I'm glad for this loss. Team started off the game too confident and fell behind on defense. Tried to turn it on but too much ground was lost on the rebounding and second chance points front. They also fell into the iso 1v1 garbage in the fourth.
Take this 14 pt L and realize that you haven't arrived and actually need to compete every night. Our bench is also an infected elephant taint. Anybody and everybody except Patterson should be on the block for the bench.
I don't know how much longer the team can endure Dre being out. The cracks started in the Clippers game and now the seams are coming undone. There is no way this team can hope to win against Portland or Minnesota if he is still out of action.
I’m not too terribly disappointed. This is what middle of the pack playoff teams do. They’re inconsistent. The free throw issues are the one thing that really boggles my mind. Everything else makes sense. Play crappy defense along with iso ball and you lose. Pretty simple.
I would just like to take this opportunity to laugh at the notion that Laker fans have about bringing in Paul George. Let this game and so many other games this year be an example of him not being number 1 player potential. He is a very good number 2, but I would rip my hair out if I had to depend on him to be consistent every game which he would have to be for a bad team like the Lakers.
This kind of loss has been coming for quite some time now. We've been making bad shots we were missing before and our defense has been quite underwhelming the last couple of weeks. Now this time the shots weren't falling and the defense was still below average.
Knrstz wrote:Leslie McAslin just said after several losses Russ, Melo and George had to ask Billy to tell them what he wanted them to play. Wow.
That doesn't surprise me one bit. Remember how Melo talked about that post game a couple of weeks ago? Him saying that made it pretty obvious to me that the plan was 'Eh, they'll figure it out'.
That's three SFs at the same time on the court with Russ or Felton being the only guard out there. That's not gonna work. You can't just subsitute guard play by playing even more forwards. Hell, our bench Felton-Huestis-George-Grant-Patterson is just Felton and four Forwards. We need to fix that. Half our rotation is constantly out of position like that.
That's three SFs at the same time on the court with Russ or Felton being the only guard out there. That's not gonna work. You can't just subsitute guard play by playing even more forwards. Hell, our bench Felton-Huestis-George-Grant-Patterson is just Felton and four Forwards. We need to fix that. Half our rotation is constantly out of position like that.
I think the problem is less "we need more guards out there" and more "we need more ball-handlers/passers out there".
That's three SFs at the same time on the court with Russ or Felton being the only guard out there. That's not gonna work. You can't just subsitute guard play by playing even more forwards. Hell, our bench Felton-Huestis-George-Grant-Patterson is just Felton and four Forwards. We need to fix that. Half our rotation is constantly out of position like that.
I think the problem is less "we need more guards out there" and more "we need more ball-handlers/passers out there".
No disagreement here. We can't double down on the same type of players all the time. We already have three guys taking valume jumpshots and now we're also playing multiple guys who can't shoot at all while not playing a 2nd guy who can create and get to the hoop. It's gonna bite us in the ass sooner or later.
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