Lakers Thread

It is interchangeable BUT the offense always starts with the same players in their respective roles in the triangle . Changes come depending on how the defense reacts.

There is no denying that Jordan's role and Kobe's current role in the tri = wing player

I disagree. They often changed their roles during games, where Jordan either initiated the offense or went straight to the post. They didn't just get to their spots and waited for defense to react, like you said they did. The variations of the triangle often included the changing of player's primary roles (especially between Pippen and Jordan). I remember a game or two in the Finals against your precious Lakers, when Jordan started the game as a wing, saw he's cold and then took the role of an intiator and Pippen took the role of a primary scoring threat.

I remember a game or two in the Finals against your precious Lakers, when Jordan started the game as a wing, saw he's cold and then took the role of an intiator and Pippen took the role of a primary scoring threat.

Which further proves that in the triangle, the players start with their respective roles and change positions depending on how the defense reacts.

MJ gets double/triple teamed, he switches to an initiator role and Pip/Harper/Kukoc becomes the wing player.

No, it's just that his shot was off. It's not the same thing. Anways, MJ played a bit different role in the triangle compared to Kobe, especially in the second 3-peat, when he was also the team's primary post player.

No, it's just that his shot was off.

Because the way the defense reacted did not have any effect on his shot being off right?

Anways, MJ played a bit different role in the triangle compared to Kobe, especially in the second 3-peat, when he was also the team's primary post player.

Stop it please. you're making a fool of yourself. This statement alone shows your lack of knowledge in the tri. I can say im an expert but i have played in this system.

Arguing with you it's like chasing my own shadow - completely pointless and moronic thing to do. Too bad I haven't figured that a little bit earlier. You just have to be be Artist Formerly Known as SnitchDevil.

Lakers signed J.R. Pinnock, you think he will be sent to the D-league?

http://www.nba.com/news/320438.html

Well at least they signed him. He's really a solid player, basing on summer league performance.

Wow, Kupchak leads the league in D-League caliber players on an NBA roster. He's another worthless player signed by a worthless gm.

Horrible job signing D-League players VERY frustrating.

The Lakers WILL make the playoffs BUT they will have trouble in the 1st and Second rounds.

Kobe WILL get MVP


THe Lakers really need to work with the Triangle offense and Have it get them more points utilizing it

Well at least they signed him. He's really a solid player, basing on summer league performance.

I saw him play in summer league and he was a decent player, but then again it's summer league. put him on the floor with NBA stars and watch him disappear with the rest of the Lakers outside of Kobe/Lamar.
Btw, the Lakers could really use Slava Medvedenko... where has he been
honestly, he was one of my favorite Lakers in recent past.

i think they waived him

Odom's lost his grandmother, mother, and now he's lost his newborn and almost was killed this summer....

Lamar Odom sat down, placed his Bible on a table and, with damp eyes, told the story of his summer.

His infant son died while sleeping in a crib, a loss that has tugged at him since it happened in June.


The autopsy report labeled it an "unremarkable" death, a seven-month-old's life snatched by sudden infant death syndrome, the latest in a line of losses traceable through Odom's years.

Odom was in New York for the funeral of an aunt when Jayden Odom died.

Odom used to remember June 28 as the date of his grandmother's death. His son died the same day, a few years later, at Odom's home in Atlantic Beach, N.Y. Attempts to revive him at a nearby hospital were unsuccessful.

"He was gone already," Odom said Thursday. "I thought they were close to getting him to breathe again. That wasn't the case. I stayed with him for hours and hours after that, just holding him, talking to him."

Odom and his longtime girlfriend, Liza Morales, have two other children, Destiny, 8, and Lamar Jr., 5.

"I have to be strong for them," the Lakers forward said. "I feel a little lost sometimes, but God right now is keeping me strong."

Odom remained in New York most of the summer, trying to cope, when he experienced a loss of another kind. While walking at night near a family member's home in Queens, he was mugged at gunpoint by a teenager who fired a warning shot, then took Odom's watch and cash, a combined total of under $5,000.

"When this kid put a gun to me and held it to my face and, first he shot it, then pointed it at me, I thought he was going to harm me," Odom said. "I was thinking, 'Help me brace for this bullet.' I'd never been in this kind of situation before. When that happened, I said, I've got to get a little closer to the biggest icon in the world. It ain't Michael Jordan. It ain't Bob Marley, Che Guevara, even John Lennon. It's Jesus. Nobody's got more followers."

His son's death, coupled with what Odom described as the near-death experience of his own, pushed him away from basketball, his longtime comfort zone.

He has since tried to stay busy, painfully active, starting a record label called "Rich Soil" and unveiling a religious apparel line.

"Where I'm from, we're really not unified," said Odom, who was born in Queens. "I'm looking for something to bring these young people together. It's like nobody's happy for each other. It's hard times, the economy's down. Drugs in the inner-city neighborhoods are running rampant, really taking over, destroying communities, destroying lives."

Odom's life has been filled with misfortune.

His mother, Cathy, died when he was 12 of colon cancer. He honors her by writing her name on every new pair of basketball shoes he wears. He wears jersey No. 7 because it was the lucky number of his late grandmother, Mildred Mercer, who became his role model after his mother's death.

He recently had a tattoo artist inscribe the image of his son on his chest, just above his heart. His mother's image is on his back.

Basketball has been an afterthought for Odom this summer, although he acknowledged an eagerness to return to it. The Lakers begin training camp Tuesday in El Segundo.

"There was a time where I didn't think basketball was going to be able to heal this wound, but as I come back home — L.A.'s my home — and get around my guys, get around my coaches, stuff like that, I feel a little better," Odom said. "It'll take me some time because I haven't taken the time just to, I guess, mourn. I've kept myself so busy. I almost was probably too strong."

The second-best player on the Lakers, Odom started slowly last season and acknowledged having difficulty with the intricacies of the triangle offense, but over the last two months of the regular season averaged 16.8 points, 8.9 rebounds and 5.9 assists while shooting 55.1%.

"I think it's going to make me a better basketball player as far as the mental approach to the game," Odom said of his summer. "I take my time right now, more than ever, at everything I do. I feel a maturity now. I'm not going to growl at the referees. My walk and my talk is a lot different than the last time you saw me."

Media Day Pictures

Smush looks HUGE!

"I take my time right now, more than ever, at everything I do. I feel a maturity now. I'm not going to growl at the referees. My walk and my talk is a lot different than the last time you saw me."

This is the first time I can say I feel exactly the same way. Perhaps losing someone that close to you does that to you.

Lamar is my Favorite current Laker and I hope he bounces back...

Smush looks like he's been working out a little bit...

and Phil looks absolutely disgusted that Kobe is touching him

24 doesn't suit Kobe at all. Kobe is more of a single-digit man.

Hey...KB24 where did u get those pictures.....are they from Getty Images....

Kwame

Poor Kwame

More from Media Day:

Hey...KB24 where did u get those pictures.....are they from Getty Images....

I got it at clublakers.com

The pics of Turiaf are too funny

The Lakers beat Utah a few days ago.

Odom played pretty good with the time he was given

Phil and Kobe weren't there. We should do well against the Sonics