The soap opera in LA keeps getting more interesting. The Lakers held a team meeting yesterday for
everyone to air their grievances.
According to reports Kobe and the Dwightmare went at it a bit. Game by game the train wreck that has been
the 2012-13 Lakers has been fascination to watch. Kobe started the season off strong but has
cooled off of late. He has joined
twitter, a pleasure for us all, and has somewhat behaved himself. Howard has looked disinterested and healing
on the fly from his back woes. He’s
picked up tech fouls left and right. One
wonders if he ever will regain his stature as a top player in the league. These days he looks serviceable. And will he resign in LA?
Gasol
has shown flashes after being demoted to bench player. What an awful situation for the talented big
man, he has served as the whipping boy for years. Nash looks old and slow. Really old and slow.
There
is no cohesion or effort from the Lakers when it counts. Yet still they are only four games out of the
playoffs.
It
is a shame the Lakers will never blow it up, that is not their style. D’antoni should be axed but given the fact
that they already fired Brown this year, D’antoni and his contract will
stay. Gasol and Howard should be
unloaded for assets so the rebuild can happen.
Maybe
they turn it around a bit? It has been
a spectacular failure thus far
Boston,
the leagues other marquee franchise, has been just as disappointing this
year. They are clinging onto the eight
playoff spot in the East. Rondo has not progressed
to the elite level player many thought he would. Jason Terry forgot how to add instant offense
off the bench over the summer. Green has
mastered the deer in the headlights look.
The mainstays Garnett and Pierce along with the youngins Bradley and
Sullinger have all been solid. Unless
a major shakeup happens at the trade deadline it would appear that the window
on Celtics relevance is closing.
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