WMC 12/13: Mercy kill. (0-4)

props to Jodie Meeks for giving it his all
being eaten alive but not backing down

revgen wrote:So we need Kobe-ball to win games against crap teams? Seriously?

this is what im saying and they think im hating...

its fun to watch but look who they are playing.

yeah we didn t played good tonight . our d was awful and on o most of the time we had no plan. we needed kobe to save us yet again . but enough for that . in the end it only matters that we won so i ll take plus the fact jazz lost again. we are winning the close ones right now and utah looses there close oes . so all in all good night for us despite playing badly and needed kobe to bail out yet again. but raptors aren t such a crap team like everyone here in cl is thinking . since rudy gay arrived they really played way much better and had soem losses that they could ve had won. so don t care what everybody say s i ll take that win and move on

khmrP wrote:

last stand wrote:
except that barnes played as little defense as meeks. people seem to forget how poor he was defensively here.

he wouldn't have gotten abused like Meeks was during this game....Barnes just couldn't handle speed and cutters, Meeks can't handle anything

it was really d'antoni's fault. meeks shouldn't be guarding 6'7 guys. which is what he was doing

This was about to be the most disappointing game of the year for me. They pulled it out. Barely. But this should never have happened on our floor, fighting for the last playoff spot. There are no excuses for the lackluster effort they gave us for 3 plus quarters. Mad props to Kobe though.

last stand wrote:

khmrP wrote:

last stand wrote:
except that barnes played as little defense as meeks. people seem to forget how poor he was defensively here.

he wouldn't have gotten abused like Meeks was during this game....Barnes just couldn't handle speed and cutters, Meeks can't handle anything

it was really d'antoni's fault. meeks shouldn't be guarding 6'7 guys. which is what he was doing

I know its not his fault but I stand by my point, Barnes wouldn't have gotten punked like that his problem was having defend elite guys that we thought he could handle which he couldn't. I'm sure Barnes wouldn't let Allan Anderson rape him on the block like that. I know why Meeks was out there, for the spacing but dude couldn't hit a shot either so basically just purely a negative factor cause he doesn't cut, doesn't take good shots just purely chucking, and sometimes he'll hit it

Lakerjones wrote:This was about to be the most disappointing game of the year for me. They pulled it out. Barely. But this should never have happened on our floor, fighting for the last playoff spot. There are no excuses for the lackluster effort they gave us for 3 plus quarters. Mad props to Kobe though.

what should be more concerning is that our big 3 all had statistically impressive games and they still struggled. the supporting cast needs to step up. the big 3 isn't young or healthy enough to carry this team on the long winning streak they need

Maluco Beleza wrote:

revgen wrote:So we need Kobe-ball to win games against crap teams? Seriously?

this is what im saying and they think im hating...

its fun to watch but look who they are playing.

i don t care if i get punished for this but you mr maluco beleza became the biggest laker hater here in the thread. wtf is wrong with you

thanks again to the maba aka vino. kobe bryant had another unreal game tonight . without him we would ve lost that game. i can t say enough how thankful i am to see him night in and night out play and compete. he is playing in my mind right now on an other level then every other player in the nba. man he was so clutch tonight , thanks again kobe .

Horrible start, horrendous defense, too many 3-point attempts, etc. Same story.

last stand wrote:

Lakerjones wrote:This was about to be the most disappointing game of the year for me. They pulled it out. Barely. But this should never have happened on our floor, fighting for the last playoff spot. There are no excuses for the lackluster effort they gave us for 3 plus quarters. Mad props to Kobe though.

what should be more concerning is that our big 3 all had statistically impressive games and they still struggled. the supporting cast needs to step up. the big 3 isn't young or healthy enough to carry this team on the long winning streak they need

The whole thing is concerning. They won these last two games by the skin of their teeth. I'm not happy about that at all. The NO game I could understand more as it was an away game, it was coming off a back to back with OKC . . . I get that. They were tired. They got burned in the first half (and up into the fourth quarter actually). It was a miraculous comeback led by the inhuman one, Kobe.

But there's no excuse for tonight. It was p!ss poor. They didn't take it seriously until the very end. That's not acceptable. And the coach didn't help anything at all.

Should never have been down that much at home to the Raptors in the first place. It's great we can come back and win in the end twice in a row, but eventually that stops working. That's my complaint, freaking come to play from the start and you won't have a hole to dig out of all night long. This team plays like this against the good teams, we will lose, and if we make the playoffs and they play like this, it's going to be a quick exit.

Bad lineups at the end of the game on D with D'Antoni...why was meeks in the game?

Weezy wrote:Should never have been down that much at home to the Raptors in the first place. It's great we can come back and win in the end twice in a row, but eventually that stops working. That's my complaint, freaking come to play from the start and you won't have a hole to dig out of all night long. This team plays like this against the good teams, we will lose, and if we make the playoffs and they play like this, it's going to be a quick exit.

^^ I completely agree with you Weezy. I wasn't as upset against NO because as I mentioned it was second night of back to back, on the road. This one though? Inexcusable as far as I'm concerned. Now it's a pattern. Go down big even to crap teams, even in your own house? When every win is vital to your chances to even make the playoffs? It's not the right way to approach the game.

Keeping Meeks in was a big error on MDAs end. But he is an improvement over MB, in that he can draw up good plays in the crunch.

V.V.V.V.V. wrote:Keeping Meeks in was a big error on MDAs end. But he is an improvement over MB, in that he can draw up good plays in the crunch.

Yes, IIRC he drew up a good play after the timeout when we were down 112-115 in OT. Raptors were so focused on Kobe Nash had a nearly wide open 3. "Best decoy in the game" -Stu

awww

https://twitter.com/KendrickPerkins/status/310265364946767872

30 to 10 lakers got 20 more freethrows than the Raptors. #That don't make any sense at all

You weren't crying about it when Leon Powe was getting his meal ticket in the Finals. 13 FT's in 15 minutes. Go hump a goat, grumpy.

SO PISSED I missed this game. Out drinking but keeping track of the score on my phone, I saw we kept hitting threes but I didn't realize how RIDICULOUS they were until I saw the highlights.

nobody cares what you have to say Kendrick

Thunder have two players in the top 10 in FTAs per game in the league.....Well, we do as well, but we all know why Dwight is at the line so much.

I mean, Durant shoots more FTs than a guy who teams intentionally send to the line because of how bad he is at FTs, and yet this POS is on twitter complaining about our FTs?

I bet he didn't see any conspiracy when we got sent to the line 40 times when we played them a few nights ago. He's probably conclude thats the reason we won that ga-............Oh, wait.

Felt like a pickup game from the start ... too many scrambles , unnecessary switches on D ...

- As a team , we still don't get that when D12 is picking up the ball handler in a PNR , the weakside man has to rotate at the basket to pick up the opponent big which is rolling to the hoop....

I mean, most of this game was garbage but the last 10 minutes or so(including OT) was thrilling. Meeks nearly cost us the game, and Kobe made a few bad decisions, but Kobe also had a legendary performance. This team is starting to actually show 'grit' I'm almost ready to be fooled by them again.

worst

When I get a chance I'll watch this one later, but honestly this team is playing with fire right now. They haven't had a convincing win since the Wolves game last week. These close games and playing from behind tell me the Lakers are pushing their luck and it's bound to run out.