Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) How does Shannon continue to sit his ass on the bench all game? How does Jordan not get more playing time when he was pretty much terrific all game long? How the hell does Fish continue to see so many minutes when it's CLEAR to everybody that he is struggling. He killed us all day long, and his ass continues to play 40 mpg (exaggeration). Meanwhile, Drew, who played flawlessly, with only 1 foul, played a WHOPPING 18 minutes. What the fuck is going on. Has Phil lost it? Seriously, this is fucking ridiculous. Once again we choke up a lead, and like I said before, this type of attitude will come back to bite us in the ass, what do you know, I was right. Fucking disgusting, Phil needs to wake the fuck up. It's postseason. WCF, not regular season or the first round or whatever the fuck he thinks is going on. Time to stop playing "mind games" and favorites and actually put us in the best position to win the game. Whatever, just fucking frustrated. We had this game, but once again, we're too idiotic to hold onto the lead, and Phil's too retarded to put out a decent lineup for one fucking game.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) When is the media going to call him out on it? Fish needs to bench himself, the entire team has to ask for it as well. Screw his feelings we need to earn a win. Certainly the 16 Fts for Billups was the difference tonight.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Reminded me of when we lost to the Magic, Nelson caused us to lose we can't allow him to get into that 27-28 point range like he did in both games. And guess what it happened again here.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Please Laker fans, tell me this, why the hell is Fisher even playing when Shannon and Farmar are doing very well. Like I'm going for the Nuggets obviously but like, c'mon Phil.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) I've lost respect for Phil after tonight, he is causing us to lose a couple of games in the post-season already. Doesn't look like he wants to learn.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Luke Walton and Vlad started most of the year for us also because Phil was in love with them and more familiar. He takes forever to make these adjustments.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Derek Fisher has to be one of the worst starting PGs on a contending team that I've ever seen. Blazer fans complain about Steve Blake but I wish we had him right now, heh.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Because Phil has his favorites. He doesn't have the balls to bench Derek because Derek is a "classy vet, leader of the team," plus he has played under Phil for years. He also doesn't bench Luke either, even if we had Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony on the same team, he'd still find a way to play his pet 15 mpg. Phil plays favorites, plain and simple. He treats guys differently as well. Drew played flawlessly yet only got 18 minutes (1 foul as well). Derek played like shit (has played like shit forever) yet basically plays through the entire game with two guys better than him sitting on the bench. If someone like Luke commits a turnover, or two turnovers in a row, they're just mistakes and Phil lets him play on to "work things out." If Drew EVER commits two turnovers in a row, even if it's the 1st minute of the game, his ass never gets off the bench. I'm seriously sick and tired of this bullshit. Hopefully Jeanie Buss can get some sense into him. If not, and this bullshit continues, I'd rather us fire his ass in the offseason and bring up someone new. Or promote B-Shaw. I don't care. He cost us games in the regular season because of his bullshit substitutions, most of us thought it was just something he likes to do in the regular season to experiment. Well you're in the WCF now, and you're still experimenting with lineups? Experiment my ass. Time for Phil to get his head in the game, he's been costing us games left and right. We could very well be down 0-2 right now, btw.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Disappointed. Denver has more heart than I thought. My thoughts. -This loss is on Phil. Your the Head Coach of the most talented team in the league. When the opposing team goes on a 14-2 run, make adjustments. Call timeouts. You don't sit there and let them score 12 points more than you. -When you go into a timeout with the lead and momentum, don't come out of that timeout with a different lineup. Why on God's earth did you sit Bynum in the 2nd quarter? -In the second half, Phil went away from the post. The guards went away from the post. Gasol and Drew were pounding Denver all night. What did Drew play in the 2nd half? 5 minutes? I'm disgusted.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Sounds like the Sam Mitchell - Bargnani shit. But this makes sense, he's in love with Fisher for experience. But if the whole team prety much has experience, then i comes to talent and that is where Fisher lacks. I hope the Nuggets win, but i hope they win because Phil coaches well and plays Shannon and Farmar more and not Fish head. Fuck Fisher sucks balls.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Drew played flawless basketball, he was owning the Nuggets front line. He committed ONE SINGLE foul. Plays a total of 18 minutes the entire night. You seriously have to be kidding me if you call that good coaching. 9 rings my ass. NBA is a "what have you done for me now" league. What the hell has Phil done recently? Anything?
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Where is Rizzle to defend his pet Jackson now? He was all over Brian and I's ass earlier in the year for putting PJAX on blast. This thread made me LOL: http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=88179 I don't see how Lamar is getting more PT than Drew. Phil needs to get over his fucking ego and play the fucker. He is the only shot we've got in this series.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Oh, I'm not here to bitch about the refs because I didn't think they were THAT bad, but I am calling BS on their love for Billups. You breathe on him, you get a foul against you.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) How does Sasha come in and warrant more shots than Drew? If Sasha played the minutes Drew got and kept his shot pace going, he would have far outshot Drew. Play Bynum.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) Melo dominated down low when Drew got benched. Again, great coaching you fucking senile old fucker.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) lol this is almost hilarious Phil better step up and not bring this shit again. Seriously. I'm not really worried since it's the Nuggets, I am confident we'll advance, but then again, this series could very well be 0-2 in their favor right now. Step up.
Re: WCF: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Series tied 1-1) If we don't split in Denver, we're done. We aren't beating them if we're down 3-1.
