Ommmmm....

Hello and Good Morning LA World!!!

I dont have a whole lot to add but I want Pau, Andrew, and Ariza back..Cool beans we signed Newble for the rest of the year, I guess for insurance purposes. Seems he's been one of the energetic ones along with Coby Karl, maybe they will get some burn later..Somebody on the blog noted with Derek's injury if it'd be a good idea for the Lakers to look for another point guard prior to the resigning of Newble..Oh well, here's hoping Fish can play through it..Cuz 15 is 15, so the Lakers are set...

How come they can only have 12 players on a Playoff roster?? What's really good with that? Somebody care to enlighten me..

Can I get an Amen to "lakersrydeordie."

As I understand it, the rules were changed this year to allow teams to carry 15 players through the playoffs with 12 active at any one time.

just wanted to greet everybody and hope for a speedy recovery for pau drew and ariza. Go lakers!

Good Morning Mamba24, Good Morning Charles, Good Morning Laker Naiton!

Charles, I share the Amen to lakersrydeordie.......81 in the second half????????

justanothermambafan........you knew Troll Man couldn't stay away as much as I did. Part of the defeinition of "Troll" is indeed a lack of veracity.........I expect a number of orange trolls to be cruising through here today..........we just can't feed them.........except to Pig! LOL!

As far as I know, it's still a 12 man roster for the playoffs, with the roster set before each series starts.

And, no matter how much we WANT it to happen, TA is not going to be of any help this year. Not enough time to get him in game shape and worked into the flow, hence the signing of Ira, which we all knew was an insurance policy.

Lat's get Pau and Drew back, and see how fqr ewe can go...........should be quite a way!

Hey there Charles, whassup? Well if that's true, 14 is way better than 12...Hell, we need all the (healthy) bodies we can get..

I think the reason why this season feels like it's flown by is b/c it's been divided up into chapters.

pre/early season: Kobe's discontent
early/mid season: Bynum's emergence
mid/late season: Bynum's injury - the Pau trade
late season: Pau's injury - the playoff push

To me, Bynum's emergence seems like forever ago as do Kobe's trade demands.

Sprains are not the easiest injuries in the world to easily rid..I guess Kobe is on some entirely different "ISH", his threshold is just wayyy left of everyone else's...Tho I am aware there are diff levels of sprains...I have had my share of both sprains and fractures.. Still, what gives? I am not saying this is true with Pau, but some of these athletes are wimps when it comes to their ouchies....

This is getting monotonous right about now..Hopefully the next time we get a report on our wounded soldiers they are in center court about to "jump ball."

Vonislav, I feel you..You are probably correct...

Good morning all! Hello AK/BK, Charles, Mamba24, and all other LAL friends!

Ladies Man: The ladies are in the house! But I certainly didn't want to comment on anything in the Jeannie thread as you boys were happily doing the guy thing. Faith was the only brave soul to enter that territory.

Agreed it seems like its an eternity to game day.......

AK/BK

Can you please verify the roster rule? According to NBA.com it wasn't changed:

"The NBA Playoffs

Each team that qualifies for the NBA Playoffs must submit a list of its players eligible to compete in playoff games on the day following the end of the regular season.

Because there is no Injured List for the NBA Playoffs, each playoff team must designate the 12 players eligible for the playoffs from all of its regular season lists (Active, Injured and Suspended).

A player who is on the Injured, Active or Suspended List at the end of the regular season, but who is not designated for playoff eligibility, need not be waived. He remains on the appropriate regular season list through the NBA Playoffs."

What's the deal?

If Chris Paul is so good, why can't he handle Deron Williams?

Against Utah this year:
5-12 FG, 4 TO, 6 AST, 6 REB, 15 PTS, LOSS
3-11 FG, 5 TO, 6 AST, 4 REB, 6 PTS, LOSS
5-15 FG, 1 TO, 16 AST, 4 REB, 24 PTS, WIN

Naturally, you might ask, well how did Kobe do against Detroit, which gives him so much trouble?

Kobe against Detroit this year:
6-18 FG, 2 TO, 7 AST, 4 REB, 19 PTS, WIN
12-25 FG, 11 TO, 5 AST, 10 REB, 39 PTS, LOSS

It's also worth mentioning that New Orleans had all starters healthy against the Jazz. Bynum was missing in the Lakers' loss. Also, New Orleans lost by an average of 25 points in their two losses to Utah. Lakers lost by 1 point in their loss to Detroit.

It sucks, but anti-campaigning for MVP is necessary, because too many people are ignorant of the facts. I should not care so much about the MVP, but I read about way too many people leaning toward giving Paul their vote.

Good morning Laker fans, K-bros, Charles.

lakersrydeordie,
I feel you, hopefully the Nuggets will take the one tonight and give us some cushion.

laker_sth, great observation, you could definitely write a book about this season, hopefully it has a great ending.

The playoff active roster was changed over a year ago when they also changed the playoff seeding.

http://www.nba.com/news/rulechanges_060802.html
ncrease in Playoff Roster Size:

Playoff roster size will be expanded from 13 to 15 players, with each team designating 12 active players and up to three inactive players prior to each game.

Have a good one all!

YOU GUY'S MAKE ME LAUGH. IT ONLY TAKES 8 PLAYERS TO GO TO THE FINALS........................AND IT HELPS IF ONE OF THEIR LAST NAME'S IS MALONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Laker Legacy for the info on the roster.........that is good news!

THE TRAINING STAFF SUCKS AND THEY NEED TO BE REPLACE.

Hopefully we'll get some positive news after practice today.

THE TRAINING STAFF SUCKS AND THEY NEED TO BE REPLACE.

Posted by: Zakee | April 01, 2008 at 12:52 PM

I hear you brother, loud and clear. We need some real trainers in here.

Maybe we should hire the Suns training staff who have been credited with reviving The Big Cactus.

What do you all think of his bickering now with the Heat and Riley...seems like dejavu to me. I think more blame should have been placed on him in the whole L.A. deal.

Talk about burning all of his bridges!

Yes -- add me to the "SHAQ IS TO BLAME FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE THIRD LAKER DYNASTY" bandwagon.

My apologies to Wilt and West, but one title in '72 does not a dynasty make.

Laker Legacy,

Thanks for the roster rules post.

Any more in depth rulings as far as roster changes per game in the playoffs? (Why is it still just 12 active?)

For example: If the 3 on the inactive list are Mbenga, Karl and Ariza. Newble goes down (as if he was playing), & the Coaches want to activate Karl and put Newble of IL list. What are the parameters?

STOP CRYING about our TRAINING STAFF. Believe me everyone including the players want to be healthy and available, but it doesn't work that way in the real world. Rushing someone back for the short term will only hurt us later. This was the case with Malone who go injured during the season, RUSHED back into the playoffs and found himself unable to play at all. Result Detroit kicked our but with Luke and Medivinko in the line-up. The playoffs are locked, were there. So relax, smoke something !

Xodus/Ak,

Just curious on what you think of Phoenix now? They doing better than you thought, huh?

LAKERS NEED ALL THE BIG MEN THEY KAN GET BECAUSE SAN ANTOINO IS STILL OUT THERE LURKING IN THE SHADOWS TO PICK THE BONES OF THE TOUGH WESTERN CONFRENCE TEAMS. BEWARE THE SPURS.
BEWARE THE WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING.