Suns at Lakers 8:30 TNT HD

[mojorizen7]

It is ENORMOUS, 9 or 10 million. But it's an expiring K, so maybe it can get some halfway decent player to a team wanting to dump cash. Either way, he's gone next year.

Maybe ya'll can bring your SHAQ daddy back.

 

[arwillan]

Until the Andrew Bynum-lead powerhouse Fakers can beat us in a 7-game series,
they'll continue to be owned by the SUNS when it's all said and done.

oh so true. if they want to beat us with a guy in his 2nd year, so be it. Let them give it their best shot. The last 2 years they've been sent home packing by the suns, so until that changes they have no room to talk. Bynum didn't win it for them last year....he was more or less a no-show if i remember correctly. Amare won't let Bynum do a whole lot of damage come playoff time...so no worries.

 

[D-Dogg]

Maybe ya'll can bring your SHAQ daddy back.

I wanted shaq gone when he left...no way in hell I want him back now.

 

[arwillan]

The lakers were smart to get rid of shaq when they did IMO. look at him now....20mil a year for 3 more years and he SUCKS. yeah he got one more ring (largely because of wade), but he is/was on the downswing. The lakers probably should have tried to get a better deal for him though. Maybe a pick or a combo-guard to pair with kobe.

 

[green machine]

The lakers were smart to get rid of shaq when they did IMO. look at him now....20mil a year for 3 more years and he SUCKS. yeah he got one more ring (largely because of wade), but he is/was on the downswing. The lakers probably should have tried to get a better deal for him though. Maybe a pick or a combo-guard to pair with kobe.

Getting Odom and Caron Butler wasn't bad at all.

It was the subsequent deal to trade Butler for Brown that made it a bad trade.

 

[Proteus]

It's Christmas in January as the Suns beat the Lakers

I just hope they're not too tired to beat the Timberwolves tomorrow.

 

[mojorizen7]

I'd rather have a 38 yr old Mourning then a 38 yr old SHAQ.
Just sayin.

 

[D-Dogg]

The lakers were smart to get rid of shaq when they did IMO. look at him now....20mil a year for 3 more years and he SUCKS. yeah he got one more ring (largely because of wade), but he is/was on the downswing. The lakers probably should have tried to get a better deal for him though. Maybe a pick or a combo-guard to pair with kobe.

In hindsight, it wasn't a bad deal.

Odom
Butler
Jordan Farmar


'Cept we moved Butler for Kwame...which has failed miserably (I had hope it would be a good move..I was waaaay wrong).

 

[oneofthesedays]

Let me put it this way, Bynum is the equivalent of Amare on our team but with far better defense. With him we are a very good WC team that went 26-11 with an extremely hard schedule. Without him we are a middling .500 team that barely scrapes the playoffs, the same team you faced the last two seasons.

So really if you guys think you want to face us with Bynum in the mix then I'm all for it. We've drubbed you twice with him and it will be more of the same when he gets back. You have no answer for teams with a true interior presence.

 

[mjb21aztd]

and the suns are all for facing the lakers in the 1st round since we have knocked you out the past few years

 

[bigfoot]

Hurrah!
A win in a game that Amare himself said is important to him ought to be good. It should kick him and the whole team in gear now for a nice winning streak.
That Nash postgame interview is why I'm soooo in love with him. sigh...
G'night everyone!

 

[D-Dogg]

and the suns are all for facing the lakers in the 1st round since we have knocked you out the past few years

Don't live in the past.

 

[Roca Dolla]

Let me put it this way, Bynum is the equivalent of Amare on our team but with far better defense. With him we are a very good WC team that went 26-11 with an extremely hard schedule. Without him we are a middling .500 team that barely scrapes the playoffs, the same team you faced the last two seasons.

So really if you guys think you want to face us with Bynum in the mix then I'm all for it. We've drubbed you twice with him and it will be more of the same when he gets back. You have no answer for teams with a true interior presence.

lol......... just like the fakers have no answer for suns in the playoffs!

 

[mjb21aztd]

if the suns face the lakers in the playoffs again this year it will be another fun series and whoever wins in the playoffs is the better team

 

[Proteus]

So really if you guys think you want to face us with Bynum in the mix then I'm all for it. We've drubbed you twice with him and it will be more of the same when he gets back. You have no answer for teams with a true interior presence.

I wouldn't call losing by 7 points a drubbing.

 

[oneofthesedays]

lol......... just like the fakers have no answer for suns in the playoffs!

What's going to change in the playoffs? The same problems will still be there that teams with a true interior presence can exploit.

 

[oneofthesedays]

I wouldn't call losing by 7 points a drubbing.

Right, losing by 20+ is though.

 

[Roca Dolla]

Don't live in the past.

livin in the past ? cmon now we all know how all this faker bandwagon fans livin all the time in the past!

 

[Roca Dolla]

What's going to change in the playoffs? The same problems will still be there that teams with a true interior presence can exploit.

nothing gonna change just kobe disappears in the games lmao

 

[oneofthesedays]

nothing gonna change just kobe disappears in the games lmao

Bynum changes the complexion of the game the way Amare does for PHX. Without Amare PHX can't go inside and kick out. You have to play Amare honestly otherwise it's an easy lob for a dunk. Same goes for Bynum. It's a huge focal point of the offense and without it you saw how the Lakers struggled. It's why PHX owned us 2 seasons straight. Bynum is now the reason why the Laker can and will beat the Suns.

 

[green machine]

Bynum changes the complexion of the game the way Amare does for PHX. Without Amare PHX can't go inside and kick out. You have to play Amare honestly otherwise it's an easy lob for a dunk. Same goes for Bynum. It's a huge focal point of the offense and without it you saw how the Lakers struggled. It's why PHX owned us 2 seasons straight. Bynum is now the reason why the Laker can and will beat the Suns.

You are right about Bynum's being a difference maker, but you are wrong to assume the playoffs would go exactly the same way the regular season has. Just look back to the 05-06 season when the Suns absolutely worked the Lakers bad in the regular season only to come within a Tim Thomas three of getting bounced in the first round.

Without looking at the schedule I hope the last game between these teams is late in the year. That would be a better judge of where the teams are.

 

[Hat]

Bynum changes the complexion of the game the way Amare does for PHX. Without Amare PHX can't go inside and kick out. You have to play Amare honestly otherwise it's an easy lob for a dunk. Same goes for Bynum. It's a huge focal point of the offense and without it you saw how the Lakers struggled. It's why PHX owned us 2 seasons straight. Bynum is now the reason why the Laker can and will beat the Suns.

 

[D-Dogg]

You are right about Bynum's being a difference maker, but you are wrong to assume the playoffs would go exactly the same way the regular season has. Just look back to the 05-06 season when the Suns absolutely worked the Lakers bad in the regular season only to come within a Tim Thomas three of getting bounced in the first round.

Without looking at the schedule I hope the last game between these teams is late in the year. That would be a better judge of where the teams are.

No, it's coming up soon. We'll be without Bynum again.

 

[Roca Dolla]

Bynum changes the complexion of the game the way Amare does for PHX. Without Amare PHX can't go inside and kick out. You have to play Amare honestly otherwise it's an easy lob for a dunk. Same goes for Bynum. It's a huge focal point of the offense and without it you saw how the Lakers struggled. It's why PHX owned us 2 seasons straight. Bynum is now the reason why the Laker can and will beat the Suns.

ok good the lakers will beat the suns

 

[green machine]

No, it's coming up soon. We'll be without Bynum again.

Well that sucks.