It's like LMA disappeared. Extremely Frustrating, considering LMA was on fire and unstoppable. You can't expect to get the fouls called in the last minute if your not attacking the last five. Should make some great game film.
The Lakers were doing everything to keep the ball from Aldridge. They forced others to beat them. We got a ton of open shots, just missed them all. You can't expect to win with one player.
Yup. We missed tons of open 3s, Batum missed a gimme alley-oop, we missed tons of free-throws. It goes like that sometimes, especially against a team as good as LAL.
Didn't Aldridge get the last 3 shots of regulation? I remember Miller throwing up a pile of shit as well when the whole team thought the game was over.
That's what worries me. Roy has been such an alpha dog with this group, I'm not sure Aldridge can remain a center piece of the team with Roy out there. I almost think the best solution is to use Roy as a means of cutting LMA's minutes. Get LMA down to 35 minutes a game and there's 13 minutes Roy can be in there controlling the ball. Another 5-10 minutes of overlap and that's perhaps all the minutes Roy's knees are good for, anyway. That keeps one offensive weapon on the floor at all times and eliminates the troublesome divergence between their styles of play.
Couldn't hurt to see guys like wes Mathews actually attempt a rebound. Not sure how many times I saw the ball actually hit the court off the rim and Mathews was just standing out near the perimeter...If your not planning on getting back when the shot goes up then atleast crash the boards. I'm not sure what his stat line was but I wouldn't be surprised if he had 0 rebounds last night. And I know he played atleast 44 minutes. Pretty sad.
You've described perfectly what I'm hoping for when I describe the traditional "Ginobili" role for Roy. If in the early "overlap" minutes it seems like Aldridge and Roy are clicking that night, you end the game with them both. If not, you bench Roy. The toughest adjustment Roy may have to face is the prospect of not being in there at crunch time. If that happens because he just isn't clicking with Aldridge, it's going to be up to him to either complain to the media or adapt his game. Hopefully he adapts on his own without it coming down to that...
He had zero rebounds last night and 2 assists, yet he took 18 shots. When he shot up that horrendous airball halfway through the 4th quarter with both LMA and Roy, I about threw the remote at my TV. Then I remembered that he's a limited player, and you have to live with those limitations, so I excused him for it. I'll assume Nate and the coaching staff addressed that play at some point after the game, and I don't expect to see that type of shot again. This was an adjustment game, and it was really fun to watch.
