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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:43 pm    Post subject: LAKERS -at- CLIPPERS - 2-3-22 - Thoughts and :-(( Ratings

Back and Forth Down the Stretch... Late in the first half, the Lakers lost Melo to a hamstring pull as he went up for a jumper. He’ll likely join LeBron and Nunn on the sideline for a while.

The back-to-back took its toll on him. The remaining Lakers battled to the end in this one.

In the third quarter, the Clippers looked to break the game open, sinking three after three. The Lakers got chewed up continuously on switches with Clipper bigs. Typically Reggie Jackson got an easy switch with one of Ibaka or Morris. Lue milked that over and over as the Clipper built a sizeable lead.

“We didn’t know what we were doing,” AD said about the team’s D for the first three quarters.

The Lakers didn’t break. Down 16, they rattled off a 12-0 run as Russ finally got going early in the fourth and the Lakers were getting stops. They trimmed the lead down to 2, but saw it edge back up to as many as 7 after some ill-advised offensive possessions late.

Still, they battled. Russ hit a three with 2:18 left to cut it back to 4. Monk would work the two-man game with AD for an And-1 layup to cut it to 1.

Big scores by Monk and Russ from the perimeter in the finally minute, Russ with a baseline jumper, Monk with a three. They’d take the lead on each of those, but we’d give up scores on the other end.

Down 1 with 18 seconds left after a Marcus Morris sank corner three over Ariza, the Lakers called timeout. On the ATO, they inbounded from the sideline. We’ve seen this SLOB play before where the big catches the defender off guard with a screen immediately after the ball comes in and the backside is cleared. AD rolled, Russ hit him and AD dunked with 12 seconds left.

A lot of time when you could have designed something to run more clock. It was too much time as Reggie Jackson went coast to coast, spinning between defenders to score a layup at the rim with 4 seconds left.

With no timeouts, the Lakers inbounded to AD. He pushed up the dribble and got tapped at the buzzer on a runner that rattled in and out. The Lakers fell 111-110.

Tough loss and losing another body only makes things worse.


Davis -- -- He threw down the lob from Russ with 12 seconds left to go ahead. After we got scored on and had no timeouts, he got the inbounds, pushed it up and got tapped on that runner at the buzzer. Not an easy shot, but one he makes at a decent clip. In and out heartbreak as Chick would say. “Ball touched every part of the rim,” AD said. Good first half. He had 15 points, the rest of the starters just 12 in the first half. And several of his points were while cleaning up their garbage. Late in the third his defense and effort started to give the Lakers some momentum as they rattled off an 8-0 run before he sat. A lot of big plays by AD, but he has some stretches where things flatline for a bit. Late in the fourth there was a sequence where he settled for a bad three, followed that up with a bricked, fading corner jumper, then tried to leak out on the defensive instead of battling for a rebound late in the game. Just some bad decision making there. We rallied after that, but every little possession comes under the magnifying glass late in a game. Good effort on the second night of the back to back with 30 and 17. He, Monk and Russ gave us a 1-2-3 punch there to close. The Stats: He scored 30 points on 12-24 shooting (0-2 from three, 6-7 from the line) to go with 17 boards (7 offensive), 2 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks, 1 turnover and 2 fouls in 38 minutes. He was a -6.

Westbrook -- -- He went 1-7 in the first half for 4 points. His only make on that lefty bank shot. First play of the second half, he scored a layup on a drive, then went silent again. After three quarters, just 6 points and 2 assists. A national TV game. LeBron out. Melo goes out in the first half. Finally in the fourth, he joined the party, scoring 11 points. He’d hit a big three with 2:18 left to cut the lead from 7 to 4. He’d hit a huge baseline jumper to take the lead with 1 minute left. He’d also drive and kickout to Monk for a big three with 28 seconds left. Down 1 with 18 seconds left, we called a timeout. Here, I wish we ran more clock. We could have waited for the last shot. Thankfully, though, they didn’t just run an iso play for a chuck like we seem to draw up in this situations. He found AD for the lob dunk and the Lakers took the lead. Unfortunately, he and Reaves got scored on by Jackson on the other end as he spun in between them as Russ tried to go for a blindside steal. Great fourth by Russ. That’s the guys we need. Prior to that, though, we just can’t have him not engaged. He has to be aggressive and in attack mode in well-thought out sets. When he’s not, it makes it harder on everyone. Guys just don’t guard him. They help clog the paint or take away room for AD to work. It just becomes a problem for everyone. The Stats: He scored 17 points on 7-18 shooting (1-5 from three, 2-3 from the line) to go with 6 boards, 4 assists, 1 steal, 1 block, 2 turnovers and no fouls in 36 minutes. He was a +5.

