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CIA Brown pulling the classic Pop tactic. No lose situation for the Lakers.
Mike Bresnahan @Mike_Bresnahan
Kobe is not playing tomorrow night vs San Antonio, Lakers Coach Mike Brown told reporters. That'll be 3 missed games with sore left shin.
CIA Brown pulling the classic Pop tactic. No lose situation for the Lakers.
good, the lakers front court can play at full strength and we will see how the spurs' front court defense looks.
Whatever. I don't care about moral victories or benchmarks right now. Anything that puts the Lakers further behind the Spurs and gets them magic numbers is fine by me (provided the Spurs can take care of business).
Spurs are ed...Lakers will be forced to used their bigs.
If I'm a Laker fan, I'm pretty happy about that. They're going to let the rest of the team get some momentum without Kobe Ballhog taking 30 shots a game, then they can plug him back in once he's feeling better for a playoff run. Either the Lakers are dangerous enough to beat anyone regardless of their seed or they have no chance of winning a le.
Man, I was really looking forward to seeing Leonard defending Kobe. Now I have to wait a little longer.
Sit Duncan.
Play him bigger minutes vs Memphis.
Let Splitter Diaw and Blair have big minutes.
F the result.
While I don't quite agree that the Spurs are ed, tihs will make it a tougher game for them to win, tbh. Now they'll dump it inside to one of their two bigs on every play.
Kobe actually gave the Spurs defense some breathing room, knowing he's going to score 30 pts on 27 FGA. Now they'll be more efficient. Really, Kobe's biggest asset against Spurs was as a defender against Manu.
SA will need their bench to come up huge while Gasol & Bynum are sitting.
Damn. I was looking forward to seeing Kawhi hassling him and forcing a 7-20 shooting game.
I bet Bynum and Gasol's numbers are bigger without Kobe. It will be a good test to see if we can defend good frontlines.
A win is a win.. We need to kick them early so we can rest for the Memphis game
Except that Brown is televising his move more than 24 hours ahead of time whereas Pop waits until the last minute. At least we can gameplan definitively.
the student has a long way to go before he surpasses the teacher.
This helps the Lakers.
Bynum will kill Splitter.
Did anyone notice how terrible Duncan look last year vs Andrew Bynum and Lakers.He was awful.
I am interested to see how we play Sessions..
This is good news we will get to see how the spurs fair against the froncourt of the lakers
It's very possible that in the 3 games vs the Lakers coming up both teams won't be at full strength the whole time.
The bad part about Kobe missing the game is it basically turns this into a must win game. If the Spurs lose to the Lakers without Kobe, that would shake the team's confidence and make L.A. really believe they can beat the Spurs.
Plus, the Spurs have a history of going into regular season tailspins after losing against the Lakers. Even last year, the Spurs season started going down the drain shortly after the Lakers came to San Antonio and curbstomped the Spurs.
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Last edited by timvp; 04-10-2012 at 04:47 PM.
I don't necessarily think it's that big of a deal if the Spurs lose seeing that they play them 2 more times this week. As long as they don't lose all 3 or both at home these games really shouldn't mean much to either team.
Somebody buy this man a beer.
Not sure why everyone thinks this is gonna be bad. Considering they couldn't get it done against Phoenix (who is smaller than the Spurs) with Pau and Bynum having monster games, I see no reason to worry. It's looking like the real reason they lose is due to the bench being so bad, not Kobe taking 30 shots a game.
This is a relatively good news for Spurs.
The negative aspect is that it will give Leonard one less game to learn Kobe's game.
I see three positive points of Kobe being out.
First, it will put more pressure on Spurs frontcourt because Lakers will feed more their bigs. How Spurs frontcourt will hold against the Gasol/Bynum frontcourt is a big key a future playoff series. I can even see Spurs adding a random 7 footer if things goes bad.
Second, a Spurs win, that will be easier to achieve with Kobe out, will basically secure a top 2 seed for Spurs. The magic number for the 2nd seed will be 3 if they win tomorrow.
Third, with a loss Lakers will have a more difficult time at getting the 3rd seed. Lakers and Thunder being on the other side of the bracket will be huge for Spurs.
Good. Finally, a must win game.
bynum and gasol meet diaw,bonner and blair
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