Lakers fans make Jazz fans look sympathetic

So if the Lakers played the Hawks tomorrow on a neutral court you would take the Hawks? If not then your 5-0 vs. 5-0 comment sounds like sour grapes. Yeah laker fans can be over the top, but you’re not exactly helping your cause with your “wait until later in the year when we steamroll everyone” comments. You got smoked badly, and it wasn’t just Adelman’s rotations either. Give credit where it is due, and “chill the "f” out. It’s just basketball man.

I’m just going to assume you’re suffering from a temporary case of “we haven’t played the Jazz yet so you’ve temporarily forgotten how much their fans need to be repeatedly carved with a grapefruit spoon.”

I don’t hold it against Laker fans TOO much, because it’s their nature. Anyone who’s a “fan” of any LA team could jump ship at any second and run to whomever they feel is the most likely to win next. You didn’t see any of these dyed-in-the-wool Laker fans before they became title contenders again.

You just have to pat them on their heads, roll your eyes, and look forward to our next crack at them when we have some of our injury and chemistry issues worked out.

What? What? Don’t you ever….EVER compare us to Lakers fans. I feel offended…yet justified.

I guess you just have to accept that the Rockets are a second tier team in the West. Don’t worry though, you always have the second round…wait…

I would like to thank pslakerfan for indirectly proving my entire point in this post.

Not an excuse, but how many back to backs do we have this season. Does every team have the same amount of back to backs?

This troll has been making the rounds. Last year in the second round (Not sure if Dave was watching or if he was still in his basement at this point) this guy lit a fire under Jazz fans. His comments are ludacris, and I’m not talking about the rapper. I am sick and tired of Lakers fans acting like they rule sports ranks. Your time will come Lakers fans. Let the Dream Shake and True Blue Jazz be united in one thing….a hatred for all things purple and gold.

You have to remember that especially on the internet there are two kinds of Laker fans: the real ones and the bandwagonners, and the latter makes up the majority of that particular group. Any real Laker fan knows that the Rockets are dealing with major injuries right now (Battier and whatever is really ailing McGrady), and they’re trying to work in a couple major new pieces. The Rockets most definitely will improve once healthy (assuming they get healthy and stay that way) and after they’ve had some time to gel. Also, the Lakers are not going to steamroll the whole league and go 82-0, winning every game by 20.

However, I’m still not sold on the Rockets destroying “everything in their path” later in the year, especially the Lakers. Not unless they make some frontcourt additions, anyway. Even if they were fully healthy and clicking, they still only have one player on the roster who is taller than 6’9 (Yao), and they still will have to figure out how to split the minutes with Battier and Artest. Will Artest go to the bench and be happy doing so in a contract year? Odom seems to have done that in an identical situation for the Lakers, but he and Artest are not really cut from the same cloth, so to speak.

But even assuming Artest willingly accepts a bench role, will that just mean that he and Battier are splitting time at SF, or will Artest see time at PF? Will Artest play PF against the Lakers? If so, I think that’s a recipe for disaster considering he’s 6’7 and Gasol is 7’1. The Rockets need a legit backup center, and probably would be smart to add two more guys who are 6’11 or bigger with some bulk to the bench. If they don’t they’re going to have trouble with teams like the Lakers and Celtics who have a bunch of guys with size up front.

Finally a comment with a little reason and intellect. Other than calling Battier’s injury “major injuries” I agree with this whole post. Nicely done.

The Lakers really pulled away in that game, but LA also spent a lot of time looking bad early on – you know, when the Rockets were still sort of fresh. I think we’ll meet in the Western Conference Finals – these two teams look like the most obvious candidates, with the despised “Jazz” running close behind.

Consider this – The Rockets had 3 games in 4 nights, all on the road, including a very close loss up in PDX against a deep young team. At the time the game was played the Rockets had played the most games so far in the season. Let’s not read too much into a tired team losing on the road after 3 games in 4 nights, ok?

Perhaps a bit rusty, but I daresay the Rockets might have acquitted themselves a bit better with that much rest, as opposed to practically none.

Can Yao get fresh and speed up a little already? I’ve NEVER seen him look this slow, and it hasn’t just been one game… It’s early in a very long and demanding season and he already looks gassed. He doesn’t have the excuse of not being in playing shape due to his participation in the Olympics. Actually I think his participation is an obvious part of the problem… I know they like to drift in that region of the world, but why they gotta take the tread off our main man’s wheels? Message to Yao: Pick a league! Play here or play there. I love watching you play when you are fresh and healthy, but you looked like you were several grains short of a full rice bowl against the Fakers.