Monk -- -- The two-man game with AD has had its moments, but it’s really starting to look good. At times, Monk may pass a little early, but for the most part, it’s a tough weapon to deal with. It also puts AD in good position to clean up misses at the rim if Monk misses. Late in the game, Monk missed one of those drives, but they had to respect AD doing just that. The rebound went right back to Monk and he scored an And-1 with 1:31 left. He’d then sink a big three with 28 seconds left. This wasn’t a great perimeter shooting game from Monk. He did an excellent job finding other things that work. Defensively, we really had to be careful with not getting our smaller guards caught on mismatches with bigs. The team got chewed up by that for three quarters. The Stats: He scored 21 points on 8-19 shooting (3-8 from three, 2-4 from the line) to go with 7 boards, 7 assists and 2 fouls in 33 minutes. He was a -7.

Johnson -- -- His one score was an attack from the weakside wing to hit a runner. He had a couple steals and a block. We need him for that D. The lack of offense, though, hurts when we lose guys like LeBron and Melo. The Stats: He scored 2 points on 1-3 shooting (0-1 from three) to go with 3 boards, 2 steals, 1 block, 1 turnover and 2 fouls in 23 minutes. He was a -9.

Bradley -- -- He hit a three on the first shot of the game. He’d knock down another on an ATO kickout. He had a team-low -13. A lot of that was due to our poor defense and switching. The Stats: He scored 6 points on 2-3 shooting from three to go with 2 turnovers and 2 fouls in 20 minutes. He was a -13.

Anthony -- -- He went straight to the locker room after a jumper in the second quarter. He grabbed his hamstring. All those minutes last night and then coming out here in the first half were too much. He’ll be out for a while, no doubt. At his age? This likely means more Ariza and more Dwight. We saw Ariza in the rotation during Melo’s usual sequence. Honestly, if we had LeBron, I think we’d be fine. But this puts a lot of pressure on Monk to consistently score. The Stats: He scored 7 points on 2-4 shooting (2-3 from three, 1-2 from the line) to go with 2 boards, 1 block, 2 turnovers and no fouls in 11 minutes. He was a +0.

Howard -- -- You know what. This game came down to 1 point. There was a sequence in the fourth where Dwight made a rim run and got held as he was trying to go up for a score. The refs said he wasn’t in the act of shooting. He was mugged, wrapped up under the rim. Of course, he was in the act of shooting. That cost the Lakers two freethrows (and they didn’t score on that possession). That was his last play of the game. He was ticked at the no-call. Good night from Dwight prior to that. He was pressuring the offensive glass for fouls or a putback. Russ set him up for an And-1. Small yet big contribution when he was out there. Should have been given those damn FTs, though. The Stats: He scored 7 points on 2-2 shooting (3-5 from the line) to go with 4 baords, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 foul in 10 minutes. He was a +5.

Horton-Tucker -- -- Good first half with 9 points on 4-6 shooting. He had the jumper working, which opens everything up as he doesn’t over penetrate and instead works on those short fades. He also knocked down a three. No scoring in the second half, but he did have a great track-down block at the rim. He was also given one of those bogus, non-continuation calls on what looked like an And-1. The Stats: He scored 9 points on 4-7 shooting (1-2 from three) to go with 2 boards, 2 assists, 1 block and 1 turnover in 21 minutes. He was a +0.

Reaves -- -- We needed a better final defensive possession from him. Reggie lost him on that spin move. Up and down defensive game. Bledsoe is probably a bit too strong for him when they matched up, he had a few scores on Reaves. Reaves had a nice block on Kennard on D on a play. He and AD teamed up for a steal that Reaves picked up and took for a dunk in transition for one of his scores. He’d swish a three on a handoff earlier in the first half. The Stats: He scored 5 points on 2-2 shooting (1-1 from three) to go with 2 boards, 2 assists, 1 block, 1 turnover and 2 foul sin 25 minutes. He was a +6.

