I hope everyone is enjoying their three day weekend. Today on SheridanHoopsRadio, hosts Chris Sheridan and Jabari Davis will focus on the struggling Los Angeles Lakers. Eric Pincus of the LA Times and Hoopsworld.com will be the first guest, Gary Lee of Lakers Nation will come on at around 1:20, and our SheridanHoops.com’s own Mark Heisler will close out the show. If you have Lakers questions for Chris and Jabari, please call (347) 237-5434 at 1:50pm EST. [Read more…]
Full disclosure: Greg Oden has always been one of my favorite players. Maybe it’s because of this commercial, maybe because of how fun his Ohio State team was to watch, maybe it’s just that I really like big men who get absurd amounts of rebounds and appear to be older than 50. [Read more…]
On Thursday, the NBA trading deadline will be exactly five weeks away. One team everyone seems to expect to be active is the Los Angeles Lakers, who can’t quite figure out the right personnel mix for Mike D’Antoni’s offense. [Read more…]
The most consistent knock on the Lakers this season has not been about their offense, but rather their defense. When you put together a team with that many old men, you are not going to beat the young bucks back in transition. But you can beat teams like the young Bucks with a different kind of defense. [Read more…]
Perhaps surprisingly, Timofey Mozgov hasn’t gotten much run this season for the Denver Nuggets. [Read more…]
Dwight Howard dominates the paint on both ends, Kobe Bryant plays less than 30 minutes for the first time this season, Steve Nash runs the offense with precision, the defense has its best game in weeks and the Lakers run away with a 20-point win in their Sunday home whites. So, everything’s back to normal again in Tinseltown, right? Who cares that it was against the Cavaliers, who lose three of every four games they play? Or that Cleveland was missing Anderson Varejao, their best
Does it seem to anyone else like we’ve had about five years of Lakers seasons in the first, well, a little over two months of this season? What was it? About four years ago when we were all enthralled by the slick maneuver that brought Dwight Howard to Los Angeles? And how about that sign-and-trade for Steve Nash? Three years ago? [Read more…]
Don’t look now, but the good times are rolling for the Brooklyn Nets again, as it did when the team won 11 of its first 15 contests to begin the season. Rape investigations aside, of course. So who’s to thank for the turnaround? Improving to 20-15 from 14-14 since the dismissal of Avery Johnson, the team has played with much better chemistry in recent games, and more importantly, the play of point guard Deron Williams has gone up several notches. Certainly, interim