LAKERS -at- ROCKETS - 5/14 - Thoughts and :-(( Ratings

[pask]

I´ll put the blame on Kobe and Phil.

As much as I firmly believe Kobe is one of the best ever, his weakness it´s in his head. He´s stubborn and plays some dumb ball . He sinked the Lakers in the first quarter. When we were down 2 in the third, he does a careless turnover, and fails to keep out of the paint Battier. That was a huge momentum breaker .

For all of his game experience, he doesn´t seem to notice that the best way to open up a defense is going straigth to the hoop instead of pulling up jumpers. When he´shot that´s fine, but in some other days you´re just shooting yourself in the foot. A few times in the first quarter he had some open lanes and instead settled for jumpers.

He also tends to go wild when the team is erasing the deficit. If something is working, keep doing it until it doesn´t work. That´s an easy concept.

Phil is also killing me this days. Call timeouts quicker. Use your bigs. They don´t have any. Bynum didn´t score because nobody was giving him a damn ball, but you could see the problems the Rockets were having with his help deffense. When Scola passed through Pau and found Bynum a few times in the third, we were getting stops, rebounds and quick scores. When we sat Bynum, that dissapeared too.

If Fisher is in a slump, play other players. Farmar has beens surprisingly effective. So keep him in court.

Also this like a game seven, we could have closed the series. Then we can shorten rotations, keep some players more minutes in court After that we would have three days until Denver. Instead of those extra minutes, we get an extra game.

Oh, Phil, sometimes is a good idea to get a T. Referees tend to alter somehow his whistling after a coach T.


I could also add heresome comments that I made after game 4, but that game the Rockets were hot from the outside. This time they don´t even need that.

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[Rick12322]

I thought Ron Artest ran into the crowd, dramatizing a foremarm shiv from Kobe. I don't remember exactly, does anyone remember whether he ran into the crowd?

[X56]

They wanted to be tested... so they got what they wished for..
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[Mr. EiGhTy-OnE]

Adelman is making Phil his (bleep)
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[Laker's Fan]

It's easy to overreact in these situations. But it's hard to ignore the part Phil Jackson has played in this.

His refusal to acknowledge that Fisher has no hope of staying in front of a jitterbug like Brooks combined with Fisher's shooting troubles (which started with around 20 games to go in the season) has crippled our team.

There are other problems (Pau's going Ghost, Bynum giving us nothing). But Fisher is the problem IMO.
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[Arizona]

It seemed to me that the guards were playing Keep Away from the bigs. They just swing it around the perimeter instead of working it inside. I missed the first 5-7 minutes of the game, so I didn't see Bynum's scoring attempts (all 3 of them) but you can't just keep jacking up outside shots that aren't going in, especially on the road. You have to play to your strengths, and we didn't. It's really incredible that this team, and our playoff vets of Kobe and Fish in particular, could be that dumb. Drew needed way more shot attempts than 3, LO needed way more than 5. The bigs were shooting a good percentage even with Drew's 0/3, we needed to run the offense, run some plays for Drew and LO to get them involved. Unbelievable.

Props to LO. He gave what he had out there, but his mobility is clearly affected by his back injury. He had a hard time staying in front of his man on defense, and had a harder time helping and recovering on defense and pick and rolls. Mr. Half a Man almost outrebounded both Pau and Drew combined in far fewer minutes, and he almost contributed as many points as last game, but what impressed me most was the amount of extra possessions he gave the Lakers through steals, blocks, tipped balls, and hustle given how limited he was physically. I hope his back improves for game 7 and if we get through that, that he can regain his health and mobility for the rest of the playoffs.
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[jmark]

I wonder if there are deeper things going on in the locker room we don't know about? Seems they are all playing 1 on 1 and not moving the ball. Kobe must lead by example on both ends including taking care of the ball and boxing out. I thought LO (considering he is injured), Jordan & Brown played well.
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[tw-lakbfan]

Did the Laker coahes ever go into details of offense or defense? They taled about execution, but how come the Lakers were so lacking in fundamentals, like boxing out, feeding the hot hands, get the ball inside?

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[LakersDa1]

man o man, i dont even know what to think about game 7.... i dont care if it at home..... anybody's game..

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[Luca Brasi]

^ this is crazy. andrew should buy into whatever role the coach asks. as of now, pau should be getting the most touches in the post, he's more skilled offensively at this point in their careers. also, andrew isn't getting deep position, what good would it do to have andrew catch the ball 15 feet from the basket, cause that's where he'd be catching the ball versus hayes or scola. and when he says scola wasn't his man, he was matched up with scola a few times and got burned defensively. but the main point is, his reticent in accepting the challenge of being our defensive anchor, regardless of his role in the offense, a role it's obvious now, that pau doesn't have the skill nor know how to be productive at.

if LO, a vet in a contract year can accept his role, and the tell the media that its about "us" and i'll do whatever the "team" needs to do to win a championship, then andrew should be able to do the same, since the lakers rewarded him with a huge contract.

i love andrew, but his attitude this post season has been a huge disappointment, and its mainly due to his inner circle-handlers who place andrew's personal goals above the team
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