Bazemore -- -- Never know what you are going to get in his 7-minute first half shift. Tonight, the first thing he did was drop a pass out of bounds. He’d make up for that, though, saving a bad pass to Melo who’d hit a three. He’d also have a nice cut off Russ’s drive to earn some FTs. He’d miss one, though. Lakers shot 68% from the line tonight. Just so sad. The Stats: He scored 1 point on 0-3 shooting (0-2 from three, 1-2 from the line) to go with 1 assist in 7 minutes. He was a +0.

Ariza -- -- He came in for Melo’s usual rotation in the second half. He was way short on his first three, but he’d sink a big one with 4:12 left in the fourth to cut the lead to three. Defensively, he was useful on some of those switches as he can body up bigs and bottle up some of those switching sequences. Although, sometimes you didn’t know what he was doing, almost zoning up and in no-man’s land. That three by Morris was painful. Ariza got turned around and that enabled the pass to the corner. He’d get a challenge in, but Morris knocked it down. Get that stop, you got the game. The Stats: He scored 5 points on 1-2 shooting from three (2-2 from the line) to go with 1 board and 2 fouls in 17 minutes. He was a +14.

Vogel -- -- Key Moment: Honestly, the troubles they had with the Clippers bigs and the 5-out offense for the first three quarters was big. Morris and Ibaka would get those smalls on them on switches and worked that for some scores. We’d get scrambled sometimes helping, too. If you pick one moment, maybe it’s that SLOB sequence after the timeout with 18 seconds left. That’s a great play that works for the Lakers as there is no help on the backside and it catches the perimeter defender with a screen so our guards can get downhill or take a three. Great play, but it’s a quick-strike play. That extra time left on the clock killed them.

Key Substitution: Losing Melo right now, when we don’t have Lebron? That’s going to be painful. The team is going to half to make up for it on defense. The guys that are going to replace him (Ariza, Johnson) aren’t scorers. The team did a good job in the fourth holding the Clippers to 17 points. Last minute of D, though, hurt.

Key Stats: Maybe the Clippers Morris getting 29 points on 11-16 shooting (6-7 from three). Dude just wasn’t missing from the perimeter or midrange. That killed us.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:53 pm    Post subject:

Ibaka with all those easy baskets against our guards was so frustrating to watch
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:09 pm    Post subject:

Thanks DB.

I think we've seen enough to know now the roster construction is the doom of this team. Yep, down LBJ, etc, but with Russ and AD in I think quite a number of teams in this league win the game with AD getting 30/17. Its hard to just not look around at the squad and notice its defective construction. As mad pointed out, the d can be really easy pickings, at the wrong times.

You can generally tell when a team really has it, or is a true contender, in that they have bad games and find a way to pull them out from time to time. They also find ways to stop teams in the final minute of a game on key possessions.

This team? Constant loss after loss in such moments, which is a sign of either a bad or just mediocre club. Below average supporting cast is just not enough to support the rest of the fellas.

No clue where the squad goes from here when LBJ gets back. Likely make a push for a playoff spot. But its extremely difficult to see this team make any significant push.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:35 pm    Post subject:

Th Clippers might put up another banner after this one.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:04 am    Post subject:

The guys battle back when they could have just throw the towell in

These are two teams that are missing players, the difference is that we have guys going out, then in, then somebody else, then out, etc. where the Clippers have their two main guys out that gives them relative stability to know what pieces one is working with

Sir Charles said that the first half was a horrible game - lol!

Missed free throws/Missed free throws/Missed free throws

On the last play, Sir Charles says that no player should be able to split a double-team that would have forced Reggie to take a harder shot. Since Reeves is denying baseline, Russ should have not allowed him to spin into the paint

On the last play, Shaq says that Reeves should have allowed him to go baseline so that AD can meet him at the ring OR should have applied more pressure/strength/resistance

None of the reporters asked Vogel what was the strategy to guard Jackson since it was obvious that he would be taking the final shot.

