PISTONS -at- LAKERS - 11/14 - Thoughts and :-(( Ratings

[DrHouse]

For all those saying we got beat the same way we did against BOS last season please stop posting. That is so woefully inaccurate I don't know where to start.

First of all DET beat us from outside. They didn't live in our paint like BOS did and they didn't get many offensive rebounds like BOS did. Everything they hit was a jumpshot or three pointer, and they hit 50% of those shots. Defensively I think we did an OK job, clearly our defense on AI was poor but other than that I thought we did acceptable. Like I said before, they were hitting their shots....give them credit. Our defense is designed to give up the jumpshot before the layup, so it did what it was designed to do.

My only criticims were about our offense. Usually we get our offense going after a stagnant quarter or two, but we were stymied the entire game. And we were missing a lot of shots we normally make, DET's D was not that good guys. Fish and Kobe shot miserably and neither Bynum nor Pau were given enough touches down low.

The refs swallowed their whistles of course and let DET foul like crazy, of course any touch foul on us was immediately called. It's this kind of BS reffing that makes it hard for the Lakers to play the same way. We just don't get the calls, it's a joke.

[Shaber]

Really bad coaching today by Phil - at leas in the first half.

AI was embarrasing Fish and since Fish could not make a shot either, Phil should have subbed in either Ariza or Sasha. Sasha perhaps could have stayed in front of AI, he seems to be getting his speed back. It all started right there - AI picking us apart and Fish not getting anywhere near to be stopping it.

And Phil needs to make our guards to start passing to the low post. There are way too few inside passes nowadays. Unless it is from Pau to Bynum or vice versa (put in Lamar there somewhere too). Or else Bynum needs to start demanding the ball like an angry big man. He was outpowering Detroits bigs, but he had too few touches to do a real damage.
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Lakers depth chart

PG Johnson / Goodrich
SG Bryant / West / Scott
SF Baylor / Worthy / Cooper
PF Mikkelsen / Hairston / McAdoo / Gasol
C Chamberlain / Abdul-Jabbar / O'Neal / Mikan

[angrypuppy]

[DancingBarry]

[DancingBarry]

[2The4th]

I personally think Kobe should give up Kobe centered offense. Lakers should some how switch to Bynum centered offense.

I lost faith that Kobe base offense will bring Lakers a championship. Since future will be coming, might as well speed it up. Lakers' inside out game has been deteriorating ever since 3 peat period. I think it is a mistake.

[Sage_10]

The thing that bugs me the most is that we were out muscled. Maxiel and Kwame out-muscled our front court at times and Rasheed was hot from the outside.

Kobe made terrible decisions (turnovers, and shot selection).

At the very least they fought til the end, that was uplifting for me to see.
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[Phil]

Pistons surprised me. They may be back.

[10scott10]

I feel that both kobe's and fisher's stats arre rather skewed from the end of game chucking. they spent the last 5 minutes trying to chuck us back into the game. they managed to cut a 220 point lead in half, but it wasn't useful enough to get closer than that.

i was interested by the full court press they used, and while it did cause some turnovers, we were also called for a lot of fouls, though some of them were kinda BS.

overall, they I really felt that they needed to use pau and bynum earlier in the game.

however, i will say that prince was on fire and he was making shots while having a lot of length in his face. i remember one occasion where he shot and made a 15 footer with drew in his face

also, the pistons only made three field goals during the entire fourth quarter

[A Mad Chinaman]

DB:

Thanks for the recap.

Questions:
What prevented from "funneling" AI to specific areas of the court wher eour bigs can defend the basket?

What type of "D" that the Lakers were playing, noting that in a recent L.A. Times column - Phil had shared that without Drew they were playing "the space" (of which I don't know what that means - help)?

Why wasn't - as Norm Nixon had shared during halftime - LO used more often on Rasheed, especially when he was on his 3pt binge?

I agree that they should have used Drew and Pau more often within the offense.

[Prometheus8]

DB, usually we have a big advantage at center but it seems like a few very strong, very physical centers like Perkins, Dampier and Kwame can negate that advantage. Do you agree?

Also, do you think that as the year goes on and Drew elevates his offensive game that he will be more effective against big physical centers? Last season in January he was really coming out with some nice offensive moves.

Or will it take a few more years until Drew reaches full physical strength for that to happen?
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[golakersgo121]

[DancingBarry]

[DancingBarry]

[A Mad Chinaman]

[10scott10]

[oldschool32]

[32laker24]

True it is only one game. But it is no looking like a good trend.
They have been playing from behind to much.

[LakerSince72]

awwww $#!T !!!!!!


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[10scott10]