Amateur: ESPN with the writng bads

[ambchang]

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400278561

It really is no surprise that the vast majority of casual basketball fans still thinks the Lakers demise this season is due to misfortune rather than total lack of chemistry and not playing as a team.

The article came up with more excuses for the Lakers than bandwagon laker fans.

It's a good thing Danilo Gallinari was a late scratch for the Denver Nuggets. With a bruised left thigh, he couldn't have kept up with his hustling teammates as they sped past the aged and aching Los Angeles Lakers.

They almost make it sounds like if Gallinari played, the Nuggets would have lost.

And the Lakers were like a bunch of shuffle-boarders, trailing on the scoreboard and the hardwood all night long as they trudged through the second game of a difficult back-to-back.

Coming off a down-to-the-wire win at Dallas the day before, the Lakers wanted to slow down the Nuggets but just couldn't keep up with their younger, more athletic and, yes, better-rested opponents.

The entire article is about how the Lakers didn't get enough rest, and that is the reason for the lost. How about an idiot of a coach who has been pushing his aging players and not developing a bench? Playing only 8 players, with the big 3 playing 33+ minutes in both games of a back to back? Not developing any game plan other than "Let's go"?

It's sad because the uneducated public deserves to know more about the game, and like it or not, ESPN is the largest sports news outlet in North America. This idea of individuals trump all is reducing the game into a bunch of uncoordinated parts gunning for their own glory.

[Mal]

excuses, excuses, excuses

[racm]

I recall the Spurs staging a near comeback in Denver on the tail end of a B2B, with Duncan arguably having his best game of the season (IIRC it was 30/16 with 6 blocks or something).

Meanwhile the Lakers just let them get 33 fastbreak points and 78 points in the paint.

[Fabbs]

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400278561

Espn-Lakers channel most def tied in with The Kirbys.
Wonder if we will ever get to see the financials of the deal.

[Kidd K]

I recall the Spurs staging a near comeback in Denver on the tail end of a B2B, with Duncan arguably having his best game of the season (IIRC it was 30/16 with 6 blocks or something).

Meanwhile the Lakers just let them get 33 fastbreak points and 78 points in the paint.

Good god, 33 fast break points and 78 in the paint? . Terrible defense. Sounds like a Mike D'Antoni team. . .oh wait.

[whitemamba]

whats wrong wit that? all the bolded seems true

[djohn2oo8]

whats wrong wit that? all the bolded seems true

Because 29 other teams play back to backs and have injuries too. But no one uses that excuse more than the lakers

[mercos]

Crap like this is one thing holding the NBA back from ever threatening the NFL as the dominant sports league in America. The outright obsession with only a handful of teams and players has stunted the league's growth. The idea was ok when the NBA was on taped delay and they had to do anything to get into the spotlight, but that won't cut it anymore. I'm so tired of the big market obsession NBA analysts, and even referees, seem to have. Funny how the NFL seems to thrive without even having a team in LA.

[Cry Havoc]

Funny how the NFL seems to thrive without even having a team in LA.

Because Goodell has the very basic common sense intelligence to realize that parity is an incredibly good thing in a sports league. Stern thinks if it was LA vs Boston every single year that people would actually keep watching basketball. Because... wait for it... he's a moronic bag.

[KaiRMD1]

I don't think Kirby minds playing 33+ minutes if it means showing everyone how to be "a leader"

[rayjayjohnson]

writng bads?

oh the irony

[ShinerBlack]

Crap like this is one thing holding the NBA back from ever threatening the NFL as the dominant sports league in America. The outright obsession with only a handful of teams and players has stunted the league's growth. The idea was ok when the NBA was on taped delay and they had to do anything to get into the spotlight, but that won't cut it anymore. I'm so tired of the big market obsession NBA analysts, and even referees, seem to have. Funny how the NFL seems to thrive without even having a team in LA.

+1

[UZER]

ESPN only promotes a handful of teams, then when those team get eliminated, and the others have been ignored all season....nobody watches, you get low ratings, and ESPN proceeds to and moan.

Perfect example....the Lakers have been on national TV how many times this year? What happens if the Lakers don't get into the playoffs? They have spent so much time beating everyone on the head with that team coverage. They become useless to ratings. It'll be too late with all that time spent them to start promoting someone else. Instead they will blame "boring" basketball.

[Latarian Milton]

the fact of matter is that basketball is a s' game which the H's don't know about.