Bob8 wrote:TimberKat wrote:Bob8 wrote:
Bob was banned for posting too much.No interest whatsoever to be bullied by mods. Enjoy.
Now we have one game sample of the series. So far we see: Luka was great, Gobert didn't do much, Luka can't defend anyone besides Gobert, JMcD is better than Reaves, Lakers have no interior defense, LBJ can't shoot 3s, Twolves is an above avg 3 pt shooting team.
Is it still Luka is going to win it for Lakers and TWolves has no chance? What adjustments can Lakers make that Twolves cannot counter other than Luka is going to score 60 pts the next game?
Like Lakers are built, they have to score 115+ to win games. To do that, LeBron and AR will need to be a lot better and role players will need to show something. I agree with you, if they can't, Luka can't win series alone.
Lakers biggest problem was not D, they can player better in D, but their main problem in game 1 was offense outside Luka. Expectations for LeBron is a lot more than inefficient shooting. He needs to create something too. The same goes for AR. If they can't the series is over.
LBJ don't have the ball all that much because Luka is handling it. James wasn't the facilitator. Also Randle actually played decent D on LBJ.
I told you JMcD could shutdown AR. Wolves may not have answer to Luka but they can shut down everyone else which is the main difference between the Dallas series with Kyrie. LAL has no defense backing Luka/Kyrie. On top of that, Twolves small ball is bigger and better than LAL small ball. Normally Wolves defense sucked with that lineup but LAL can't take advantage of it. So you can choose to say LBJ needs to play better but I give credit to Twolves defense.
I think at some point, Twolves will have to throw some early double team at Luka and it's still a question mark for me if Wolves can rotate well enough to be effective. Depending on Lakers adjustments, Twolves has more ceiling - a 40 pt game from Ant or double-double game from Gobert.
