Game 3 Thoughts - The Laker Side

[DazedAndConfused]

Are you watching the games or busy jacking off off your father scratching his balls? The only reason the Spurs lost games 1 & 2 is because of their offense sputtering and not because the Lakers are outplaying them. Sometimes a team losses even if they shoot %50+ fgs because the other team outplayed them..but you already know that right?

The Spurs were just shooting some shots man. Did you know the team that shoots the most shots into the basket wins the game?

[dav4463]

From the Laker side: If I'm a Laker fan......start getting worried. You were down by 20+ points twice in three games. You were lucky that the Spurs ran out of gas in game one. (thanks to NBA scheduling and an airport fiasco) Kobe is the only guy you have that is consistent. Everybody else is hit or miss. Ginobili appears to have his game back. Duncan is flat out better than Gasol and without Bynum, the LA inside defense is a bit weak. Anybody can win this series, but don't expect the Spurs to be as flat as they were at the end of game one and all of game two.

[pawe]

So if I shoot 10 2 pointers and you shoot 9 3 pointers then I win the game? Great logic Einstein. All I'm saying is if only the Spurs would hit their shots then they could sweep the Lakers. Sometimes, just be reasonable for the sake of argument, no team can hit 100% of their shots like what you are trying to about.

[Indazone]

I think what we will see is a repeat of the Hornets trend. Lose first two games figuring out the other team and then Pop making the necessary adjustments and the Spurs blowing out their opponent in their following games. Spurs in 7 cause the Lakers will win one more at home and that's it. All this motion the Lakers cannot defend. Pop has opened up the offense to let Parker and Ginobili take full advantage of it. Duncan is now a finisher and cleanup guy but what a cleanup guy he is!

[pawe]

I think what we will see is a repeat of the Hornets trend.

This is what I'm actually hoping for. 7 game series between the Lakers and the Spurs FTW!

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

From the Laker side: If I'm a Laker fan......start getting worried. You were down by 20+ points twice in three games. You were lucky that the Spurs ran out of gas in game one. (thanks to NBA scheduling and an airport fiasco) Kobe is the only guy you have that is consistent. Everybody else is hit or miss. Ginobili appears to have his game back. Duncan is flat out better than Gasol and without Bynum, the LA inside defense is a bit weak. Anybody can win this series, but don't expect the Spurs to be as flat as they were at the end of game one and all of game two.

I don't know if we can include the 20 point game of game 1. Because it doesn't mean , since we lost. Laker fans have the advantage, so I wouldn't be worried about the loss in game 3.

But I would be worried if Manu DOES have his game back and it continues in game 4.
The difference between the New Orleans series, and the threes he was hitting today was that he was hitting his old fashioned contested threes and step backs. So maybe he is feeling better, like he said pre-game 3.

The dude's averaged 35 in a string of 10 games before on 55 percent. I hope he does it again for the next three games this series.

Also Timmy is really winning the PF matchup...And Tony's going to do his thing with Manu taking the pressure of Tony to score.
If Barry continues to back up our bench, run the offense, and Pop repeats the lineups of today's game for game 4. He really helped address our offense issue.

[Man of Steel]

This is what I'm actually hoping for. 7 game series between the Lakers and the Spurs FTW!

I know I am a homer--but when the Spurs take game four, there will be a load of pressure on LA to win game 5 back at Staples--and the Lakers will lose the game and their HCA.

Spurs in 6.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

The Spurs were just shooting some shots man. Did you know the team that shoots the most shots into the basket wins the game?

Aren't you Spursdynasty, anyway?

[foodie2]

Is it just me, or is Pau Gasol vastly overrated? Marv Albert and Doug Collins, when they can stop slavering over Kobe long enough, call out Odom and Fisher for not playing as well as they could, but nobody mentions how Gasol absolutely SUCKS. What is with all the hype over him anyway? I don't watch Laker games, true--is it just against the Spurs that he looks like a terrible, weak player?

And by the way, are any of you old enough to remember Beaker from the Muppets? That's who he reminds me of. As he runs down the court mumbling I hear Beaker in my head.

[mystargtr34]

Gasol is a really skilled player... but he cant defend Tim... hes too narrow... Tim bangs him around and gets exactly where he wants near the basket in about 2 or 3 dribbled. If Gasol overplays the middle then Duncan can just muscle his way around him and go to the layup.

I almost feel sorry for Pau he looks helpless... they should really send a few more doubles teams his way..