Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) Shooting? You mean playing smarter, or taking smarter shots offensively? His shot is still pretty bad. I like him in the post though, he knows how to back up his man to score.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) The Lakers will not win the championship if they keep allowing teams to go from 20 down to get within 3 in the 4th quarter.. They need to fix this quick. They need to nail the coffin early and keep the damn thing shut!!!!
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) Fish and Drew had very off nights, we just have to cut the turnovers with them. Give LO a couple more minutes if Drew needs longer breaks. Also we might want to consider starting Brown one day, depends.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) Yep, this has been a problem all season. And was a big problem in the last year finals against Boston.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) They've been doing it all year. Why won't we be able to win the championship? We haven't given up the lead. I think a lot of you guys are blowing out of proportion our inability to sustain big leads. Basketball is a game of runs and often times when we go up by 20, Kobe and the main guys are on the bench and it is the 2nd unit blowing those leads. Kobe is reinserted into the lineup and usually he maintains order. I'm not worried at all by blowing a 20 point lead. We still won the game by 10. So basically, the Jazz shaved 10 points off the lead. Stop overreacting.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4092136 Great chance at stealing this game tonight.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) Great chance at a sweep. We take game 3, they're done.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) [video=youtube;fBIRRoHWDEI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBIRRoHWDEI[/video]
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/23/lakers-expect-a-tougher-game-3/
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) Lakers don't have any ball movement so far, while Utah has all the ball movement...
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) We are being outrebounded 19-6 right now. Step up on the glass, that's not acceptable.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) We're playing like shit. Seriously. Nothing is going for us. Drew is in foul trouble, Kobe has been TERRIBLE, and I don't think Pau even showed up. We don't even care to rebound the ball either. Yet it's still anyone's game. Come out the second half, pretend you actually care, and maybe we win this thing. The effort has been piss poor. No way are we as bad as we look.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) At least we have Lamar. We still need three Bigs on this team, and luckily we have that. Now let's hope Drew can play smarter.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) What the fu*k is up with the lack of intensity in the 4th quarter?? DAMMMIT!!!!
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) Tough game, we just started off too slow. Lakers need to get out there earlier and practice some freaking jumpers, Kobe was terrible tonight at that. He only partially salvaged the game when he created and drove at the end, but it was too late. Shannon should have gotten more time I think, no need to use a tired out Fish there. Bynum didn't get any burn after the five fouls, I think Pau clearly needs some help against Booze.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-1) Not gonna waste my time on this. Absolutely disgusted by the performance today. We have yet to play a SINGLE game this postseason that I can look back and say, hm, this is a championship level team. Pau was a pussy. Drew didn't even show up. Kobe was absolutely terrible. Dogshit. Lamar was the only one who had a good night. Nobody else showed up. I'm not going to lose any sleep over this loss, because I predicted us in 5 anyways. I WILL lose some sleep if we continue to treat these games as if they are fucking jokes. Effort tonight, the whole series as a matter of fact, is shit. We continue to choke up leads each and every game. 3 out of 3. 3 big leads, 3 times Jazz come back. Surely it was going to bite us in the ass someday. If the team doesn't learn now, it will never learn.
Re: Lakers vs. Jazz Series Thread (Lakers up 2-0) TNT had a graphic that said Bynum fouled out, was that right? Player of the Game: Ronnie Brewer Brewer forced Kobe to take some tougher shots and fade a little more than usual IMO
