Lakers Lose to the Warriors
It was an exciting game, it’s too bad we couldn’t finish the incredible comeback. Not sure how we left Jax open, which ruined a couple of tough clutch threes by Kobe, one of them off-balance.
However, this game was a major setback in focus. It was lost by the mental breakdown in the first half. A 2-3 minute stretch when we lost all sight of executing our offense, jacking up jumpshots without any penetration or ball movement, throwing passes away to the Warriors who played the passing lanes all night. Kind of disappointing how unprepared the players were, or the lack of discipline. Everybody on the Lakers should take responsibility for the loss, including Kobe, who should have corralled his teammates and set them on course, not gunning for the comeback himself. He did a much better job in the 2nd half, including his heroics at the end. But his teammates showed some brainlessness by following Kobe’s example and jacking up jump shots. They also turned the ball over way too much, which led to easy points off turnovers for the lightning quick Warriors, who beat us on speed from point guard to center. Just one or two possessions without doing something incredibly stupid might have given us the victory. Alas.
In a game with the Warriors, like the Suns, without Bynum we’re going to have to play an uptempo game. It’s inevitable due to their advantage in personnel for the small ball. Controlling the tempo won’t happen without Bynum. But what we can do is keep our heads in the game. That one play by Vujacic, one-on-four in a desperation attempt to win back the crowd, just capped off five or six idiotic possessions.
The Warriors play a game full of runs. But the Lakers can’t find themselves down by 23 points because players begin to quit and not play together.
That we turned it around at halftime, by playing aggressive and hustling, should be an important lesson for tomorrow’s rematch.
Fight hard and fight together, and we’ll prevail.
P.S. On offense, take our time. Even if the shotclock expires a few times, having the Warriors take the ball out of bounds is much better than a long rebound kickstarting Monta Ellis to the basket. The Warriors overplay the passing lanes to steal the ball and generate their fastbreaks, so Phil needs to draw up some counterplays, fake passes and fake screens, backdoor cuts, etc. to make the Warriors pay. The best way to play good defense against the Warriors is to take good shots in our offense, limit turnovers, and knock Monta Ellis on his ass a few times.
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