e-monk

this loss by itself is no big deal, it was a tight game against one of their chief rivals - would have been nice to get to .500 but will have to wait for a couple more games - they look much better under bickerstaff than they did under brown

Wilt_The_Stilt

Agreed. Kind of reflects poorly on Brown don't you think?

I was upset with Kobe for falling asleep more than anything. Wasted a brilliant offensive game. Dwight was sloppy and I have to say he looks goofy with that headband.

Morris played well defensively but I didn't like what I saw out of him offensively. And where has Meeks been? My goodness he looked horrible out there.

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Luke

Definitely a bummer that we blew it at the end but it looks like we're on the right track. Can't win 'em all.

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Cajon

I agree. I'm loving Bickerstaff's rotations, time management, in-game decisions and adjustments - complete contrast of Brown. llullz

Defense has also improved ∞-fold since he took over - something you'd expect from his predecessor, a defensive specialist. llullz

jazzy1

I have always liked Bickerstaff he can coach he keeps it simple and is willing to dump players who aren't getting it done in game like he did with Morris who was downright crappy.

why we allowed Parker to hide defensivekly when we went with Kobe at pg is beyond me though.

a few things that concern me. Howard is clearly not right and is nowhere near the shape he needs to be in he's struggling late with fatigue and 2nd effort energy plays the tale of this season will be written after the allstar break when Nash and Howard should be in shape we should begin to take off then.

My fear is Kobe will spend all his money the 1st half carrying us until those guys get right we need Kobe to have any shot late to be free of injury and wear and tear. ld to see us get Petrus .

Our bench is killing us.

King Sancho Fantastic

I was screaming out "POST UP PARKER!!" at the TV the whole time Kobe was running the point. They hid Parker on Jamison. Jamison has to be aggressive. No reason for him not to abuse Parker on the box.

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elcap15

I think this was the lakers best game of the season. The defense was excellent. Other than a few bad offensive rebounds, we held a great offensive team to 84 points on 90 FGA!

At some point, I have to imagine the Lakers will get more shots up and give up fewer turnovers. That was the story of the game. Spurs got 90 FGA and the Lakers got 74. Im sure that will improve under D'Antoni. If we could have hit one or 2 more of the open 3's we got, it would have been a different outcome also.


Meeks was awfull last night. I mean, I cant remember a worse performance from any player in a long time. He got credited with 3 TO's in 10 min, but I think the scorers were nice to him and didnt count one.

Morris had a bad gane on offense, but I think his defense was pretty good on parker. He at least brought a lot of energy and tenacity.

Cajon

Jamison's preoccupied with hoisting threes than posting up. llullz

I think Ebanks had a game where he committed two or three fouls in a shorter time span. llullz

elcap15

I had really high hopes for Meeks. I didnt necessarily expect him to be a great creator, but I thought he would be a great outside shooter. Havent really seen that yet.

e-monk

I think Brown screwed him up early with his irregular WTF rotations 15 minutes one game DNPs the next two, 4 minutes in a game after that - hard to get continuity - I think he's one of the guys who will really benefit from D'Antoni's arrival

that said for whatever reason we seem to be the place where good 3 point shooters come to die (Steve Blake Im looking at you)

jazzy1

Meeks will be fine when Nash gets in the fold fulltime. Meeks with that 2nd unit has to dribble too much. He needs a real playmaker alongside him.

I thought the Spurs played poorly than our defense being good they missed alot of open shots didn't really have anyone who played a good game same for us.

Howard has gotta play better its simple as that he's gotta dominate Duncan Gasol a couple years ago would wear Duncan out but Howard needs to be that guy now he has to have dominate games against the good teams from time to time.

Howard has gotta be a legit 2nd option punishing teams....... right now his fitness and footwork looks bad I haven't seen him need to collect himself to jump this much ever its killing his ability to complete a good move.

he really needs extra fitness work and skill work with Kareem. He needs to increase his work ethic.

elcap15

Dwight's biggest problem looks to me to be conditioning. I think that will improve as the season progresses.

He also needs stop getting the ball stripped. Maybe he is just not in tip top shape, so he cant keep the ball high enough, but he also just needs to get tighter grip on that damn ball. He has got to hold on and at least get a shot up.

Dwight was pretty damn good on defense last night. He got credited with 3 blocks but he generated a lot of "oh shit" shots. Not to mention the 15 boards.

Basel

Disappointed in the finish. There's no reason Kobe shouldn't be taking at least one shot in the final four minutes. I'm glad we look good defensively for the most part. Dwight doesn't look like Dwight just yet. I don't think it has anything to do with whether or not he's 100% - I think he's just learning to play with all these guys. He's not the #1 option anymore.

MWP shoots far too much for someone who isn't a very good shooter. Pau needs to be more aggressive. Our bench is starting to play better, but still needs a lot of work. Darius Morris isn't starter material.

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jazzy1

Dwight gets stripped because he's always looking down at his feet remember us against him in the 09 Finals we stripped him constantly because of his poor footwork he can't focus on ball safety if he's looking down at his feet he really needs to get with Kareem and work on his footwork and balance.

His 1st step is incredible for a man his size he beats his man every time he just drives himself into trouble and then can't pivot out and get a good shot up.