I doubt the spurs will play like today the rest of this season and playoffs...plus duncan does not NEED to dominate for the spurs to win...
Just like kobe doesn't need to hit 40 or 50 for the lakers to win...
Duncan will do whatever helps the team to win ...
The whole team was coming off the biggest win of the year and it happens sometimes that their is a letdown--even when you are aware of this--it still happens...
Yeah, but NOBODY on their roster is particularly quick or fast, outside of Bryant in bursts now, and maybe Shannon Brown, who plays roughly 20 minutes. Our backcourt/wings have a CLEAR advantage in that department that we failed to exploit.
More Spurs need to touch the ball on each possession. Penetrated and kick is a decent start, but the ball needs to traverse the perimeter. Make their defense rotate, preferably multiple times.
One game to learn from. That's all.
Shouldnt you be in the crap forum below this one? What are you doing up here?
I only watched the 1st quarter (had other things to do and could tell the game was over), but I dont agree at all with take that the lakers wont give the spurs open looks from 3. Yes, they matchup very well with the spurs defensively and I'd consider them favorites in a series, but in the 1st quarter I saw 2 wiiiiiide open 3 misses from jefferson and manu, and 1 wide open make from bonner. The most important problem for the spurs against the lakers is rebounding (the lakers dont take control of that 1st quarter without all the offensive boards).
I agree with the first part of your post. The Spurs did get looks and just missed them, both inside and out. The Lakers got a couple of blocks, and the Spurs didn't take good care of the ball either.
The second part, I sort of disagree with you. The Lakers got four or five offensive boards, but only scored six or eight extra points. Not that many, but a definite indicator that the Lakers were playing harder and hustling to spots far better than the Spurs were. The Lakers got shots and hit nearly everything, and when they didn't, they got a rebound and either points or a foul, sometimes both. In at least one case, they got the rebound, the putback, the foul, missed the free throw, got the rebound and got another putback and foul. They just dominated in every possible way. If the Spurs took care of business rebounding they still get blown out in that first quarter because they didn't take care of the ball, didn't take smart shots, didn't hit anything they put up and didn't play good defense.
I thought they did gave us open looks from 3, but they were fairly selective on who and when. This is obviously a team that's not going to beat themselves, and not having a glaring advantage in the post anymore for the Spurs make everything twice as hard.
Another thing that happened -that I hope won't happen in the playoffs against the lakers...
is that Pop still didn't use the rotation that had been working the best...
TD,Dice, RJ, Manu & TP...this five should have started and Tiago should have entered a lot earlier...this was one of the reasons the spurs took that last game in l.a...
also...the lakers are not as deep and instead of tossing in the towel early...the spurs should go 10 deep and bring the starters back over and over to keep them fresh...
instead of conceding and thinking the game is out of reach the spurs should plan on catching the lakers at the finish line when the lakers lack of a bench will bite them in the ass...
the best thing you can do to HELP the lakers is to let the game be over in 24 minutes...then they have to play 24 hard minutes and relax...the teams that have beaten the lakers (including the spurs earlier in the season) were the teams that exposed the lakers lack of speed and athleticism and kept the lakers starters fighting the whole 48 minutes...
my biggest concern is going to be blair. he just seems to play so poorly against the lakers. i think, in a series, mcdyess will have to start and splitter will have to get more time so as to try to negate their size advantage. and parker will have to really be on full time agresssion mode.
and if we are lucky and should play LA in the conference finals we 1)get an LA team coming off a rough dallas series and 2)never have to play a 2:30 game that entire time (man we suck at matinee games)
If the Lakers have HCA in the 2nd round then the series will be over in 5. The Spurs will be lucky to beat an OKC team with a healthy Perkins in as many games, so in reality you're probably not going to have the benefit of rest. Perkins wears on bigs over a series...just ask Bynum, Howard, Shaq, etc.
lakers are still 6 games back so it is very doubtful they will have home court in the 2nd round. they may not even have it against dallas. LA would probably prefer not to have to play OKC at all.
The Lakers were absolutely on fire. They rocked the Spurs early and the rest was history.
It's easy to play one outstanding game but the Lakers haven't been consistent all year. They've now won 7 games in a row and look like they might be getting their act together. If they shoot and defend like they did yesterday, we are going to have a huge, uphill challenge. They would easily be the favorites in a matchup.
To neutralize their bigs, we'd have to go small and hit our shots.
The Lakers are currently 1 game out of HCA in the 2nd round, with 11 homes games to only 7 road games left.
What standings are you looking at, scrah?
mavs are not exactly playing poorly. it will be a race with them for that 2nd round HCA.
outside chance they can catch the spurs but they have a very small margin of error for that to happen.
Last edited by rjv; 03-07-2011 at 10:46 AM.
But the Mavs are also not up 6 games on the Lakers either like you originally thought. Nice try on the recovery by the way.
Dallas' remaining sched:
http://espn.go.com/nba/team/schedule...llas-mavericks
11 road games, 9 home left.
Lakers remaining sched:
http://espn.go.com/nba/team/schedule...angeles-lakers
7 road games, 11 home left. After this week it will be 11 home, 4 road left.
Sorry scrah, but we both know how this is going to end. Accept it.
No chance of catching the Spurs for HCA barring an epic collapse...the 2nd seed is more than good enough to secure our 4th straight finals berth. Winning in SA won't be a problem, especially with the plethora of Kobe MVP chants
i was referring to them being 6 games back of the spurs.
Something is telling me the Lakers won't see Joey Crawford for crucial G3s this year, nor for 3 games in the Finals anymore.
Dallas has really put serious money into this.
Time to reward with a WCF.
The market wants new faces.
The Lakers will probably finish second: the crucial game on March 12 will be the fifth in 7 days for Dallas.
Having said that, the Lakers have no PG, no bench and I am ready to bet, won't have Joey Crawford for key games, from the second round on.
yeah. LA and dallas have 2 games left against each other. it will be interesting to see how that race plays out.
Hey Mr. laker got should'nt you be celebrating on a laker forum? off!
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