OFFICIAL: WMC 11/12: draft day WMC'ing

TalkieWalkie wrote:26 second chance points for denver... Cut that in half and it's another blowout win...

We didn't clean up the offensive glass. Plain and simple. Can't blame Blake, Barnes or Sessions... Players will have bad games... But on Championship teams, your best player can have a bad game and you will still win a Game 7 in the finals... Ask 6 for 24 Kobe back in the 2010 Finals...

Defense and rebounds.... Defense and rebounds... Defense and rebounds...

Drew and Pau combined for 19 boards... The ideal is 25 between them...That's the formula. Bynum can't lose sight of that.

Kobe was great but bogged down a little in the 4th...his defense is improving though which is a good sign.

^^ I agree. For me the only serious WMC I have is that we committed the cardinal sin on the defensive boards - we played position rebounding instead of boxing guys out and putting bodies on them. Way too many 2nd chance points, that was the biggest issue.

Otherwise, I though we had some good stretches on D overall. Blake had a terrible offensive outing after a good one last game, which is kind of typical for him. Very inconsistent in that regard. Like Puffy said, the worst of it was the turnovers, which Sessions was a bit guilty of too, especially in the first half.

But I thought Blake made up for it with his scrappy defensive effort tonight. I was impressed by that.

Sessions shot the ball too much, especially in the first half. Once he got to the rim, and also got his floater working he was rocking. That phantom foul seemed to get his edge up and he attacked more. He needs to do that and quit with the cute stuff. Go to the hole and attack if you have an opening or dish it out. It's simple.

I agree with Roo as well.

Lakers still take way too long setting up the offense. I know that it's nice to have a big inbound the ball, since he can see and throw over defenders, but Drew takes so long running up the court. Whenever he inbounds, it takes half the shot clock before he sets up in the paint.

Combine that with Sesh taking his sweet ole southern time crossing halfcourt, and they have less than 10 seconds to run a play.

1. The Lakers constantly building up sizeable double digit leads, then losing them.

2. This is probably a biased opinion, but it felt as if the refs were constantly calling fouls on the Lakers while letting Denver get away with many things.

3. Preemptive WMC: Foul calls in Denver. That won't be pretty.

4. Possibly the last game ever played on FSN West.

5. Laker defense not consistent. If Denver had hit more of their shots and gotten more bounces to go in, there very well could have been a different outcome.

6. This is more of an annoyance, but there was one play when Sessions (?) stole the ball and there was a fast break layup. On the slow motion replay, you could see Bynum in the background walking like he was a disabled old lady. However, it annoys me when any player does this as in my view, no shot is 100% guaranteed until it goes through the net.

Kerr on a mission to prove Kobe never get a playoffs triple double because he doesn't pass the ball enough was as bad as Barkley nonsense ... then Albert exposed him with the true stats.
He needs to stop bringing his beloved Spurs again and again when they're not playing too.

Chuck and the blondie hate for Kobe and Lakers is hilarious ... they're still butthurt ... next time Reggie please

i gotta bad feeling about game 3!! Lakers will los

WMC: refs

STEVE BLAKE

Horrible effort on the glass tonight, atrocious shooting night from Bryant, pathetic first half from Drew and Barnes continues to struggle. What's crazy is that we controlled the pace for the entire first half and Denver beat us at our own game by crashing the glass. Sad effort is sad. As a little cherry on top, whenever we'd make a run we'd get jobbed by the officials. That out of bounds call on Barnes' missed FT was pretty big.

Atrocious officiating.

Steve Blake's suckage.

Bynum and Pau's non existent defense.

Kobe had a terrible shooting night, but he wasn't really forcing it just missed make able shots. (For him anyway)

1) refs
2) The entire team for a variety of different reasons from lack of effort to simply atrocious shooting.

We controlled the pace in the 2nd half, but it was too late. They had the momentum and we were playing catchup.

I also hate the Blake/Sessions lineup. Blake cannot guard Andre Miller. There' no point having him out there.

We'll win game 4 for sure. Look at it this way, we all would rather this series extend a little bit so MWP can return for the OKC series.

Kobe had an off night, Bynum started off horrible, we held a layup line for them, suffered through terrible officiating, and still had a shot at the win.

Blake and Barnes 3 for 13 SMH. They were getting WIDE OPEN threes man. These guys need to come through, they're getting heavy 20+ mins a night they have to contribute

Blake and Barnes 2-9 from 3. Both looked clueless out there. They should not be playing 48 min combined

Pau looking like 2008 Pau. Fareid looking like KG

JaVale McGee and Faried killed us this game LOL, whos ?

I'm really starting to believe that Barnes is not a playoff performer. Same with Steve Blake.

The Original 81 wrote:We'll win game 4 for sure. Look at it this way, we all would rather this series extend a little bit so MWP can return for the OKC series.

Kobe had an off night, Bynum started off horrible, we held a layup line for them, suffered through terrible officiating, and still had a shot at the win.

Yeah, it was a purely hustle and energy thing IMO. The good thing is that we controlled the pace for the entire first half and most of the second half. Denver was playing our game, they simply outworked us.

Steve Blake :-

28 minutes, 3 points, 2 assist, 1 steal, 1 turnover, 1-4 FG

The Original 81 wrote:We'll win game 4 for sure. Look at it this way, we all would rather this series extend a little bit so MWP can return for the OKC series.

I hope we win, too, but I'm boycotting the NBA for the rest of the series because of the fixed officiating. It's just like "pro" wrestling, except they're pretending it's not fixed.

mcgee only has games like this once every few weeks. he got it out of his system...time to regress to hurrrrdduurrrrr

We'll win Game 4 , there is little to worry about this series ... however we can't win a title without role players making open 3 especially on the road ... it wasn't the 1st reason we lost this game ( poor effort on the glass was) but it was the reason why we never completed our comeback ... Barnes , Sessions and Blake are bricking one three after the other ... you have to keep the D honest , if not they will keep crowding Kobe and Drew ...

If these players don't step up in that department ( plus MWP back) we have no chance against OKC

lakers_09tv wrote:I'm really starting to believe that Barnes is not a playoff performer. Same with Steve Blake.

Barnes is a great hustle guy and someone who can play above average defense for 10-15 minutes a game. Hes not someone who can be relied upon for 20+ minutes and hit 3s. Hes getting the minutes, hes getting the wide open 3s and hes coming up empty. SMH it sucks.

Disgusting showing on so many levels I don't know where to start...

Horrible shooting by everybody.

Bynum acting like it's an exhibition game instead of a playoff game.

And with such a huge size advantage, how do we manage to get creamed on the boards?