"It was a good playoff experience, and nobody can take that experience away from me" <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Smushed again. The Lakers had a Suns-splashed chance to steal a game Sunday, steal momentum, save a season, and what happened? Smushed again. The Lakers stormed into the 2007 playoffs Sunday like April was January, reclaiming their heads, their legs, their heart. Forty-eight minutes later, they staggered away unable to find their guards. It is unfair, certainly, to blame their 95-87 opening-game playoff loss to the Phoenix Suns on a guy who didn't play long enough to dampen his headband. Yet it is impossible to ignore that the collapse of Smush Parker's season again led to the pile of smoking rubble around him. The Lakers blew a dozen-point lead because they didn't have a ballhandling guard. Kobe Bryant was forced to exhaust himself in the first half because they didn't have a ballhandling guard. Lamar Odom's double-double was wasted because they didn't have a ballhandling guard. That guard should have been Parker, but apparently now will never be Parker, and where does that leave the Lakers? With a postseason beginning that felt like an ending. "It was a good playoff experience, and nobody can take that experience away from me," Parker said afterward. Who would want to?... ..Leandro Barbosa strolled past midcourt virtually unguarded by Parker and threw in a long three-point shot at the buzzer to close the gap to three. "I thought they would be closer to me," Barbosa said. "I was surprised." On the Lakers' first possession of the fourth quarter, Parker threw the ball away. Moments later, Barbosa beat Parker on a half-court drive for a three-point play, tying the game. On the Suns' next possession, Barbosa beat Parker for another layup, giving the Suns a lead they never lost. "Barbosa did a great job for them with penetrating," Bryant said. "We couldn't keep him in front of us." Parker was immediately sent to the bench and didn't play again, his playing time totaling all of 10 minutes, his scoring totaling zero, his stock further plummeting. "In the second half, their guard play outmatched ours," Coach Phil Jackson said. That, not Bryant's one-for-10 fourth quarter, cost them the win..... </div> Link Good job Smush.
It's dangerous to let him play in the post-season. He probably knows he'll get canned after the season is over, so he's in a "I don't give a $&%* anymore" swings.
Smush....is wack. Really can't say much more. He really isn't deserving of even being a 2nd string PG.
I'm personally sick of Smush. His lacksadaysical defense Sunday just pushed that even more. I don't care how quick Barbosa is, you can't let him beat you that easily. Smush got completely torched by Barbosa on three occasions, and that really swung the momentum to the Suns. Smush has pretty much played his way out of the leaugue this year because he really didn't improve anything. His offense was still inconcistent and his defense was still crap. If he's in the league next year, I'll be shocked.
is it just me... or does smush seem intimidated by his former team? its like he's frozen out there against them... he should be pumped up to face a team that rejected him
What doeas Smush mean in saying that it was a good playoff experience, and nobody can take that experience away from me. Did he mean that he already expects to be out of the league?
I was wondering that too. Perhaps he don't expect to play in the following games? Perhaps Phil told him so (although that sounds kind of harsh)? Anyway, let's just hope it's his last playoffs and games for the Lakers.
