If Josh Howard's marijuana confession didn't make the Mavs nervous
August 1, 2008 | 3:40
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Last night's little incident might. Hopefully, Howard's interest in this particular hobby wasn't combined with his other apparent hobby. Either way, this makes for an awkward situation, especially considering Howard was only in North Carolina for a basketball camp sponsored by his charitable foundation. I'm guessing he's no longer driving the carpool when the kids go out for post-game ice cream.
I anxiously await everyone's trade machine proposals.
AK
ex,
>>>>> They might average 110 next season. Not 120.
How about we agree the Lakers will average somewhere between 110 and 120 points per game. Then we’re happily in agreement. OK? :-)
I do think there are valid reasons to expect us to do better than last year what with all the injuries, which I list to Xodus which I would be interested in your comments. Thanks.
Tom
Posted by: LakerTom | August 02, 2008 at 09:09 PM
ex,
Just got back from having a few drinks with friends and got buzzed on this idea. Let me know what you think. It sounds crazy but might actually be pretty fascinating.
We ought to get together in the future for our predictions sort of like a bizarro version of Siskel and Ebert doing the Lakers. You’ll set the floor and I’ll set the ceiling for the official Lakers Blog expectations. We’d literally be the anchors for the blog’s bell chart of expectations. We might need a few middle of the road blog prognosticators to fix a few intermediate points to make our predictions more statistically reliable and ensure that our standard deviations weren’t, well, you know, too deviated. LOL.
Now who would be go a good predictor to be our mean or median prediction? Any volunteers? Our new website could be www.glasshalfemptytofullpredictions.com.
Tom
Posted by: LakerTom | August 02, 2008 at 09:22 PM
Fatty,Vman and Rocky
Thanks for your comments
I have to agree I should have given magic the edge but it woulda kinda stuffed up my post!...
Theres no way you can say this team is actually BETTER but they are certainly the best since 1992.if they win as easily as I think they will there will be genuine comparisons for sure.
On reputation the dream team is still the dream team.You cant compare these guys careers to the careers of the guys on the 1992 team...the original team was alot more accomplished.The current team could look even better than it is in ten years but in terms of current from of all the players theres only one thats past his best.The others are either in or approaching their primes.its tough to compare head to head like that but I'd say its an argument or will be when all is said and done.
I think your rankings are about bang on Fatty by the way
Good luck anyway I'll be cheering for the US team since NZ isnt there.I hope to see Kobe enhance his legacy and gain some more national love by showing what he can do.Hopefully he has a statline of 2 points,5 steals and ten assists at some point with the 2 points being the game winner.How sweet would that be? (apart from the fact it would screw up my dominance argument becasue a game winner was required...)
Posted by: Kiwi | August 03, 2008 at 06:50 AM
LakerTom,
LTLF would probably be a better choice than me. As far as posters whose predictions fall generally between ours, maybe Faith?
Posted by: exhelodrvr | August 03, 2008 at 08:04 AM
ex,
Do you really think the LTLF is a more conservative prognosticator than you are?
He and I are usually in agreement in principle but cannot ever agree on dollar amounts. LOL. He sees the same things that I do but tempers his enthusiasm better than I do.
I really don’t care to do that. I prefer my highs unadulterated and my lows avoided.
Anybody else like to chime in on who are more conservative or optimistic prognosticators on the blog than ex and myself? Thanks.
Tom
Posted by: LakerTom | August 03, 2008 at 03:36 PM
Dwayne Mitchell was one of the handful of players I mentioned
who played well in summer league. I guess I was right that he
got an invite to camp. I'm not sure he'll be able to make the team,
but maybe.
He was an All-Star and averaged 20 ppg in the D-League
last season. And as I said, he played pretty well in the D-League.
Nothing about his play really blew me away, but he did play
hard and generally had good instincts on the court.
Posted by: Long Time Laker Fan | August 03, 2008 at 07:02 PM
LakerTom,
Sorry to remind you but someone with a message from god told the blog that we weren't supposed to use "LOL", wasn't that stupid!!! LOL!!! If anything, the use of "hahahahahahahahaahahhhahh" should be banned.
I think that ex, LTLF and LakerTom all have positve things to bring to the blog. I would contribute more in a positive way, but my time is very tied up. So I can only throw in few sarcastic remarks here and there. Let's keep it going and work to filter out the detritus.(LGC will need to go look that word up)....
Posted by: humanomaly | August 03, 2008 at 07:23 PM