Lakers vs Clippers Fri. 12/25 7:30 PST/ 10:30 EST ESPN

[Dr Aki]

Marcello Huertas - aka the white Steve Nash happened

steve nash wasn't white enough for you

who is that girl on your avatar, once again ? i forget her name.

KIM Seolhyun

[warrenpeace]

With Byron, the glass is half empty when it comes to D'Angelo. While many of us are happy with how aggressive and seemingly up to the challenge D'Angelo was, Byron will only see that his point guard played 28 minutes and had only 1 assist and 4 turnovers.

[Slava]

With Byron, the glass is half empty when it comes to D'Angelo. While many of us are happy with how aggressive and seemingly up to the challenge D'Angelo was, Byron will only see that his point guard played 28 minutes and had only 1 assist and 4 turnovers.

You don't have to put your words in Byron's mouth. There's enough nonsense coming out of it already.

[Goudelock]

steve nash wasn't white enough for you

who is that girl on your avatar, once again ? i forget her name.

KIM Seolhyun

SNSD for the win

Anyways, am I the only person who was too tired from Christmas to watch the game?

And do you guys really think that Scott Brooks would be an improvement over BS?

[politm]

Lol, btw you guys have the best piano/organ player with all the Star Wars and Zelda songs


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Also Game of Thrones and Interstellar. Love it.

[politm]

One of the announcer was Jon Barry, but I can't remember the other one. Breen was on hand with van Gundy and Jackson at Warriors vs Cavs.

LE: It was Jon Barry with Dave Pasch. They were pretty good.

[ArC_man]

With Byron, the glass is half empty when it comes to D'Angelo. While many of us are happy with how aggressive and seemingly up to the challenge D'Angelo was, Byron will only see that his point guard played 28 minutes and had only 1 assist and 4 turnovers.

You don't have to put your words in Byron's mouth. There's enough nonsense coming out of it already.

Russell this game:
46 passes made (highest on team, 9 more than next highest on team), 8 potential assists (highest on team tied w/ Kobe), 1 hockey assist (tied w/ Huertas for highest).

Russell passed as much on a per minute basis as Chris Paul and Blake Griffin this game and had as many potential assists as Blake Griffin. The only difference is 7/8 times Griffin's teammates were able to finish rather than 1/8 in D'Lo's case.

[warrenpeace]

This is the perfect example of pure myopic thinking and utter nonsense . The person who brings the ball past halfcourt the most, will always always have the highest passes made. D'Angelo bringing the ball past the half court line and passes it right away, is not going to lead to an assist, but it pads the pass total. To get assist, you have to create for your teammates. You have to do something to create scoring opportunity for your teammates, and then get them the ball when they are in scoring position. Drive and the defense collapses and you kick to the 3 point line. Beat your man off the dribble, when the center leaves his man to help, you pass it for a dunk or layup. Byron Scott has even said that D'Angelo does not do these things. Again, why is it that D'Angelo's teammates passes lead to assist and his does't? Is there something wrong with D'Angelo's passing that passes thrown by his teammates are more likely to be converted to a basket than passes thrown by D'Angelo?

For the record, I thing that D'Angelo is going to be a great player. He is also the best at moving without the ball on the team. Which impresses the hell out of me. I also think that the facilitator tag, is messing with his game. It confuses him a bit. He is only 19. Kobe is actually the best facilitator on the team and one of the best facilitator in the NBA. The team is not going anywhere. D'Angelo needs to just play and not worry about any tags. He needs to be aggressive and go into every game and try to compete with the other team's best player. I would like for him to shoot more and facilitate less, and try to lead the team in scoring. He has the talent, he needs the mindset.

[moonpie]

Russell's assist average would go up by 2 if Tarik Black was on the active roster.

Also, Russell leads the team in total assists with 100 and is 2nd to Huertes in AST% and AST Ratio.

[dockingsched]

To get assist, you have to create for your teammates. You have to do something to create scoring opportunity for your teammates, and then get them the ball when they are in scoring position. Drive and the defense collapses and you kick to the 3 point line. Beat your man off the dribble, when the center leaves his man to help, you pass it for a dunk or layup. Byron Scott has even said that D'Angelo does not do these things. Again, why is it that D'Angelo's teammates passes lead to assist and his does't? Is there something wrong with D'Angelo's passing that passes thrown by his teammates are more likely to be converted to a basket than passes thrown by D'Angelo?

the hell you going on about. D'Angelo Russell is second on the team in AST%, higher than any of the regular rotation players. only player with a higher AST% is Huertas who to his credit is a very craft veteran PG that doesn't have his own offensive game so doesn't look for his own shot and has plays mostly PG unlike D'Lo that spends or has spent a good chunk of his minutes off the ball.

you really need to get your facts straight.

