Los Angeles Lakers Vs. Philadelphia 76ers

[Rox_Nix_Nox]

GOD, I LOVE FRUSTRATED FANS.below average players?wow in that case, imagine how bad is your GOD kobe who scored 11 points against below average players.

what are you twelve? Guys have off-nights, I'm sure your aware being a sixers fan how that happens in basketball. Kobe plays like Kobe it's a L for you guys. It's that clear, now run along and play, and don't come back.

[Gold Chain]

The Warriors are in trouble on Thursday.

Wow....for a championship contender, blowing out the cellar-dwellar Warriors would not really make me feel any better.

You lost on a game winning shot, it happens. It may happen to you in the playoffs and your very own #24 has done it so many times to other teams that I am quite sure you can handle it.

Hey....at least you are not dropping games like the Celtics.

[semi-sentient]

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I don't want home-court advantage in the Finals anyway. Why make it easier than it needs to be?

[magic1fan]

There's nothing worse than losing to a below average team with below average players and a very inexperienced head coach at home.

GOD, I LOVE FRUSTRATED FANS.below average players?wow in that case, imagine how bad is your GOD kobe who scored 11 points against below average players.

and the award for lamest post of the thread goes to you. there is no one on your team thatis on kobe's level,so take your weak attempt at a diss and celebrate your ring.

[sgvprelude]

Keep your heads up guys. We still got plenty of games to go. Shake it off, learn from it and let's get ourselves a championship.

[bebopdeluxe]

While I don't like trolling on somebody's else's board after a win, I do like to take a look at the game thread to see what the fans of the other team are saying. While Kobe clearly had an off night, I think that at least some of that had to do with Iguodala's defense and the additional help that the Sixers provided...putting 2-3 guys on Kobe whenever he touched the ball.

That's not the Lakers being "bad"...that is good Sixers defense.

When Lou Williams when off on you guys in the 2nd quarter, that wasn't the Lakers playing "bad"...that was a guy with some talent being successful.

Should Ariza have fouled Iguodala? Of course...but he (and everybody who was at Staples and everybody who was watching it on TV) thought that Iguodala was going to take the ball to the hole.

Iggy had other ideas...it was a smart decision, it was the right call (go for the win on the road, as opposed to playing for OT), and he made the shot. It was a shot that showed big cojones - giv e the man his respect.

Should the Lakers have put the hammer down when they went up 14 in the 4th quarter and were cruising? Sure. But Marshall comes in and hits some HUGE shots (including the one with Kobe flying into his grill that allowed the SIxers to retake the lead)...was that "luck"? Was that the Lakers playing "bad"?

Well, given that Marshall did the EXACT SAME THING to the Heat in the 4th quarter on Sunday, it would seem to me that it wasn't "luck".

I'm not trying to sling smack. I am a realist - and I know that the Lakers are clearly a better team than the Sixers. I did not expect them to win the game (especially when the Lakers went up 14 in the 4th quarter)...but anyway you slice it, a 20-2 run against a team on it's home floor in the 4th quarter is rarely "lucky". The Lakers may not have played well, but still...c'mon...

A 20-to-2 run. In the GUTS of the game.

You can agree with Jackson's typically-pithy post-game comments that the Lakers worked hard to give the Sixers the game...but the Sixers still had to make plays to win the game - and they did.

Good luck the rest of the season.

[hermes]

what happened? or do i want to know?

[magic1fan]

what happened? or do i want to know?

once again the lakers played down to inferior talent and this time it bit them in the arse. up 14 in the fourth,and quit playing.

[hermes]

ah well, it happens


too often, unfortunately, for us

[BallAboveAll]

Yeah credit to the 6ers and all. But we should have put the game away early. It's just that simple.

[Dedicated_76ers_fan]

I'm not trolling here either, but I think I know the problem to the Lakers aside from your shooting struggles. You ain't running like you used to. The Showtime Lakas of the first half of the season ran the opposing teams outta da gym. These Lakers aren't doing that, they are solely predicated on the triangle O.

Which ain't bad, it's a beautiful offensive concept. But teams can D up on you in the half-court, and we saw it last night: We saw A Kobe getting banged on, we saw hard fouls on Gasol. We saw a Dalembert play extremely well in limited minutes.

Because you played us in a half-court game offensively, defensively it played to our strengths. A lack of slashing(You REALLY need to play Ariza more and give him the ball. He is the perfect compliment to KB24) and a lack of running made it a predictable defensive day for the Sixers.

Secondly, turnovers. The Sixers aren't a great shooting team, but they get their points off of extra possessions. You cannot be lazy with the basketball and last night, they were extremely lazy with the ball and on both ends of the floor. How Lou Williams gets 4 consec. And 1 'plays is beyond me.

It was a bad overall game, one that Phil needs to lash out at. Because it wasn't just you were being outplayed. It was ZERO EFFORT.

[DEEP3CL]

The Warriors are in trouble on Thursday.

Wow....for a championship contender, blowing out the cellar-dwellar Warriors would not really make me feel any better.

You lost on a game winning shot, it happens. It may happen to you in the playoffs and your very own #24 has done it so many times to other teams that I am quite sure you can handle it.

Hey....at least you are not dropping games like the Celtics.

Did you see any where in my post where I said it would make me feel better ?.....................Ahh no, I'm simply implying they should be ready to play nothing more nothing less.

[sixerswillrule]

Lakers had three early fouls in the 4th last night. I could have sworn that there was a 4th foul with about 3 minutes left, but everyone was talking about them having a foul to give. But watching the encore presentation now, I see that I was right. Fisher had a reach in foul on Lou called with 3:05 to go. But on the play by play it only says timeout. But they called a timeout after the foul call...

[DEEP3CL]

Lakers had three early fouls in the 4th last night. I could have sworn that there was a 4th foul with about 3 minutes left, but everyone was talking about them having a foul to give. But watching the encore presentation now, I see that I was right. Fisher had a reach in foul on Lou called with 3:05 to go. But on the play by play it only says timeout. But they called a timeout after the foul call...

It depends on when they call time out. Bottom line no matter how your digging through it they had a foul to give. This is your second post about this on our board, so what are you trying to say ?

The Lakers didn't have a foul to give ?

[sixerswillrule]

I'm just saying that at that mark, when I just watched again today, I hear our commentator say foul on fisher, I see the ref raise his arm to call a foul. Lou was dribbling for a few seconds, we didn't call a timeout just out of nowhere. It was after the foul. Must have been an error by the scorekeeper.

[microfib4thewin]

A 20-to-2 run. In the GUTS of the game.

While I won't say the sixers didn't do anything on their part to set things up for the final shot, a scoring run like that against this current bench is far from impressive. You wouldn't understand but this second unit has been blowing leads for quite a while. This isn't something to down the sixers, this is a trend that happened ever since Odom became a starter, which has lasted much longer than Marshall being clutch.