Black Dynamite
02-08-2007, 10:04 AM
Sportsbook Event (http://wtfdetroit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8451)
Black Mamba
http://www.detroitbadboys.com/images/blackmamba.gif
Ooops i mean Black mamba
http://www.thumbbandits.com/images/Oakley/The_Bride/Kill_Bill_V2_Bride.jpg
Nope wrong one again(seems like a womans name) Ok Black Mamba
http://www.detroitbadboys.com/images/kobe.jpg
and the Lamar Odom Nut Grabbing Crew
http://kfba.net/etc/playerpics/74.jpg
Vs.
http://www.solesurvivorleather.net/mmSOLESU/Images/300x300/BKL2208.jpg
http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/sp/spiderman-web-gloves-and-mask.jpg
and
http://www.comicbookcloset.com/images/SUPERFRIENDS_LOGO.jpg
AKA
http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20070117/webber_79700.jpg
http://www.athlonsports.com/store/images/Detroit.jpg
http://www.plus.es/media/deportes/baloncesto/nba/Especial2004_05/Prince_WallacePistons_A.jpg
Pistons, Lakers carry near-identical records into TNT showdown game
Measuring Stick
by Keith"the Langolier" Langlois
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – From the perspective of their rear-view mirror, the Pistons’ crushing of the Los Angeles Lakers three months ago looks a lot better now than it did then.
The 97-83 win on Nov. 10 salvaged a four-game Western Conference road swing that saw the Pistons limp home with a 3-4 record that would become 3-5 when they lost to the depleted New Orleans Hornets, the low point of the season to date. So that Staples Center win was not unappreciated. It was just underrated. Because nobody back then foresaw the Lakers emerging as a threat in a conference teeming with title contenders.
But, lo and behold, here they are, arriving at The Palace of Auburn Hills for Thursday night’s nationally televised TNT game with a 30-19 record that has the Lakers solidly in the playoff field and vying with Houston and Utah for fourth in the West’s pecking order behind the acknowledged power trio of Dallas, Phoenix and Utah.
“Those are your six elite (Western) teams,” Flip Saunders said yesterday after the Pistons, 8-2 since Chris Webber became a starter and riding a four-game win streak, finished preparation for the Lakers. “The first three are more gaudy right now than the other three.”
Gaudy might once have described the production of Lakers star Kobe Bryant – once, as in any point in time before this season. For whatever reasons, Bryant is more at peace with himself this season, less intent on setting scoring records and more focused on simply winning basketball games and making certain his team is improving as the playoffs approach.
“He’s always capable of still getting that 50 (points) whenever,” said Chauncey Billups, who always mentions Bryant first when asked about the game’s best and brightest. “But he’s showing a little more confidence in his guys and they’re playing well. They’re having a good season, they’re winning games. You can attribute a lot of that to him showing that confidence in the guys he’s playing with.”
Bryant’s shots per game are down from 27 a year ago to 20 this season while his assists are up from 4.5 to 5.5 and his shooting percentage from 45 to 47. His scoring is down about seven points a game, but he’s still dropping more than 28 a night on the other guys.
“His game has changed from a year ago,” Saunders said. “A year ago he scored 81 (points in one game). He’s been very efficient. He’s trusting his teammates and he doesn’t feel he has to do it all. They’ve played very, very well as a team.”
Bryant was playing gingerly on a knee surgically repaired over the summer and was passive for most of the November loss to the Pistons, whose 29-18 record nearly mirrors the Lakers’, but he’s long since proven to be past that. The Lakers survived his four-game absence with an ankle injury and recently got by while Lamar Odom missed 21 games with a knee injury. Most recently, Luke Walton has been out the past six games after spraining his ankle in late January, replaced in the starting lineup by Vladimir Radmanovic.
“Phil’s (Jackson) done a great job, probably as good as anyone in the league,” Saunders said. “They’ve got a lot of guys having career-type years. The improvement that (second-year center Andrew) Bynum has made has been great for them. He’s given them a presence inside, and Kobe – you have to be impressed at how he’s played. He’s tried to get other guys off at times and has become very team-oriented. They’re not a one-man team. They try to come at you from a lot of different areas.”
Bynum’s emergence, in fact, might have contributed to Webber signing with the Pistons. As it was, Webber said he came down to Detroit, Miami and the Lakers and recently was quoted in a Philadelphia newspaper as saying that if his decision had come before the season instead of during the middle of it, he likely would have chosen the Lakers.
“I had a lot of interest,” he said. “I wanted to go to a championship-caliber team and play for a good coach. I knew that Miami and the Lakers presented that. They showed interest, so I was definitely interested. But this is where I am, this is where I chose to be and this is where I’m happy to be. So I really don’t think about what could have been.”
What could have been, no. But with the season past the halfway point, the Pistons and Lakers will use this game to gauge what might be.
stay at home on defense and dont let kobe have.
