Sun. 3/18 - Lakers vs Jazz - Predictions & Comments

trodgers wrote:

Doc Brown wrote:Even after the trade deadline we don't have a starting PG. Even though we traded for one.

We traded Luke Walton and Jason Kapono. Weren't exactly bringing back Deron Williams with that.

with the way some of the fans on this board reacted, you would have thought we got Deron hahahah

karacha wrote:

trodgers wrote:

Doc Brown wrote:Even after the trade deadline we don't have a starting PG. Even though we traded for one.

We traded Luke Walton and Jason Kapono. Weren't exactly bringing back Deron Williams with that.

I don't think that's what he meant.

We didn't trade for a starter. We traded to bring in a young PG who could do some things Fisher couldn't (and for cap considerations).

all i know is sessions better be starting and finishing next game or they should fire mike brown.

Uncle_Meat wrote:Why is MWP on the bench? You want him on D when behind at the end to get steals...

MWP apparently has a hip injury and was done for the night according to the broadcasters. Barnes played better anyway.

tigerjeterkobe wrote:wow. just garbage. to a d-league team, essentially. Jazz on a back to back.

D Harris & Milsap aren't exactly D League material.

Lqv2015 wrote:Blakey was open

no he wasn't

great coaching-great shooting great defense!! yup Sessions solved it all!!

You guys serious about Sessions? He's a borderline starter in the NBA, and he might be our starter when he's more familiar with the schemes we run.

time out mike you stupid idiot.....i cant belive that he didnt call TO.......so stupid so stupid.........and kobe this is just one game, one bad day.....i am worried because we easly can have 3 defeat in row....

odom1year wrote:I MISS FISHER !

I guess Kobe does too.

Omg Kobe... another garbage night

Take out Kobe, and the Lakers shot almost 60%. Bynum had a quietly ridiculous night.

Even if Brown called timeout, we would still get a Kobe "eff it" 3 pointer brick

Maybe those 100+ min on a back to back for a 16 yer vet finally had an effect. Not complaining though. Even though the Jazz were missing 2 key players, Kobe shooting 3-20 and Sessions 1-7, and we lose by 4? We also have to make our FT's at home.

sessions should start that's obvious. but I guess mile doesn't think he's played enough with them. I'd say play him in the 4th when he need his quickness on d. could have stopped that easy layup. 10-6 in 20 mins means you start as pg on this team

It was bad night plagued by turn overs. If it's possible for the team to play with only half the number... they win... who or what is to blame for bad judgement and sloppy ball handling? These are highly paid pros for Chrisssakes!

Mike Brown you are just big head stupid man.....and you just talk and talk for nothing....i hope we will fire this guy soon

Hard loss! At home to a team in b2b. Without Al J.

3rd seed in west?I don't know, but will be very very tough!

We also can't turn the ball over like we did.

terrible first quarter with like 17 turnovers or something ridiculous. and terrible kobe performance. but with bynum and pau dominating on offense its obvious who should get the ball...so much for high iq. terrible d towards the end of the 4th. and sessions should have been in over blake. another career night given up to the oppenents. and worse it was to 2 rookies!

revgen wrote:

LakeShow09 wrote:if they went to bynum 5 more times in the 4th we probably win

Either Bynum or Pau. Both were making shots tonight.

But old habits die hard.

Not saying we shouldn't have tried that, but everybody says "give it to Drew" when they see he's like 12/13, what they don't realize is thatmost of that were wide open dunks he got in transition or off penetration. That is very unlikely to happen down the stretch.
So you go to Bynum, and what do you have? A post-up against Kanter (who is capable of making it hard for him) and the inevitable double/triple teams. What does Bynum do then? He kicks it out (if he's lucky enough not to lose the ball with all those players on him) and to whom? to either Kobe or Blake. Blake didn't make a shot in the entire night, and isn't gonna be open anyways. So he gives it to Kobe, he gets the ball late with like 5 seconds on the clock, with his only option being to shoot a contested jumper ('cause there's not much else he can do with 5 seconds and the defense all over him) That's not gonna work. Re-post? Doesn't matter, they'll double again, and even if they don't, it's 1 on 1 against a big strong defender with very very little time on the clock.
That won't do the trick.

They should run a better play, one that involves more players and is more difficult to guard. The only one I can think of is that K-G-B play where kobe gets the pick from pau and pau lobs it to drew (with the alternatives being Kobe 1 on 1 on the switch or Pau jumper).

I dunno about you guys, but I can't wait until we're giving Bryant 30 mil in two years to shoot 6% from the field. It's gonna be awesome.

Tough loss indeed, but we had no business being in a game when we turned it over 17 times in the first half. Lakers were cruising for a letdown. I'm not too crushed by this loss.