LA Lakers @ 76ers, Game #19, 1/27, 7:30 PM PT

Post #21 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:50 am

This is the only team in the league I'm genuinely worried about size inside...

Post #22 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:52 am

Vogel with the playoff rotations tonight... Lots of DNPs

Post #23 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:55 am

AD isn't getting any rebounds either... No fire at all from him really.

BEazy · Post #24 » by **BEazy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:56 am

I have no idea what is wrong with AD. He keeps being passive. Maybe learning a little too much from Gasol...

BEazy · Post #25 » by **BEazy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:01 am

This is on AD man. Dude needs get in the gym and shoot freethrows.

Post #26 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:10 am

Well that's game... Our Defense was terrible, AD was passive, Lebron was a little dumb... And we don't have the interior strength to matchup well with the Sixers.
Maybe try some different bodies in there too Frank.

I'm glad we lost it though... They're going to have to think about this one a minute and see what can be done to make sure it doesn't happen again.

BEazy · Post #27 » by **BEazy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:17 am

Lets see if these guys can play lockdown defense when it matters. Last year's guys could do it.

RamonSessions7 · Post #28 » by **RamonSessions7** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:20 am

Kcp just gave us a shot

BEazy · Post #29 » by **BEazy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:23 am

ONE STOP! LETS GO!!!

stan francisco · Post #30 » by **stan francisco** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:23 am

Whomever drew that play up... !!!

BEazy · Post #31 » by **BEazy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:25 am

****!

politm · Post #32 » by **politm** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:26 am

Vogel needs to manage his time outs a little better than that. It seems like we always end up with just one with under a minute to play in close games...

SashAlex · Post #33 » by **SashAlex** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:32 am

Aaarghh. So close. Played like crap and almost won.

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tamaraw08 · Post #34 » by **tamaraw08** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:59 am

James has a personal mission to get the MVP and it’s not exactly helping this team. He is taking more shots and dominating the ball too much that ball movement has not been as great. AD on the other hand has his mission of preserving his body by taking more 16 footers.

sashaturiaf · Post #35 » by **sashaturiaf** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:20 am

Despite the record and points differential this team isn't as good as last season's team. And that's not just because AD is playing half assed right now.

Last season Lakers were the big team that overwhelmed you physically and you would take the Lakers to win an ugly 90-88 team over any team in the league. Low turnovers, strong on defensive boards which means opponents had to play close to a perfect game to win. It wasnt brilliant but it was effective.

This season's team doesn't really have an identity right now. Granted a lot of guys are new but I don't think the new parts fit together well since they all have different styles. And I'm not sure those styles will translate to the playoffs

tamaraw08 · Post #36 » by **tamaraw08** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:55 am

Caruso and KCP are in the top in 3 pt% and yet 5 teammates took more 3 pt shots including AD and Gasol.
Lebron is doing too much, trying to get noticed for early MVP votes decreasing their ball movement. I don’t expect them to win every game but it’s the overall lack of defensive effort and personal agendas are bothering me. Clippers, Celtics and other teams are losing games too but it’s more because of missing key players, not the case with this team .

Post #37 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:27 am

tamaraw08 wrote:Caruso and KCP are in the top in 3 pt% and yet 5 teammates took more 3 pt shots including AD and Gasol.
Lebron is doing too much, trying to get noticed for early MVP votes decreasing their ball movement. I don’t expect them to win every game but it’s the overall lack of defensive effort and personal agendas are bothering me. Clippers, Celtics and other teams are losing games too but it’s more because of missing key players, not the case with this team .

I'm cool with Marc shooting 3s... he's pretty solid from there... AD isn't as good at it as he thinks he is.

I agree that LeBron is doing too much on Offense. So's Schroder... He's explosive and can score, but he's not the greatest ball handler in the world and his vision and passing is suspect... For every good thing Mathews and Kuz do, they seem to do 5 terrible things...

I liked our offense early in the season when we did kind of a triangle thing with Marc at the high post or out at the 3pt line... I would rather have Marc doing a little passing instead of Schroder. That said, Marc is pretty much useless as an interior defender at this point. He's too flat-footed... So I'm not sure where that experiment goes unless we can get AD to get more physical inside and let Marc handle more of the hitting the open man duties.

We probably should have gone super small against the Sixers... Schroder/Caruso/Kuz/LeBron/AD or something like that, and just tried to get up and down as much as possible...

I don't know what Frank was doing tonight either with the rotations... He was in full 8-man mode and I don't really understand that... Was this game really that important? Why not give some alternative guys some burn and see what happens?

Post #38 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:29 am

Also, was not impressed with what Harrell brought to the table tonight at all... I might have given Morris his minutes... When he came in, he at least looked like he might be effective.

Spanish_Laker · Post #39 » by **Spanish_Laker** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 10:58 am

AD is playing like crap, is he hurt or something? He can't play defense, he is a turnover machine, he can't make FTs, he just takes bad jumpshots all game long...What's happened to him? If he was at like 60% we would have won this game.

iamworthy · Post #40 » by **iamworthy** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:07 pm

Spanish_Laker wrote:AD is playing like crap, is he hurt or something? He can't play defense, he is a turnover machine, he can't make FTs, he just takes bad jumpshots all game long...What's happened to him? If he was at like 60% we would have won this game.

Let's take this a little further. If AD played at 60%, KCP 10%, Trezz 10%, and if Caruso played more than 16 minutes we win this game easily.