Los Angeles @ Phoenix 1/30 7:30 PM PST

[EArl]

I dont think ill ever know how a Wizards fan feels. The Lakers will be fine. If they dont make the playoffs than they will come back better next year.

What must the Lakers do if they are to come back better next season? The older Laker players seem to be declining, not improving with age.

Im pretty sure Pau gets shipped out. If Howard resigns we build around him, if he doesn't we save cap space.
Fire D'antoni and hire a different coach.

[Jetset]

You have to stop the overreaction to one game. We beat the best team in the west. The team is good but there will be games like this. And it is a back to back game on the road. For one I think Nash had a nervous game back. Metta shot so poorly as did Kobe, and Dantoni clearly should have used Jamison instead of world in the 4th. When teams double Kobe we need to move the ball to the weak side faster and set Nash up. Nash needs more looks and we need to start thinking about setting more screens to free Nash up, otherwise we are not utilizing him enough. Nash needs at least 12 shot attempts a game.

I think we played into the tempo of Pheonix as well. Overall this team has to stick with what works. We clearly did not play an inside/out game. Jamison was 5/6 and this should have been another signature game for him where his offense was worth more than metta's defense. Jamison actually played well against beasley. It is a failure on dantoni's part to not reward the hot hand of the night.

But the one way this team can improve is having Nash move off the ball more...kind of like how reggie miller and ray allen moved...and set some picks for him to get some easy shots, or some easy assists in the paint. Bottom line is Nash needs to be more involved.

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you do realize this road trip definitively determines whether or not this team gets into the playoffs right? this team can't afford to have games like this. okc is in the playoffs no matter what, where will we be at at the end of the season?

and dwight needs surgery on his shoulder. i thought he'd be out months when it was initially discovered he had a torn labrum.

[kobe808lak]

You have to stop the overreaction to one game. We beat the best team in the west. The team is good but there will be games like this. And it is a back to back game on the road. For one I think Nash had a nervous game back. Metta shot so poorly as did Kobe, and Dantoni clearly should have used Jamison instead of world in the 4th. When teams double Kobe we need to move the ball to the weak side faster and set Nash up. Nash needs more looks and we need to start thinking about setting more screens to free Nash up, otherwise we are not utilizing him enough. Nash needs at least 12 shot attempts a game.

I think we played into the tempo of Pheonix as well. Overall this team has to stick with what works. We clearly did not play an inside/out game. Jamison was 5/6 and this should have been another signature game for him where his offense was worth more than metta's defense. Jamison actually played well against beasley. It is a failure on dantoni's part to not reward the hot hand of the night.

But the one way this team can improve is having Nash move off the ball more...kind of like how reggie miller and ray allen moved...and set some picks for him to get some easy shots, or some easy assists in the paint. Bottom line is Nash needs to be more involved.

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Uh they just lost to another terrible team... the rest of the road trip has to be near perfect now.... unless not making the playoffs sounds reasonable to you.

The Suns were 15-30.. an awful team. Howard goes down again and the team looks lost in another losing effort.

[JohnVancouver]

You have to stop the overreaction to one game. We beat the best team in the west. The team is good but there will be games like this. And it is a back to back game on the road. For one I think Nash had a nervous game back. Metta shot so poorly as did Kobe, and Dantoni clearly should have used Jamison instead of world in the 4th.
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But the one way this team can improve is having Nash move off the ball more...kind of like how reggie miller and ray allen moved...and set some picks for him to get some easy shots, or some easy assists in the paint. Bottom line is Nash needs to be more involved.

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This. Nash missed easy shots, Kobe missed layups. Metta couldn't hit the floor.
Not as much movement on offense, some bad defensive sequences (well, more than some.)
Suns were way up for this game, Laker energy was down.
I do worry about this new habit of letting teams back in games, a chronic problem with Pringle's teams.

Onward and upward. Pau should be happy, he'll be getting minutes now.
Haven't checked news on Dwight's injury.

[kobe808lak]

Oh yea and Pau played like a female in that first quarter. Just pathetic.

[semi-sentient]

IMO our bench lost this game for us. Early in the 4th quarter they looked completely out of sync and allowed the Suns to gain momentum. Once they had it they never lost it, and we had a really hard time clicking after Kobe and Nash re-entered the game. Momentum shifts are huge because it makes teams play with far more energy and we saw that last night when the Suns started really picking things up after going on that early 8-0 run.

D'Antoni has to find a way to keep either Kobe or Nash in the game at all times. Our play-making completely ceases to exist when those two are out of the game.

[GAME TIME]

Lakers always seem to be competitive then fall on their faces in the 4th quarter on the road..

Is it Dan Tony bad rotations..


Looks like Kobe lost some faith when the players bricking shots and tried to play Kobe ball in the 4th..

MWP shooting 17 shots and bricking all night doesn't help, Dan Tondy needs to shorten his minutes if he isn't playing up to par..

MWP was falling down and slipping all over the court yesterday, was he tired, yes he was, he wasn't prepared for this game..

[twix2500]

Okay now are willing to trade Artest for Beasley and Shannon Brown?

[madmaxmedia]

You have to stop the overreaction to one game. We beat the best team in the west.

Wait, are we overreacting to losing to the Suns, or beating the Thunder? Either way, it is just one game, and we had won 3 in a row. But at this point in the season with this record, every loss is a bad loss.

[GeneralNash]

You have to stop the overreaction to one game. We beat the best team in the west.

Wait, are we overreacting to losing to the Suns, or beating the Thunder? Either way, it is just one game, and we had won 3 in a row. But at this point in the season with this record, every loss is a bad loss.

I think beating the #1 team convincingly isn't a overreaction. Losing to Pheonix on a back back to road game however....it's just one of those things. Of course every loss is a bad loss, but the 8th seed is only 3 losses away from having the same amount of losses as the Lakers.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

I dont think ill ever know how a Wizards fan feels. The Lakers will be fine. If they dont make the playoffs than they will come back better next year.

What must the Lakers do if they are to come back better next season? The older Laker players seem to be declining, not improving with age.

Im pretty sure Pau gets shipped out. If Howard resigns we build around him, if he doesn't we save cap space.
Fire D'antoni and hire a different coach.

If they fire D'Antoni, then they probably trade Nash to finish his career either in Toronto or with the new Seattle franchise (if the Kings end up there), since Nash is originally from nearby, Vancouver, BC.