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I blame the refs. Rick Adelman is known to get ref help against the Lakers.
Good game HOU. Very impressed with your team tonight, showed the same kind of poise you did against POR in Game 1. Absolutely deserved to win the game regardless of the officiating.
This series will hinge on the adjustments that are made. I thought the Lakers, from top to bottom, executed a horrid gameplan. The defensive assignments Phil Jackson had out there were less than ideal.
Fisher on Brooks? That's just asking for trouble. Brooks ate him up in the 4th and scored at least 4 easy layups. Game changer, momentum changer, ball game. If Phil continues his stubborn ways it will seriously hurt the Lakers, they have the personnel to stay in front of Brooks but it's up to Phil to put them on the floor. Shannon Brown, Trevor Ariza, and Jordan Farmar can all do a better job on Brooks.
Not fronting Yao. I'm sorry this was a huge mistake. Yao can't jump over a phone book and fronting him JUST WORKS. It makes players hesitant to even throw a post entry pass to him when you front. If you let Yao catch the ball and setup shop you've already lost. Either double team him or front him. His fade away is unguardable by anyone in this league, you're not going to stop him with single coverage.
No Kobe-Artest cross matching? Kobe has to man up and guard Ron-Ron. He will force Ron to go into a solo battle and distract the Rockets from what they want to do. He can also get away with a lot more on D than Ariza can. You neutralize Ron-Ron and HOU becomes very limited on offense, especially if Yao is on the bench. The Lakers can get away with Fisher on Battier because all Battier does is shoot spot up 3's. He's not hard to defend.
All in all, a lot of adjustments can be made to really change the dynamic of this series. We'll see what Phil does, he's got 9 rings. Time for him to show why.
I blame the refs. Rick Adelman is known to get ref help against the Lakers.
You're still a butt Laker .
SourgrapingYou freaking mormon
Fronting Yao? Get ready for a healthy dose of Lowry, wafer, scola, artest, landry and yes shane slashing to the cup. Fronting Yao exposes you for defensive board as Yao has inside position. Interesting to see your other players guarding the blur.
Houston is a pretty damn good team.. very tough matchup..
Fronting Yao WORKS. It's the best defensive option you have to combat Yao. Make him work trying to get over the top of the defender and tire him out. Single coverage, double teams, they don't work. JVG said it himself on National TV, front Yao Ming.
It's more the Lakers did not match HOU's aggressiveness. HOU is playing on another level right now, they kicked it up a notch going into the playoffs while LAL let off the gas. It might be too late for the Lakers to flip the switch.
it's effective but not a guarantee.
Brooks has been fantastic this whole series. No one should be sleeping on this guy.
Yea gotta agree with you.. houston is in a groove right now and have been quite impressive during the playoffs thus far. I expect lakers commming out very strong next game though.
no one can stop Brooks, not fisher, farmar or even shannon brown. he's the rockets x-factor against lakers. he lights the lakers up consistently then its going to be a long series for the la s.
Lakers in 6
even in this modest post i found you annoying
Lakers got nobody that can stay in front of Brooks. Not Farmar, not Brown, not Ariza, and certainly not Fisher.
the real DrHouse was the little complaining about the refs, everyone knows that.
Lakers defense sucks, if they don't make shots they don't win, simple as that. I still think they are getting out of the West but I no longer think they'll win it all.
The series just started . . .
Up until now. Brooks was solid against Portland as well.
yes!!!!! he has ^^^
agreed.
It was just a matter of time before the Lakers were reminded that these were the playoffs. That means no cruising, no pussy kind of basketball, and more importantly, no underestimating their opponents. If they don't wake up soon enough, they are going down.
LMAO Lakers.
Good post DrHouse for once... amazing to see what a loss can do to reduce the size of ego fans.
Houston did a very good job. Now I think that rockets FO understood that T-Mac is a ing waste of time, let's imagine one second Houston given up of T-Mac and use wisely the 20M saving... scary for the others...
No SD thread about the lakers losing?
Drama queen/attention thread... don't need to start a thread every time you have thought.
There's already five or more HOU-LAL threads...
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