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Not really. You saw them go off like they did because Denver had small lineups out there. OKC will defend them far more straight up. You will definitely not see double teams like that in the next round.
lakers without ron are a different team
mike brown is not phil jackson but he is not that bad
this lakers team is not nearly as good as last year
Not really. You saw them go off like they did because Denver had small lineups out there. OKC will defend them far more straight up. You will definitely not see double teams like that in the next round.
do you think kobe will guard westbrook in 4 like kobe did against lawson tonight
Durant is the key. If Artest can keep him to a low-shooting percentage, Lakers win.
And then there's Perkin's injuy.
Lakers in 6.
Keep the game close then we'll see if Westbrick "goes off".
Bynum will get frustrated wil Perkins & Ibaka!
I'd love to see him foul Perkins hard.
Who can matchup with their twin towers? If the big have their heads screwed on I don't see how they can be stopped.
@ Bynum having his head screwed on.
They don't necessarily need to match them though. They just need to not be as hapless as Denver. Denver didn't come anywhere near matching them and yet still pushed LA to 7 games and had a fourth quarter lead.
And OKC is MUCH better than Denver.
Kobe guarding Westbrook, Metta guarding Artest means Blake, Sessions or Barnes is on Harden.
Yes please.
I hope LA takes em to 6 but OKC would have to choke pretty hard to have that happen.
Mike Brown's speech. Dude is ing terrible.
Chuck with the truth, the age factor is such an excuse.
Shaq and Chuck are both right.
Nope. Playoffs are all about matchups. Not being hapless isn't going to help OKC against the Lakers' superior edge in rebounding and easy scores.
Rebounding = rings.
OKC is primarily an outside shooting team, ala Dallas. Lakers can crush inside and out.
Depends on Gasol he's got a big advantage against Ibaka & Collison, while it can be about match ups it also depends on the mental toughness & both Gasol/Bynum have shown they're mentally weak.
The point is that OKC WILL do better on the boards. Its pretty much guaranteed. Of course its about matchups and the matchups aren't as bad in the middle for OKC.
I mean, I don't know if you watched the series at all, but Denver isn't a very good team at all. They play with a lot of effort and heart, but they've got no one even close to as good as OKC's top two players and their bigs aren't nearly as good either. I love what Karl did with Denver and admired the heart they played with, but they don't have anywhere near the talent of OKC and thats going to show in the next series.
The Lakers basically won tonight because Blake had a shooting night he rarely will have and the fact that they were taller. That isn't going to cut it against OKC.
I mean its not like the Lakers big men were effective in the post today. They were effective at getting boards and cleaning up messes and getting some easy put backs. They did that because of double teams (boards become harder when you're rotating) and because of size. They're not going to have the same type of size advantage and they're not going to see the same type of double teams.
I don't get why George Karl didn't speed up the pace of the game. That's the whole point of playing a small lineup.
Dallas, the jumpshooting team that swept a better version of the Lakers last year?
He did. Thats how they got back in it in the 3rd. But once the Lakers started killing them on the offensive glass they didn't get many chances to run.
Its hard to run out of made shots.
Can't speed up the game when youre not rebounding.
Hope that you're right, although you seem to be ignoring that MWP was out for 6 games of the series. The way he's been playing, that's very significant.The point is that OKC WILL do better on the boards. Its pretty much guaranteed. Of course its about matchups and the matchups aren't as bad in the middle for OKC.
I mean, I don't know if you watched the series at all, but Denver isn't a very good team at all. They play with a lot of effort and heart, but they've got no one even close to as good as OKC's top two players and their bigs aren't nearly as good either. I love what Karl did with Denver and admired the heart they played with, but they don't have anywhere near the talent of OKC and thats going to show in the next series.
The Lakers basically won tonight because Blake had a shooting night he rarely will have and the fact that they were taller. That isn't going to cut it against OKC.
I don't think the Lakers win without his 15pts and 4 steals tonight.
Of course OKC is better than Denver, and yes I watched the series. Why do people always resort to condescending, insulting when somebody disagrees with them?
You have a different opinion that me - that must mean you haven't watched the game/series.
Sorry, dude, you're not god's gift to basketball fandom commentary. Neither am I.
I wasn't even trying to insult you! Don't be so sensitive.
OK. Better yet, don't be condescending.
I wasn't even trying to insult you! Don't be so sensitive.
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