Mike Bresnahan’s Take: You can’t win them all -- or pick them either

Mike Bresnahan covers the Lakers for The Times and ties up loose ends on the day of his self-designated game of the week. The Lakers play Thursday against Boston.

This is getting ridiculous. And it’s all my fault.

I decided to end each “Take” by predicting the winner of my self-designated Lakers game of the week. Fine. Great. Laughably easy. Finish 18-5 or something like that.

I started off 7-1, which makes sense. This is my sixth season covering the Lakers. I know their personnel fairly well. I know exactly when and where they play well.

I was flying high in December after picking them to beat Chicago (OK, it was a slow week), but then came the last seven weeks.

I’m now 8-7. Pathetic. It all started when I picked them to win at home against Cleveland on Christmas. Great call. Ugh.

More recently, I had them losing last week in Utah without Kobe Bryant, losing in Boston near the end of their long trip and winning in Cleveland at the start of that trip. Let’s just say people aren’t lining up to ask whether I want to start a “Lakers Tip Sheet.”

In fact, I got this e-mail from a guy named Whit: “I am so glad Phil Jackson is the coach and not you. The way you pick games, we would be 0-45.”

OK, maybe more like 24-21. But I’ll try harder. Run faster. Take more energy drinks. Whatever it takes to deliver more accurate prognostications.

This week, I’m taking the Lakers over the Celtics.

If this doesn’t work, my parents will pick next week’s game against Dallas.

Q&A of the day

Q: Do you think the Lakers will make any trades before the Feb. 18 deadline? I realize we don’t have much to offer in terms of our bench players, but I wonder if the Lakers will have enough come playoffs time if they stand pat while Cleveland picks up a player or two.

-- Derrick C. A: I’m bad enough picking which Lakers team is going to show up on a given night. I’ll take a pass on predicting what the Lakers are going to do before the trade deadline.

(Pause.)

OK, I can’t help myself. The Lakers aren’t going to do anything before Thursday’s noon deadline.

Bryant is winless?

Thanks to reader Lewis Leader for pointing out that Bryant hasn’t won a game yet this season.

The Bryant Bulldogs, that is.

The small Rhode Island college is 0-26 after falling to Robert Morris last week, 52-42. Bryant plays at Wagner on Thursday night and has only three games after that, including a huge season-ending home tilt against Long Island.

Bryant doesn’t want to be the only winless Bryant ever, does it?

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