Tues. 12/18 - Lakers vs Bobcats - Predictions & Comments

Tuesday, December 18th
Live: 7:30 PM PST
TV: TWC SportsNet
Radio: KSPN-AM 710/KWKW-AM 1330
Online Radio Link: http://espn.go.com/espnradio/losangeles/play?s=la

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Lakers (11-14) vs. Bobcats (7-16)
6:00 PM EST

LAKERS
7-6 at home
Won last 2
4-4 vs. East

PROBABLE STARTERS
Chris Duhon 4.7 points, 3.9 assists, 2.0 rebounds
Kobe Bryant 29.5 points, 5.0 assists, 5.2 rebounds
Metta World Peace 13.3 points, 1.7 assists, 5.8 rebounds
Devin Ebanks 3.8 points, 0.8 assists, 2.5 rebounds
Dwight Howard 18.2 points, 2.0 assists, 11.9 rebounds

BOBCATS
2-6 on the road
Lost 11 in a row
2-9 vs. West

PROBABLE STARTERS
Kemba Walker 18.1 points, 6.1 assists, 3.1 rebounds
Gerald Henderson 13.2 points, 1.5 assists, 3.0 rebounds
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist 10.5 points, 1.8 assists, 6.3 rebounds
Byron Mullens 11.8 points, 1.2 assists, 7.3 rebounds
Bismack Biyombo 4.6 points, 0.3 assists, 6.4 rebounds

PREDICTION
-Charlotte is a bit of a train wreck, pretty obviously the worst team in the league, but they have a great deal of youth in the starting lineup and Ramon Sessions and Ben Gordon coming off the bench. It's conceivable that they will try to run and have some success against the aging Lakers, but in the end LA should hold them off and win handily.

Lakers 107
Bobcats 93

4th game in 6 nights so the team might be a bit tired, but hopefully playing in front of the home crowd will get them going. It's against the Bobcats so I expect a victory and another win towards .500.

Uh oh...

Bobcats always give us problems, but at the same time they really suck right now, we're at home, for the first time in a while I feel comfortable predicting a win.

They've lost 11 in a row. It would REALLY suck to lose this game

12-14

Easy win.

Dwight Howard: 30/15/5

Now is definitely not the time to suck against the Bobcats. Matt Carroll isn't in the league anymore is he?

I'll pencil in a win but we will make it interesting by playing dumb basketball chucking 3's instead of going in the paint so it will be much closer than it needs to be, but I'm seeing a win anyway.

Oh, shoot! Predicting a double digit win? Sure loss.

I haven't used this phrase in like 2 or 3 seasons, but this has TRAP written all over it. Except I said that when we were like really good, so it's just a normal game now.

I remember everyone predicting a win against Orlando too

You guys are killing us

watch kemba and sessions kill us.

theyre trying to end this lose streak. they'll come out hard against us and just kill us with there speed. guaranteed it'll be a struggle for us.

not sure of the outcome in all honesty. prob a loss knowing this team

The Bobcats were beating this team during our recent championships, we'll see how this one goes.

Why isnt this game on league pass???

Was it made NBA TV game of the week?

Actually it is on LP.

LP????

tigerjeterkobe wrote:LP????

League pass?

What channel? I don't see it listed anywhere.

XXIV wrote:

tigerjeterkobe wrote:What channel? I don't see it listed anywhere.

http://www.nba.com/leaguepass/

Thanks. I have LP (can't believe I didn't know what he meant). But the game is not showing up on the channels so that I can schedule it to be taped. Weird.

That is weird.

Pau is starting tonight.

Source: https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/281109232386994176

He claims to have regained his "explosiveness" which was lacking at the start of the season. Hopefully he'll be more in the post