LA Lakers February 8th, 8:00 PM
TV - TNT

The Lakers visit the Palace tonight. They are currently 3-2 on their eight game east coast road trip. The Nuggets, Suns, Wiz, and Golden State Warriors are the only teams in the league that score more points per game than these Lakers. THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS??

The Pistons will try to continue their winning ways as they play their second game at home of a five game homestand.

Got to play 4 qtrs. No defensive collapses in the 4th like tonight, because Kobe will be playing every minute of the 4th qtr. Lakers will inch their way back into any game and are looking for a season split.

I don't see any problems. Pistons should like nothing better than to put these guys in their place. Lakers are much improved but lack consistancy.
100 to 90 Ps

This is going to be a great game. Lakers are playing much better this year, and Kobe is playing unselfishly. Experiment with Tay and Rip on Kobe and double team him. We do stand the better chance of winning imo.

Odom should be the player to watch out in this game than Kobe. Zone or mano to mano, our defense can shut Kobe down. Sheed should bring his 'A' game defense in this game.

If you can keep Odom out of the lane, he's much less effective.

I don't see him posting up Sheed, and the Lakers dont have the personnel to go big against us. It should be fun to watch CWebb dominate Bynum.

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They are the archetype for dominance. They are the gatekeepers of the conference. They are the Detroit Pistons.

At least Kwame Brown is out. That will make it a little easier for us.

If Chauncey can dig down deep and contain... Smush Parker, then this will be an easy night.

i still don't know why everyone considers the lakers contenders. if their team name was the jazz, no one would be making that big of a deal.

they don't have a solid point guard, they have an inexperienced big man, and they play in a conference full of quality, playoff-tested teams.

Bulletin board material?

I don't know...would saying Chris Webber is from Detroit be bulletin board material?