SUNS -at- LAKERS - 5/27 - Thoughts and :-)) Ratings

[limchrc]

Thank you LA, glad we won.

[RVCdesigns]

Thanks DB, thanks Sasha, and of course Ron Ron ftw.

[hoopschick29]

Great write up as usual, Barry.
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[lakerboy]

don't know why walton didn't get more minutes. i liked him today, even if he missed some easy shots. i think his touch will come back with playing time.

but he moved the ball very well and was the only one to take a charge (the off. foul was called on amare i think).

we need players like him out there against the zone

same can be said about sasha. great hustle, great effort, some nice shots, good defense. excellent minutes from him.

hope to see more of them in the next games (especially since brown is absolutely useless)

thanks db

[jmark]

D Fish played huge keeping the Lakers in the game at first. I think playing Sasha was huge. I figure he knew Drogs game since they both are from the same country. Kobe is playing as well as he has ever played. Pau was steady. LO played well but almost cost the Lakers when he stood and didn't block Nash out on the missed 3 and let him get his own rebound leading to the JR bank 3. My son and I screamed at the TV when this happened! JR made the same mistake and cost the Suns the game.
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[PopcornMachine]

I couldn't believe what I was looking at when Artest took that 3 with time on the clock and the lead.

I know you don't take that shot. I'm sure Trevor Ariza knows you don't take that shot. Hell, I've got a couple snails living in my plants that know you don't take that shot.

I was amazed Jackson left him in the game, but he and Ron and everyone in Lakersland got extremely lucky. Extremely.

Of course, the game shouldn't have got that close. As usual in these situations, the problem wasn't what happened at the end as mush as what lead up to it. So as much as I'd like to continue to pummel Ron, it wasn't all his fault. And he got lucky, or the mood here would be completely different.

The Lakers had an 18-point lead in the 3rd and promptly went into cruise control. Not something you ever want to see, but particularly not in the playoffs. Must stop now. Hopefully.
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I'm with COCO!

[Fleur-de-Lis]

[LakerSanity]

No one can ever tell me again that ALL things in life aren't black and white.

I think our defensive strategy is all wrong. Nash is the only player on their team who can consistently score one on one. Why not let him do it? At best, he'll get 50, so what?

If we tell our PGs to go under screens, make our bigs stay back to defend the roller, you'll have Nash shooting jump shots all night long and all the rest of the suns sitting on the perimeter with a hand in their face and no where to go. If Nash manages to still penetrate? Fine, let him, but stay on Amare, or Lopez, or whoever.

I can't imagine this team scoring 100+ without our defenders scrambling all over the place. We are trying to stop everything, but stopping nothing. Instead, we should make life easier on ourselves, make Nash a scorer rather than distributor, get the rest of the suns out of rythm, and put ourselves in better defensive rebounding position as a result (without the scrambling D, we would become much better defensive rebounders).

This was ALWAYS the formula against Nash and the Suns' style of offense... why go away from it now?

Offense - slow down the ball, work the clock
Defense - always get back on D (good transition D), NEVER help on Nash in the half court (make him a scorer).

Simple game plan - why have we gone away from it?
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[Addicus]

I believe what we saw last night were the best two offensive players in the game in Jobe and Nash. There isn't a single coverage these 2 can't obliterate because of their dribbling and shotmaking abilities.
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[lakerboy]

i know i might get blasted for this but:

i had no problems with him taking that shot. of course, in retrospect it would be better had he gave the ball to kobe and let him run the clock. but there is no guarantee that running the clock would give you a good shot or a better shot then the one artest had. he was wiiiiiide open, had plenty of time to set his feet and release it.

and i am not saying this because he came up as a hero at the end. i would say the same thing even if we had lost this game. he went for the dagger, missed it. big deal.

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[DancingBarry]

We can probably set up an open Artest three anytime we wanted and it's not like he was on fire. Running the clock down more in this situation sets you up for a potential two-for-one situation, as well.

[Fleur-de-Lis]