[6] GS Warriors @ [8] LA Lakers 04/12/13 7:30 PT

[Slava]

Previous Match-ups

11/09 - GSW 77 @ LAL 101
12/22 - LAL 118 @ GSW 115
03/25 - LAL 103 @ GSW 109

Projected Starters:

Lakers: 42-37 8th Seed West | 1 game ahead of Utah

Steve Nash
Kobe Bryant
Earl Clark
Pau Gasol
Dwight Howard

Key Reserves:

Antawn Jamison
Steve Blake
Jodie Meeks
Metta World Peace

Warriors: 45-34 6th Seed West | 0.5 game ahead of Houston

Steph Curry
Klay Thompson
Harrison Barnes
David Lee
Festus Ezeli

Key Reserves:

Jarret Jack

[MistyMountain20]

Huge, huge game. Time to make Mark Jackson eat his words.

[Penberthy]

Hand Down...

[AcecardZ]

If Jarrett jacks us I'm not going to be happy!

Gooooo Lake Show!!!!

Let's get this one! There's a great chance the next two will be far easier tests.

And let's not forget to root for our Timberwolves brothers against the Jazz tonight!

How many Dwight Howard elbows is David Lee going to have to fade tonight? This is going to be a tough, hard fought, game and in games like that I'm confident in our chances to come out on top! Artest, D12 and Kobe yo!

Pau! Pau! Pau! Pau! Pau! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!!! Powpowpaupaupau!!!! KaPau!

Ok I'll stop now!

[jigga_man]

gsw playing on a b2b. need this bad

[stunnar0b]

No Nash no problem..

Anyways I really hope we start the game by closing out on their shooters so we dont dig ourselves a hole early on. We do that and everything else should take care of it self.

Lets go LAKESHOW!

[anarchy24]

Got to slow it down, give it to Dwight and Pau. Attack Lee and Bogut inside. And stay close to their shooters.

[KOB3]

Pretty sure bogut is out... i have no source but i think i read it on twitter last night.

[rhp1990]

Bogut is out.

Attack Lee and our bigs better dominate. Hope Kobe doesn't try to show up Klay Thompson or anyone who is guarding him and try to make it a one on one thing. Attack attack attack. Don't
take unnecessary 3s and give gs a long rebound because that's where they'll get there transition 3s.

[Wreckus13]

Don't let them run, they'll just take 3s in transition. But that's a good shot for the warrior backcourt. Slow it down and force feed Dwight and Pau and we should come out with a W

[Kobe System]

Protect the ball. Control the boards. Slow down the pace. Win!

[BEazy]

Protect the paint, win the rebounding battle, and limit 3 point attempts.

GO LAKERS!!!

[jellybean8]

Curry vs kobe tonight kobe -42 curry -38 but we will win by 5 points

[ennui]

consistently give the ball to pau in the low post and everyone gets touches

also, why does jarret jack hate us so much?

[Alienware]

I really hope Dwight has a monster game tonight, he promised David Lee, so he better give all he has out there tonight.

[AcecardZ]

Bogut is out.

Don't take unnecessary 3s and give gs a long rebound because that's where they'll get there transition 3s.

This is key! If we rebound well and limit their transition points we should be fine.

One thing I had a difficult time figuring out is why do so many of Kobe's misses from beyond 15 feet turn into easy runouts for our opponents and the best I could come up with is this. Kobe's shot is fairly flat and this creates longer, more awkward rebounds than do more naturally arcing shots. This is why so many Kobe misses turn into easy transition buckets for our opponents. One would think by now our bigs would better figure out how to rebound Kobe's misses better but I guess flat shots just come off too unpredictably.

[LGND2552]

Thompson needs to be locked down hard tonight. We always have trouble with off ball screens

[AcecardZ]

I really hope Dwight has a monster game tonight, he promised David Lee, so he better give all he has out there tonight.

+10000000!!!!

Without Bogut beside him to help Dwight should be able to have a good game. Especially if he can get Lee into early foul trouble.

Keys will be how well Pau can play against Landry and how well GS shoots from beyond the arc. If GS isn't in god mode from the perimeter and Pau has a good game I like our chances!

Big huge ginormous game! Must win or die trying!

Go Lakers!

[KobeDwightPau]

dwight and pau should be able to double penetrate lee in the paint.

[AcecardZ]

Saaaaaweeeeeeeeeeeetttttt!!!!!

Great news! Jordan Hill will be back just in time for the offseason!