Reeves was the right guy since Johnson is not strong/experienced enough and Trevor is too slow/too old to effectively stop him.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:05 am    Post subject:

Reggie Jackson made Reaves his b#tch tonight in the 4th.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:08 am    Post subject:

Laker4lifer4real wrote:
Reggie Jackson made Reaves his b#tch tonight in the 4th.

That reminded me the Tobias harris shot over AC last year in Philly, sometimes you are just not athletically gifted enough to stop talented offense guys.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:16 am    Post subject:

A Mad Chinaman wrote:
The guys battle back when they could have just throw the towell in

These are two teams that are missing players, the difference is that we have guys going out, then in, then somebody else, then out, etc. where the Clippers have their two main guys out that gives them relative stability to know what pieces one is working with

Sir Charles said that the first half was a horrible game - lol!

Missed free throws/Missed free throws/Missed free throws

On the last play, Sir Charles says that no player should be able to split a double-team that would have forced Reggie to take a harder shot. Since Reeves is denying baseline, Russ should have not allowed him to spin into the paint

On the last play, Shaq says that Reeves should have allowed him to go baseline so that AD can meet him at the ring OR should have applied more pressure/strength/resistance

None of the reporters asked Vogel what was the strategy to guard Jackson since it was obvious that he would be taking the final shot.

Reeves was the right guy since Johnson is not strong/experienced enough and Trevor is too slow/too old to effectively stop him.

Johnson is not strong enough? There were no timeouts, so whoever was on the court had to play defense. Chuck and Shaq were both right, either one could’ve worked. This all comes back to the teams inability to communicate. Broken plays take a lot of team coherence to defend. Given there was no stoppage, lakers basically played their usual broken defense. Credit to RJ also, not a lot guys makes that move with off hand
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 1:12 am    Post subject:

This roster is deeply flawed. We can't and won't win with this group of players.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 1:17 am    Post subject:

Another moral victory, another loss. It clearly isn't meant to be for this squad.

Everyone on this team is essentially auditioning for next year and what will likely be our last shot at a ring. The way LeBron is being overused, we may not even have any shot next year.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 1:25 am    Post subject:

LeBron should just take the entire month off and not play in the All Star game. We're destined for the play-in tournament so he just needs to be ready for that.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 1:46 am    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
A Mad Chinaman wrote:
The guys battle back when they could have just throw the towell in

These are two teams that are missing players, the difference is that we have guys going out, then in, then somebody else, then out, etc. where the Clippers have their two main guys out that gives them relative stability to know what pieces one is working with

Sir Charles said that the first half was a horrible game - lol!

Missed free throws/Missed free throws/Missed free throws

On the last play, Sir Charles says that no player should be able to split a double-team that would have forced Reggie to take a harder shot. Since Reeves is denying baseline, Russ should have not allowed him to spin into the paint

On the last play, Shaq says that Reeves should have allowed him to go baseline so that AD can meet him at the ring OR should have applied more pressure/strength/resistance

None of the reporters asked Vogel what was the strategy to guard Jackson since it was obvious that he would be taking the final shot.

Reeves was the right guy since Johnson is not strong/experienced enough and Trevor is too slow/too old to effectively stop him.
Johnson is not strong enough? There were no timeouts, so whoever was on the court had to play defense. Chuck and Shaq were both right, either one could’ve worked. This all comes back to the teams inability to communicate. Broken plays take a lot of team coherence to defend. Given there was no stoppage, lakers basically played their usual broken defense. Credit to RJ also, not a lot guys makes that move with off hand
Moot point since I don't believe that Johnson was on the court for the final play

Everybody knew that Reggie was going to get the ball.

Austin Reeves was the right defender



Why did Russ/AD scored with so much time left?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:38 am    Post subject:

After this loss, I feel we kinda *need* the play-in to have options in the post season. Being really optimistic here...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:08 am    Post subject:

This season is so frustrating
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:43 am    Post subject:

Glad to see the team is competing despite the flaws in WBs game and the lack of quality 2way players like Caruso/KCP.

We just need to get to the play in’s and playoffs healthy. Let the chips fall where they may.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:41 am    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
Ibaka with all those easy baskets against our guards was so frustrating to watch


Yep. I kept remembering when we had larger lineups that could rotate, with guys like Kuzma, KCP, Trez. We gave up a heck of a lot of size and depth for one of the worst contracts in the NBA.

