Sun Yue didn't do anything... He's not NBA material. He needs to hit the weights and get some muscle.
Well, he didn't turn the ball over. That's a positive I would say, just not making a mistake and not putting the team in a worse position. What he needs is more moments like this, just more game time play. It doesn't really matter if he doesn't contribute, but if he can stay neutral with his play, I think Lakers can afford to play him half a quarter a game. It would be beneficial to his development anyways. But I would say if his play is evidently doing the Lakers worse, I have no problem with Jackson not playing him. Just a few more opportunities would be good. After all, Sun Yue was arguably China's best player after Yao during the Olympics.
Warriors played pretty nicely considering they don't have that floor leader that can bridge the gap between a pure playmaker like Marcus Williams and the consistency/scoring combo like CJ Watson. Overall, I felt the warriors did pretty decently against a superior team, but the refs were blind. The refs were looking at the play and they weren't calling a lot of the plays right. Crawford did really nicely, but his passing accuracy is just not there... He is pretty darn explosive. I liked Biedrins and Wright together. I swear Biedrins rebounds so much better when there is another big next to him like Wright or Turiaf. Plus, it seems like our points in the paint increases as well when we have multiple passers in there like Sjax, Crawford, Belinelli. Sadly, those passers have trouble with their timing, their pass accuracy, or reading the offense. They're all good complimentary players, but we need a pure point badly to run the show... Decent game, but we struggle mightily with our guard play... turnovers and inability to react and close out on shooters. Nelson actually did a decent job of coaching this game against a team that's completely superior.
I wish the Warriors would just decide to box their man out. They just let so many Lakers grab the offensive board shot after shot. Wright and Turiaf played a lot of minutes, but they only managed to grab 5 rebounds, 3 of which were defensive rebounds. I know Turiaf is always going for the block shot which puts him out of position for the rebound many times. Wright is just against boxing-out or something. I mean, I guess you have to be somewhat physically strong to box out in the NBA. But you don't have to be that strong. Wright is so tall, and if someone pushes you in the back when your boxing someone out, then it's just over the back foul on the other guy. Why he doesn't want to do it, is really hurting his and the team's rebounding, in my judgment. But certainly boxing out needs to happen more on the perimeter as well - especially Marco. If you are a team like the Warriors, you can't allow a team like the Lakers to shoot 10 more FGs than you. Also, though the refs made some undesirable and perhaps wrong calls against the Warriors favor. You can't really put too much of he weight on the referees. The Warriors shot one more free throw than the Lakers, and the Lakers were called for more fouls than the Warriors. But the key stat is Turiaf and Wright combining for over 50 minutes, and they can only contribute 5 rebounds, 3 defensive. No one else on the team outside of Turiaf, Wright and Biedrins had more than 2 rebounds. That's pretty ugly, especially since the Lakers game plan essentially was to crash the offensive glass as much as possible. This is probably why Nelson was so relunctant to play 2 big men, especially if the player at the 4 is not going to get any rebounds. I mean Nelson played two bigs for a lot longer than I expected, especially since the team was down so much. I thought he would have put in more of a small/scoring based lineup when the team fell behind so much.
A lot of times its based on how the ball bounces. Against the Celtics I did not see Wright giving up rebounds to his opponent or his man/Garnett outrebounding him. As for Turiaf, I don't know why he doesn't get more.
No, he never has. He is a good shot blocker, though, but that's because he almost always goes for the block, which can leave him in the air, or landing on his heels, or out of position, as the ball is rebounding off the backboard/rim. He is a poor rebounder and this is compounded by the fact that he's often asked to be a center under Nellie's watch.
