Originally Posted by Halx

I am serious! The Lakers are stacked and they are playing smothering defense. They have two different offensive methods and they are DAMN effective at executing them. They are deep, allowing their starters to absorb less minutes, not to mention young and spry. Their back-to-backs will be a cinch. The only possible hiccups I see are their 2 games that they play in NO, which are both the second games of back-to-backs.

Sure, in all likelihood, at the midway point you'll be laughing at how blindly optimistic I was at the beginning, but it's not like it can't be done. Many teams in the league got better, but the Lakers got better too. And one team that didn't get better was Boston, their only hurdle.