Lakers, bouncing back to domination?

My Brud DT's post reminded me that I haven't been writing for this blog for the longest time.  So what happened? Maybe the passion of writing basketball left the same time Kobe and the Lakers walked off the court torn and broken. As a sports fan, it's hard to see your own team suffer and not just a little scratch but a major blow in this case.

How can we allow the Lakers to suffer such humiliation? It's the gold and purple we are talking about, we are the kings and we dominate.

What does it mean to dominate?

To dominate means on any days, ANY, when your friend ask you "Lakers vs Utah" - Lakers. "Lakers vs Bulls" - Lakers. It's almost like a faith, I don't even care who Lakers is playing against, I don't even care if someone is not feeling well or the opponent is having a 17 games winning streak, it's the Lakers.

"Dominating means we believe we will win, we know we will win regardless of who we are playing against."   

Google 72-10 and you will see the meaning of dominating.

Still the best NBA record. Jordan's 2nd 3peat

92' Bulls: 67-15 - this is dominating.

86'-87' Lakers - dominating.

71'-72' Lakers - Longest winning streak before MJ and the guys took over.

3-peat, Kobe and Shaq.

What does it means to the sports? More haters? More bangwagoners? Boring games as it's all "expected"? Do we want to see a dominating team?

Do we have a team like this as of now? Are the heat a dominating team? Yes, they are a good team, they win games, big games but are they dominating? They won 2 rings back to back and now they are chasing their very 1st 3peat and the only thing in their way now is Pacers and Either OKC or the Spurs.

They have had it easy, Bobcats and Nets for their 1st 2 round of the playoffs but that doesn't means they are not a good team. Like it or not they are going down onto the hall of fame. I'm a hater and I'm proud to say that.

THIS... Still hating it.


This is sports and we don't have a sure win but to dominate the game is possible and that means a lot of work. It's the same thing in life, regardless of what we do, if we want to be good we have to put in the effort and make things happen.

How much time does Kobe and the Lakers have to bounce back? Is Love the solution? Will a new coach be able to turn the team around? How much can the Lakers do in the coming off season?

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Although we call this blog the Boobs, Booze and Basketball, we have been talking about basketball all these while and I believe we must be disappointing some readers out there. Thus I've decided to start a lil on the boobs.

Featuring for the 1st time - Levy Tran.

She's a model not your blog shop self proclaimed type. One with real ink and hot!

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IT'S OPENING NIGHT!

After months of talking and uncertainty during the off seasons, NBA IS BACK!

On opening night we have 3 games

ORL : IND
CHI : MIA
LAC : LAL

Frankly, I wasn't at all interested in the ORL vs IND game. All eyes on CHI vs MIA because of this man. All talks about him since he was out for 15 months and we want to watch how he will lead the bulls against our defending champion - Miami Heat. (I feel a sharp pain every time I say this.)

D Rose #TheReturn

How did it go? CHI 95 MIA 107. The Heat's D was madness and the way they play as a team and moving the ball was beautiful. I know it's too early to say but these guys are in the zone.

Is there a better way to start the season than having a derby game? LAC vs LAL. We all know Kobe is still out, Steven Nash was more like Stiff Neck for now and the rest of the players are just the rest of the players. To make things worst, LAC has gotten Doc Rivers but guess what? Looks like Doc have to start the season with a L.

LAC 103 : LAL 116.

To be honest I didn't like how the starters were playing in the earlier part of the game. A lot of run and gun and we see players taking jump shot and Gasol taking 3s. And yes he did make it. But I don't believe that is the best for the team to have a 7ft shooting from outside instead of showing some paint presence. The ball movement was pretty good from the 2nd half onwards and players like Farmar, Hill, Henry and Meeks just started to light things up. The team ended the game with 5 bench players with double figures. I can't say I am all excited about this team and the coach as a Lakers fan but I must say they have given their very best on this opening night. It's too early to say anything more but I hope they keep it up. This is why I love sports, always expect the unexpected.

Image from LA Times.com

As for the ORL and IND game, I have to give it to Roy Hibbert and Paul George. These fellas are putting are big big numbers.

16 Rebound and 7 Blocks for Roy. and 6 rebound, 5 Ast and 24 Points for Paul.

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Very good opening night as a whole. I love this game!

Gilbert Arenas in Drew League

As a Gilbert Arenas fan, even a short highlight reel like this gets my blood pumping!

Seriously I can't tell if he is 100% but I do know that the friendship between him and Young is a great deal and I hope I can find more videos of them playing together, or better seeing him back in the NBA.

But my dream/hope was crushed and burnt when SLAM did an interview with him earlier this year about the possibility of him coming back to NBA.

SLAM: So do you have long-term plans in China? What do you see for yourself in the future here?

GA: 32 games a year. Maximum 36 minutes. That’s all I need at this point in my career. So as long as China teams want me, I’ll be here.

SLAM: Do you have any plans or hopes to tryout with the NBA again?

GA: Nah! [Shakes head vehemently] Because after this season I can enjoy my family. You know my kids are getting older. Being in the NBA, you don’t really get to enjoy your family life because you’re always on the road, you’re always gone. So, no. After this season will be the first time I’ll get to be with my kids for a long period of time.

Damn it Gilbert. I hope some teams pick him up but I guess it's hard considering how young many young guards we get each year. I guess it's easier for a big man to come back but I wouldn't say the same for a point guard where a team needs his speed and stamina a lot more. 