When I watch the Dodgers, win or lose, I feel like most of the team's decisions have been made on the basis of sound analytics and the front office is thus putting out the best team they can for the dollars. With the Lakers? Not so much. It makes it frustrating to watch.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:44 am    Post subject:

Clippers are so well constructed. Length and/or athleticism at every position. Morris can put up numbers if needed, and this game he dropped 29 on 11-16 FG. Doesn’t get much better than that.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:46 am    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
Ibaka with all those easy baskets against our guards was so frustrating to watch


This is just one of the FRUSTRATING things Vogel’s defense continues to do!

Nurkic kill us under basket cause other teams make us switch & next game Frank let’s this happen again. All season they played like this, two bigs on floor & a guard whines up in post guarding a big.

One fix will help this?

STOP SWITCHING!!! FRANK, DUH!!!!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:13 am    Post subject:

PenG_ wrote:
Clippers are so well constructed. Length and/or athleticism at every position. Morris can put up numbers if needed, and this game he dropped 29 on 11-16 FG. Doesn’t get much better than that.


Remember when we had length and athleticism? Like... a year ago?
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danzag wrote:
PenG_ wrote:
Clippers are so well constructed. Length and/or athleticism at every position. Morris can put up numbers if needed, and this game he dropped 29 on 11-16 FG. Doesn’t get much better than that.


Remember when we had length and athleticism? Like... a year ago?


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danzag wrote:
PenG_ wrote:
Clippers are so well constructed. Length and/or athleticism at every position. Morris can put up numbers if needed, and this game he dropped 29 on 11-16 FG. Doesn’t get much better than that.


Remember when we had length and athleticism? Like... a year ago?

We still have length and athleticism. The issue is is that we can't play them together with WB. Our team was built around a big 3 concept, and it's been mainly a big 2. And the role guys have to fit in around WB not the other way around.

So for example, if we ran a backcourt of Reaves and Monk, with Bron running the point. Of course we could get away with having Dwight/AD at the 5/4. We could start those two and use our size inside and length and all that. We could be physical. There's things we could do if we went away from a big 3/WB is a star concept, that we are operating under.

Sure the guys that defend, bring length and some athleticism to the team are not good players on offense. They are limited. I totally see the flaws in the supporting cast. It isn't a group of KCPs, Caruso, Danny Green types that win you rings. That's one issue. But we have decent support guys that have shown they will defend, bring length and size. Stanley, Reaves, Bradley. You could start Bradley at the 1, Reaves at 2, Stanley at 3. AD/Bron inside. Teams will help off Bradley/Reaves/Stanley, but AD/Bron are good passers (Bron elite) and those 3 role guys CUT. They also don't mope around when their offense is not there. AD and Bron would have to revert to AD/Bron of 19-20, which I see no reason they can't. With AD's jumper normal again now, he's gonna be fine. Teams always ask for help on him anyway and he's rarely played 1 on 1.

However with WB, the spacing is all off. Since the entire team's concept is built around WB being the 3rd star, the spacing just doesn't make sense if you play your better defensive players with length. The worst thing is even though we're trying to give WB all this floor spacing and play a ton of 5 out offense and players that keep the paint open, WB's shooting and attacking spots are inconsistent. He will go 5-6 for one stretch and finish plays. Then he'll go 2-10. When he goes cold like that, our entire flow sucks.

The only way to save this season is for Frank to be given the green light to bring WB off the bench. Let Lebron be point guard to start the games, bring WB off the bench to play the Rondo role. Let WB be WB with a smaller ball 2nd unit and Bron comes back in as a small ball 5 with WB at point. Then if WB is shooting well, you close with him. If he's not, you play the starting core with Bron running point. Not only does this allow you to start AD at the 4 when the physical Centers are on the other team, it makes Dwight much more useful.

Does anyone have the balls to let WB know this? I don't think so. It would need to be a group effort of AD/Bron/Vogel all talking to WB. And WB understanding he can get 24-30 minutes off the bench and be a much bigger difference maker. But with the injuries, they'll likely just say they need to play together more as a big 3 and then when the season ends a failure, they'll just blame it all on Frank.

Lue BTW gave Frank a lot of compliments after the game. Frank's a respected coach. This was a (bleep) show he was given.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:51 am    Post subject:

Quote:
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“I’m tired of saying it, we got to figure (bleep) out."


