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What? He had 3 turnovers on the game, none of which were in the 4th.
Artest
Pau
Fisher
Farmar
Brown
All sucked so much ass..Fisher shooting 12 shots.
What? He had 3 turnovers on the game, none of which were in the 4th.
he was in the first 3 quaters, but the lakers were down big and on the fourth he decided to take over and made the game closer than it wasLOL. Maybe he should try to get his team involved instead of jacking up shots with his eyes closed.
I'm not saying to give the ball to Pau at the top of the key, I'm saying they should make an effort to get the ball to him near the hoop - ya know, where he's good.
Kome fans trying to justify him shooting the team out of the game again, bwahaha.
Nope, that would be just behind right behind.
when you play 8 possessions and none but one player is touching the ball how the f... do you think guys will be able to play clutch offense, of course they will not be able, they will turn it over and not be in sync. Mogrovejo was spot on with the remark.
It sure seems like it.He got
Did you watch him try to post-up tonight? Apparently not.
Ha .. best player in the forth was pau, he got like 3 off boards and fouls on dwight which led to 6(boards)+3(missed ft dwight) point defficit being erased. Kobe shot the team out of the game. Again.
Lakers fan:
Kobe can be the primary playmaker and shot-creator without freezing his teammates and making the Lakers offense extremely predictable. You don't need to hold the ball in your hands the entire possession to construct a shot and it's not against the rules to create for others.
Kobe:3/9
Rest of the team: 3/4
checked the game log and was right about this.
Right...Considering Dallas next 2 games are against the T-Wolves and the Nets i'd say they are right behind.
Kobe had team high in assists. He shared the ball plenty in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, however, look where it got them. He had to go into Kobe mode to get them back in this game. Now im not saying it's always a good thing. But, sometimes it's necessary.
I agree with this.
I'm not saying Kobe couldn't have taken better shots or made better decisions. He could have.
But the rest of the team was playing so bad offensively they weren't a better option than "Kobe-ball" at that point.
game log also says that pau outboarded dwight by 6 in the forth quarter. That is one big number.
bryant went 8-17 in the forth.
Dallas is 3 behind, Denver is 4 behind.
From ESPN:
Of the Lakers' 18 remaining games, 11 are on the road, 10 are against teams with winning records and eight are against teams at least 10 games over .500. Their most critical stretch comes during a five-game road trip between March 24-31 when they face San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Houston, New Orleans and Atlanta.
The Mavs, riding an 11-game win streak, have 18 games remaining (starting Monday at Minnesota) and an easier schedule. Ten are at home, nine are against teams with winning records and seven are against clubs at least 10 games over .500.
The Mavs have a shot
Yet there were 23 "touches" by the Lakers in the last 4 minutes.
Kobe - 10
Fish - 5
Odom - 4
Pau - 4
Maybe when they touch the ball they should actaully try to do something with it besides toss it to Kobe while tucking in their manhood?
lol..Kobe coulda not passed the ball for the last 2 minutes, hit 9-11 shots, lose by 2 and the haters woulda still blamed kobe for the loss. Let them hate...those are the same guys who were crying twice last year when thier team got eliminated and when the lakers won the le.
Good win Magic. Lakers need to get togetger Dallas making a run ...
Gasol Has Inside Perspective on Lakers' Recent Woes
ORLANDO -- When things start to unravel -- like they clearly are with the Los Angeles Lakers -- perspective can be a funny thing.
Kobe Bryant seems to think there's nothing wrong with the first three-game losing streak in more than two years. After all, he scored 39, 26 and 34 points, respectively, in those three games.
Pau Gasol, who has averaged less than 14 points in the three losses, has a different take. He believes the defending NBA champions have been thrown out of sync because one guy again has become too dominant in the offense.
And guess who that guy would be?
"Kobe is a great player, the best offensive player out there ... but at the same time, we need to find some balance with our interior game, develop it a little more, moving the ball and changing sides,'' Gasol said gingerly, knowing he was treading on sacred territory by questioning Bryant and the offense of coach Phil Jackson. "We need to get focused on that a little more, to find balance, to find some flow.''