But one thing doesnt change for Glibert is that a joker will always be a joker. See how he tape up number 1 to be 0 again from his no.10 jersey? 

Basketball Never Stops

It's doesn't matter which player ends up where. One thing that will never change... 

Good Bye Dwight and Hello Summer.

As a Lakers Fan, I am glad that the whole Dwightmare is over. I am just glad that all the silly media news about Kobe, Dwhine, MDA and what not. I just felt that sometimes players need to be given more space off the media space. They need to focus what they should be focusing on - playing the damn basketball.

And this post by "Meeks" is fake btw.

If you have been following the news and rumors online, it seems pretty legit when someone stand up and pointed out at the fact that "Lakers always get the Yes." So what is the problem now? The whole social web knows that there are a few things that Dwight wanted.

- Firing of Mike D. (Is it me or Dwight really likes to get coach off their pay cheque?)
- Hiring of Stan VAN Gundy Phil Jackson.
- Be the main man of Lakers.

So the point here is that if Lakers really wanted Dwight as much as it seems, he would have easily make the 1st two points happen with a snap of fingers and giving $30 Million to make him feel like the main man should be enough and not by putting up all the banners and posters to fake it. So why didn't they do it? Simply because, the truth is that -

Hey Dwight, we just ain't that into you. I wish I had the time to put Dwight, MDA, Buss, Phil and Kobe's faces onto this poster.

Enough of the whole Dwightmare Saga and HELLO SUMMER TIME!

1 of the reasons why I love summer.

 Like many other NBA fans, I always enjoy watching a team getting big names like Howard or Nash but 1 thing I enjoy even more is talent scouting. It's never easy to look out for young stars especially when you are not located in the US where everything is happening there. We don't get that much information about NCAA or neither do we get to meet them in person or see them LIVE as compared to many other sports writer in the states. All we know is based on what we can read off the internet but thanks to NBATv I get to watch the whole Summer league for the 1st time!

Before I hit the sack last night, I managed to watch the match between Boston and Orlando. Other than watching the 2nd draft pick in action, someone else caught my attention.

Wearing no.41 - Big KO - Kelly Olynyk.

From Wikipedia -

Kelly Olynyk (born April 19, 1991) is a Canadian professional basketball player who currently plays for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an NCAA All-American while playing for the Gonzaga Bulldogs.
He moved to Kamloops, B.C. in grade 7.^[1] He is currently studying for a Master of Business Administration at Gonzaga University, having earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in December 2012, and formerly played basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs before announcing on April 19, his 22nd birthday, that he will skip his senior year and declare for the NBA draft.^[2] He also represents the Canadian national basketball team. Olynyk was selected with the 13th overall pick by the Celtics in the 2013 NBA Draft.

This 7ft caught my attention immediately because of his ugly hair height. He was standing above all and the next thing I saw was that he has the moves. He was quick, he has some sweet steps and RANGE! 

 

I love a big man that hussle below the board grabbing rebound but a big man with range is always hard to stop. Big man like Dirk and Love are very good example. 

I'm watching this young man and I hope the Celtics groom him up well. Give him some beef as well as some play time when the season starts. I believe I will see quite a bit of him since big ticket headed to Brooklyn. 

The only problem I have with him from the game is that as a big man, I don't see a lot of work from him on the D and he might be a little soft for the NBA still. And also his hair. He needs a hair cut. 

Enough of Dwightmare and let's watch Summer League!

Hi, my name is Smith, his name is Daniel and we are Basketballholics.

Basketballholic - that's the new term I just coined and that's us.

We spent too much time following, thinking, reading, arguing, discussing and watching NBA. We take it a level higher, we have decided to write about NBA.

I wouldn't call myself a hardcore fan as I am bad with the history of the game but there is one thing you can't scrutinize about us and basketball is the love for the game.  

It's the off season and I ain't happy cause that means less real basketball action but lots of irrelevant PR and media talk about movement of players. The biggest talk in town of this off season has to be silly DH12 and how every team is trying to get him on board.

Picture Credit: Ryan Hurst.

Don't get me wrong, I am no hater of Dwight. Like every other Lakers fan I was all thrilled when super team of Nash, Kobe, Gasol and Howard came together. No doubt he was battling injuries and adjusting to a new system/teammates and still managed to put up some numbers of 17.1 PPG, 12.4 RPG and 2.4 BPG. Argumentably still the best center in the league but are all these necessary?

I know we have all went through the pain of watching star players walking out of teams like Shaq or "The One" - LBJ but I really don't see the need of such campaigns. We ain't getting votes for president here and moreover it's LA we are talking about. We are winners and we are a team of high prestige and I really don't see how "lowering" ourselves for this is going to help the team. It seems like to me that we are begging players to play for us which is weird, we are talking about LA here and not (insert whichever team that you really hate.)

Also on free agency and also a center, we have Nikola Pekovic.

He is younger. His numbers are a little short as compared to Dwight but I think he is an amazing player. He has a team which spent most of their time on the injury list but yet his productivity is awesome! I don't see people doing campaigning for him and in fact because of all this campaign and "cheapening" our own franchise, I don't even think we can attract him to LA as a free agent. You can stand by Dwight and call me an "ungrateful" LA fan but I don't think he have met the basic requirement of a great big in LA. It's only 1st year no doubt but if he ain't giving himself a 2nd year to prove himself worthy, I will rather let him go and pick up players like Pekovic. 

NBA is pretty much more of a sports entertainment these days than just being a sport. I am just glad we ain't heading to WWE's direction.