LAKERS -at- CELTICS - 6/13 - Thoughts and :-(( Ratings

[angrypuppy]

Thanks DB. I'm not sure how you are able write these excellent summaries as it breaks my heart just to review select plays on the Tivo.

Awful game, and our bigs were continually uprooted by Boston's bigs. At some point you have to ask yourself what good is the triangle offense when the beautiful spacing on paper meets the harsh reality of a physical, loosely officiated game. Injury and defense has shut down the post scoring, and Kobe ends up taking circus shots in order to try keeping the game close. Even when I see Kobe hitting those circus shots I inwardly groan, as our defense isn't going to force the Celtics to take shots of equal difficulty. I knew this wasn't going to end well by the end of the third quarter.

Where's the coaching Phil? Why is it that this team is configured for finesse triangle play? Even Sheldon Williams who sits on the end of the Celtic bench could have given us more than what we've been seeing out of Lamar for most of this series.
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[Rick12322]

Scoring droughts like we've had throughout this series highlight whey I've pushed for Bynum to be featured more in the offense. I know he's injured now, but a healthy confident, experienced Bynum who's had his talent developed can score over this team all day long with ease.

Pau and LO have wilted under the physical strength of the Celtics but the key is the Celtic strengths are wrapped up in pushing the foul envelope, and daring refs to call them on it. Not one play went down without a Celtic foul on both sides of the ball. Pierce, Allen and Garnet were constantly committing offensive fouls by pushing off on offense while either handchecking, setting illegal screens or pushing off for rebounds. They are also hacking like out of control thugs on virtually every play toward the rim, and doing it with impunity.

If this is the way the refs call the rest of the series, then it's game set and match for the Celtics, and they will have made a mockery of the nba rules.

[RVCdesigns]

Thanks DB

[wolfpaclaker]

A couple of things I'd like to see different.

One - Kobe not sagging off Rondo so much. Yes it works, but not all the time. What this is doing is allowing Rondo to move off the ball.

Rondo is getting too many loose balls, boards and a lot off the ball scores. Kobe doesn't stay with him off the ball nor does he have the speed to.

We shouldn't use Kobe as much as we do as a rover. Or maybe Kobe himself shouldn't do it as much. The point where you do that is to deny post entry or stop dribble penetration.

Two - Less switching. By switching our bigs so much we are forcing them to be out of rebounding position. I think this is hurting us a lot. Giving up so many rebounds costs a team big time. You haven't seen any monster games from our bigs nor any games where they controlled the glass outside of game 1.

On offense, we're not using the Kobe/Pau screen roll as much. This is something that works. What about the double screens? The Kobe-Pau-LO 3 man sequences?

[GNC]

I have no idea how you did that write up..

hopefully the team gives you two more joyful ones.

[AJLakerFan]

[Addicus]

It's easy to say Phil was outcoached but he wasn't. This series changed when Doc was allowed to criticize the officials w/o a fine which Phil was reprimanded for before the series started. Since then Boston has been able to be much more physical on the blocks and offensively. The Allens are physically hand checking Kobe on the perimeter. Ray Allen is pushing Fisher and initiating contact almost every set. Pierce is chopping arms that aren't touching him and Perkins is being allowed to push everywhere. None of this is coaching.
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The real issue is KG woke up and has beat Pau on both ends. That is opening doors for the Celtics offense and closing doors for us. Pau hasn't used his skills to open things up (hitting that 12ft jumper) and KG was hitting everything with a hand in his face yesterday. This team has to find it's defense and make free throws because the officiating will remain the same in LA. Every Boston win has come down to the last minute, execution and at least one terrible swing call in their favor. In our wins the game was over with 3 minutes left.
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[aprevo15]

we got home court. nothing to worry about. lakers just come and give it their best and we are good to go.

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[Sister Golden Hair]

By the way, everyone is focusing on Ron's missed free-thriows, but what about the Fts missed by Lo and Pau?

I'm amazed, fankly, that people are still defending these two. Pau I can understand, somewhat, because he's been good a lot of other times. But LO? Throughout this year's play-offs LO has been invisible.

But people still defend him, or blame others for his shortcomings.

It's just wierd.

BTW, excellent write-up, DB.

[City_Dawg]

[Klone_dd]

No idea where the Queensbridge guys went. RonRon went from being a one-way player to a no-way player by letting Drama Queen go off without resistance. He seems very distracted and uninvolved. LO had one of those 'meh' games when we really needed him to step up.

Now we have a day to reflect and refocus. Until yesterday, neither team could carry over momentum from one game to the next, but the Celts seems to have gained confidence while Kobe has grown more frustrated. Hopefully, his frustration subsides by coming home. If not, he might take the message-sending role of "I'm gonna see what you guys bring first" in game 6, and if the guys aren't battling from the get-go, it could be ugly.

It's really all about what the Lakers have learned since 2008. Lakers in 7.

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[JTS1]

i'll start by thank db for doing this write up under the circumstances.

i don't understand what i'm seeing. this team is reverting back to 2008 and that really is disturbing.

pau is having deja vu w/kb abusing him. ronron looked like he didn't know what he was doing out there. that game gave pp a lot of confidence. i thought ronron was more of a bad a$$ than that.

lo has no spine.

i do want to believe in this team. last night's performance makes it tough because i thought they have learned from the past, but they don't look like it at all.
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[aprevo15]

can we not play zone tomorrow night. their jump shots were killing us in the beginning.

[ABynum17]

Pau doesn't have the bulk to set good picks, unless he moved, but he'll get called for it. He has more range than Bynum, but that doesn't mean much, because KG can easily recover.

Bynum seems to look bigger every game, so I would use him to set picks exclusively(or even post him up against Perkins more). His defender, Perkins, is also not as good as KG at hedging and recovering.

But you can tell that Doc has been superior at looking at the details. He's been able to know how exactly to attack our lineups with Pau and Bynum, and then Pau and Odom(I think we need to limit this lineup, when Pierce is still on the floor), whereas Phil still has yet to figure out how Kobe can attack Tony Allen, much less Pierce, consistently.

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