We are all tired, Malik.

At this stage, players are not willing or are just not capable.

Thanks LeGM. We are officially Cavs 2.0 circa 2018, except zero chance of getting to the finals. Only thing missing is a couple of desperation trades.
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wolfpaclaker wrote:
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PenG_ wrote:
Clippers are so well constructed. Length and/or athleticism at every position. Morris can put up numbers if needed, and this game he dropped 29 on 11-16 FG. Doesn’t get much better than that.


Remember when we had length and athleticism? Like... a year ago?

We still have length and athleticism. The issue is is that we can't play them together with WB. Our team was built around a big 3 concept, and it's been mainly a big 2. And the role guys have to fit in around WB not the other way around.

So for example, if we ran a backcourt of Reaves and Monk, with Bron running the point. Of course we could get away with having Dwight/AD at the 5/4. We could start those two and use our size inside and length and all that. We could be physical. There's things we could do if we went away from a big 3/WB is a star concept, that we are operating under.

Sure the guys that defend, bring length and some athleticism to the team are not good players on offense. They are limited. I totally see the flaws in the supporting cast. It isn't a group of KCPs, Caruso, Danny Green types that win you rings. That's one issue. But we have decent support guys that have shown they will defend, bring length and size. Stanley, Reaves, Bradley. You could start Bradley at the 1, Reaves at 2, Stanley at 3. AD/Bron inside. Teams will help off Bradley/Reaves/Stanley, but AD/Bron are good passers (Bron elite) and those 3 role guys CUT. They also don't mope around when their offense is not there. AD and Bron would have to revert to AD/Bron of 19-20, which I see no reason they can't. With AD's jumper normal again now, he's gonna be fine. Teams always ask for help on him anyway and he's rarely played 1 on 1.

However with WB, the spacing is all off. Since the entire team's concept is built around WB being the 3rd star, the spacing just doesn't make sense if you play your better defensive players with length. The worst thing is even though we're trying to give WB all this floor spacing and play a ton of 5 out offense and players that keep the paint open, WB's shooting and attacking spots are inconsistent. He will go 5-6 for one stretch and finish plays. Then he'll go 2-10. When he goes cold like that, our entire flow sucks.

The only way to save this season is for Frank to be given the green light to bring WB off the bench. Let Lebron be point guard to start the games, bring WB off the bench to play the Rondo role. Let WB be WB with a smaller ball 2nd unit and Bron comes back in as a small ball 5 with WB at point. Then if WB is shooting well, you close with him. If he's not, you play the starting core with Bron running point. Not only does this allow you to start AD at the 4 when the physical Centers are on the other team, it makes Dwight much more useful.

Does anyone have the balls to let WB know this? I don't think so. It would need to be a group effort of AD/Bron/Vogel all talking to WB. And WB understanding he can get 24-30 minutes off the bench and be a much bigger difference maker. But with the injuries, they'll likely just say they need to play together more as a big 3 and then when the season ends a failure, they'll just blame it all on Frank.

Lue BTW gave Frank a lot of compliments after the game. Frank's a respected coach. This was a (bleep) show he was given.


We might have athleticism, but we definitely don't have length.

We're crazy thin at the forward positions. Lots of guards that are under 6'4.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 9:39 am    Post subject:

markjay wrote:
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Ibaka with all those easy baskets against our guards was so frustrating to watch


Yep. I kept remembering when we had larger lineups that could rotate, with guys like Kuzma, KCP, Trez. We gave up a heck of a lot of size and depth for one of the worst contracts in the NBA.

When I watch the Dodgers, win or lose, I feel like most of the team's decisions have been made on the basis of sound analytics and the front office is thus putting out the best team they can for the dollars. With the Lakers? Not so much. It makes it frustrating to watch.

Normally when they do this switch last year, some one from the weak side (lebron/Kuz/Kieff) would come over and take the center /PF and let AD stay out there, and we just don’t have the size anymore. Stanley makes some rotational mistakes, and we can’t blame him because he barely played long enough. Vogel need to ask the smalls to fight over the screen or trap from now on, those lazy switches are the reason we suck so much. How many random big guys had career numbers against us?


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