Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

You lost me. So Lebron should have sat out Phoenix on the road, in order to play against Portland at home?

 

I just got around to watching the game. You saw LeBron's trust in his teammates play off with Cam's shooting performance.

 

Yeah Lebron didn't care at all about Cam shooting 15% from 3. Where is Khrmp? Lol

 

lol, we'll hear from him plenty if we lose to portland.

 

Unless Reaves returns to playoff Reaves, we are SOL

 

With a coach like Ham there is no way we can lose to Portland.

 

Lakers 36 FT,Portland 9.This game should be blowout early in 3 rd quarter ,instead it's almost clutch

 

Great game by Cam again!
Reaves was very solid again.
AD huge on defense and very good on offense.
Prince with excellent D.

Still not seeing enough of players playing off one another.
Our offense is either one guy trying to out- talent his man or a basic pick and roll.
Playing against a Portland team that has had trouble scoring, our defense should have been much, much better.

 

Good
-Fro AD. Patrolled the paint defensively. Carried the offensive load. Did what needed to be done without Bron.
-Rui, Cam, and Austin continued from where they left off Friday night. All 3 were stars in their role tonight.
-DLO was a smooth operator and even though he doesn't like the tag, he was a really good point guard tonight.
-Prince rediscovered double figures... been a minute. Solid D and showed more hustle than in the past few games.
- clean game, no one had more than 1 TO
- won the board battle
- was the more aggressive team and attacked the rim every time we could (FTs 30 to 7)

Bad
-We don't like to make things easy on ourselves do we? This one was way too close. Anytime we put any distance in the score, we held the door open and let them waltz right back in.
-3 point shooting is non existent. The 9 extra 3s they made erased any advantage we gained at the FT line.
-Wood + Hayes lineup tonight was one of the worst pairings I've seen this season from us. Brutal start to the 4th. I didn't think it was necessarily anything Portland was doing either. They were sloppy and didn't know how to convert from under the basket.

 

JSM:
>-Wood + Hayes lineup tonight was one of the worst pairings I've seen this season from us. Brutal start to the 4th. I didn't think it was necessarily anything Portland was doing either. They were sloppy and didn't know how to convert from under the basket.<

Up 13, give up 12 straight and I had my fingers on 911...for myself. If we blow a no-Bron/AD goes Beast Mode game, I was headed to the coronary unit, and I do eat and exercise right. That was some drama I didn't need.

More good: Rui is so damn cool!

Back to .500, beotches!

 

Still haven't seen the game in its entirety so thanks for the breakdown. We don't like the easy route for sure.

 

Hayes kind of reminds me of Javale a lil bit.. Not the shotblocking, but he's athletic, and kinda runs around and gets off the floor, without exactly knowing, what he plans to do sometimes.

 

Javale I think was considerably more skilled offensively when he was in his prime and past his "Fool" days. Hopefully Hayes keeps improving during his time with the Lakers.

 

javale's a bit bigger than hayes, too. 4 inches in standing reach and between 30 and 50lbs heavier. i don't see them as very similar players. hayes is much more mobile on the perimeter and has quicker feet, but much less skilled and can't really defend in the post, nor does he have the shotblocking instincts.

you want mcgee in the paint at all times, and he was good there in his prime as both a post defender and a help defender. hayes you want to use as a chaser/disruptor on defense, and you can't count on him to defend in isolation against most post players.

 

Blowout win, players having fun, AD/Lebron rest, and Clippers losing again. Great day!

 

22 3PT made will make us unbeatable