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7340000/7348199.jpg
Black Mamba
http://www.detroitbadboys.com/images/blackmamba.gif
Ooops i mean Black mamba
http://www.thumbbandits.com/images/Oakley/The_Bride/Kill_Bill_V2_Bride.jpg
Nope wrong one again(seems like a womans name) Ok Black Mamba
http://www.detroitbadboys.com/images/kobe.jpg
and the Lamar Odom Nut Grabbing Crew
http://kfba.net/etc/playerpics/74.jpg
Vs.
http://www.solesurvivorleather.net/mmSOLESU/Images/300x300/BKL2208.jpg
http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/sp/spiderman-web-gloves-and-mask.jpg
and
http://www.comicbookcloset.com/images/SUPERFRIENDS_LOGO.jpg
AKA
http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20070117/webber_79700.jpg
http://www.athlonsports.com/store/images/Detroit.jpg
http://www.plus.es/media/deportes/baloncesto/nba/Especial2004_05/Prince_WallacePistons_A.jpg
Pistons, Lakers carry near-identical records into TNT showdown game
Measuring Stick
by Keith"the Langolier" Langlois
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – From the perspective of their rear-view mirror, the Pistons’ crushing of the Los Angeles Lakers three months ago looks a lot better now than it did then.
The 97-83 win on Nov. 10 salvaged a four-game Western Conference road swing that saw the Pistons limp home with a 3-4 record that would become 3-5 when they lost to the depleted New Orleans Hornets, the low point of the season to date. So that Staples Center win was not unappreciated. It was just underrated. Because nobody back then foresaw the Lakers emerging as a threat in a conference teeming with title contenders.
But, lo and behold, here they are, arriving at The Palace of Auburn Hills for Thursday night’s nationally televised TNT game with a 30-19 record that has the Lakers solidly in the playoff field and vying with Houston and Utah for fourth in the West’s pecking order behind the acknowledged power trio of Dallas, Phoenix and Utah.
“Those are your six elite (Western) teams,” Flip Saunders said yesterday after the Pistons, 8-2 since Chris Webber became a starter and riding a four-game win streak, finished preparation for the Lakers. “The first three are more gaudy right now than the other three.”
Gaudy might once have described the production of Lakers star Kobe Bryant – once, as in any point in time before this season. For whatever reasons, Bryant is more at peace with himself this season, less intent on setting scoring records and more focused on simply winning basketball games and making certain his team is improving as the playoffs approach.
“He’s always capable of still getting that 50 (points) whenever,” said Chauncey Billups, who always mentions Bryant first when asked about the game’s best and brightest. “But he’s showing a little more confidence in his guys and they’re playing well. They’re having a good season, they’re winning games. You can attribute a lot of that to him showing that confidence in the guys he’s playing with.”
Bryant’s shots per game are down from 27 a year ago to 20 this season while his assists are up from 4.5 to 5.5 and his shooting percentage from 45 to 47. His scoring is down about seven points a game, but he’s still dropping more than 28 a night on the other guys.
“His game has changed from a year ago,” Saunders said. “A year ago he scored 81 (points in one game). He’s been very efficient. He’s trusting his teammates and he doesn’t feel he has to do it all. They’ve played very, very well as a team.”
Bryant was playing gingerly on a knee surgically repaired over the summer and was passive for most of the November loss to the Pistons, whose 29-18 record nearly mirrors the Lakers’, but he’s long since proven to be past that. The Lakers survived his four-game absence with an ankle injury and recently got by while Lamar Odom missed 21 games with a knee injury. Most recently, Luke Walton has been out the past six games after spraining his ankle in late January, replaced in the starting lineup by Vladimir Radmanovic.
“Phil’s (Jackson) done a great job, probably as good as anyone in the league,” Saunders said. “They’ve got a lot of guys having career-type years. The improvement that (second-year center Andrew) Bynum has made has been great for them. He’s given them a presence inside, and Kobe – you have to be impressed at how he’s played. He’s tried to get other guys off at times and has become very team-oriented. They’re not a one-man team. They try to come at you from a lot of different areas.”
Bynum’s emergence, in fact, might have contributed to Webber signing with the Pistons. As it was, Webber said he came down to Detroit, Miami and the Lakers and recently was quoted in a Philadelphia newspaper as saying that if his decision had come before the season instead of during the middle of it, he likely would have chosen the Lakers.
“I had a lot of interest,” he said. “I wanted to go to a championship-caliber team and play for a good coach. I knew that Miami and the Lakers presented that. They showed interest, so I was definitely interested. But this is where I am, this is where I chose to be and this is where I’m happy to be. So I really don’t think about what could have been.”
What could have been, no. But with the season past the halfway point, the Pistons and Lakers will use this game to gauge what might be.
stay at home on defense and dont let kobe have.
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7340000/7348199.jpg