ADVERTISEMENT SWAYS PEOPLE...... BUT GUESS WHO'S THE NBA'S REAL LOB CITY?... HATERS GET READY

Men lie, women lie, and both are whom you find behind advertisements............. BUT..... NUMBERS DON'T LIE.
So as soon as CP3 was blessed with a Clipper uniform, LOB CITY was their given nickname. And the dunking began.

But a closer review of the Clippers' play-by-play records from every game this season and every other team by The L.A. Times showed that the Lakers have converted 110 alley-oop dunks and layups compared with 89 for their fellow Staples Center tenants. That's a 23.6% advantage for the Lakers, though they have played one more game than the Clippers heading into the teams' final regular-season meeting Wednesday. [...]

The Clippers hold an edge strictly in lob dunks, with 82 to the Lakers' 72. But Lakers center Andrew Bynum's 25 alley-oop layups help put the Lakers, well, over the top.

According to The Times' research — which extends on work done by NBA.com's Steve Aschburner a few months back — Bynum, not Blake, has asserted himself as "the mayor" of Lob City this year, with almost as many alley-oop dunks and layups as Griffin and Jordan combined. (With the way Bynum's been acting of late, though, he'd probably hold out for "undisputed dictator for life" of Lob City.)

Many of Bynum's alley-oop finishes have come from front-court partner Pau Gasol, who — in a completely unsurprising turn of events — has more lob assists by himself than everyone who has played point guard for the Lakers has accumulated this year, according to The Times. Gasol's unique passing gifts made him a perfect fit in the triangle offense favored by Phil Jackson and Tex Winter, but he's also shown a capacity to make big-to-big passes for Bynum to flush in more conventional half-court settings and even on the break.

The at-the-rim volleyball that Gasol, Bynum and Lamar Odom can play was a staple of long Lakers postseason runs for years; with Mike Brown's team leading the Pacific, in line for home-court advantage in at least the first round, and Bynum and Gasol pairing with a still deadly (if still shot-happy) Kobe Bryant and a rejuvenated backcourt headed by trade-deadline acquisition Ramon Sessions, it could be again. The Lakers beating the Clips at what's perceived to be their own game and then running deep in the playoffs with it could separate the Clippers from the idea of Lob City once and for all.

Even if they don't, though, the simple fact that Bynum's comparatively unremarkable big strong slams and Pau's long-arms-keepaway passes comprise the more "real" Lob City kind of undercuts the whole mythos of an offense built around alley-oops anyway. When Lob City's just a place where regular people live rather than a fancy vacation destination, then why would we want to go there?

There are, however, a few other areas where the Clippers as a team are superior to the Lakers — in 3-point accuracy, for example, and in total steals. I'm not sure that "Three-Point Township" or "Pilferer's Province" would look great on a T-shirt, but at least there'd be more truth in the advertising.

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