Mr. Sun wrote:Beating the Lakers requires man-on-man at all times - no exceptions for 1 second. No leaving anyone alone at the three for one second. If SUNS cannot supply constant man coverage then the game is over - unless they are shooting poorly.
That's going to be hard because NOBODY can D up Kobe one-on-one. To stop Kobe it's going to be a team effort. Only way we can beat LA, is if we can get one of their 3 starters (Kobe, Gasol or Bynum) in foul trouble, because right now we can't match up to them man on man.
But like nashill said, if we can contain their front court, then Kobe is going try and make it a one man show again and we've seen him shoot his team to a loss. Pre-Gasol trade, the game plan for pretty much every team was to stop Kobe. Now that they have Gasol and with Bynum back and better than before, we can only beat them if we contain their front court. Because if we can contain their front court, it's going to be Kobe trying to drop 40 on us, and it's fine if we stop the others from scoring. Pretty much Kobe is unstoppable, but Bynum and Gasol aren't.
I see Shaq dominating the paint in the game. There's a lot of history with Lakers, Kobe and Bynum, hopefully he can get out that (I dunno what you call it) and unleash it on the Lakers.
