Amare Stoudemire. Not only does Bynum have the length but easily grabbed rebound after rebound over Amare. Plaschke may love him, but he has yet to impress in this league.

google "Sasha Vujacic (sp?) and Maria Sharapova.

And you should too for posting a link to that.

I need to take a shower now…

Why should we be at the moment? The bottom line, is I do pretty much hate them. It starts and ends there. Rivals, friends? Who CARES. Just don’t like em, period. We do not need any other titles to go along with that.

One thing that is annoying is when pompous Laker fans say, “deep down you know you love them!” Well I can understand how they would feel thats possible, since they feel that way. I however know dislike when it’s there. It’s the same type of reaction that I get when John Canzano says we Portlander’s have little brother syndrome with Seattle. Most of us do not even think of Seattle when thinking about our beloved city. Just another moron trying to make something out of something that does not exist.

With that Blazer fans, Laker fans will not feel we are rivals until we are knocking them out of the WCF’s. That does not mean a damn thing— feel free to keep the bad taste in your mouth for them.

He’s a pompous blowhard.

With that said, lakers’ winning streaks come to die at the Rose Garden.

Seriously.

That writer should be ashamed of himself.

That was one of the worst sports articles I have ever read.

He obviously really likes Canzano and Brian T Smith, judging by the short paragraphs.

But it doesn’t make me dislike the Lakers more.

It just makes me hate short / one sentence paragraphs more.

“That wild and crazy Suns shooting? They missed nine of their first 11 attempts. A team that had previously made a league-best half of its shots wound up shooting just 37%.”

It was one of the only factual points and it completely negates all of his subjective garbage. High powered offense like Phoenix relies on high tempo transition buckets and jump shooting. The writer talks as if the Lakers controlled the pace and slowed the game down, which is total B.S. The game turned a shooting contest, and the Suns were cold. It’s exactly the tempo that Phoenix would have wanted, they just shot terribly.

Typical homer attitude. If the other team is having an off night, it must be your team’s stellar defense that threw them off. Games where defense is the difference are usually closer than 20 points, and tend to be in the 70-85 point range. Not always, but usually.