Gasol has grown frustrated recently by his lack of offensive opportunities. He was speaking Sunday after the Lakers had lost, 96-94, to the Magic in a rematch of last season's NBA Finals.
In the fourth quarter alone Sunday, Bryant took 16 shots and hit seven. Gasol made three of his four, yet three of those four shots came only after offensive rebounds from Bryant misses. His only other shot was a dunk off a Bryant pass. There was hardly any offense run through him in the fourth.
Watching the Magic run their offense through center Dwight Howard in the low post -- and beat the Lakers -- just accentuated his belief that the Lakers need to tweak their attack, or risk more losing that could threaten their defense of the le.
"I've always been a good post-up player, getting looks for myself, but also finding cutters, passing the ball out. It's a good way to attack,'' Gasol said. "I've always been a big believer that you work the game from inside out, and it becomes easier. The Magic do it with Dwight, and he's not a player with the best post moves, but it gives you balance. I think we need that.''
Gasol was key last season in the Lakers' drive to their NBA le. He played in his second consecutive All-Star Game last month. This is the first three-game losing streak since he was acquired midway in the 2007-08 season. It wasn't until his arrival that the Lakers found the balance they needed for Bryant to lead them to a le.
He has seen that balance erode.
He averaged 18.9 points last season, which is two points more than he is averaging this season. He is getting fewer shots, too. In these three losses -- in Miami, in Charlotte, in Orlando -- he took a combined 38 shots. Bryant, conversely, took 79 shots.
Bryant also took and missed the final shot, a 20-foot jumper that could have tied the game with :01.2 remaining.
"That was my shot,'' Bryant said. "You give that to me 10 times, and I'll make it nine times.''
Bryant believes that even in defeat Sunday, the Lakers regained the intensity they will need to win games later this season and into the playoffs.
The Lakers (46-18) still have the best record in the Western Conference, but their recent struggles have given hope to the surging Dallas Mavericks, who are riding a 11-game winning streak.
"The last two games [in Miami and Charlotte] we didn't play with the sense of urgency to compete,'' Bryant said. "Today, we did. We played really, really hard. We just missed some things defensively, execution wise. We didn't win the game, but I saw what I needed to see. If we play with this kind of effort, it will be hard for anyone to beat us four times in a series.''
Bryant, so confident in his talents, missed five games last month with a ankle injury, and the Lakers went 4-1 in his absence. Since his return, they are 4-4.
Gasol isn't the only one beginning to question the recent direction. Ron Artest, their big offseason acquisition, is having the worst offensive season of his career. He made only two of 10 shots Sunday.
"It's a different situation for me with Kobe here. In the past, I was always the second option, or first option [offensively],'' he said. "I'm still trying to find way on this team. I'm going to find my way. All this is practice for me now. It's a new style of play. I have to master my role.''
The Magic (44-20) were the aggressors for most of the game Sunday, leading almost from start to finish. Four different Magic players blocked shots in the first quarter. Howard was in foul trouble much of the game, but that didn't change anything.
Howard blocked a shot by Artest. Backup center Marcin Gortat blocked a shot by Gasol. Reserve Mickael Pietrus blocked Bryant's shot. And reserve Brandon Bass blocked Lamar Odom.
Vince Carter led the Magic with 25 points, but Howard had 15 points and 16 rebounds, giving the Magic a 50-39 rebounding edge. All five Magic starters reached double-figure scoring. The Lakers, by contrast, had only three players [Bryant with 34, Gasol with 20 and Derek Fisher with 11] score more than 10 points.
"You have to utilize your big man,'' Gasol said. "It's important to do that on a consistent basis. I'm not discouraged. We just can do things a little differently. We have the means and the players to do it differently.''
LOL Gasoft crying like a little ...
lol gasol
Every time we gave Pau the ball in the post, he passed it out because Howard and Gortat were shutting it down.
I do want more ball movement, and Kobe could definitely make better decisions, we all know that. But when Pau complains about not getting shots, he makes himself look bad by doing nothing with the ball when he does get it.
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