It's getting more fun each outing to watch this year's Lakers. That bench just keeps the point waves comin' when the electric starters sit down. Third-best offense in the league, as of the middle of the 1/9 Lakers-Hornets game (eventually won by the Lakers, handily).
They're only slightly Second Water at the almost half-way point of the season, breathin' down the necks of perennial Western Conference First Waters, San Antonio, Dallas, and Phoenix. Over in the Eastern Conference, it remains to be seen if the record-class-of-their-own Celtics have Mavs-Warriors-style banana peel in their future.
Chalk the greater cohesion up to Zen Master Phil's continuing steady hand, the stabilizing, energizing return of D-Fish, and the powerful emergence of A Bynum under the deep sound tutelage of Maestro Kareem.
A funny thing happened on SuperKobester's restless quest for a championship surrounding line-up -- it started surfin' up the back of his heels.
Maybe it's the secret subtle oxygenated hoversneakers.
A toast aquatic to the Great Lake Lads' continuing success.
Where else but the la-la-land dream factory, would the "Lake" in Lakers be virtual, a remembrance of Great Midwest Northern Waters?
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