It's not because Denver doesn't have a star, they are simply getting out played in every sense.

Hey I thought they'd play much better but GS has everything going for them. They can't miss. Good for them young teams can prosper in this league...GSW may just have the best up and coming talent in the league. Wish we had much of their talent.

Then again as long as MDA is still coach, the role players will always look like the superstars, and the superstars will always look bad!

AnubisADL wrote:

Up until that last game I would have been ok with Howard becoming a Knick. He was looking to get tossed in a deciding game and left his teammates to handle the mess. Lakers should have nothing to do with him, should never be in the same sentence as past Laker greats. On a side note that was apparently the 14th playoff loss in 15 games for D'Antoni. Too many injuries to make a splash this year but I still believe he was part of the problem, but definitely not all of it.

That whole Brandon Jennings guarantee was transparently self serving. If he wasn't about to become a restricted free agent I doubt he would have been so bold with his prediction. I think he wants to play in a major market.

AnubisADL wrote:Dwight Howard is still a BEAST and I would welcome him to the Knicks. He would definitely open things up for Melo on the wings.

Jennings doesnt want to be in Milwaukee unless he is being overpaid. He wants a large market. I see him taking the QO which means he will lose his bird rights if traded.

I know what Howard can do but I also see what he can't do and that's stay with a team without throwing everyone around him under the bus. If by some fluke he became a Knick I would welcome him like I welcomed Spree, baggage and all. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

I get the feelings that Jennings made that prediction with the intention of being traded. I don't think you do that knowing that the defending champs will do everything they can to sweep and make the Bucks look bad unless you have ulterior motives. Doubt it was meant to fire up his team.

"At the end of the day, it has to be a collective effort and it has to jell; the system has to work for everybody," World Peace told CBS Sports Radio in an interview Saturday. "And you have to be the best team with the best coaches and the best players, and it has to make sense; it has to connect. For us, it just didn't connect. It wasn't [anybody's] fault. It just didn't happen.

"It's not necessarily about having the best names," he said. "It's about being the best team. So this year, I felt we had the most talent. It just wasn't translating and it didn't connect. We didn't connect with Coach Brown, and then Bernie [Bickerstaff] comes in we connect with Coach Bernie, and Coach D'Antoni comes in and it works for a little bit and then it doesn't work and then it works really well toward the end of the season. ... It's nobody's fault; it just didn't happen. We just did not connect."

As it turned out, the talent, reputations, pride and egos that collided when the Lakers added Nash and Howard required some tough love -- some confrontation -- in order to connect the dots. And with Brown and D'Antoni, two coaches whose positive attributes did not include the Jackson-like ability to confront and demand, the players never got that -- and they never gave the coaches a chance to give it to them.

"I feel like at times the Lakers did not let the coaches coach," World Peace said. "The players, we didn't let them do their job. So now you get the crowd's chanting, 'We want Phil, we want Phil,' and things like that, which is not a bad thing. But at the same time, you have to take some responsibility for the season. The fans can't blame Coach D'Antoni, can't blame Coach Brown for a season like this. It's a collective effort.

"Sometimes, we didn't let the coaches coach, and sometimes the coaches didn't coach," World Peace said. "So it goes both ways. Sometimes a coach can get in a tough situation where they respect these All-Stars so much that they don't want to rub people the wrong way. So sometimes I felt we should've been rubbed the wrong way. Sometimes I felt like Coach Brown could've rubbed us more the wrong way. Even Coach D'Antoni could've rubbed us the wrong way sometimes."

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/ken-berger/22161439/lakers-horrid-season-ends-fixing-it-will-hurt-may-include-losing-kobe

So, if you were the Lakers, would you amnesty Kobe. Its, cold, cold, cold, but it would save you over $76mil next season. Amnesty MWP and trade Gasol for cap space, and you can start a rebuild. I'm not sure- it's probably the right move logically (doubt he's going to play at a high level), but I don't think I could do it after everything he did for that franchise.