[Marionettetc]

I try to be remarkably patient and moderate concerning Lakers front office decisions, but my patience with Scott has pretty much run out. I'm now convinced they asked Kobe what were the conditions for his farewell contract, and he answered:

1) I want to be the highest paid player in the league when I retire.
2) I want Scott to be the coach because I trust him.

Granted, if I was Jeanie/Jimmy I would have done the same but I think I've fairly given Scott enough evaluation time. He's a **** coach and he has to go after Kobe retires.

[warrenpeace]

you really need to get your facts straight.

So do you my friend. Excuses, excuses.

[Crooked-I]

you really need to get your facts straight.

So do you my friend. Excuses, excuses.

The stats he posted are accurate tho so his facts are straight.

[warrenpeace]

Well here are some accurate facts for you: Kobe ( a me first, I love to shoot small forward) leads the team in assist, playing ruffly the same amount of minutes as D'angelo. Lou Williams, supposedly a no passing chucker only averages less that one assist per game than D'angelo while playing less minutes than D'Angelo. This one I find disturbing. Didn't realize how bad it was.

Let's stop with the myopia. These are the facts. Escusses, Escusses.

[lake_show]

DLo has absolutely no issues with his passing. He's more than a willing passer. This idea that his passing numbers were up last game because he brought the ball up everytime and handed it off to someone is *crazy. You'd have to watch the game to know that wasnt the case.

I have no issue with his passing right now. Anyone who watched last night's game will tell you he was one of the main reasons, if not thee main reason, the game was even close late in the fourth. For anyone including Byron not to acknowledge that just goes to show there's somthing wrong with them, either personally or emotionally.

[warrenpeace]

He had only 1 assist in 28 minutes last game. I also have no issue with D'Angelo's passing. I think he is a great passer. He is very unselfish and a willing passer. But he is not an assist machine. Never been, not in high school, not in College and so for, not in the NBA. I actually think that he should take more shots and not worry so much on "facilitating".

D'Angelo is going to be a great player. I'm not big on assist numbers, so I don't mind if he only gets 1 assist. I don't thing it's important right now. What I don't like, is people attacking his teammates for him getting only 1 assist.

[Slava]

Well here are some accurate facts for you: Kobe ( a me first, I love to shoot small forward) leads the team in assist, playing ruffly the same amount of minutes as D'angelo. Lou Williams, supposedly a no passing chucker only averages less that one assist per game than D'angelo while playing less minutes than D'Angelo. This one I find disturbing. Didn't realize how bad it was.

Let's stop with the myopia. These are the facts. Escusses, Escusses.

You need to first educate your ignorant self about advanced stats and not come back with this weak assists per game garbage like its 1968.

[warrenpeace]

Well here are some accurate facts for you: Kobe ( a me first, I love to shoot small forward) leads the team in assist, playing ruffly the same amount of minutes as D'angelo. Lou Williams, supposedly a no passing chucker only averages less that one assist per game than D'angelo while playing less minutes than D'Angelo. This one I find disturbing. Didn't realize how bad it was.

Let's stop with the myopia. These are the facts. Escusses, Escusses.

You need to first educate your ignorant self about advanced stats and not come back with this weak assists per game garbage like its 1968.

Perhaps you are too myopic to comprehend truth my friend. "Advanced stats" = If things are not the way we want them to be, let's find a way to convince ourselves that it is. F the truth.

[warrenpeace]

Well here are some accurate facts for you: Kobe ( a me first, I love to shoot small forward) leads the team in assist, playing ruffly the same amount of minutes as D'angelo. Lou Williams, supposedly a no passing chucker only averages less that one assist per game than D'angelo while playing less minutes than D'Angelo. This one I find disturbing. Didn't realize how bad it was.

Let's stop with the myopia. These are the facts. Escusses, Escusses.

You need to first educate your ignorant self about advanced stats and not come back with this weak assists per game garbage like its 1968.

Perhaps you need to educate your myopic self to the truth my friend. "Advanced stats" = If things are not the way we want them to be, let's find a way to convince ourselves that it is. F the truth.