Los Angeles Lakers: Take Out the Panic Button But Don’t Push It Yet

I've heard of kicking a dog while it's down but I've also heard that's it's best to let a sleeping dog lie.

So which one is it with the 2009-10 Lakers?

I can't really tell you as of right now but I do know that we're about to find out.

Regardless of how lousy the defending champions looked in their Game 4 loss on Saturday night I feel like it's my duty to put things into perspective.

For starters, the Lakers led for all but the last 11:18 of Game 3 and trailed by two points with 13 seconds left.

So it's not as if they were blown out by the Thunder in both games.

I should also remind those Lakers fans currently surveying the contents of their medicine cabinets that teams that have gone up 2-0 in seven-game series have gone on to win those series ...

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