How NBA Blogosphere Would Coach LA Lakers into the Playoffs

The Los Angeles Lakers have been the most talked-about team in the NBA all season long, despite their sub-.500 record and season-long struggles.

It's those struggles that make them such an interesting story, especially after we speculated all summer long that they would be competing for a championship with no problems.

Two coaches, a ton of injuries and a 28-30 record later, everybody wants to put their two cents in regarding the Lakers. It's fun to speculate on what they should or shouldn't do, but at some point we're just talking about nothing.

We're throwing darts at a wall with no real target, just tossing for the sake of tossing.

In order to really clear up what the people want from the Lakers in terms of running the team, let's take a tour of Twitter to see what it is, exactly, the world wants the Lakers to do in order to fix this mess of a season.

Of course, we're going to have to start with the obvious, what everybody has been screaming for since late December.

The Lakers should be working on trading Mike D'Antoni for cap space.

— Kobe Bryant Fans (@teamKB24) February 21, 2013 For ages now people have been calling for Mike D'Antoni's head. From the stray Lakers fan all the way up to Chris Broussard, the consensus is that they don't want D'Antoni coaching the team anymore.

The problem with that is that Lakers committed to this coach, firing him now, or even during the offseason, would just signal another step back.

Even still, the criticism for D'Antoni and his rotations will reign supreme for the rest of the season.

#Pringles RT @halopwnography: @lakersnation Also have to look at the fact LA only had 8 players in rotation against Denver who used 12 or 13

— Lakers Nation (@LakersNation) February 26, 2013 I can't imagine how the likes of Chris Duhon, Darius Morris or Robert Sacre would have helped against a fast, athletic tea...

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