GT: T-Wolves @ Lakers October 28, 2015 7:30PM

[iamworthy]

Russell got good minutes tonight although I would like to see him get a minimum of 30. Our offense looks horrible.

[Mamba Mentality]

All the people that are giving Kobe **** for calling a timeout need to gtfo. That was the right thing to do...no one wants to see Randle pinball into the paint and put up another off balanced fadeaway.

Lou got a quality look, I bet he wants that one back. Tough loss.

[Slava]

I doubt he forgot to call a timeout, he sincerely believes that letting the guys do whatever is better than him drawing a play.

To be honest once he saw Randle on the break with no shot blocker in place, that could have been better than letting them set their feet on defense and draw a play. Too bad Kobe reacted pre-emptively and called a time out.

randle was challenged at the rim by towns, and that shot came up short anyway

He pulled back once he heard the whistle, even otherwise I would have banked on him to out jump Towns for the offensive board. Worst case you foul Towns and still have another chance to tie/win.

[FrozenIceCubes]

I can live with missing the playoffs if the young trio show rapid growth but with the way Russell is playing he might mess the whole potential of this team.

[kblo247]

Lou got a solid look but it shouldn't have come to this.

We let this game slip away so stupidly.

Thing I didn't get regardless of the unit playing bad was why their sub pattern changed at the half. We went from inserting them into things in pieces ... Lou, then Nick, then Kelly and then Bass and Huertas with Clarkson in the first half to


pulling the starters besides Russell and putting in 4 cold bench guys all at once vs a team and then throwing in Huiertas later in the fourth after Scott goes on ESPN and says he was disappointed by Russell and his defense to the world.

Makes no sense how the whole sub pattern changed or he watched momentum shift and shift without even a timeout. In real time, not actual game time, but real time from when Kobe, Roy, and Clarkson left to when they entered 37 minutes passed ... for Randle 41

[Doormatt]

All the people that are giving Kobe **** for calling a timeout need to gtfo. That was the right thing to do...no one wants to see Randle pinball into the paint and put up another off balanced shot.

Lou got a quality look, I bet he wants that one back. Tough loss.

It was actually Byron's fault, he should have called a timeout immediately.

[dockingsched]

Trying not to overreact, but after the historically bad volume shooting season Kobe was having last yr, for him to throw up 24 shots in 30 minutes including 3 for 13 for beyond the arc is really disheartening. Hope its not going to be a repeat of last yr.

[Dr Aki]

Russell got good minutes tonight although I would like to see him get a minimum of 30. Our offense looks horrible.

he got 26 minutes, he'll get to 30 soon enough

[Jedi32]

Like I said one game outta 82!

[Mamba Mentality]

I didn't get to watch the whole game but Rubio looked like Steve Nash tonight. I don't know if he's really that good, or if our defense is really that bad. I like to think its the latter.

[ArC_man]

Bench was definitely in there for too long. Should've put back JC and Randle much earlier, they shouldn't be on the same minute restrictions as Kobe.

[hazy_01]

Trying not to overreact, but after the historically bad volume shooting season Kobe was having last yr, for him to throw up 24 shots in 30 minutes including 3 for 13 for beyond the arc is really disheartening. Hope its not going to be a repeat of last yr.

I rather let D'lo have those 13 3pt attempts and I don't care if he makes them or not

[gts1]

Well tough loss but hopefully they all learn from it. saw some nice things and a lot of ugly... Was happy to see them dig in at the bitter end and give themselves a chance, was upset they didn't call that last time out earlier but they actually were, refs just missed it which just shows that's it's early in the season for refs too...lol

They'll get it, they have enough film to contrast and compare what was right and what was wrong. couple guys probably worked themselves deeper in the rotation tonight.. Byron will probably activate MWP, he would have been nice to put out with that second unit when they let the lead go

[DEEP3CL]

Byron's rotations are gonna kill this team some nights. That lineup he had of D-Lo,Kelly,Bass,Lou and Nick was awful in the top side of the 4th. And 34 3's is way way too much....won't win many games like that, if we shoot that many all year we can look forward to 20 plus wins again.

[kblo247]

The Randle thing is 50/50 for me. I could see a Lamar or Blake hitting that with no timeout. Blake dunks on Towns and Odom kisses it off glass. I'm noit sure what he does there as he kind of floats shots up and then tries to knock you back out the way after contact.

I honestly have no clue what I do there watching him run at him, but at thew same time I probably take the timeout in the back court once you get a rebound and then I pull Kelly out the game for Nick and spread it out

[Laker_Kid]

Bench was definitely in there for too long. Should've put back JC and Randle much earlier, they shouldn't be on the same minute restrictions as Kobe.

that's what i said too.

bass should never play c again.

and that drought where the wolves gained the momentum is on byron.

[Jedi32]

All the people that are giving Kobe **** for calling a timeout need to gtfo. That was the right thing to do...no one wants to see Randle pinball into the paint and put up another off balanced shot.

Lou got a quality look, I bet he wants that one back. Tough loss.

Alot of people here are becoming like the general board where it's just easier to blame kobe. He along with most of the starters were on the bench when the lead evaporated but hey it's still just his fault. This is a team with a lot of new faces. There are gonna be days like this. I'm just happy we competed and happy the nba season is back.

[DrewBynum77]

Byron even forgot to call time out. I would have let Randle take it to the rim to be honest.

I doubt he forgot to call a timeout, he sincerely believes that letting the guys do whatever is better than him drawing a play.

To be honest once he saw Randle on the break with no shot blocker in place, that could have been better than letting them set their feet on defense and draw a play. Too bad Kobe reacted pre-emptively and called a time out.

That makes sense but I doubt that was his thought process because Scott's "window" to call a timeout was when Randle got the rebound, looked to pass and no one was open and he still didn't call the timeout. Randle rebounded with 9 seconds left. Any coach would look to stop the play and move the ball up since it was an one point game. You could run 2 plays if necessary. If they missed the first one, just an immediate foul and it'd be a 3pt game at the worst case. Any coach would call a time out once their PF got the rebound looked left, the guard was blocked, looked right, kobe was blocked. Then decided to bring the ball u the court. Then once he got past the half court, kobe called it.

[gts1]

All the people that are giving Kobe **** for calling a timeout need to gtfo. That was the right thing to do...no one wants to see Randle pinball into the paint and put up another off balanced shot.

Lou got a quality look, I bet he wants that one back. Tough loss.

It was actually Byron's fault, he should have called a timeout immediately.

Kobe, Clarkson and Scott all called for a timeout when the ball was still in the back court, refs missed it

[dockingsched]

I didn't get to watch the whole game but Rubio looked like Steve Nash tonight. I don't know if he's really that good, or if our defense is really that bad.

Defense is really bad, why would it be any better than last yr?

I know the guards especially Russell struggled with fighting through the screen, but the Wolves basically ran Hibbert into a PnR every single time. I'm probably coming off as just a Hibbert hater at this point, but he's a liability out there. The west guards are going to just absolutely feast on the lakers this season.

There's a reason Indiana just gave him away, he can't guard the PnR and he just clogs the paint on offense. He'll give you good rim protection and cleaned up the boards well, but it doesn't overcome just how badly he compromises the entire lineup on both ends.